The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-08-28
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Soups.1

CORN SoUP.-To each quart Of young
corn, cut from the cob. allow three p1nts
of water. Boil until the grains are ten
der. Take two ounces Of sweet butter,
mixed smooth with one tablespoonful OF
flour; stir the butter into the soup, and
let it boil ten or fifteen minutes longer.
Just before taking out of the pot, beat
up an egg and stir into it, with salt and
pepper to your taste.
Ok TAIL SouP.-Scald and scrape the
tail. Divide it at each joint, and stew it
with plenty of water. Peel and cut into
slices two large potatoes, two large
onions, two large turnips, and two car
rots. Chop q bunch of pot-herbs fine.
When the meat is tender, skim the
soup, add the vegetables, and boil them
till they are done. Stir in a tablespoon
full of burned sugar, and strain the soup.
Season the soup with pepper, salt, cay
enne, and lemon juice, and break in half
a pound of vermicelli. Boil till this is
tender, and serve.
TOMATO Sour. For this excellent soup
the proportions are, seven or eight mid
ding sized tomotoes,. three pints of
broth, four or five stalks of parsley, two
OF thyme, salt, pepper, a teaspoonful OF
pepper corns, a bay leaf, two onions,
three cloves, and three or four cloves OF
garlic, a quarter of a pound of rice, a
tablespoonful of butter, n ounce of
sugar, three slices of bread. The toma-
toes are put into boiling water for a few
seconds, taken off and dropped into cold
water, and then skinned. They are put
into a sauce pan and set on a moderate
fire with the broth, parsley, salt, pepper
and the following spices tied in a linen
rag: thyme, pepper corns, bay lea,
onions and cloves. When cooked, the
whole is turned into a colander with the
exception of the spices in the rag and
forced through with a potatoe.masher,
except the tomato seeds; then the strain
ed juice and pulp are mixed with the
rice; after it has been boiled, the butter
and sugar are added. The whole is
simmered for half an hour, and turned
into the soup dish. While it is simmer
ing the slices of bread are cut into dice
and fried with q little butter, and put
into the soup tureen before turning the
mixture therein. Cover it for ten min
utes and serve.
Household Hints.
In peeling onions, put a large needle
in the mouth, half in and half out. The
needle attracts the oily juice of the bulb,
and any number may be peeled without
affecting the eyes.
Alabaster is best cleaned by putting
it in a pan of water and letting it soak
for some hours till quite clean. Another
mode is to cover. it with a strong solu-
ton Of washing soda.
To PREVENT METALS ron BUSTING.
Melt together three pints Of lard and
one of rosin, and apply a very thin coat
ing with a brush. 1T will preserve
stoves and CRATES from rusting through
the summer.
To remove tattoo marks, blister the
part with a plaster q little larger than
the mark; then keep the place open with
a green ointment for o week; finally,
dress it to get we'll. As the new skin
grows, the tattoo will disappear.
The way to clean feathers is to wash
them in a lather, then rinse in cold
water, and then in wafer slightly blue,
and shake them until dry. If the hue
looks thready, damp it between the folds
of a cloth and beat lightly, and clap it
between the hands till quite dry. 1t i'm
proves them sometimes to hold them in
the steam of a kettle.
To wash striped table cloths, soakin
| clear cold water for half an hour; wiring
out and put in warm clear suds; wash
quickly, wiring as dry as possible; put
in clean cold water, adding a handful OF
salt; let them soak in this for fifteen
minutes, wiring and starch with very
thin starch, hang up as soon as done,
and when dry roll in a damp cloth and
iron. I have washed colored cloths in
this way for years, and they look as we'll
as new.
Covering Manure.
II is remarkable that more attention
is not gwen to the subject Of covering
manure from the weather, and especially
from too much rain. Those who have
given the matter particular attention
have found that manure SO protected is
worth double that which is left out in
the open air. Two loads for one is q
profit few farmers can afford to lose.
There is no question which 80 vitality
concerns the farmer as this n OF
manure. Much that he does has refer
ence to it. Straw is not to be sold be.
cause it makes manure. Stock Is TED
through the winter for the express pur-
pose of manure-making. Articles which
scarcely pay to send to market are never
theless taken to the city in order that
manure may be brought back as a re-
turn load; and yet the whole OF the
manure made remains all the season e1-
posed to the sun. wind and rain until it
is diminished one.half in value.
The trouble is probably that few really
believe that exposed manure undergo
this loss. But the matter has been too
thoroughly tested to admit of q doubt:
We know tirst-clas5 farmers who did not
themselves believe it, until by actual e1-
pertinent they found out its truth.
In arranging farm buildings 1t Will
paw well to look as much to the preserva-
ton of the. manure as to the hay OF
grain: and those who have their build
ings already finished without these
mapv rial arrangements will find that
TWENTY-FIVE or fifty dollars spent on
boards for o covered shed will q
among the best investments ever made.