The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31
THE HOUSEHOLD.

THE HOUSEHOLD.
Molasses Cookies.-One cup molasses, one
half cup sugar, one-half cup melted butter,
one-half cup hot water, one ana one-half tea
spoonf1ls soda, one teaspoonful ginger; mix
soft and bake in hot oven.
Potato Pudding.-Peal, boil and mash two
pounds of potatoes; beat well three eggs; add
quarter pint OF milk, two or more ounces of
sugar pinch of allspice. Beat all together,
and bake three-Quarters of an hour.
Lamb Stew.-Take half a shoulder oflamb,
boil it in two quarts of water for two hours
then put in potatoes. onions. turnips (cut in
quarters) Two teaspoonfuls of salt, and pep
per to the taste. Ten minutes before serving
put in the dumplings.
Mock Chicken Salad. TO every quart of
finely chopped cabbage allow one pound of
roasted pork tenderloins and the whites of
four hard boiled eggs chopped fine; to the
yolks rubbed smooth in a tablespoonful of
butter add one-half cup of vinegar; salt and
pepper to the taste.
Graham Biscuit-Into three cups of gra-
ham flour mix thoroughly three heaping
teaspoonfuls baking powder and one-half
teaspoonful salt. Put into this a good tea
spoonful butter, and with sweet milk make
into dough as soft you can handle.
Knead only enough to make it smooth and
roll out one-half inch thick or less; cut into
biscuit and bake Immediately in a raging
hot oven.
| Hot Cross Buns.-To one quart -four add
one teaspoonful salt, two tablespoonfuls
| powdered sugar, one tablespoonful baking
powder, and sift all together: rub through
the -four two tablespoonfuls of butter;
moisten with milk into very soft dough.
| Roll out in a sheet a little less than half an
inch thick; cut in small square buns; in the
center of each cut a deep cross. Bake in a
/ quick oven, and while hot wash over the top
with milk, using paste brush.
| Pumpkin Ple.-In selecting pumpkins for
pies do not get the largest, as they are sure
to be coarse meated, but try to get dark
! yellow one, wash it clean, cut it up for boil
/ ing without removing the rind, let it stew
about half day, MASKING quite often, then
sift through cclender; this process removes
all the parIngs, and your sauce will be much
better. For SIX pies add four eggs, one cup
of sugar, little salt, ginger enough to make
1T warm and cinnamon to taste, good sweet
milk sufficient. You will find but one fault
in using this recipe: Your pies will not
keep, especially if the men folks are around
| the house much.
| THE FARM.
! Prairie Farmer: Snakes, il is SAID, may be
| driven away from the garden by planting
| plenty of geraniums. The geranium genus
as is well known, possesses volatile oil in
greater or less proportion, and also a variety
! of odors. These are said to be obnoxious to
serpents. A missionary OF South Africa had
his parsonage surrounded by a narrow belt
/ of gerauiums, which effectually protected
the residence from all varieties OF snakes,
and in South Africa the Caffir people thus
j rid their premises of snakes. Nevertheless,
in temperate countries there are very few
venomous serpents, and the innocent species
are not only innoxious but of great use
from the insects they live on. So don't plant
geraniums to drive away snakes. but plant
them for their intrinsic value and beauty.
American Agricultunst: Sheep should
have change OF pasture. They are then
more contented aud thrive better. A large
| field will not Craze so many as several small
ones of the same aggregate size. Give salt
at least once a week. For scours, give
tablespoonful of castor oil; if continued,
| give tablespoonful each of prepared chalk
and essence of peppermint, in cupful of
water For stretches, which is only indiges-
ton, common when the pasture gets dry.
give an ounce of inseed oil with . dram of
ground ginger.
An Italian professor, in his investigations
relating to the effects of vegetable perfume
on the atmosphere, by converting its oxygen
into ozone and thus increasing its oXydiZing
influence, says: 1.-The essences found to de-
velop the largest quantity of ozone are those
of cherry, laurel clover, lavender, mint,
juniper, lemon, fennel and bergamot; those
that give 1t in smaller quantity are anise,
nutmeg and thyme. The flowers of the mar
cissus hyacinth, mignonette, heliotrope aud
! lily of the valley develop ozone in closed
vessels. Flowers destitute of perfume do
not develop it, and those which have but
slight perfume develop it in small quanti-
ties. Reasoning from these facts the profess
sor recommends the cultivation of flowers in
marshy districts and in places infested with
animal emanations, on account of the pow
erful Oxydizing influence of ozone. For this
reason, he says, the inhabitants of such re-
gions should surround their houses with
beds of the most odorous flowers"
Mr. ]. p Thompson, secretary of the
Michigan state agricultural society, writes to
the Country Gentleman: 1.-THE profit on
wheat is relative. If a farmer can sell his
wheat early at a fair price, and thereby save
interest, save hazard, save waste, he can
make money by selling rather than holding.
If he can sell wheat even at cheap price
and buy lumber, nails labor and building
materials at cheap price, he can make
money by selling rather than by holding.
All farmers want capital. If farmer can
sell his wheat, even at low price, and take
that money and put it into more wheat, into
cultivation and fertilization of land, into
labor on more land then he perhaps does
better than to hold his wheat. He
keeps his money busy. He keeps his
capital employed. If a man sells wheat at a
low price and buys land at low price,
which is sure to double in value, then he
has not lost money by selling his wheat.
Idle capital at the present day is winning
no laurels. Idle wheat in the granary is dead
capital. The farmer does not want any dead
capital about. The man who keeps his cap
ital turning, even at a small margin, is the
man who is making any money. The day
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have been waiting for large profits in wheat
are the men who have lost money. The men
who are making money in farming are the
men who turn their capital often, who en-
ploy labor, who make improvements, who
put money into crops and stock judiciously,
and who do husinees satisfied with small