The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-07
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE.

KAISINS are rendered quite dlgeStlble
if boiled or steamed before using them
in cakes or pies.
A DELICIOUS sirup is made by melting
one pound of maple sugar with two
pounds of white sugar.
AS rule the quality of the buck
wheat raised in the Atlantic States is
much better than last year. At the
mills the price ranges from two dollars
and fifty cents to three dollars per hun
dred pounds.
WE hope our farmers will try, as an
experiment, if they have not done so
before, planting corn in drills next
spring. The experiment can be tried
without additional cost, and may prove
source of additional gain.
The English feed for fattening sheep
consists of cotton-seed and turnips.
They claim that it will put on the most
fat, is the safest feed, makes the best
mutton at less cost, and produces the
best and strongest manure.
THE advantage of the supposed hybrid
cotton plant (Gossypium and Hibiscus),
is that it produces pods in the axis of
the leaves instead of branches :" so that
on the same area of land nearly twice as
many plants can be grown as with the
old varieties. The cotton is said to be of
good quality.
THE Georgia farmer who has carried
off the palm this year is Mr.. James
III. Booker. He raised sixty bales of
cotton, twelve hundred bushels of corn,
five hundred of potatoes, thousand of
oats and wheat, and twenty-five hogs.
Oh II IL II.
greatest harvest by any man since the
war.
THE average steer in Texas is worth
nine dollars and twenty-four cents
Suppose he can be reared at nominal
cost, it seems he isworth but little when
matured. The average steer in Massa-
chusetts is worth forty dollars and
eighty-one cents; in New York, thirty
three dollars and fifteen cents; hence
the Eastern farmer can afford to feed
and house his cattle.
WE do not know whether you ever
had receipt for the "Queen of Pud-
dings" or not. We will publish it, how
ever, for it may possibly be new to many
atfceptable dish: Soak pint of bread
ccumbs in boiling milk; add the yolks
or four eggs, we'll beaten, and sugar to
taste. Bake in pie-dish; when cold
spread jam over the top, and over that
the whites of four eggs, beaten to stiff
froth, with four tablespoonfuls of white
sugar; put into the oven, and bake a
very light brown. Flavor with essence
of vanilla or lemon.
WITH many epicures calf's head is 8
favorite dish. Split the head in two
parts, and remove the brains. Wash the
brains in three waters, and lay them fol
an hour in cold salt water. Wash the
head clean, and soak it in tepid water
until the blood is well drawn out. Put
it in cold water; when it boils, remove
the scum, and simmer gently until done
A head, with the skin, will take three
hours if large, and without the skin, two
Scald the brains by pouring over them
boiling water; then take them out and
remove the skin, or film, put them in
plenty of cold water, and simmer gently
fifteen minutes. Chop them slightly
stew them in sweet butter and tea
spoonful and half of lemon juice, OF
not, as desired, and little salt. Wher
done, skin the tongue, lay it in the
center of the dish, and the brains rounG
it. Send the head to the table very hot
with melted butter poured over it, anc
more in the tureen.
The following process, adopted by tht
farmers of Scotland, to cure butter il
highly approved: DIR. Anderson says
81 have eaten butter cured after thi
fashion that has been kept for thre,
years, and it was as sweet as at first.
Here is the method: Take two quarts O
the best common salt, one ounce O
sugar, and one ounce of common salt
petre; take one ounce of this compost
tion to one pound of butter, work it wei
into the mass, and close it well up til
wanted for use. The butter cured will
this mixture appears of rich and mar