The Newtown bee., 1879-03-04
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Recipes

Recipes
 Fec SAUcE.-Boil the eggs hard; cut them into small squares and mix them in good butter sauce; make very hot, and squeeze in some lemon juice before serving.
 SUEr PUDDINa.-One cup of suet, one-half cup molasses, one and one-half of sweet milk, three cups flour, cream tartar and soda; cup of raisins; steam two and one-half hours.
 APPLE JKLLY.-Core and cut out all bad spots from the apples, then add a very little water, and stew as for apple sauce; when done, put into bag and hang up to drain; when cool enough, squeeze gently; be careful not to get the pulp through. To pint of juice add pound of sugar; boil twenty min utes and it is done.
 FISH FRIrTERs. the remains of any fish which has been served the pre- ceding day; remove all the bones, and mince fine; add equal quantities of bread crumbs and mashed potatoes; stir in two beaten eggs; season with pepper and salt; add enough cream to make ths mass of the proper consistency to mold into little balls, and fry them in boiling lard.
 INDIAN LIGHT BIsoUT.-One quart of sifted Indian meal, a pint of sifted wheat flour, very small teaspoonful of salt, three pints of milk, four eggs. Butter sufficient number of cups or small, deep tins; nearly fill them with the batter. Set them immediately into hot oven, and bake them fast. Turn them out of the cups, send them warm to table, pull them open and eat with butter. They will puff up finely if, at the last, you stir in a level teaspoonful of soda, melted in little warm water.
 CREoY, OR CARROT SoUr.-Procure six fine red carrots, scrape and wash we'll, and slice very thin; also two heads of celery, two onions. two ounces oi ham, similarly; two cloves, one blade oi mace, one sprig of thyme, one teaspoon full of salt, one of sugar, half teaspoon ful of pepper, one small bayleaf, il | handy. Place the whole in stew-pap, with three ounces of butter; stew gently for one hour; rub through four seive place the pulp in the same stew-pan add two quarts of " stock" or broth, ant bring to boil, stirring all the time; add little plain boiled rice.
 Household Hints.
 Lamp wick dipped in hot vinegar Ii said to prevent offensive smell from lamps.
 Crusts and pieces of bread should bt kept in an earthen jar, closely covered in dry, cool place.
 Tortoise shell and horn combs art preserved from cracking by being oc ,asionally rubbed with oil.
 Lard for pastry should be used hard as it can be cut with a knife. It should be cut through the flour, not rubbed. Yellow ivory handled knives may be restored to their original wbiteness b, being rubbed with sand-paper and emery.
 Keep salt in dry place; yeast in wood or glass :; fresh lard in tin vessels vinegar in wood or glass preserves and jellies in glass meal and flour in cool, dry place.
 Kerosene explosions are often caused by allowing lamps to sit on mantel pieces and in other warm places during the day. The oil becomes heated and a dangerous gas is generated in the vacant space above the oil.
 If sponge, after being used week, is then put away to thoroughly dry, and another used for an equal time, the soft, fabby and worn-out sponge re- covers its texture. Sponges treated in this way outlast three ordinary ones.
 The most effectual means of ridding birds of lice is to spread over the cage at night, fine bleached cotton cloth. In the morning, when the cloth is re moved, dark specks will be found upon it, almost infinitesimal to the keenesi eyesight, but nevertheless, when crush. ed with a finger, it will be found that blood from your bird was secreted there.-Boston IraUeler. Managing Fruit Trees.
 A Bncks county, Pa, subscriber asks the following questions, and we answe, them in their order:
 1st. Having a number of fruit trees what would be the proper time for trim ming ?"
 We prefer to prune in the early fall or at the close of summer. The budl are forming for the ensuing year, ani there is yet time for wounds made by the pruning-knife to heal before winter sets in.
 2d. "What is the best time for trans planting g9"
 Transplanting in the fall checks tn, growth less than the spring. and is therefore, to be preferred. In either case stake well to prevent the shaking of the trees, and the consequent loosen ing of the earth from the roots by higl winds. Use strong, tall stakes. I short ones are used the band, whethel of straw or twine, will chafe the bark perhaps cut through it, and injure if i does not destroy the trees. The manne of transplanting is more important thai the selection of one or other of tn above seasons. Dig well around an, under the roots. Remove them with a little injury as practicable. and with a much adhering earth as possible. Pre- pare roomy holes; set the trees in th former position, as regards depth, an' impact the earth round the roots b, l Wattin9 and pressing it.-Rfactica