The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD:

Corn Cake.-One cup sugar, two
eggs, four tablespoonful of sweet
cream, two cups sweet milk, two tea
spOonfuls saleratus, two cups of corn
meal, and ons, of floiif. Let 1t set in
the warming closet IF your stove five
minutes, then bake ten minutes in hot
oven.
Birds Nest Pudding.-Take eight
or ten good-havored apples, pare and
core, leaving them whole; place in a
pudding-lish; fill the cores with sugar
and little grated nutmeg. Then
make a custard, allowing three eggs
and half pint of flour to quart of
milk, and sweetened to taste. Pour
this over the apples and bake half an
hour.
Damascus Biscuits. -Beat the whites
of three eggs to a froth; quarter
pound beef suet chopped fine; half
ounce bitter almonds, blanched, chop
ped fine, all beaten well with the frothed
eggs. Take the yelks of the eggs, mix
with six ounces sifted loaf sugar, beat
well, pour into the almonds aid white
of egg; mix we'll; shake in two ounces
of flour; sufficient lemon to flavor. Pour
into small tins or nodded papers; bake
in a quick oven.
"A simple and good test for the
purity of drinking water is little per-
magranate of potassium dropped into
the water. Fill a clean white teacup
with the water to be tested, and add a
few drops of pure dilute sulphuric acid,
stir with glass rod, and add weak
solution of permanganate of potassium,
and let it stand for some time. If the
water is pure the color will remain, but
if there is any organic matter present it
will become col6fless:-Pu6ttc Opinion.
A Cream Pudding. One pint of
sweet cream; Into which stir Smoothly
one teacupful of fine flour; stir this UNI
til quite thick over the fire, then take
off, and when it is cool stir into it
four beaten eggs, add two teacups OF
white sugar and one of citron chopped
fine. Bake till set. This is very fine
pudding if the last operation of baking
is done right. Many persons bake
custards too long-until they become
watery-which spoils them. Eat this
pudding cold; can be eaten with satlce,
if desired, but it is very good without.
Cuttings of geraniums and many
other plants will be found to start with
more certainty, if wrapped in slightly
damp MOSS fof. 4 few. days befcre insert
ing in sand. This will allow the cut end
to partly heal or become calloused, and
thus not be so liable to rot or damp of.
The propagation must be the judge, as
to the time the cuttings ought to be so
kept. Verbenas and similar wooded
cuttings can be kept but a day or two,
while some hard-wooded cuttings may
be kept for two weeks to advantage.
Never allow cuttings to become wilted
before insertion, and always allow sew
eral leaves to remain Oh each to elabb-
rate the sap and assist in forming roots.
DO not crowd your cuttings, as this will
often cause them to damp off.-Fruit
Recorder.
For the first time "within the rec
objection of the oldest inhabitant,"
corn-husking commenced in various
portions of Iowa and Illinois in the first
week in October. In some cases entire
cribs were filled before the 10th of the
month. Of course the farmers who
commenced husking at this early period
think their corn is dry enough to keep.
If it was sufficiently dry, there are
many advantages in having it husked
and stored in cribs. Heavy rains are
common in November, while pleasant
weather for working in the fields can
scarcely be expected in the months that
follow. AS there has been little rain
during the latter part of this season, it
is likely that the ears Of corn are dryer
than they usually are at this season of
the year. Still, good degree of eau
ton should be exercised in putting corn
into a crib too early, as it is liable to
heat and mold if stored when it is too
damp.-ChicdQO Times.