St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-02-01
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SWEET POTATO P1E.-Wash the pota-
toes and boil them until theytarescooked ;
take OF the skins and mash them ; to one
large teacupful of the potato take one
quart of milk, three eggs, sugar to the
taste, a piuch of ginger or little nat
meg, Before mixing all of the milk with
the potato pour about teacupful of the
milk in the potato and rub them together
until they will run through colander'
to take humps and woody fbres; bake
with one crust. When done they SD Guild
be light and soft like pumpkin pie; il
they are hard and heavy they have too
much potato in them.
CHICKEN SALAD.-Boil a Large sized
spring chicken about two hours let it.get
cold then remove all the skin and fat;
then chop not quite as fine as mince
meat have the same quantity of chop
ped celery and the yolks of four boiled
eggs pressed smooth with silver or
wooden spoon; then take one pint OF
sweet milk and bring it just to boiling
heat: then add the yolks OF two eggs
we'll beaten; as soon as this dressing is
cold add one tablespoonful of ground
mustard made smooth with two ts bic
spoonfuls of cider vinegar and pepper
and salt to taste; then mix the whole
nicely together and place on platter,
and trim the edges of the platter with
the incest of the celery leaves.
To Cook BEANs.-The usual way PEG.
pie cook beans is to parboil them, put
them in kettle or pan, set them in the
oven to bake with a piece of fat polk in
them. The grease oozes out into the
beans, causing a most unwholesome and
indigestible mass, destroying the favor
of the beans. Now my method for cook
ing them (whichE.all who have tried pro-
nounce excellent) is as follows: Parboil
as usual, salt to suit the taste, then put
them in pan and place in the oven to
bake, putting in piece of 60 cd sweet
butter-the size of but:ernut will an
swer. Bake untila tender and nicely
Drowned over on top. Beans are very
nutritious, and cooked in this way are
palatable, digestible and can be eaten by
any one If you want the pork, cookiit
in dish by itself.
SLEEPS stomachs are now utilized by
being tanned, and converted into leather
bags.
The South Australian government has
offered $40, 900 for a successful combined
grain reaper, thresher and sacker.
A PAIL of milk standing ten minutes
where it is exposed to the scent of a
strong smelling stable, or any other
offensive odor, will imbibe faint that
will never leave it.
CLEANLINESS is an important element
in the profitable growth of animals. A
pig we'll washed will put on one-hfth
more flesh with the same amount of food
than the unwashed animal.
In Colorado they are paying bounties
for the heads of owls and hawks, and the
mice are as thick as grasshoppers. They
had better give premiums for increasing
the number of birds that devour vermin
DR.. JAMES, the Georgia commissions
of agricultural, says there is true rust
proof oat, largely grown lin the South
which resists rust even when sown with
other varieties which are cut down by
the disease.
Mr.. THOMPSON, in the Humboldt Kos
mos, says that corn smut is not poisonous
and that it is no more the agent injurins
cattle than the husks. He says h
would have no hesitation in feeding hi
cattle all the smut they could eat.
IT is quite probable that nine tenth
of the lightning.rods put up Throughout
the country are constructed by ignoran
parties, and not only do not serve as
protection, but invite destruction will
less chance of escape than if the rod
were absent