The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-17
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOU USE.


FRIED tomatoes: Take cold stewed
tomatoes well-seasoned, add to them
you to form into cakes, fry. in butter toa
rolled in fine crumbs first SAILING them1,
fried in the same manner, are very nice.
TOMATO sauce: Take eight ripe to-
matoes; cut themup, skins and all, and
stew them until they are very soft:
press them through a sieve, season with
salt and cayenne pepper. Add five
ktablespoons of brown gravy; stir it all
well together, and heat it.
|ssToMATo paste for soup: Skin the
tomatoes, and stew them quite dry; then
put them upon china plates, and put
them in the sun to dry. When dried
into paste, put it into jars, and tie them
down. This can be kept all winter, If
put in cool, dry place. Z 0S
THE Chicago Times says that the best
dairymen aim to have q constant supply
of pure, cold water in the pastures where
COWS feed durings the day and in the
yards where they rest at night. ltseems
to us that there is no interest SO great
thatis looKed after so heedlessly by the
lpavefage farmer, as that of pure water
for farm stock of every kind.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Maine Farmer
says that we have a class of farmers
among us who do not pursue farming as
means of support, but simply as a
pastime. These so-called farmers do
not feel the effect of an experimental
| failure as we do who are obliged from
necessity to count the cost of every step
before we take it. He isssoiry to say
we are too apt to follow the lead of such
farmers.
THE best way to keep butter is to ex-
clude the air from it, and keep it in a
cool sweet place; but the first is the
most important. If the butter is IN
pail, tub, or jar, cover il one or two
inches with the strongest brine, made
from the best salt. sRemember, it will
not do to simply cover it with salt;
the air will pass through the brine. If
the package has tight fitting cover,
50 much the better. Thesbest butter
exposed to the air will not keep perfect
J twenty.four hours. Batter for the family
4 should be kept constantly under the
brine. ~.
AsSafule, never plant a1arge, dark
evergreen in front of, and very near, a
kbrflliant, light coloredA Adeciduous plant,
u FOR thus plantedit will draw and
weaken the efeetSof the latter. 1t is
better to introduce gay, bright colors in
we'll judged proportions, y A few bright
fowefsSSf deep red, blue or yellow,
wiH have prettier effect dispersed here
I and there about the lawns, than in one
7 great mass. Introduce them, so that by
means of their different natures there
will be always during the season few
gay points in the picture.
N FILTERED water ranA.be produced
easily, by taking alarge, sound common
earthen foYef-Pot, SSand soaking it in
water twenty four hours. Then fill the
hole atSths bottom with clean sponge,
PVT insans inch layer of fine clean sand,
shalHd on the top LAYER of clean coarse
n gravel, and let the water filter through
Fh. When it is desirable to filter water
quickly, for immediate use, employ the
following method: Puta quart of clean
water over the fire and just bring it to a
boil; remove it and strain it three OF
four time through flannel; c1ol it and
: keep it for use i'll a covered jar OF
pitcher.
AN effective ice-box can be made by
placing one tight box within another
leaving space of three reeinehes-between
the two, to be filled with pounded char
coal or saw-dust. Each box must have
tight lid, and between the space of the
covers a piece Of flannel of several folds
should be laid. The outflow of the drip
ping of the5lce should be arranged al
the bottom of the box, and it. will be all
the better if the pipe that is inserted for
this purpose is curved or twisted little
to keep out the air. "A coarse woolen
: cover should be placed over the ice
and when the quantity is small it is an
excellent plan to fill glass bottles with
, water early in the morning and keeI
them well corked and laid upon the ict
until needed for drinking. If no ict
can be obtained and there is no COO
! spring close at hand, very cold watel
can be obtainediby filling large earther
jar with it and putting it in the shad,
in very good current of air and wrap
ping the jar in very thick woole1
cloth (an old coat will answer for al
outer wrap and keeping it CONSTANT.
wet. This causes evaporation of hea
and cools the water finely.