The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Recipes.

FARM, GARDEN ANb HOUSEHOLD
Recipes.
LEMON CUsTARp.-Make the mice OF
q large lemon very sweet, then pour in
gently pint Of boiling cream, and stir
it till nearly cold.
POP Overs. One pint -four, one pint
milk, two eggs, eggs beaten to froth;
mix qnickly, and bake in hot buttered
cups. Serve with hot sauce.
COFFEE CAKE.-One cup of sugar, one
cup OF butter, one cup of molasses, one
cup of cold coffee, four cups OF -four,
two caps of faisins, two tenspoonfuls OF
baking powder. Spice TO taste.
MiNoE PIES Boil fresh tongue;
chop it very fine, after removing the
skin and roots; when cold, add one
pound of chopped suet, two pounds of
stoned raisins, two pounds ourrants,
two pounds citron cut in fine pieces,
six cloves powered. two teaspoohfuls
cinnamon, hall teaspoonful mace, one
pint cider, two pounds sugar; put this
MI in stone jar and cover well; in MAX
ing pies chop sotne applies very fine, and
to one bowl of the prepared meat take
Two apples; add more sugar, according
to taste, and sweet cider enough to
make the pies juicy, but not thin; mix,
and warm the ingredients before putting
into your pie-plates; always bake with
an upper and under crust, made with
one cup OF lard, one of butter, one of
water and four OF -four.
CHICKEN Sour. - Take a chicken
weighing about three pounds. Gut it
In Quarters and place in porcelain
pot. Add two quarts of water and let
it boil one hour. Then have frying
pan ready with a lump of butter, and
remove the chicken to it, and have some
boiled rice ready, cooked in another
saucepan-about one cupful of boiled
rice--as boiling the rice with the chick
en- improves the favor of the soup, Add
about one tablespoonful of chopped
parsley, one onion, and a small carrot,
in very thin slices boil the gibleta
separately, and when the chicken is q
rich brown remove it to make gravy
by adding half cup of water, one table,
spoonful OF flour, and the giblets
chopped fine. Serve the gravy sepa-
rately.
G. NJ. F. writes to New York paper :
"What kind of soil is best adapted for
strawberries Js not clay, we'll worked
up with loan or muck and manure,
good? When should the runners be
clipped off? Should the vines be GOV.
cred in the winter with straw or horse
manure, or not at alls Also, until how
old should grapevines be kept trimmed
DOWN.
Reply. Some strawberries succeed
better upon clay soils than upon light
ones, and others do very Ill Upon clay.
A moderately clayey loan is the best for
this fruit. For clay soils triomphe de
gand, jucunda, black defiance, Boy.
den's, and Colonel Cheney may be
chosen; for light soils, Wilson, cham
pion, Kentucky seeding, monarch of
the west, and Downer's prolific will be
better. The runners should be clipped
when the blossoms and fruit are form
ing. so as to turn all the vigor of the
plant to the fruit. Horse manure is not
good for covering, nor even for ma
nure for strawberries. Cow droppings
we'll rotted, with little guano, in the
spring, make the best fertilizer. Coarse
hay, cornstalks, and cedar or pine brush
are the best for covering. Litter from
the COW stable is very good. Grape
vines should be kept trimmed alway 8.
If they are a hundred years old, they
will need trimming az we'll as when but
one year old.
BnryinG Roots.
When turnips, beets and other roots
are buried outdoors, the common mode
for protecting them from the frost is to
put on moderate layer of straw and
then thick coat of earth. But if more
straw and less earth are employed il
will be better for the roots, as they will
be dryer, the straw absorbing the mois.
ture. A neighbor has been in the prac.
tice of placing sixty or seventy bushels
of potatoes in each heap, covering them
with foot of compact straw and three
inches of earth. He has not lost one
bushel in hundred. If straw cannot
be had in sufficient quantity, it is q
good way after covering with a few
inches of earth, to apply to the whole
exterior of the heap layer of leaves,
These act as a non. conductor, and as
shingles, keeping the rain from entering
the inner coat. Another moderate layer
OF earth completes the covering. Ven
tilation is never to be omitted. Er
change.
To Revive Frosted Plants.
Plants are often frosted through neg
lect and allowed to die through ignor
ance. Those that have been quite Sc
verely nipped may be saved if treated
rightly. The proper way is, when the
frost has been partially drawn out Of
them, naturally, to drench them will
cold water from a 6ne-nosed watering
pot, and Immediately cover again ant
let them so remain until they regain
their natural color. When they are re-
moved, clip off all such parts as are
blackened. As soon as it is discovered
that plant has been touched by frost
remove it to cool, dark room, and OF
no account suffer the sun to shine on it
If they ca1 be covered 80 as to exclud,
air as well as light, it is better still
Dahlias, cannas and the like need no
be removed until the frosts are sever,
enough to blacken the leaves. Herald
Why Kill Ones Selfl