The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,


hour ana three eggs. BenJ well ana Try
rs you would oysters, in part butter and
part lard, which should be very hot
TOMATO SoUP.-To one pint tomatoes.
canned, or four large ones cut fine, add
one quart boiling water and let them
boil. Then add one teaspoon of soda,
when il will foam; Immediately add one
pint of sweet milk, with salt, pepper and
plenty of butter. When this boils add
eight small crackers, rolled fine, and
serve.
GINGER PUDDING.-Half q pound of
flour, quarter of a pound of suet, quarter
of a pound of moist sugar, two large tea
spoonfuls of grated ginger. Shred the
suet very fine, mix it with the flour,
sugar and ginger; stir all well together;
butter basin and put the mixture in
dry; tie cloth over and boil for three
hours.
EGG OR BUTTER GRAvY.-Put into a
tin dish one-quarter cup of butter and a
large tablespoonful of flour. Set on the
stove, and as the butter melts stir in the
flour until smooth, or free from lumps
then pour on nearly pint of boiling
water. Slice into your gravy bowl two
hard boiled eggs, pour the gravy on
them and serve. Salt and pepper.
APPLE CAKE.-Take two cups of dried
applies; stew just enough to chop easily;
chop rs fine as raisins and boil in two
cups of molasses till preserved through;
drain off the molasses, then add two
eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of sour
milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda, five cups
of flour and spices of all kinds; add the
apples and one large cup of raisins the
last thing.
SCoTCH BRoTu.-Two pounds of the
scraggy part of the neck of mutton. Cut
the meat from the bone and cut off all
the fat; cut the meat into small pieces;
put into a soup pot with one large slice
of turnip, two carrots, one onion, one
stalk of parsley, one-lmlf cup of barley,
three pints of water and boil gently two
hours. On the bones put one pint of
water, boil two hours and then strain
on the soup. Cook one spoonful of flour
and one of butter together until perfectly
smooth, then stir into the soup and add
one teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
Season with salt and pepper.-MiSs NJ
Pdrlod.
Household Hints.
To make a polish for metals, dissolve
one ounce carbonate of ammonia in four
ounces of water and add sixteen ounces
of Paris white, mixing them we'll to-
gether. Use q damp sponge, and rub
the powder lightly over the surface Of
the metal. When the powder is busted
off the metal will be bright and clean.
To make potato starch, CRATE six me-
dunn sized potatoes and mix thoroughly
with one gallon of water; strain through
a coarse towel, let settle, drain off the
water and turn on another gallon of
clear water and let settle again; drain
again, put in an earthen dish and set in
a warm place (not too warm) to dry.
Use same as corn-starch for starching
clothes.
When you gather your herbs dry them
and rub the leaves through a sieve and
bottle them tightly till you need them.
Tie the stalks together and save them
till you want to make what the French
call a bouquet for a soup or stew. A
bouquet of herbs is made by tying to-
gether few sprigs of parseley, thyme
and two bay leaves. These can all be
bought at any drug store.
To restore scorched linen, peel and
slice two onions, and extract the juice
by pounding and squeezing; cut up hall
an ounce of fine white soap, and also
add to the juice of the onions two
ounces of fuller's earth and half n pint OF
vinegar. Boil all together. When
cool, spread over the scorched linen, and
let it dry on; then wash and boil out the
linen, and the spots will disappear. un-
less burned so badly rs to destroy the
threads.
When to Apply Manure.
The common practice among farmers
is to make a general clearing of the
yards and barn cellars once year, either
in the spring OF fall. Either practice
makes a heavy draft upon the teams
and has its disadvantages. If this work
is done in the spring, it is when tho
ground is soft, and other work is eX-
ceedingly pressing. IT the manure is
drawn out in the fall, and dropped in
heaps upon the field to be cultivated
next season, there is more or less waste
by teaching and by evaporation. There
is growing disposition among our in
telligent farmers to apply manure di'
rectly to growing crops, or rs near the
time of painting and sowing rs possible
1t is felt that the sooner manure is pu
within reach of the roots of plants, tht
better for the crops and their owner
Manure is so much capital invested, anC
bears interest only rs it is consumed il
the soil.
The barn-cellar may be so managed rs
to manufacture and turn out fertilizer:
every month in the year, so that the
farmer may suit his convenience in ap'
plying them to the soil. When manure
is not wanted for cultivated crops, it il
always safe to apply it to the grass crop
either in pastures or upon meadows attel
moving. Top dressing is growing IL
favor with our intelligent farmers
Grass pays better than almost any farm
crop in the older States, and the spread
ing of compost saves the necessity o
frequent blowing and seeding. by top
dressing ut any convenient season of tn
year, fields may be kept profitably il
grass for an indefinite time.-Americo
AgriculturiSt.
Dust Baths for Fowls.
Yes, they are just about the best thing
which can be allowed to the fowls ant
chicks, and they are sure to appreciate
them as much as cleanly disposed per
son does good bath in the water, fer j
is their mode of effecting a thorough
cleansing. Nature has ordered it SO
ana the fowls understand it full well
for they delight in nothing more-unles
we except a good feed-than to rol
around and work through a lot of fin
dust, and they go at it with all the de
light evinced by lot OF urchins in
pond of water. They rub themselve
dtwn deep into it, toss it up under thei
wings, over their heads and backs an
in under their feathers until they al
completely covered with it. This re
freshes them wonderfully, while it ais
has the desirable effect of ridding ther
of lice This is especially so when til