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FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD


FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD
| Recipes. ,..,,...... ..,.. -.
CELERY SALT.-Save the. root of the
celery plant, dry and CRATE it, mixing it
with ore-third as much salt. Keep in a
bottle we'll corked, and it. is delicious for
soups, oysters, gravies or hashes.
DOVER CAKE.-One pound of flour;
one of sugar; one-half pound of butter;
six eggs; glass ofsweet milk one tea
spoonful of soda; two teaspoonfuls <ct
cream tartar; add a little nutmeg. .,
LEMON BEER.-Put into a keg one gal
lon of water, two sliced lemons, one
tablespoonful of ginger, a scant pint OF;
good syrup, and one half-pint Of yeast.
In twcnty-four hours it will be ready for
use. IF bottled, the corks must be tied
down. {. .asra. .,7ss,
APPLE FRIrTERs.-One pint of sweet
milk, six eggs, -four enough to form a
stiff batter, pinch of salt, half a tea
spoonful of saleratus, a teaspooniul OF
cream tartar; then slice some good sour
apples rather thin and mix in the batter.
Fry in hot lard browning them nicely on
both sides. Sauce-a little cream and
sugar. They are nice made Of raisins or
currants instead Of apples. Delicious II
made of canned peaches, and the juice OF
the peaches well sweetened and poured
over them when served, for sauce.
TONGUE SoUP.-Put a small tongue
into a stewpan, with trimmings of any
bones of fowl or veal, and stew for four
hours. removing the scum; take out the
tongue, skin and clean it, and leave it to
cool; put back the! trimmings and the
root. with carrot, turnip, a head of
celery and an onion, half a teaspoonful
of cayenne, and stew one hour more;
then strain the soup. and when cool re-
move the fat, and set it on to heat, with
a turnip and carrot cut in squares, and
two tablespoonfuls of grated tongue;
let it simmer slowly for an hour, and
serve with boiled rice. A useful and
cheap soup.
CANNED CoRN.-To every six quarts
of corn take one ounce of tartaric acid.
dissolved in boiling water; cut the corn
from the cob, and put in sufficient water
to cook; put the acid in while the corn
is cooking; when done seal in glass cans;
to prepare for the table, pour off the
sour water and save it; put enough fresh
water to the corn to cook it; for every
quart of corn add one small teaspoonful
of saleratus, and let it stand a few, min
utes before cooking; while cooking put
in teaspoonfll of sugar; if the corn
turns yellow, too much saleratus has
been used; pour back some of the sour
water till it turns white again; season
with salt, cream, butter and pepper;
same as fresh corn. I'll
SOUR BEEF AND STRING BEANS
Take six pounds of beef, the brisket or
boiler, or pin bone is the best. The pin
bone is the piece which is cut off first
before what is known in New York as
the fat-bone steaks are cut Put this
in a close stewpan with half peck Of
string beans, cutting, the beans in three
pieces; add half tumbler of water;
season with salt and pepper and dredge
we'll with flour; when the beefris haf
cooked add oone-third of tumbler Of
vinegar and a tablespoonful of brown
sugar; stir it well, so that the ingredi-
ents are well mixed; cook for three
hours or more very slowly, covering
we'll the stewpan. The art in cooking
this dish, as in all boiling or stewing.
is not to allow it to cook too fast. Should
it boil too rapidly move it to cooler
portion of the range. 1t should simmer
all the time. .. ..'..... -....
The Currant Worm. ...t r
Mr.. M. Hays, Franklin Co., Penn,
wants to know how to get rid ola garden
enemy whose appearance at work he de-
scribes as follows: -. ..u..n.i.l.. !.
A green worm, size from one inch
down, first came last season, stripping
the leaves clean, and this spring those
stripped stalks were dead, root and
branch. Another lot not touched last
year are now attacked by them, also the
gooseberries. Tried carbolic soap suds,
and to-day tried slaked lime, dusting the
bushes effectively; can see no difference
asyet. ........... ..,..,
Doubtless the imported currant worm.
(Nematus ventrico osus). It was intro
duced, or rather first began to attract
attention in 1857, around Rochester, N.
Y, though there is good evidence of its
having been spreading further and fur
ther West ever since, at the rate Of about
twenty-five miles q year, colonizing
wherever it goes. and frequently strip
ping the leaves of the currant and even
of the gooseberry in midsummer. The
parent flies have four transparent wings;
the female being yellowish and the male
black. The eggs are attached in rows
along the principal veins on the under
side of the leaves. There are from two
to three broods Of the worm annually,
the last brood passing the winter. for
the most part, in the cocoon which the
worm spins, on or beneath the surface OF
the ground.
Much can be done to prevent the in
iuries of this worm by watching for the
first leaves that are riddled with holes.
as when the worms first hatch many of
them remain together on 4 single leaf:
and may thus be gathered and destroyed
with ease. The most satisfactory rem
edv, when the worm has been allowed is
grow, and when manipulating becomeo
too troublesome and expensive, is to ap-
ply white hellebore. Care should be
taken to obtain pure article, and to
stand to the Uindward while dusting it
over the bushes. so as to avoid too much
sneeZing, which the inhalation of the
powder is apt to produce. A bag of
muslin tied to the end of stick answers
very well as duster. The powder may,
however, be just as effeetually syringed
or sprinkled by mixing it with water in
proportions OF one pound Of the powder
to twenty or twenty-five gallons of water.
The quantity named should not cost more
than half dollar, and will keep any Or
dinary garden clean for season if thus
used in solution.-MeU York Tribune.
Gooseberries and Currnnts.
There is no reason why both these
very useful fruits should not be found
abundantly in every garden. They are
no trouble to raise. They grow readily
from cuttings. Take the wood of last
wear, from six to ten inches in length; !;
prepare the bed or place where they are
to stand permanently; force them into
the ground not less than four inches,
press the dirt firmly around them, mulch
them. and let them alone. If a brush is
desired let the buds on the cuttings re-
main; but if tree or single stem is
preferred remove all the buds that would
20 beneath the surface. Let them stand
about three feet in the row; and if there
is more than one row, let the rows be
f.