The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-11-13
Agricultural and Household Notes.

; DoJTGHNUTS.-One egg, one cup sugar,
one teaspoonful of butter. one cup of sweet
milk. one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoon
fuls Of cream tartar.
CooKIEs.-Two cups sugar, one cup of
butter, two eggs, half cup of sweet milk, two
teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and one tea.
spoonful of soda.
FRIED ONIoNs.-Take two large onions,
cut them in rings, and fry them quickly in
butter until perfectly brown. Serve them
around steak.
SWEET PoTAToEs.-Select those of uni
form size; parboil them with the skins on,
peel and lay in baking pan. Bake until soft
to the grasp, glazing with butter Just before
you take them up.
Dreaded EGG -PLANr.-Slice nearly an
inch thick; pare each slice and lay in salt
and water one hour. Wipe dry dip in beat
en- egg; then in rolled cracker and fry to a
fine brown in sailed lard or dripping.
BAKED SQUAsH.-Boil,d drain and mash in
hot cclander. Season with pepper, salt
and butter, add few spoonfuls of milk
and two beaten eggs. Pour intoa buttered
dish and bake to light brown in quick
oven.
TOMATO SAUCE.-Pare, slice and stew the
tomatoes for twenty minutes. Strain and
rub though colander, leaving the hard and
tough parts behind. Put into sauce pan
with little minced onion, parsley, pepper,
salt and sugar. Bring to broil; stir in a
good spoonful OF butter rolled in flour. Boil
up and serve.
SPLENDID CAKE-Take four ounces oil
butter, one pound of sugar. four eggs, twelve
ounces of flour, half pint Of water, and two
teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; mix, and
beat all well together; put it into CREASED
pans, sift some fine sugar over the top, which
will give the cake meringueli like crust
bake in a quick oven.
Another enemy to wheat-growing is re-
ported ia the shape Of weed somewhat re-
sembling cookie. In some parts of the East
it has become so abundant as to cause serious
alarm, especially so in North Carolina, where
it springs up simultaneous with the grain
and nearly smothers it. The people have
given it the name of s'Dutch cockle.''
It is the opinion of Prof. A. R. Grote, ex.
pressed at the recent meeting of the Ento-
biological Club at Saratoga. that the damage
done by the employment of Paris-green is
greater than that done by the potato-bug
This conclusion Prof. Grote has reached at
ter careful study OF the effects Of Paris
green agrculturally employed. He has found
cases of the poisoning, by this agent, Of
horses, cattle, sheep, poultry, aud even hui
man beings.
BACON AND BEEF.-Col. Curtis, in the
New York Tribune advocates that farm
ers use bacon in place of pork, instead O.
selling their pork at 81 per hundred ant
using the money to buy beef at 10 and L
cts per pound he chooses to make his porl
into bacon and make it the staple family
meat. Well grown pigs at six months arr
nice for bacon, and it may be cured in thu
same way as hams. 1t is always ready to-
use. and is a treat for any meal.
The most frequent cause Of rotting o
pota toes in pits or cellars is putting then
away before they are thoroughly dry ant
well ripened. The safest way to manage il
to cover them from the sun while digging
as the heating is injurious. Then wher
well dried in the field, remove them to a dry
airy barn floor and scatter them on straw
bed few inches thick and air them thor
oughly. If the doors are open for this pur-
pose, the tubers must be kept from the ligh
by covering of straw. When it is danger
GUS to keep them longer in this way, thel
may be removed to the cellar and kept il
barrels or bins with ventilsting holes o.
spaces made in them. Potatoes thus curet
will not sprout readily until the spring ar
rives.