The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

-Cookies.-One cup sugar, two
thirds cup butter filled with water, one
egg, One-half teaspoon soda dissolved
IN tablespoon hot water; mix soft,
roll quite thin, cut in any desired shape,
and bake in quick oven.
Fried Cakes. - One teacup of
cream; one egg, we'll beaten; piece of
saleratus the size of hickory nut; tea
spoonful of salt, and flour enough to
make them roll out thin. Fry in hot
lard until of a light brown.
-Crullers.-Four tablespoons of
milk, four of melted butter or lard, six
of rolled sugar, heaping. four eggs, one
teaspoon salt, one small teaspoon soda
a grated nutmeg; mix stiff enough to
roll out easily, and fry in hot lard.
Marking for Braiding. piece
OF impression paper on your cloth;
then lay on your pattern, and run
around it with lead pencil, and you will
have your pattern marked on your
cloth as nicely as if you had paid some
one large sum to stamp it.
Bread Cake.-Dissolve a teaspoon
of soda in wine glass of milk; strain
it on three teacups of raised dough; a
teacup of lukewarm melted butter, two
teacups sugar, three eggs, two tea.
spoons cinnamon; fruit if you like.
Work the whole fifteen minutes; let it
stand fifteen minutes before baking.
Floating Island q quart of
sweet milk to boil, then stir into it the
beaten yelks of six eggs, flavor with
lemon, and sweeten to taste; whip the
whites of the eggs to stiff froth, add
a little sugar, drop in spoonfuls on the
hot custard until it sets; pour the
custard in deep dish, when it is thick
enough, and heap the frothed egg
upon it.
Chocolate Cake.-Two eggs, two
thirds cup of butter, two cups sugar,
one cup of sweet milk, three cups
flour, two teaspoons and half of bak-
ing powder; bake in layers. Take a
cup and half of white coffee sugar,
put enough water on to just cover it,
and boil until it is as thick as sirup,
beat it until it begins to look white like
cream, then flavor with vanilla, and
spread on the layers very quickly; over
ing of chocolate which has been melted
by holding hot stove-griddle over it,
or in the oven; stir the chocolate
smooth before putting on.
Engage Help.-Look about early in
the season, and get your pick of hands
in the market. Make q written bar
gain in detail, no matter if you are well
acquainted. This will prevent misrn-
derstanding. The man agrees to re-
main a certain number of months; to
perform certain chores Sunday or holi-
days; to start about such an hour in the
morning, and close at such an hour in
the evening. If, in case of an emer-
gency, he works longer, he may have
certain privileges to compensate for it.
In case he quits before his time is out,
he only receives q certain stipulated
sum.-AgricsslturGl Exchange.
AS usual at this season we are in
formed that the fruit crop throughout
the country is ruined by the cold
weather. All this croaking may prove
to be justitiable, but we have become
so accustomed to these annual an
nouncements of destruction by either
frosts, heat or winds, that we put lit
tie confidence in the prophets who
make them. The fruit buds may be
injured in some localities, but it is sell
dom that there is any great scarcity of
fruits in our markets. Last season
peaches were short crop, but all the
small fruits, as we'll as pears and APP
Piles, were more than abundant; in
fact, the market was glutted.-N. Y.
San.
"A farmer in Ohio was annoyed by
his sheep getting into a field of grain;
each time he'drove them out he was
unsuccessful in finding an opening
through which they got in, the fence
being too high, he thought, for them
to jump over, so he concluded to watch
them, and to his establishment he saw
large buck leave the flock and place
himself by the side of the fence, then
one after the other of his companions
ran up to him, leaped upon his back
and over the fence into the field; the
buck was the only one in the flock that
could get over without the assistance
of q sfootstool." Is this not more
than instinct? Have not animals a
language of their own?-M Y. Herald.