Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-08
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THE best way 10 move old straw
berry plants is 10 walt Ill after heavy
rain when the ground is "sOakingn wet,
and take up clumps Of them with the
ground attached and carry them where
you want them.
MILITARY PUDDINas. - Chop very
finely One-haf pound Of suet, mix with L
one.half pound Of bread crumbs, and
the same quantity Of moist sugar
mince the rind OF lemon, and strain
the Juice; mix these ingredients well,
and put the mixture into small buttered
cups, and bake for rather more than
half an hour turn them out on a dish,
and serve with lemon sauce. The above
ingredients may be made into small
balls, and boiled for about half an hour
They should be served with the same
sauce as when baked.
BAKED HAM.-Make a thick paste Of
flour and water (not boiled), and cover
the entire ham with It, bone and all
put in pan, on a spider, or two muffin
rings, or any thing that will keep il an
| inch from the bottom, and bake in hot
oven; II small ham, fifteen minutes for
each pound; II large, twenty minutes (;
the oven should be hot when put in.
The paste forms hard crust around the
ham, and the skin comes off with it.
Try this, and you will never cook ham
in any other way.
In one quarter Of a minute dahlIa
that is all purple can be changed, 50
that every petal shall be tipped yellow.
This is simply done by burning some
birthstone, and holding the flowers a
few seconds in the fumes. The change
is instantaneous; and where there was
no fancy-tipped dahlia, il astonished
every body who did not know il and saw
the metamorphOsis. Other flowers are
subject to change by the fumes of brim-
stone, which discharges the color wher-
ever it reaches. The experiment is
easily tried by lighting few lucifer
matches. american CuHtCdtOT.
FINE GERMAN PUDDING.-Pourh hall
half Il pint of boiling milk upon one
pound bread crumbs; beat up one
quarter pound fresh butter to a cream
add to Il the yelks of ten eggs, vel
beaten; drain the milk from the bread
and add the bread, with One-quartel
pound pounded sugar and the grated
peel of a lemon; whip the whites of tht
ten eggs into a solid froth, and add then
the last thing; butter a cloth, and pu
the pudding in, tying it loose, as it will
swell out a good deal; plunge it int
boiling water; boil one hour. Som
persons add one.quarter pound jar raj
sins, slit and stoned.
CORN loses one-fifth by drying an,
wheat one-fourteenth. From this tn
estimate is made that 1t is more profta
BILE for farmers TO sell unshelled corn il
the fall at IS cents bushel than at $
bushel in the following summer, an
the wheat at S1.25 in December is equs
, to 81 80 in the succeeding June. In tn
I case of potatoes-taking those that re
and are otherwise lost, together with tn
shrinkage, there is but little doubt tha
I between October and June the loss
( the owner who holds them is not les
! than SO per cent.
. A PRACTICAL Nermonter tells tn
1 american CtSltiUatOr how to "burn
4 chimney out" He chose rainy day
. There had SO much SCOT accumulate
4 that it made a very hot fire, but by giy
!. ing only a little draught the burning wa
I safely performed. Although the da
I was still the fire roared like an engine
n and red-hot cinders fell kissing upo
> the wet roof, showing the terrible resu
a that would have followed had the chin
h ney taken fire on a dry and windy day
G To KEEP GRAPEs.-Select nice fres
9 clusters, and cut the end of the stel
3 smooth, and dip into melted sealin
Q wax; then put iii in cotton batting; paC
n a them away in wooden boxes; keep thel
g in dry, cool place. In this way the
g will keep fresh all winter. AnothC
Il way-Take full punches, ripe and pc,
/. feet; seal the end that is cut from tt
:; vine so that no air can get in, or tf
!. juice of the stem run out, and let thei
u stand one day after sealing, so as to
e sure they are perfectly sealed (if nt
s they will shrivel up); then pack
Il boxes of dry sawdust, and keep in
v cool place; they will keep nicely a
Il winter without losing their flavor;
ID packing, do not crowd the bunche!
sprinkle the sawdust over the bottom
= the box, then lay the grapes carefully,
j. bunch at time, all over the box, the
d sawdust and grapes, alternately, unit
9 the box is full.