Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-02

qualities of either meat or vegetables.
The pot should be kept closely covered
unless for II moment when IL is necessary
to remove the scum. The steam will
condense upon the inside of the cover,
and fall back into the pot in drops of
moisture, II the boiling is slow. Do not
think that rapid boiling cooks faster
than the gentle process recommended.
After the pot once boils you cannot
make It's contents cook any faster if you
have fire enough under il to run a steam
engine. Remember if you boil meat
hard and fast it will be tough and taste
less, and most of its goodness will go up
the chimney or out of the window with
the steam.
Recipes.
APPLE JELLY Slice the apples, skins,
cores and all; put them in stone jar
with a small quantity of water to keep
them from sticking; then place the jar
in water and let them remain boiling
until perfectly soft; then strain, and to
one pint of the liquor add hree-quarters
OF pound of loaf sugar; boil and clear
with the whites OF two or three eggs
beaten to froth. When it jellies pour
into the glasses to COO, and seal them.
FEATHER CAKE.-Beat to cream
one-half cup of butter, add to it two
of sugar and beat well together; one
cup of milk with one teaspooniul OF
soda dissolved in it; beat well together
then add one cup Of sifted -four with two
teaspoonfuls of cream tartar previously
rubbed into it; add next the we'll beaten
yolk Of three eggs, beat the whites separ-
ately until stiff, add them and then two
more cups of flour; beat well between
each successive addition; butter two
middle-sized tins, put in the cake and
bake for twenty minutes or half an hour
in a moderate oven.
APPLE JAM and core the apples
cut in thin slices and put them in a pre-
serving kettle with three-quarters of a
pound of white sugar to every pound oi
fruit; add Cied up in piece OF muslin
few cloves, n small piece of ginger and
thin rind OF lemon; stir with wooden
spoon on quick fire for halt an hour.
EnrichinR Poor Lands.
There are three principal methods oi
rapidly increasing the supply OF plant
food in any soil: BY feeding concen-
trated foods upon the land, as oilcake,
cottonseed cake, etc. +; by the application
OF barnyard manure, and the use OF
artificial fertilizers. Which OF these
three methods is to be adopted in any
given case must be determined by the
many conditions and circumstances that
surround it. 1t may be that the feeding
of sheep with decorticated cottonseed
cake upon poor pasture may be the
quickest and best method of enriching
the land. In ottier cases the purchase
and application of barnyard manure may
be the most profitable. When it
comes to the artificial fertilizers, II
should be borne in mind that their true
Office is to supply quickly one or two
Ingredients that may be deficient in the
soil-when these are known their use is
to be recommended.
Food Value of Root Crops
Chemical analysis gives the following
results with regard 10 the food values o
ditferent.root crops:
r Total amount OF heterogeneous or ncsh-form.
ing material. Pounds.
In 900 pounds of potatoes ............ 20.0a
In 900 pounds OF mnngolds. .......... ll'2i
In 900 ponnds OF sugar beets.......... l0G0
In 900 pounds oi turnips. 2t "a
In 900 pounds Of carrots.............. 1912
Total amount OF carbonaceous or iat-iorm.
ing material. Pounds.
In 900 pounds OF potatoes. .............237'4 4
In 600 pounds OF mRngolds ....... ....l07 Z
In 900 pounds OF sugar bcots ........l744
In 600 pounds OF turnips .............. Sl'7
In 900 pounds OF carrots 1891
To Keep Apples I'm winter.
The following rough but good way to
keep apples in winter, where there is
plenty OF material, is given in the
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