The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Polished brass ornaments may be
kept bright by coating them with thin
solution of bleached shellac in alcohol.
If the hands are kept in water
while peeling and slicing onions the
eyes will not suffer. 1t is particular de-
sirable that this should be done when
preparing small onions to pickle.
Corn with Tomatoes.-Cut the
corn from the cob and put it with an
equal quantity of tomatoes that have
been sliced and peeled; stew these to-
gether for half an hour, then season to
taste with salt, pepper and little
sugar; stir in a liberal piece of butter,
and simmer a few minutes longer.
Windsor Pudding.-A pint of
bread-crumbs, five apples of medium
size, prepared as for sauce. three eggs.
the juice and peel of one lemon, and a
nutmeg, if approved; mix well. and put
into quart shape. 1t is equally good.
either boiled or baked, and requires
the same time as batter-pudding.
Frozen Peaches.-Pare and quarter
some large ripe peaches; put them into
the freezer, first covering them lightly
with little granulated sugar. Freeze
an hour or so, sprinkle more sugar over
them and serve Immediately.
-Flax-Seed Tea.-Put two table
spoonfuls whole fax seed in pint of
boiling water, let it boil fifteen minutes;
cut up one lemon and put in pitcher
with two tablespoonfuls of sugar; strain
the tea boiling hot through a wire
strainer into the pitcher and stir to-
gether. Good for cough and sore throat.
Corn Pudding. g.-Take the grated
corn of dozen large ears, add quart
of milk, three beaten eggs, two table
spoonfuls of melted butter, a table
spoonful OF sugar and q small teaspoon
full of salt. The eggs should be beaten
separately and the whites stirred in the
last. Pour into a baking dish, cover
and bake an hour. Remove the cover
and brown before serving.
In nearly all soils ashes are benefi-
cial. Their action is manifold; they sup
ply to plants inorganic elements, which
they require; they neutralize acids; they
act chemically as solvents upon other
salts in the soil They are more bene-
fetal on sandy and gravelly soils than
on clay. For plants that contain a large
amount of potash and phosphoric acid,
as carrots. .turnips. potatoes and cab
bage, ashes are an essential manure.
Measure out two cupfuls of sugar,
three eggs, one cup of butter and enough
flour to roll it out. Beat the white and
yelks of the eggs separately. Mix the
ingredients quickly and roll out thin.
Cut out the cakes with a round cake
cutter, cutting them again in the center
with the top of the pepper-glass of the
castor or similar article. When the
jumbles are in the pans, wet the tops
using feather or little brush-with the
white of an egg slightly beaten. Then
sprinkle over very coarse powdered
lump sugar. Bake in quick oven.
Why do the Sleepers of Buildings
Rot Rapidly?-There are two reasons
for this: The first is, because the stone
or brick under-pinning is not made suf-
fciently high to keep them well clear
of the ground; and the second is, when
a continuous wall is laid all around for
the sleepers to rest upon, the mason
does not leave openings enough in it on
the four sides for good circulation of
air underneath the floor. If this is done,
and they are properly placed, sleepers
will last nearly as long as the beams of
the building overhead.
Hog Cholera.-A correspondent of
the Chemical Gazette (Ohio) gives the
following cure: He has made this dis
ease study, and finds by careful exper-
ments that the following mixture comes
nearest reaching the disease. As an
excellent condition powder for hogs and
as preventive and cure for HOG chol-
era it can hardly be surpassed. Yet the
remedy that will cure in one section of
the country may be only palliative in
another. There it rarely fails to eradi-
cate the dread disease, and is by some
considered specific. The formula
is the subjoined: Jamaica ginger, four
drains; sulphate of soda, one ounce;
chloride of sodium, four ounce; sui
phide of antimony, four ounces; licor-
ice root, four ounces; faxseed meal,
four ounces; black mustard, four ounces:
resin, four ounces; nitrate of potassa,
four ounces; capsicum, one ounce:
sulphate of iron, two ounces. Powder
each substance separately and mix them
all thoroughly by passing through fine
sieve. The dose is from one to three
tablespoonfuls, two or three times dav.
mixed with soft food.