The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-18
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hints

the back spread open, season with pep
per and salt and broil over a quick clear
fire.
PORK SPARE-RIB -Baste il with a
little butter, flour well and sprinkle
with dry sage, powdered. Serve hot
with apple sauce.
Meat and poultry will lose their flavor
and irmness if left in the water after
they are done; as will also fish, which
will break to pieces.
To REMOVE Soar GREAaE,-Fill a
cask of good strong lye, and drop all
your refuse grease therein; stir up the
mixture nee a week.
Many soups are better on the day
after they are made, provided they are
not warmed too quickly, or left too long
over the fire after they have become hot.
Turkey PATTING Mine part of the
breast fine, season with salt, nutmeg,
grated lemon, white pepper an l a little
butter warmed; fill the patties and bake.
VEAL SAUsAGEs Chop half a pound
oil lean veal and fat bacon very fine; add
sage, salt, pepper and allspice to taste;
beat well, roll into balls, fatten and fry
them.
BRoIhED VENsIoN Gut thin slices.
mix stale crumbs of bread with pepper
and salt, egg the slices, dip into the
seasoned bread; broil over a clear fire.
Serve with gravy sauce.
Sour apple sauce is greatly improved
by the addition of a tablespoonful of
butter TO a quart OF sauce, and, more
over, there is much less sugar needed.
A little lemon peel makes a fine flavor.
To MAKE A PERMANENT WHTrEwAsH,-
To every pail OF whitewash prepared in
the usual way, addapint of -four made in
to starch or paste. To the whitewash for
the hen house, add gas tar, one gill
to a paleful. This will prevent or dis
perse lice. Chloride of Slime scattered
about where rats and mice frequent will
drive them away.
Tea should not be infused for more
than seven minutes. Have the water
boiling, and use q teaspo onful of tea for
each person and one over. Put the tea
in the pot and pour the boiling water
over it and let it stand for seven
minutes. If it is allowed to stand, the
tannin in the tea is drawn out, and
dyspepsia is the result.
To PRESERVE Flowers good way
to keep cut flowers fresh, is to lay them
in wet clothes. Take them out of
the vases at night, sprinkle with cold
water and then wrap them in clothes
made very wet with cold water. The
weight of cloth will not crush the most
delicate flowers, whilest keeps out the
air and prevents their falling to pieces
or opening still more,
The best way to cook sweet potatoes
is to chip a piece off each end, and roast
in the oven. They should never be
boiled. They may be steamed, and
should then be pared, dipped lightly in
melted butter and laid in the bake oven
for two minutes before serving. If any
of these steamed potatoes are left over,
they make a nice breakfast dish if sliced
lengthwise, and fried on the griddle,
each piece to itself. They are also nice
if creamed like white potatoes.
Apples, in addition to being a deli
cious fruit, make a pleasant medicine -
A raw mellow apple is digested in an
hour and a half; while a boiled cabbage
requires five hours. The most healthy
dessert that "a be placed on the table
is a baked apple. If eaten frequently
at breakfast, with coarse bread and but
ter, without meat or flesh OF any kind,
it has an admirable effect on the general
system, often removing constipation,
correcting %acidities, and cooling off feb
rle conditions, more efrectually than the
most approved medicines.
To save Sweet Potatoes.
They should be dug when the ground
is as dry as possible and be allowed to
dry in the hill before covering with
earth. Select a dry situation from which
tho water will easily run; drivs down q
rough stake, to stand three and n half
feet in height, in the centre of a circle Of
about seven feet in diameter. Raise the
edge OF this circle by drawing up the
earth from without. Cover the entire
bed thickly with dry pine, straw, or other
dry material. Heap the potatoes on this
bed around the stake, 30 that the sides
may be as steep as possible. Then cover
entirely owe with dry corn-stalks or
broom.sedge set upright or with boards,
IN such a name as to prevent the rain,
which may soak through the earth Gov
ering, from reaching the interior. Then
cover tho whole with several inches of
earth, taken from Immediately around
tho hill, leaving the top of the hill open
Tor ventilation, but protected from rain.
On the approach of sever weather,
increase the covering OF earth
TO a depth Of one foot,