The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-02-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.
ITALIAN BEEFsTEAK.-Cut steak
from any tender part, beat it. and season
with onion, pepper and salt. Lay it in
an iron stew-pan that has cover to tit
close, and take care that it does not
burn. In two or three hours it will be
quite tender.
RICE PUDD1NG.-Three quarters Of a
cupful of boiled rice, pint of milk, the
yolks of three eggs, the grated rind of q
lemon, little salt; stir all together and
bake; when cool, beat the whites OF the
eggs to stiff froth and add cupful and
half of powdered sugar, pour it over
the top, set it in the oven and brown.
PLAIN SUGAR CAKEs.-One cupfnl
sugar and tablespoonful butter rubbed
together. one well-beaten egg, one cup.
full sweet milk, one and half cupfuls
sifted flour, little salt, one half tea
spoonful soda, and one teaspoonful
cream of tartar sifted in with the -four;
season with nutmeg; bake in small tins.
APPLE PUFFs.-Pare and core the
fruit, and either stew them in a stone
jar, or bake them. When cold, mix
the pulp of the apple with sugar and
lemon peel shred fine, taking rs little Of
the apple juice as you can. Bake them
in thin paste in quick oven; a quar-
ter of an hour will do them, if small.
Ounce marmalade or cinnamon pounded
Is IN Improvement. go. .'
HAM BALLS.-Beat six eggs until very
light, and add flour gradually until you
have a batter stiff enough to admit OF
being made into balls. Prepare some
cold boiled ham, fat and lean mixed, by
chopping it up very fine; then flour 1t,
and mix with the batter. Drop the
balls into melted lard that is boiling
hot; fry, and then drain them on a
sieve till free from the adhesion of any
grease. This is a nice way to use ham
after it has been sent to the table several
DAYS, and good deal has been cut from
the joint. so that it no longer makes q
very slightly dish. =. .~,,: .....
Kicking Cows.
A correspondence of the Country Gen.
Nen,an writes: have tried all the yarl-
Gus ways to prevent cows from kicking
while milking, and have found none
more harmless, easily applied, and as
effectual as the Dutch or Holland
method, which is to take small rope
about four feet long, and put it around
both hind legs, just above the gambrel
Joints, with a slipknot; draw tight
enough to bring both legs firmly to-
gether; wind the rope two or: three
times between the legs, around thisrope
or moose. drawing it tight, and fasten
the rope by half hitch. In North
Holland, this is practiced on all the
COWS at every milking. They are
driven to the milking-grou I'd, where
stakes are driven about two feet high,
and to these stakes the COWS are
Lied for milking. Each cow goes
directly to its own stake, and when to
be MIXED they voluntarily place their
feet in proper position to have their legs
tied. The Dutch milk-pail is nearly of
the size of small wash-tub, hence the
necessity OF having the COWS stand
moderately still; otherwise they are
liable to get into the pail. e.. .'...-
Megrims.
There is a sucden determination OF
blood to the head, generally attacking
horses at work, or in harness upon the
road, producing symptoms which may
be mistaken for apoplexy. 1t is a tenn
porary loss of volantry power and SEN
aation. The symptoms are as follows:
The animal is first observed to shake
his head as the tit approaches, reels and
falls down. but there is no spesm; the
pulse is iull, hard and almost motion
less. He soon RECEIVERS, rises to Ills feet.
shakes himself and goes on as If nothing
had occurred. Draft horses are more
subj ect TO this trouble than others in
pulling heavy loads. It may, or may
not, be accompanied by disease Of the
brain, and it is singular fact that
horses which have been affected when
worked in the collar, seldom have it
when rode under the saddle, a convinc-
ing proof that the collar may and often
does produce the trouble by pressure
upon jugular veins, causing an undue
pressure of blood upon the brain from
the dislended condition of the veins in
the head. The remedy is to procure a
collar which fits the neck nicely, keep
the bowels in good order, and by no
means feed corn or corn meal.
Coal OIL for Insects.
A correspondent of the California
Horticultslrtst. having exhausted all the
known remedies for plant lice ana otnee
minute forms of insect life which prey
upon plants, resorted to coal oil which Oh
proved complete exterminator: He
says: procured from a druggist an
atomizer, and filling a bottle with kero-
sene, sprayed over camelia to be ex-
perimented upon. 1t was a very dirty
liant. branches and leaves covered not
only with scale. but with black fungus;
very small quantity sufficed to vapo-
rize and cover the entire plant; After
the fluid had evaporated and the plant
was dry, the scales were found found dead, si
black fungus, also, which everybody
knows is so tenacious on the leaf, was
dried up into loose powder. which a
shake sent to the ground.