The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-14
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Pumpkin Pie.-One quart pumpkin
stewed and strained; one quart milk,
one cup sugar, seven eggs, beaten very
light; one teaspoon ginger, same mace
and cinnamon each.
"A correspondent of the Rural Nes0
YORKER answers query as to the reme-
dy for worms in horse, which he says
has never failed of q cure, by simply
taking half q cup of pure, hard wood
ashes, finely sifted and mixed dry with
the mash or food. If one dose should
not prove sufficient, repeat it after . day
or two.
Sweet Potato Pie.-Parboil, peel,
slice crosswise firm, sweet potatoes.
Line a dish with paste; put in po-
tato or sliced potato; sprinkle thick
y with sugar; scatter among
them few whole cloves, cover
with more sliced potato. Fill dish in
this way; put tablespoon melted butter
in each pie; pour in little water; cover
with crust; bake, eat cold.
-Spiced Apples.-Eight pounds of
apples, pared and quartered; four
pounds of sugar, one quart of vinegar,
one ounce of thick cinnamon, one half
ounce cloves; boil the vinegar. sugar
and spice together; put in the apples
while boiling, and let them remain until
tender (about twenty minutes); then
put the apples in a jar; boil down the
sirup until thick, and pour over them.
Flowing Corn Stubble.-An plow-
ing under or otherwise disposing OF
rubbish from gathered crops should be
done during September and October.
1t roots are to be grown next season
where corn stubble is to be plowed un.
der let it be done deeply and all the
stubble well covered. Root culture
requires good farming, and rough, un-
even blowing, with loose corn stubs on
the surface, is not good farming. A
well-plowed corn stubble may be worked
with the disk harrow in the spring and
well fitted for roots, which are prefera-
BILE to oats to fellow corn.
Apple Jam.-Peel and core the
apples, and cut them in thin slices;
then put them into a preserving-pan OF
enameled saucepan; and to every one
pound of fruit add three quarters of a
pound of white sugar, broken small,
and put in tied up in a piece of coarse
muslin, few cloves, a small piece OF
ginger, and rind of lemon very thin
stir with a wooden spoon on quick
fire for twenty minutes or longer. II
the apples are juicy, when sufficiently
boiled, the jam will cling to the spoon.
Remove the cloves, ETC., and put the
jam into jam-pots, and when quite cold,
tie them down with thick paper OF
bladder. To be kept in a cool, dry
place.
I'm farming for profit, the stock and
team force is u proper subject for study.
A New jersey farmer, writing on the
subject, says that, in the older States, a
man with a small family and ambitious
may buy thirty to fifty acres of land,
pay one-half on it, make living and
get out of debt, with one team and
corresponding live stock, doing the
work himself. Two teams and an ad.
ditional hand are needed on 100 acres,
and on a farm of $50 acres three teams
and three hands beside the proprietor,
who will find enough to do In over.
sight, will be needed; and over zoe
acres can be we'll worked with the same
force, by good management on the part
of the proprietor.
Stuffed Cabbage.-Parboil a small
cabbage, but leave it whole. Mince
very finely any remains of cold meat
and half the quantity of beef suet, add
a small quantity of chopped shaflot
pepper, salt and minced herbs to taste
the same quantity of fine bread crumb.
as of suet, and the yelks of two or more
eggs. Make an incision on the top o
the cabbage, open the leaves lightly
insert the forcemeat, and tie up tn,
cabbage with thread. Line a saucepan
with bacon, lay in the cabbage will
a little stock or broth; simmer on tn,
fire for two or three hours. At tn,
time of serving remove the threat
from the cabbage; strain the sauce, fire,
it from excess of fat, thicken with but
ter or flour, and pour it over the dish.