St. Landry democrat., 1880-05-15
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

SOFcItt DOA OF bdShtt.
-Cocoanut Pie.-Take one cocoanut
and CRATE; add the milk and two eggs
till the mixture is as thick as custard pie
One nut makes two pies.
-Barn-vard manures are considered
more hurtful than useful for grape-vines
Potash should form IA part of the grape
manures and nitrate of potash is the
most valuable.
Paint the inside walls of corn house
with coal tar and it will drive weeviI:
from the corn. 1t costs but a few dollar.
a barrel and barrel will last severa
years in hen houses and corn houses.
Grease on a carpet, if not of long
standing, can be readily disposed of by
washing the spot with hot soap-suds and
boraX-half an ounce of borax to a gallon
of water. Use clean cloth to wash it
with, rinse in warm water, and wipe dry.
Spots on furniture, from ANYTHING
hot, or from alcohol can be removed by
rubbing hard with sweet-oil and turpen-
tine. When the spots disappear, wash
in milk-warm soap--suds, dry quickly and
polish by rubbing briskly with chamois-
skin
Paint, pitch or tar can be removed
from cloth or wood by rubbing it with
trrpentine. If the paint has become dry,
put few drops of the turpentine on the
spot. and let it stand short time; then
rub the spot, and if all the paint is not
removed, repeat the work. When en-
tirely gone, rub off with alcohol
Bread Pudding.-To one quart of
boiling sweet milk add the same quanti-
ty of cold bread crumbs, light bread or
biscuit: mix and beat three eggs and one
cup of sugar together; then one cup of
cold milk and one-half cup of butter.
Pour this into the boiling milk, season
with nutmeg and set in the oven to
brown. Serve warm with cream.
If you want your chickens to grow
fast feed them on oatmeal scalded with
sweet or sour milk. Don't make the
feed wet or sloppy, nor give more at
once than will be eaten up clean. Only
prepare as much at once as will be all
eaten before any fermentation takes
place in it. Where oatmeal can not be
had, fine cornmeal or cracked wheat
similarly treated and administered will
answer very good purpose.
Boston Cream Cakes.-Half pound
butter, three-fourths pound of flour,
eight egg, one pint of water; stir the
butter into the water, which should be
warm; set it on the fire in pan and let
1t boil, stirring it often: when it boils,
stir in the -four; let it boil one minute,
take it off and let it cool; beat the eggs
light and stir into this cooled paste; bake
in small buttered pans ten minutes,
filling them half full.
Take pint of molasses or its equiv
alent in sugar to gallon of water, put
into an open-mouthed jar OR keg. Put
in a half pint of raw corn to ten gallons,
cover with netting to keep out insects.
Put it in a moderately warm place, and
let it work until clear This will take
from ten to twenty days. Now pour
off the clear part, throw out dregs and
corn, return the clear part to the key.
shake it up occasionally, and you will |
soon have good vinegar which will not |
be poison.
In washing colored cotton goods
there are a great number of ways by
which the color may be preserved. For
bluffs or gray linen tablespoonful of |
black pepper to a pailful of water will |
" set'' the color and not harden the water
at all Let the articles to be washed soak |
in this water half hour or so and then
wash as usual. 1t is excellent for black
or colored cambrics Or muslns, and with
ordinary good washing these articles can
be kept looking new a long time. The
suds should be made with the water in
which the black pepper was put and in
which they were soaked. Bluffs and grey
are not easily spotted after having been
washed in the pepper water. 1t not only
prevents fading but keeps the color from
q running
Chocolate Cake.-Two cups of gran
llated sugar; one cup of butter; whites
Of eight eggs beaten to a froth; one cup
If sweet milk, three full cups of sifted
iour, and three teaspoonful of baking
powder. Beat the sugar and butter to
cream, add the milk, then the flour
(baking powder in it), and the whites
When well mixed, divide and into one
half CRATE cake of sweet chocolate.
Bake in layers and put together with
,us.ard as follows: Bring one pint of
milk to the boiling point, stir in first two
of corn-starch dissolved in
| little milk, and then two beaten eggs
md teacup of sugar. Flavor with va
lila. This is avery excellent cake.
Before putting down carpets, if
moths are feared, procure some pulver-
zed salt and alum, or hot alum water.
Put this down the cracks next the base
'oards, and paste strips of cotton cloth
'ver the other cracks, then, even if
moths are plenty, they will be unable to
ONE up and do mischief. If there are
moths eggs in the carpet, they can be
estroyed by wringing crash towel out
# cold water, spreading it down on the
arpet, and then going over it with a
cry hot iron. Go all over the carpet in
his way, and the steam will destroy
9th eggs and insects. This takes time
ut is the most effectual method for the
humiliation of these pests,