The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-09-11
FARM AND PRESIDE.

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Mullins. Beat up one egg in one
half pint of milk, one pint of flour, one
tablespoonful melted butter, little
sugar, one and a half teaspoons cheap
ing) of sea foam. This makes a nice
fritter batter.
-Pickled Peaches.-Nine pounds of
| peaches, three pounds of sugar and
three quarts Of good cider vinegar.
Feel the peaches and stick two cloves
IN each peach, then put them with sugar
and vinegar in porcelain lined kettle.
Cook from five to ten minutes.
Baked Tomatoes.-Take large TO-
matoes, cut the tops off and remove the
seeds taking as little of the tomatoes
as possible,) fill the cavities with bread
crumbs, pepper and salt, put in baking
dish, then strew the top with a little
pure beef dripping of butter.
Apple Charlotte. Butter, then
Hour lightly, your pudding-dish. Line
it with thin slices Of bread, buttered on
both sides; put thick layer of apples,
cut in thin slices; sugar, and a little
cinnamon and few pieces of butter;
another layer of bread and butter, ap-
pies. sugar, cinnamon, and butter last.
Bake slowly for two hours, keeping the
pan covered until half-hour before
serving, and let the apples on top brown.
Onion Turnover Turkish
dish. Chop six or eight onions into
dice. Boil for few minutes in salt
and water. Drain and toss in butter
until of light brown. Beat up three
or four eggs and add them to the
onions. just as they are going to set
lay them on piece of puff paste; pinch
the edges together as in making an
apple turnover and bake to nice color.
The paste must not be too thick. A
few chopped mushrooms added before
the eggs makes a very great improve
ment.
Tea Ice Cream.-Put half an ounce
of fine orange-favored tea into an.
earthenware pot and pour on it a
pint of boiling milk. Let it stand until
nearly cold, then pour it off fine, and,
If necessary, strain to free it from any
particles of leaf. Put the liquor into
large stewpan, with enough lump sugar
to make it sweet. When it is hot add
to it quarter of pint of rich cream
and the yelks of five eggs. Stir over a
slow fire until it becomes q thick Gus
tard, and then take from the fire; stir
occasionally until it is cool, to prevent
skin forming. Freeze in the usual
manner.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, who made the experiment.,
says when unground shelled corn is fed |
to cattle, twenty per cent, or one fifth |
is voided without digestion. If whole |
corn is mixed with cut hay, it is better |
masticated anG only ten per cent passes
undigested. Coarsely ground corn |
loses ten per cent by Indigestion, while
there is scarce trace found where corn |
is ground to fine meal.
The best way to manage sickly |
plants is to turn them out of the pots,
shake or wash off all the soil from the |
roots, and if any are decayed cut them
off; also prune the stem and branches
severely, and pot again in fresh soil.
Set them away in a shady place, after
giving water sufficient to settle the soil,
adding little from time to time as re-
turning health and growth appear.
The Farm and Fireside speaks with
just severity of the way blacksmiths
i"Sh OA sbhO AAOS Va eAc uofSc lOOt, dS
though nature had made mistake in
putting it there. 1--WE know" it says,
" what an elephants foot is; it is all
rubber-like. The horse has the same
encased in shell, which gives him ac-
curacy and steadiness of movement.
Now this case protects the frog. Itgrows
slowly, the frog grows rapidly. The
healthy foot of the colt shows q center,
If not projecting, at least level with the
line of the hoof. He does not take his
weight wholly on the rim of his feet.
Old horses would have feet more like
them if blacksmiths would allow they
knew little less than nature and really
knew enough to read her intentions.
TO make proper and successful
apiarian one should love and take special
interest in the business and in all that
pertains to the successful management
Of bees, carefully noting the observa-
lions. experience and instructions of in
telligent and successful bee-keepers;
patient in observing and supplying the
wants of the colony and assisting it to
accomplish the most rapid progress for
the increase of bees and honey at all
needful times to guard them from too
great cold, heat or moisture, from
birds. toads, moths and other insects
md generally treating his useful colony
with quiet gentleness and considerate
,are, never disturbing them unnecessa-
lily, or annoying them by quick or bois-
,erous motions, always avoiding timid-
ty, nervousness or fear.