Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-07
HOME AND RLRM.

GROUND once well plowed Is better
than three times poorly.
GRAPE VINES require careful cultiva-
ton the first three years after planting. |
The rotted manure from the bottoms |
Of hot beds is admirable for bringing |
forward peas and early beans.
CHATTING on the California wild
grapes 70 prevent phyllOxera has been
tried, and prospects Of success are good.
BoUEuFUL crops are more profitable
than poor ones. Make the soil rich,
pulverize II well and keep Il clean, and
Il will generally be profitable.
EVERY mother, whether rich or poor,
high or low, should consider IL her duty
TO see that her daughter is instructed in
and taught the rudiments Of housekeep-
ing.
To REMOVE greese from silk, take a
lump Of magnesia and rub It well over
the spot; let it dry, then brush the pow
der off, and the spot will disappear.
CocoANUT PrE.-One grated cocoa
nut, one quart of milk, five eggs beaten
separately, one tablespoonful of fine
bread-crumbs; sugar and navoring TO
the taste. The above makes two pies.
No top crust.
lCREAM-TARTAR CAKE.-One teacup
Of butter, two and half cups Of sugar,
two of milk, three eteaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, two of soda, one egg, nutmeg,
fruit II you please. This makes two
loaves and is extremely good. HI.t
ONLY manure in a soluble condition
should be used on rapidly growing
/ plants like tobacco and early vegetables.
Even grass and all sowed crops will
| grow much faster when the manure is
well rotted. Fertilizers are never ben
eficial to any crop until they aIe decom-
posed.
|. SALAD DREssING.- eggs we'll
beaten, one-half cup vinegar, stirred
over the fire until as thick as custard.
/ When cool add one-half teacup of sweet
oil, one teaspoonful of mixed mustard,
one teaspoonful of sugar Qf likeD, the
| juice of one lemon and cayenne pepper
to the taste. This is enough for chicken
salad for ten persons.
BROWN BREAD.-Two cupfuls of yell
low corn-meal, one cupful of wheat
flour, two and one-quarter cupfuls of
sour milk, One-hah cupful of molasses,
one and one-haf teaspoOnfuls of soda,
one teaspoonful of salt. Buttor round
tin, in which pour the above. Set the
pan in a steamer over a pot of boiling
water (must boil all of the time), cover
the steamer with cloth, then a tin
cover. After it has steamed sufficiently
place in the oven for about twenty min
utes. Serve hot or cold as you wish.
Steam it all day if you wish it extra
nice.
CREAM PUFFs.-Melt one-half cup
butter in one cup of hot water, and,
while boiling, beat in one cup of flour,
then take from the fire and cool. When
quite cold stir in three eggs, one at a
time, without beating them. Drop on
tins ia small spoonfuls, and bake in a
moderate oven. Custard for filing the
! above-One and one-half cups of milk,
two eggs, four tablespoonfuls of flour,
sugar to the taste, flavor with vanilla,
: and boil the same as eustard. When
cold open the puffs and fill with the
cream. Bake the puffs thirty-five min
utes.
WHEELBARRow AND SLOP-BARREL
"A writer gives the following plan of q
one-wheel slop or garden-barrow; The
frame is the same as for good-sized
wheelbarrow, with two good legs and
two cross stats; tighten the Stats in the
mOrtises, to fit the barrel, and get the
blacksmith to make a strong hoop with
a gudgeon on each side to put on the
lower half of the barrel and 10 hang
loose on the frame. The barrel must be
/, in proportion TO the wheel in front
The felloes Of the wheel ought to be
! wide for garden work. This barrow car
be made very useful for other work by
removing the barrel and having boz
on the frame.
ABOUT CHURNING.-Th is always
! some loss in churning milk in dasf
} churns, which is occasioned by the ad
: hesion of some of the cream TO the
, cover of the churn. The churn should
be opened occasionally and this cream
: scraped down into it. This trouble il
avoided in the dashless churn, which
, consists of rectangular box hung upor
: gudgeons fixed to two opposite corners
: When this is revolved the cream il
dashed from side to side and from cor
| ner TO corner in wild and violent man
( ner, so as to become churned in a very
short time, comparatively. The buttel
/ made in dash churn need not be in
t jured, jim quality by any pnchnTned cream
} left in the charn, as this will be all re
moved if the butter Is properly washed
: but it is lost, as matter of course, BY
= this.