The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-16
THE HOUSE AND FARM.


hair on the animal.
81 HONESTLY believe" says. the NeaO
England Farmer, &C. that the farmer who
will work his brains until noon, and his
hands the balance of the day, will out
strip him who rises at and tolls until
9 at night"
ONE-Eee CAKn.-One cup sugar, one
and one-half cups sifted -four, two-thirds
cup OF sweet cream, one egg, three tea
spoontuls bakng-powder, one-half tea,
spoonful vanilla, one-fourth teaspoonful
salt. Bake quickly. -.a
! To MAKE SHEEP PAY.-To benefit to
the full extent by raising and keeping a
numerous flock Of sheep; roots must be
grown for winter use, and when this is
found to be true, and roots are grown on
proper field system, so as to cost but
from 5 to 8 cents per bushel, sheep
husbandry will go ahead.
IT is common sight in rural England
to see the parson COWS and sheep brows-
ing over the grave mounds-an old &C.
clesiastical law giving the clergy the
right to make such use Of the parochial
burying- places, and many village Pope
who shudders at the idea of permitting
unorthodox dead to lie in consecrated
ground never hesitates moment to turn
his live stock in to Craze there.
A FARMER on. the line between Iowa
and Missouri has been experimenting
with cow-pea as weed exterminator.
cocklebur and Spanish needles having
taken possession Of his orchard. He
says that sown broadcast the peas will
not do it, but planted in drills and cul-
tivated like corn they will kill out the
weeds. The peas he planted were mixed.
but mostly the whippoorwill variety.
CINNAMON ROLLS AND RUsK.--For
rusk, take aloaf of bread at the last knead-
ing, work in lump of butter and lit
tie sugar. Let rise; make into little
cakes again let it rise, then bake. For
cinnamon rolls, roll the dough into a
sheet half an inch thick, spread with but
ter, sugar and cinnamon. Commence at
one side and roll up; then with sharp
knife cut into cakes half an inch thick,
and let rise and bake. .
SODA CAKE.-Take one pound of -four
six ounces Of butter of dripping. six
ounces Of sugar, half a pint of milk, one
teaspoonful Of carbonate of soda, and
add one or two eggs, with half pound
of curIants or caraway seeC 5; mix the
soda thoroughly with the flour, rub in
the butter, and beat the whole with a
wooden spoon for twenty minutes before
putting into a well-greased cake-tin.
Bake for full hour and half. -., ~-
To WASH lawn or thin muslin: Boil
two quarts Of wheat bran in six quarts
or more of water half an hour. Strain
through coarse towel and mix in the
water in which the muslin is to be
washed. Use no soap, if you can help
it, and no starch. Rinse lightly in fair
water. This preparation both cleanses
and stiffens the lawn. If you can, con-
veniently, take out all the gathers. The
skirt should always be ripped from the
waist: ~ .-... -. ~
VEAL HAsH.-Take teacup OF boil
ing water in a saucepan, stir in an even
teaspoon flour wet in tablespoon cold
water, and let it boil five minutes; add
'one-haf teaspoon black pepper, as much
salt, and two tablespoons butter, and
let it keep hot, but not boil. Chop the
veal fine, and mix with it half as much
stale bread crumbs. Put it in pan and
pour the gravy on it, then let it sim
mer ten minutes. Serve this on buttered
toast.
PUFF STRAWBERRY PUDDING -Sift
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder with
| pint of -four beat we'll an egg: add
a little salt; mix with sweet milk till Of
the consistency of thick batter. Place
well-greased cups in steamer put in
to each a spoonful of batter, then a
spoonful of strawberries, and cover with
another spoonful of batter and steam
twenty minutes. Eat with cream and
sugar, or a liquid hot sauce with cup
full of strawberry juice added.
A GENTLEMAN experimental with peas
in this way: He saved, at the time of
picking, all the early full pods as they
ripened, and planted the seeds saved
from these pods year after year, for
three years, and the fourth year had
peas Of the same name that were more
than two weeks earlier than the seed of
the same rame purchased in the store.
Seeds of cabbage, lettuce, tomato, Gu
cumber, peas, corn and many others can
be much improved by the same care.
PROF. ARNOLD says: ssThe assertion
is often made, and many people believe,
that water washes out the flavor of the
butter; but it only cleanses the butter
VI Vic UutttIuuuh, sugar auQ muK aC1O
which may adhere to it, just as clarity
ing sugar removes from it the foreign
matters which modify its true flavor.
The favor of butter consists of fatty
matters, which do not combine with
water, therefore cannot be washed away
by it. The effect of washing upon the
keeping quality Of butter depends upon
the purity of the water with which the
washing is done. If the water contains
no foreign matter that will affect the
butter, it viii keep better for washing
the buttermilk out than by kneading It
out"
How ANIMALS Grow FAT.-Fat in ami
mails, like starch, sugar and oil in plants,
contains no nitrogen, and when an ami
NAL is not fed this fat wastes away first
in other words, is consumed. If the
animal be exposed to great cold without
extra food it cannot fatten. The reason,
therefore, that animals protected from
the cold Of winter fatten much faster
than when exposed is that what would
accumulate as fat is used in keeping the
animal warm. The earthly or inorganic
matter in plants is as necessary for ami
NAL growth as the organic matter. The
bony skeleton consists chiefly of calcium