Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-11
HONE, FARM ANp GARpEN.

SoFT WATER should always be used In
making soups
WATER slightly aciditied with nitric
acid is recommended for soaking seeds;
n very little ammonia added TO the
water greatly accelerates termination.
OYsrERs FRIED IN BATTER. Take
one cup OF sweet milk. one egg, pinch
OF salt and Hour enough 10 make a still
batter; dip the oysters in the batter and
frs one at time, each one having a
little batter on it.
CHEESE BIsouIr. --Take two ounces
of butter, two of -four, two OF grated
cheese, q little cayenne and salt make
/ il IN Il thin pacte ard roll out cry thin.
| then cut in pieces four inches long and
one inch broad, bake a very light brown
and serve as hot as possible.
LINsEED TEA. Boil gently for two
hours two ounces Of linseed In a pint
and half of water, with little lemon
peel shred finely and an ounce OF barley
sugar. Strain aud add enough lemon
! juice to make it agreeable. This is
useful for cough aud should be taken
warm. Spanish liquorice may, If liked,
be boiled with the linseed.
CIDER made very late in tho season
and stored in a cold place will keep
sweet, because active fermentation Is
prevented. II it is rich and sweet when
It comes from the press, and care is eN-
ercised in making it from good, sound
apples, il will not become sour II kept
in n moderately cool cellar in tight
cask or in bottles.
A DELICIOUS breakfast cake may be
made by taking enough bread sponge to
make, when risen and baked, cake
about two inches thick; knead into it a
piece of butter about the size of half
an egg; after il is in the tin put on the
top little lumps OF butter and then cover
it with fine white sugar and ground
cinnamon; when baked there win be a
sort of crust over the cake. This Is
very nice with coffee.
A WRITER in the Rural Ne,0 Yorker
reports his method for causing apple
trees TO bear every year. The trees
were bearing every other year, so h'
took n long pole on the bearing yeal
and gave them beating on one side
Just as the fruit was about the size o
hickory nuts, knocking all the apple
oil one half Of the tree. Tho next yea
the alternate side took its turn. and h
, had plenty OF apples Tor annual use
His trees stood IN rich soil that wa
cultivated, no grass being allowed
p. grow.
WITH regard to the quality of coffee
the best is the cheapest. Burn 1t a
home, in small quantities, taking car
in using close roaster, never TO fill
more than half. Turn the Toaster, slow
! ly ut first, more rapidly as the process
advances, keeping up lively fire
Burn il until OF light chestnut color
Keep il in close canisters or bottles
Grind it as wanted Boil il in a vesst
only half full TO prevent boiling over
: in proportion of one aud half ounce
i to a pint Of water. Put in n few hart,
horn shavings or isinglass, II you viii
h but If the coffee is taken off the liz
? while boiling, and set on again. altel
nately, until nothing remains on the to
J. but Il clear bubble, and then SON
n poured out TO clear the pipe and poure
8 back again, 1t will be as fine as
cleared artificially. Long boiling doc
q not make coffee stronger, but destroy
Il its color and makes it turbid. In NAL
h ing coffee the broader the bottom an
the smaller the top the better it wi
II prove.