The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-17
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


CAMPH0R placed in drawers or trunks
VIII prevent mice from doing them any
injury.
MANY farmers of experience have
said that if timber be cut in the latter
part of August or first of September,
the worms will not bother it.
DRIVE two large nails through two
spools, as far apart as your broom-han-
die is thick. and hang your broom on.
brush up. to keep it straight.
AVOID if possible an exclusive diet of
whole corn for poultry; it may put on
tat, but it is not as good for eggs. Let
corn be fed as only one among other
grains.
ALL tools, going out of use for the
season: should be put away in whole
and bright condition. Teach the boys
the habit OF cleaning shovels, hoes and
cultivator-teeth.
PICKLED EGGs.-Boil fresh eggs
hard, when cold remove the shell.
cover them with good vinegar; add salt
and pepper to taste. IF you put red
beets with the eggs it will make them
nice red color.
BAKED CUSrARD.-Beat separately
the whites and yelks of three eggs, add
them to pint of milk with little salt,
sugar, nutmeg and vanilla to taste. Set
the dish or cups in pan of hot water
in the oven and bake twenty or twenty
five minutes.
JOHNNY CAKE.-One pint of boiled
rice or hominy, one egg, one table,
spoonful of butter, salt to taste; flour
enough to make a soft dough. Roll
half an inch thick; bake quick. without
blistering; serve hot. Tear the cakes
open and butter. Cut the cakes four
inches long and three wide.
CANARIEs. The parasites which af-
feet these birds may be gotten rid of
by merely placing clean cloth over
the cage at night. In the morning it
will be covered with very minute red
spots, almost invisible without micro
scope. These are the vermin 80 annoy
ing and so often fatal to birds.
MOUNTAIN Dew PUDDING
large crackers, one pint of sweet milk,
a little salt, the yelks of two eggs, well
beaten; bake thirty minutes; then add
the whites of two eggs, with half
cup of pulverized. sugar beaten to 8
stiff froth; set it in the oven until
slightly Drowned. Serve without sauce.
The QUEEN OF PUDD1NGs. pint
of bread crumbs, one quart of milk, six
ounces of sugar, butter of the size of
an egg, the yelks of four eggs, flavor
with lemon and bake as custard. Beat
the whites of four eggs to froth and
mix with it cup of powdered sugar
and the juice of lemon; spread layer
of fruit jelly while hot: cover with the
frosting, and bake until slightly brown.
This is to be eaten cold with cream, or
warm with any sauce.
TOMATO MEAT PUDDING the
bottom of pudding-dish with bread
crumbs, put on them a layer of under
done meat cut in thin slices, then a
layer of tomatoes, peeled and also
sliced; to pint add an even table,
spoonful of sugar, then few bits of
butter, pepper, salt and little onion if
agreeable, then bread crumbs, meat |
and tomatoes, repeating until the dish
is full; put over all q layer of bread
crumbs and bake until light brown.
Serve hot.
To KEEP GLUE FOR UsE.-Common |
glue may be dissolved and kept for use
in the following manner: Soak the
glue, previously broken into small |
pieces, in cold water for twenty-feur
hours, then add sufficient water and
brine it to boil until the glue is all |
dissolved. This may be kept in wide
mouthed jar. To prepare it for use,
put the jar in hot water until the glue
is liquid. By adding few drops Of oil
of cloves to pint of the glue il will be
kept from molding or becoming foul.
The advantage of pressing the soil
over newly planted seeds, especially in
a dry time, is enforced by the following
experience reported in the London
Gardeners Chronicle: "This season
have used the garden roller for almost
everything, and never saw seeds come
up so well; every bed is as square as it
should be, without gap to fill up. This
is by no means the case everywhere;
but as Lhave been the rounds hear
the complaint, My beets have come |
bad or my onions are very thin or
something of that Sort |
BOILED PEACH DUMPLING.-For the
crust, a pound of sifted flour. half
pound of clarified beef drippings, q
quarter of pound of lard. and half q
teaspoonful Of salt; mix three-quarters
of pound of the -four in bowl with q
tablespoonful of butter, the salt and q
,umblerful or less of ice water, (for the
paste must be stiff roll it out on your
board, using the rest of the pound for
rolling Il, and put the lard and drip
pings in small pieces all over it; double,
and roll out again. being careful not tc
break the crust; roll out once more.
fold up, and put it in the ice-box till