The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-01-08
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Kitchen Helps,

'0N0P"oniul VI cfeam TARTAR, nalt O tea
spoonful of soda, sufficient salt, and -four
enough to make the dough Just stiff
enough to roll out into biscuit. These
will be wonderfully light and delicate.
OYSTER MAoARONI.--Boil macaroni in
a cloth, to keep it straight. Put a lay
er in a dish seasoned with butt salter,
and pepper, then a layer Of oysters, al
ternate, until the dish is full. Mix
some grated bread with a beaten egg.--
Spread over the top and bake.
APPLE CHARLOTTE. Beat two cups of
nice apple sauce, well sweetened and
favored, to & high froth, with the whip
ped whites OF three eggs; make into a
mound in a glass dish and cover with
lady's fingers or other small o
cakes, fitted neatly together; send
around sugar and cream with it.
PACKING BUTTER FOR WMTER.-There
are a few requisites for packing butter
safely for winter use. The butter must
be good; the salt must be pure; the
packages must be clean and alright,
and perfectly we'll closed; and the place
OF storage must be cool, clean, airy, free
from moldiness, and not too dry. A
clean, well-aired cellar with cemented
floor, and ia which vegetables are not
stored, is as good q place as any for the
storage of butter for winter use. Pure
air is very important.
APPLE JONATHAN. Lime the sides
only of a pudding dish with some nice
paste and fill it full of juicy, tender ap.
pies, peeled and sliced, with q little
water to keep them moist. Cover the
top of the dish with paste and bake
until the apples are soft, then remove
the crust and mash the apples while
hot, adding sugar, butter, grated nut.
meg and a little lavoring, if desired
When cool, serve with rich cream,
sweetened, favored and whipped to q
stiff froth, or the cream may be used
without whipping.
Corn BREAD. -Scald one cup O
meal with n pint boiling water; when
cold add one,half cup cold water. In
the morning scald one cup Of corn meal
with a scant cup Of water; add one-half
cup white sugar, one t%easpoonful salt. -
When cool enough add one half cup OF
good yeast dissolved. Let it rise until
very light, then add enough flour to get
it into the tins quite soft. CThe tins
should be deep. Let rise in the tins
until light. Bake in q moderate oven.
REMEDY FOR EARAoHE The Journal
Of Health gives the following: There is
scarcely any ache to which children are
subject, so hard to bear and difficult to
cure as the earaehe. But there is a
remedy never known to fail. Take a
bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch
of black pepper, gather it up and tie it,
dip in sweet oil and insert into the ear.
Put a flannel bandage over the head and
keep it warm. 1t will give immediate
relief.
Take Care of the TOOIs.
Promptness should also be observed
in making the necessary repairs of farm
implements and tools-the farmer max
ing it a rule that whenever a tool or i'm
plement is broken or needs repairing,
to have il renewed or repaired at once,
without waiting a more convenient sea-
son TO have il done, and which may
never come. When a plow.handle, cul-
t%ivGtor, hay rake or other implement is
broken, it should be repaired at once,
and thus q time in the end. The
safest way is to examine all your imple
ments ard tools in the winter, when
other work is not so pressing, and have
everything of the kind put in the best
possible order before the opening Of
spring, so that they will be ready for
use at q moments warning. Remember
that a stitch in time saves nine is an
old adage no less applicable to ourselves
than to our better halves
What Breed Of HORst
The Berkshire swine seem to have
taken a fresh start among Western farm.
ers and raieers. At one time they were
quite numerous in the Eastern and Mid
die states, but they wouldn't grow big
enough for people here, and the Ches
Ter County Whites were substituted and
preferred, and are no doubt moro profit
able to the general farmer. We regard
The flesh Of the Berkshire as preferable,
and for homo use we like small pork
There is nothing more Objectionable
than great, fat hams, weighing from ten
to twenty pounds, with not o than
one-balf lean. The small size OF the
old Virginia ham, which we no longer
SEQ, weighing from six to nine pounds,
the hogs CT which we're fed principally
upon acorns and nuts while running at
large, were without comparison the best
we ever ato-better, when properly
broiled-than any other meat under the
sun. Ger. TEL,