The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-08-21
FARM AND PRESIDE.

-Everyday Blackberry Jam. Dry
your berries with towel if they are not
picked in dry weather; to every pound
of fruit one-half pound of c sugar; cook
for one hour, stirring all the time; no
water. Put in patent glass jars. Ought
to keep until next blackberry season.
Potato Fritters. three large
potatoes and rub them through a colan-
der, then add to them four well beaten
eggs, one teaspoonful of rich cream, a
little lemon juice, little nutmeg and
some salt. Beat all very light, then
drop from spoon into hot lard and fry
the same as doughnuts and serve hot.
Iceland Moss Chocolate. dissolve
one ounce iceland moss in one pint of
boiling milk; boil one ounce of choco-
late for five minutes in one pint of boil
ing water; thoroughly mix the two; and
give it to the invalid night and morn
ing. This is highly nutritive drink
for invalids.
-Spiced Cabbage.-Cut a head of
cabbage into small slices, put it into a
two or three quart saucepan, with a
tablespoonful of butter, same of sugar,
gill of vinegar, half dozen white
cloves, teaspoonful of salt, salt
spoonful of pepper. and gently simmer
all together until the cabbage is tender
Collect ferns for pressing before
their fruit is ripe, otherwise the pores
will burst while in the process of drying.
1t is not advised to iron the leaves.
When practicable carry a good-sized
book and as fast as the ferns are gath
cred place them at once between its
leaves. This prevents the ends of the
ferns from curling and also saves one
handling. Change the ferns to dry
places in that or another book after they
have been pressed day or two.
Sunshine Cake.-Ingredients-The
whites of eleven eggs and yelks of six;
one and half cups Of graduated sugar,
measured after once sifted; one cup
of flour measured after sitting; one tea
spoonful of cream tartar, and one of ex-
tract of orange. Beat the whites to
stiff froth and gradually beat in the
sugar. Beat the yelks in a similar man.
ner, add the beaten whites and the
orange. Finally, stir in the -four. Mix
quickly and well, and place in pans.
Bake fifty minutes in slow oven.
The best general rule for making
ice cream is to boil a quart of milk, pour
it whilst boiling on the yelks of six eggs;
stir rapidly over the fire until it thick
ems, taking care not to curdle it. With
a little experience perfect custard may
be thickened in this way in less than
seven minutes, much longer time be-
ing required if the milk is not boiled.
Add sugar enough to make it very
sweet. as the process of freezing partly
destroys its sweetness. When perfect
ly cold flavor with any flavoring extract
that may be preferred. After it is
frozen draw off the water from the
freezer and repack with ice and salt;
cover the freezer with thick wooden
cloth and set it aside for two or three
hours before serving.
Cucumber Pickles.-The first thing
to do is to make them green, and with
out introducing any salt of copper. The
way to get the color is to extract it from
some vegetable substance. Pick fresh,
small cucumbers, lay them in dishes and
sprinkle them with salt, into which a
piece of alum is ground, not any larger
than the little finger. After these have
remained in the dish for week put
them into a stone jar, after having
wiped them, and on these pour boiling
vinegar. When they are filed put on
top Of the jar cabbage leaves, and on
that clean stone to keep the pickles
down. If, after day or two, the
pickles are not green, decant the vine
gar, make it hot--not on the holland
repeat the process, with fresh cabbage
leaves. If not at the first trial, at the
second the pickles will have nice
color. For seasoning: Take half
ounce of allspice, mace, whole black
pepper and mustard seed; inclose this
in a muslin bag and put in the cold vim
egar and let it remain while boiling.
If possible place the prairie orchard
on the north side of the house, as that
will be the most desirable location, and
1t will also serve as windbreak. The
object of this is to obtain the coolest
exposure, to prevent the swelling of the
fruit buds during the first warm days OF
spring. The failure of the fruit crop,
in most cases, is caused by the killing
of the buds by late frosts. The neces-
sity of selecting only such apples as will
suit the locality for which they are In
tended, cannot be too strongly urged.
The advice of some trustworthy nurs-
eryman at this point is often OF great
value to the learner. Select only the
most hardy kinds; the Western prairie
farmer had better not waste time with
tender varieties. The most profitable
apple is the one that stands the severest
tests-no matter if it is not so fine fla
yored as some others, if il suits the eli.
mate and bears well keep it.
Care Of Mich Cows.