Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-07-03
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grapes are said TO be under cultivation
in America.
Poisonous VINEs.-If poisoned by
vines, make paste Of sulphur or gun
powder and milk. Apply night and
morning until cured.
SPRINGgALT is one os the ailments of
the horse, for which no cure is known.
Ordinary usage is not likely to injure
the horse, and will not make the case
any worse.
To CLEAN PAINr.-Mix common
whiting to the consistency of common
paste in warm water; rub the surface
TO be cleaned quite briskly with a piece
of flannel dipped in the whiting, and
wash off with pure cold water.
BUCKwHEAT. 1t is said that while
most other plants require a careful
preparation of the soil to insure their
growth. buckwheat not only prepares
the soil for itself, but for other crops,
by pulverizing it if it is hard or tough
COFFEE CAKEs.-One cup butter,
one-half cup sugar, one cup molasses,
one teaspoonful saleratus dissolved in a
cup of strong coffee, one nutmeg, one
teaspOonful cloves, one cinnamon, five
cups of flour and one cup of raisins.
chopped.
RICE MUFFINs.-Boil the rice soft
and dry. Take one-half cup rice, stir
in three spoonfuls sugar, piece of butter
size of an egg, and little salt. One
pint sweet milk, one cup yeast, two
quarts -four. Let it rise all night. If
sour in the morning. add little soda
dissolved in milk, and bake in muffin
rings.
ACIDS IN VEGETABLES Vegetables
are said to yield nine separate acids
The oxalic in rhubarb, the tartaric in
tamarinds, grapes and mulberries. the
citric in oranges and lemons. the malic
in apples and cherries, the gallic in elm
and oak, the benzoic in balsamic trees,
the prussic in laurel leaves. peach bios
SONS and bitter kernels, and the phos-
phOric in oats and barley.
The ounce can be just as successful
ly grown as the peach. if little care is
taken to head off its principal enemy,
the worm at the root, which requires
but little time and trouble each spring
and fall in removing the earth from
around the stem OF the tree. Probe for
the grub in his hole in the bark with a
stiff wire, and fill up around the tree
with wood ashes, or slaked lime.
DELICATE PUDDING four eggs
with a tablespoonful of sifted wheat
-four. Boil quart of milk with little
stick cinnamon and some candied lem
on or orange-peel. Stir in the eggs
and flour when the milk boils. Let it
cook, constantly stirring for five min
utes. Strain into pudding dish. Cow
er the top with powdered loaf sugar
and bits of butter, and bake until hand
somely Drowned.
CURRANT JELLY.-Pick and wash
your 'currants; mash them with
wooden spoon in the preserving kettle,
and let them simmer for 10 minutes aft
er they have come to boil then
strain through flannel bag, and add
TO every pint of juice pound Of lump
sugar; boil rapidly for ten or fifteen
skimming the syrup; put in
glasses while hot, but do not close them
till the jelly is perfectly cold.
Ice CREAM. -Four quarts of new
milk, one and half pounds of white
sugar, one dozen eggs, well beaten stir |
this together; place 1t in a thin dish and |
put it in kettle Of boiling water when |
the water boils brisk " around the dish
stir into the cream one tablespoonful of |
corn starch, previously dissolved in
little cold milk, and then take the dish
out of the hot water and put it in cool
place; when it is only blood warm
flavor it to suit the taste and then
freeze.
HovEN.--Judge Luse says that in
,ases of hoven, tympanitis, or drum
belly. as it is sometimes called. which
5 caused by cattle eating too heartily of !,
vet, rank grass, clover or green rye in
he spring, and overfilling the paunch