The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-12-04
FARM AND PRESIDE.

"A poultice of fresh tea leaves moist
ened with water, will cure stye on the
,yelid.
Save the SCOT that falls from the
chimneys. A pint of SCOT to a pailful
of water will make liquid manure of
the greatest value for flowers and plants
of all kinds.
1t is now time for all farmers to
prune out the herds of stock on the
farm OF all scalawags or old and worn
out animals. Old or poor milk COWS
should be quickly prepared for beef.
Poor breeders of all kinds of stock
should be disposed of at once.
-Currant Cake.-One cup of sugar.
one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of
sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder. one cup of English currants,
roll them in flour; one and one half cup
of -four.
Potato Pudding.-One pound pota
toes boiled and well-washed, sailed;
one-fourth pound of butter stirred in
while warm, two ounces sugar, rind of
half lemon chopped fine, with the
juice; two teacupfuls of milk and four
eggs; butter the tins. put in mixture
and bake in a moderate oven half an
hour.
"A man at Mortified, Mass, one
who has for years tried the experiment
in his orchard, says that to cure peach
trees of 1.-THE yellows" the best method
is to pour boiling hot water over the
limbs and body of the trees afflicted
with that disease, the remedy to be ap-
piled in the spring, summer and autumn
1t will not kill the bark.
: CEMENT FOR IRON.-A cement for
cast-iron ware is made of five parts of
fire. clay and one part of fine iron filings,
mixed into a paste with linseed-oil.
When this becomes hard it resists heat,
but it does not close cracks In stove
unless these are held by means of a
plate and rivets, as the expansion
caused by red heat causes the cement
to crack.
-Mince Pies.-Take a pound of beef
free from skin and bone and chop it very
fine; then two pounds of suet. which
likewise pick and chop; then add three
pounds of currants, nicely cleaned and
perfectly dry. one pound and half of
apples, the peel and juice of one lemon,
half pint of sweet cider, half a nut
meg and few cloves and mace, with
pimento in fine powder. Have citron,
orange and lemon-peel ready and put
some in each of the pies when made.
Famous Indian Bread.-Beat two
eggs very light and mix alternate
ly with them one pint of sour milk or
buttermilk and one pint of fine Indian
meal; melt one tablespoonful of butter
and add to the mixture; dissolve one
tablespoonful of soda or salaratus, etc.,
in small portion of the milk and add
to the mixture the last thing. Beat
very hard and bake in a quick oven.
Yorkshire Pudding. Put six large
tablespoonful of -four into basin with
salt spoon of salt, and stir gradually
into this enough milk to make it into a
stiff batter. When this is perfectly
smooth add about pint of milk and
three eggs, which should be well beaten.
pour it into shallow tin which has been
previously rubbed with beef dripping.
Put into the oven and bake for an hour.
Then for half an hour place it under the
meat to catch the gravy. Cut the pud-
ding into small square pieces, and serve
with the meat.
The recipe here given was never
known to fail in making sponge cake
when little care has been exercised in
making and baking. 1t is not only de-
licious, but very nice to look at on the
table. 1t should be baked in long mar
row tins. Beat four eggs very light
yelks and whites together; then beat in
two cups of white sugar-granulated
preferred-then one cup of sifted flour,
little at time, then another cup Of
flour with which two teaspooufuls Of
baking powder have been mixed; lastly
small teacup of hot water, almost boil
ing; do not put it all in at once, but stil
in little at time. When making thi!
for the first time, one is almost certain
to put in little more flour, the dough
is so thin; do not hesitate, or your CAKE
will be lost. Bake in a moderately no