Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-30
HOME AND FARM.

WHEN strawberry plants are set in
rows three feet apart and foot apart
in the rows, it requires 1850 for an
acre.
NEVER allow mudhole to remain
about well. IF your water is muddy
and impure throw in peck of lime to
purify it. If animalculm appear in the
water throw in a half gallon of salt to
make them settle to the bottom.
TEA, whether black or green, En-
glish- breakfast or Oolong, should never
be allowed to boil. English-breadast
will bear little longer stepping, but
any delicately favored tea, to be en-
1oyed In perfection, should be made as
quickly as possible.
LEMON CUsrARD.-Take the Juice of
three lemons, with four ounces of fine
sugar heat pint of cream scalding
hot; pour it through teapot, holding
the vessel yard high; the lemon-iuice
should be put into soup plate. The
custard IS best made ten or twelve hours
befQke using.
fIcKLED ON1oNs.-Select small sill
verzskinned onions, remove with knife
all outer skins, so that each onion
Will De perfectly white and clean. Put
them in brine that viii float an egg, for
three days; bring vinegar to boiling
point, add little mace and whole red
peppers Tor sprinkle with cayenne, ad-
ding bits of horseradish and cinnamon
bark, with few cloves), and pour it hot
over the onions, well drained from
brine,
5EGG-PLANT is prepared for cooking
byfirst cutting the plant into slices with
out pairing 'off the skin, then sprinkle
pepper and salt between the slices and
cover with plate. Let remain an
hour, then dip each slice separately first
into beaten egg, then into fine bread or
cracker crumbs. Cook in a spider or
saucepan to a light brown in just
enough hot lard or butter to keep from
sticking to the pan during the process of
cooking.
How TO CANDY FRUIT.-Whenf finish
ed in the sirup, put layer into new
sieve, and dip it suddenly into hot water
to take off the strip that hangs about it !;
aput it into napkin before the fire to
drain, and then do some more in sieve :;
have ready sifted double refined sugar,
which sift over the fruit on all sides till
white set it on the shallow end of sieves
in slightly warmed oven, and turn it
over two or three times; it must not
be cold till dry; watch it very carefully.
EVERY gardener or farmer should
raise his own onion, parsnip, cabbage,
turnip, satisfy and beet seed, as well as
save seed from his choicest cucumbers,
squashes, tomatoes and melons. Gather
them in paper bags of size to suit the
quantity desired, and then at once label
before storing them. The room for seeds
enough to supply the needs of a large
garden will hardly be missed, and the
culture is not at all troublesome. In this
way an annual outlay of five to ten dol
lars is saved, and good, fresh seed made
a certainty.
PEACHES WITH RICE.-Take some
peaches and cut them in halves; SIM
mer them in strip for half an hour,
then drain, and when cold arrange them
ON dish round shape of rice made as
follows: Boil three tablespoonful of rice,
picked and washed clean, in pint of
milk, with sugar to taste, and a piece of
vanilla; when quite done put it into a
basin to get cold. Make custard with
a gill of milk and the yelks of four eggs !;
when cold mix it with the rice. Beat
up to froth gill of cream, with some
sugar and pinch of isinglass dissolved
in q little water; mix this very lightly
with the rice and custard; fill mold
with the mixture and set it on ice.
When moderately iced turn it out on a
dish and serve.