The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-09
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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half pint of milk, one pint of flour. one
tablespoonful melted butter, a little
sugar, one and a half teaspoons Cheap
ing) of sea foam. This makes nice
fritter batter.
Picked Peaches.-Nine pounds Of
peaches, three pounds of sugar anC
three quarts of good cider vinegar
Peel the peaches and stick two cloves
in each peach, then put them with sugar
and vinegar in a porcelain lined kettle.
Cook from five to ten minutes.
Baked Tomatoes.-Take large to-
matoes, cut the tops off and remove the
seeds (taking as little of the tomatoes
as possible,) fill the cavities with bread
crumbs, pepper and salt, put in baking
dish, then strew the top with little
pure beef dripping of butter.
Apple Charlotte. Butter, then
flour lightly, your pudding dish. Line
it with thin slices of bread, buttered on
both sides; put thick layer of apples,
cut in thin slices; sugar. and little
cinnamon and a few pieces of butter;
another layer of bread and butter, APP
Piles, sugar, cinnamon, and butter last.
Bake slowly for two hours, keeping the
pan covered until a half-hour before
serving, and let the apples on top brown.
Onion Turnoyer.-This a Turkish
dish. Chop six or eight onions into
dice. Boil FOR few minutes in salt
and water. Drain and toss in butter
until of light brown. Beat up three
or four eggs and add them to the
onions. just as they are going to set
lay them on piece of puff paste; pinch
the edges together as in making an
apple turnover and bake to nice color.
The paste must not be too thick. A
few chopped mushrooms added before
the eggs makes a very great improve
ment.
Tea Ice Cream.-Put half an ounce
OF fine orange-favored tea into an
earthenware pot and pour on it a
pint of boiling milk. Let it stand until
nearly cold, then pour it off fine, and,
II necessary, strain to free it from any
particles of leaf. Put the liquor into
large stewpan, with enough lump sugar
to make it sweet. When it is hot add
to it a quarter of a pint of rich cream
and the yelks of five eggs. Stir over
slow fire until it becomes a thick cus-
tard, and then take from the fire; stir
occasionally until it is cool, to prevent
skin forming. Freeze in the usual
manner.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, who made the experiment,
says when unground shelled corn is fed
to cattle, twenty per cent, or one fifth
is voided without digestion. If whole
corn is mixed with cut hay, it is better
anG only ten per cent passes
undigested. Coarsely ground corn
loses ten per cent. by Indigestion, while
there is scarce trace found where corn
is ground to fine meal.
The best way to manage sicklv
plants is to turn them out of the pots,
shake or wash off all the soil from the
1oots, and if any are decayed cut them
of; also prune the stem and branches
severely, and pot again in fresh soil.
Set them away in shady place, after
giving water sufficient to settle the soil,
adding little from time to time as re-
turning health and growth appear.
The Farm and Fireside speaks with
Just severity of the way blacksmiths
hack off the frog of the horses foot, as
though nature had made mistake in
putting it there ''We know it saws,
50 what an elephants foot is; it is ali
rubber-like. The horse has the same
in shell, which gives him &C.
euracy and steadiness of movement.
Now this case protects the frog. 1t grows
slowly, the frog grows rapidly. The
healthy foot OF the colt shows center,
i not projecting, at least level with the
inc OF the hoof. He does not take his
weight wholly on the rim of his feet.
Did horses would have feet more like
hem if blacksmiths would allow thew
knew little less than nature and really
knew enough to read her Intentions
To make proper and successful
aplarian one should love and take special
interest in the business and in all that
pertains to the successful management |
u bees, carefully noting the observa- |
ions, experience aud instructions of in /
elligent and successful bee-keepers:
patient in observing and supplying the
wants of the colony and assisting it to |
accomplish the most rapid progress for
he increase of bees aud honey at all
leedful times to guard them from too
.reat cold, heat or moisture, from
'irds, toads, moths and other insects
nd generally treating his useful colony
With quiet gentleness and considerable
are, never disturbing them unnecessa-
lily. or annoying them by quick or bois-
erous motions, always avoiding timid-
~, nervousness or fear.