The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-16
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

cloth; keep in cool place and you have
a cheap shortening for every-day"
pastry.
"A teaspoonful of ammonia to one
quart of water sprinkled every other
day over plants win cause lice to disap-
pear and not injure the plants.
Powder for Baby.-A small tin
box such as ground spices come in with
small holes in the top is better for corn
starch than muslin bag; if corn starch
does not prove efficient add one-third
finely powdered tea.
-Dipper gourds make excellent things
to keep salt in for kitchen use Cut a
hole in the side large enough to admit
the hand and to remove the seed; also
cut small hole in the handle to hang
up by.
Ham and Egg Pudding.-Six eggs
beaten very light, a light pint of flour,
a pint of milk, small piece of butter,
salt and pepper to the taste. Sprinkle
some slices of boiled ham (both fat and
lean) with pepper and lay them across
deep dish that has been creased.
Then pour the pudding batter over the
bacon and bake quickly.
Picnic Buns.-Eight ounces butter,
fourteen ounces flour, six ounces sifted
sugar, two eggs, half a nutmeg, tea
spoonful of sifted ginger, large spoon
full of caraway seeds. Beat the butter
to cream; add the eggs, well beaten;
mix the other ingredients together and
work them we'll into the butter; add a
tablespoonful of flavoring essence. Bake
in tin patty-pans, in moderately hot
oven.
TO Stew Tomatoes.-Taket ten large
tomatoes. put them into pan and pour
scalding water over them to remove the
skins easily; peel them and cut out all
the hard or unripe portion; then cut
through and take out the seeds. Boil
an onion and mash it fine; add it to the
tomatoes, with pepper and salt to your
taste. and a piece of butter as large as
a hens egg. Put them on to stew in
an earthen pipkin, and let them simmer
two hours. A quarter of an hour before
dinneris ready add four or five table
spoonfuls of grated bread and let it stew
till ready to serve.
The Connecticut farmers paw one
million dollars annually for the main
tenance of fences, and farms are offered
in market for less money than would
be required in building the fences which
surround and divide them. In New
Hampshire the original cost of the fences
is equal to twice the value of all the
stock in the State, including horses, and
the annual tax upon the farms for re-
pairs OF fences would nearly wipe out
all the State tax in one year.
"A delightful way of using up mashed
potato Left over is this: AS soon as it
comes off the table. and before it gets
cold, pack it tightly into an oval dish
which has been previously dipped in
cold water. Next morning cut it in
regular slices about quarter of an inch
thick and brown them quickly in fresh
butter, previously made very hot in
shallow pan. Serve Immediately. Po-
tato thus prepared is specially nice with
chops. Be sure that you get your slices
on your hot dish without their break
ing; their fair, large proportions must
be preserved.
Steamed Lemon Pudding.
stale bread, add one or two spoonfuls
OF fine flower, put to it very fine chopped
beef suet, brown sugar, the juice of two
or three lemons, well strained, and the
finely chopped peel of one or two, also
q few pounded sweet almonds.if desired. |
Beat up the yelks of three or four eggs
well, and the whites of two with white !
sugar; when the dry substances have
been well mixed add the eggs and lit
tie warm milk. Mix well and place in |
a buttered shape for steaming. If there
is no steamer. place it on a triyet in |
a saucepan. When done pour over it
sweet white sauce with vanilla flavor |
ing.
Steak Pudding.-This is diges-
tible, nourishing dish for work-people. |
Make crust of fine-chopped suet, flour |
and warm water; place round basin; cut
pieces OF steak, with some liver or kid
ney, in strips and put in some tine-chop-
ped onion, pepper, salt and a little |
mace; moisten with some warm water |
and close up with crust. If you have
no steamer, place trivet in the bot
tom of the saucepan and put basin on |
it, so that the steam from the boiling
water below cooks the pudding. When
well done, which you will know by the
knife coming clear from the crust, take
out, place on dish, broadside down
and open top little. Put in a small /
piece OF butter and couple of spoon
fuls OF catchup and a beautiful gravy will
run out round the dish.
How much better it would be for
country and people did farmers gener. t
ally entertain and act upon such views
IS are thus noted in an exchange: "Mr.
Milo ID. Sperry, Connecticut farmer.
lately deceased, had some notable views.
d what constitutes agricultural success:
ne felt that it is not wholly measured |
oy annual savings; that there are other
iuties than crop culture and pig-feed-
ng and other places for investment
han the local bank. So he took pains
% keep the roadside along his prem
ses attractive, instead of making it a
for stoneheaps, rotten rails.
weeds and other rubbish; he built rustic
ences, arbors and summer-house: and
oy these means added to the market
7alue OF his real estate, besides making
'ural Life more enjoyable"