The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-18
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE,

III hens got into the habit of eat
ing eggs, take enough bran and corn
meal Of equal parts for one feeding, and
enough vinegar warmed to make the
meal wet enough for the hens to eat.
Mix together and feed it to the hens.
The right way TO cook steak
Broil steak without sailing. Salt draws
the juice in cooking. 1t Is desirable TO
keep this in if possible. Cook over
hot fire, turning frequently, soaring ON
both sides. Place on q platter. Salt
and pepper to taste.
-Flab dabs. ~ Three well-beaten
eggs. a saltspoon of salt, and flour
enough for stiff paste. Roll and cut
into very thin cakes and fry in lard;
when they rise to the surface they are
done. Put two together, with jam or
jelly between.
-Moisten bran with warm water, add
little powdered charcoal about
teasspoonful for every quart of bran
and any scraps of refuse fat or cooked
vegetables from the house, and feed
warm once a day giving all the hens
will eat. 1t is said that there is moth
ing equal to this as an reproducing
food. y .tss2
TO soften hard water-Take two
pounds of washing soda and one pound
of common lime, and boil in five gal
Ions OF water for two or three hours;
then stand away to settle, and dip off
the clear water from the top and put
into . jug. Can be used for washing
dishes or cleaning, and one teacupful in
boiler of clothes, put in after the wa
ter is hot, will whiten the clothes and
soften the water, without injury to the
hands or clothes.
Old Maids Pie.-Pare, cut and
core dozen or so juicy, sour apples,
put in a porcelain kettle, if you have
one, if not, in an earthen pudding dish;
add one cup of good molasses, cover
closely, and cook fifteen minutes; then
add six or seven dumplings made of
one pint of flour, as you would make
cream of-tartar biscuit; cook one-half
hour, serve hot, with sweetened cream.
If there is not juice enough, put in a
little boiling water when you add the
dumplings.
Apple Jelly.-Almost any apple
will make jelly, though hard, sour,
juicy apple makes the best, both for
keeping and flavor. Peel and core
your apples, boil them in pint of wa
ter to every four pounds of apples till
the apples are perfectly soft, stirring
them occasionally to prevent burning.
Strain, without squeezing, through a
jelly bag; measure the juice, and put a
pound of loaf sugar to every pint of
juice. Put juice and sugar in the pre-
serving kettle, and boil steadily for half
an hour, skimming occasionally. Cool
a little, and if it will not jelly boil a
little longer. Pour into glasses before
it cools, and when perfectly cold cover
each glass with paper wet with alco-
hol; tie closely, and keep in cool, dry
place. The apple remaining in the bag
can be stewed with one pound of sugar
to two of apples. If favoring is pre-
ferred, lemon peel, green ginger or Gin
namon can be used.
"A Difficulty with Strawberries
Shrubs, when set in the grass of a
lawn, are often dwarfed by the turf
which surrounds them. Spading about
them only partly removes the difficulty,
as the spaded ground never extends to
the length of the roots, which always
run at least as far each way as the
height of the shrubs. Besides, the
ground is necessarily more or less de-
faced by the operation. The true
remedy is top-dressing. Superphos-
phate, on such soils as are benefited
by it, will answer good purpose, and
not present an unsightly appearance
like coarse manure. Finely-pulverized
old manure will be unobjectiouaple. In
many cases liquid manure for small
plants will answer well. The top-dressing
should be done in autumn or very early
in spring, and special care must be
taken to extend it as far from the stems
as above indicated. = Country Gentleman.