The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-03-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Recipes.

APPLE JBLLY.-Core and cut out all
bad spots from the apples, then add a
very little water and stow as for apple
hang up to drain; when cool enough
squeeze gently; be careful not to get the
pulp through. To pint of fjuice add a
pound of sugar; boil twenty minutes
and it is done.
BREAD CAKE.-Four cups dough, two
cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup
cream, two eggs, one teaspoon saleratus.
Mix with the hands and add little
flour, also fruit and spices to suit the
taste, and let it rise well before baking.
Corn MEAL oNEs..-Three cupfuls of
milk, warmed a little; two and half
cupfuls of yellow indian meal; one and
a half cupfuls of wheat flour; a good
pinch of salt; one cupful Of good sweet
yeast. Set to rise in the morning (if
wanted for supper), and when the
sponge is light stir in three eggs we'll
beaten, one-half cupful of molasses and
small lump of butter, melted. Let it
stand another hour or two, and bake in
gem pans, taking care to grease we'll
and heat before dropping in the batter.
Bake at least half an hour in quick
oven. AS "set ',of gem pans does not
bake a sufficient quantity at one time
for Us, use my old tea and coffee cups
that are "chipped" or with broken
handles, and out of use; they turn out
in Just as pretty q shape, and then only
the one baking is necessary.-Bess1e
Burton.
A NICE CUsrARD.-Scald quart of
milk and pour it hot on broken eggs.
Take five eggs, throw out the yolks of
two, three teaspoonfuls of sugar.
pinch of salt, and add little vanilla.
Set it TO steam in closecovered vessel
for six minutes, then set it on ice until
wanted for use.
SPINACH.-Boil twenty minutes in
plenty of boiling salt water; drain and
chop very fine; return to the sauce
pan, with little sugar, pepper, salt and
tablespoonful of butter rolled in -four;
stir until hot and dry enough to be
nodded; turn out, shape into a fiat
topped ridge upon hot dish, and lay
the chops at the base.
Sharpening Tools.
Amongthe hints most seasonable on
either the garden or the farm, few
things are more serviceable than those
relating to the sharpening of tools. Too
often these things are not thought of
until the articles are wanted, when
much valuable time is lost in putting
in order what might rs well have been
done during the dull winter. days.
Even the smartest of US do not think
enough of these things, and indeed
hardly know how much we lose by hav-
ing dull tools to work with. 1t has
been tolerably accurately computed that
the same man can do as much in two
days with sharp scythe, as with one
but comparatively dull and the same
expenditure in force, in three. And it
is just the same in regard to all other
tools or implements, whether operated
by hand, steam or horse power. The
engineer continually oils the machinery,
and a good saw or file is oil to hand i'm
plements. We know of one who has
great deal of hand hoeing to do by hired
labor, and he believes that the con-
tinued use of the file on the hoe makes a
difference Of nearly one-halfin the labor.
His calculation is that every ten-cent
file he buys saves him ten dollars in his
laborers' bills. Now is the time to look
after the spades, scythes, hoes, chisels,
saws, tc.-GcrnlantoaUa Telegraph.
Zinc Labels for Trees.
A correspondent of the Rural NeaD
Yorker says: Unless frequently ex-
amined, the wire used to fasten labels to
trees is apt to injure the tree by cutting
into and sometimes girdling it. An i'm
provement on this IS to make and at
tach the labels as follows: A conven-
tent size is five or six inches long, and
an inch wide at one end, tapering to
point at the other. Write the name.
date of setting and anything else Of
special interest in connection with the
specimen, on the widest end with COM
mon lead pencil, and wind the pointed
end round a limb. AS fast rs the tree
grows the flexible zinc unwinds without
injuring the tree. The pencil marks
unite chemically with the zinc and soon
become indelible.
Particular care should be used in
cleaning milk cans. Many cases are on
record of diseases in families from using
milk infected with noxious germs, from
foul milk cans. Milkmen upon again
receiving their cans should cleanse them
with boiling water and. it should boil.
Very hot steam is better, but few have
this facility. 1t is one of those where
the buyer must depend upon the integ-
rity of the sellers. The safe way is for
the city milkman to scald the cans thor
oughly and when received by the dairy
man to again scald. The buyer if at all
in doubt, may prevent danger in great
measure by thoroughly boiled milk, but,
again, boiled milk is not what buyers
wish in majority of cases.-Prairie
Farmer.
Hayfor Hogs.
But few men, says the Nebraska
Farmer, are aware of the fact that hay
is beneficial to hogs, hut It is true,
nevertheless. Hogs need rough food as
we'll as horses, cattle or the human race.
To prepare it you should have cutting
box (or hay CUTTER, and the greener the
hay the better. Cut the hay short and
mix with bran. shorts or middlings, and
feed as other food. Hogs soon learn to
like it, and if soaked in swill or other
slop food it is highly relished by them.
In winter, use for hogs the same hay
you feed to your horses; you will find
that, while it saves bran, shorts or other
food, it PUTS on flesh rs rapidly as any
thing that can be given them.
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