The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Take out the cores of apples or
ounces and fill the place with sugar.
Pour little water over them, and bake
in an earthen pie-plate. This, served
with sweet cream, makes q delicious
dish for tea.
Kidney Stew.-Cut the kidneys
into small pieces, cover with cold water,
cover the saucepan closely, and SIM
mer until tender; take out the pieces,
return the liquor to the fire, skim it as
it bOils. thicken with -four and butter
rolled together, flavor with pepper and
salt, put the kidney back, boil up once
and serve hot.
Feeding Stock Outdoors. - The
practice of feeding stock on the ground
is not economical. Therefore never be
guilty OF it; but if you feed outdoors,
provide racks to hold the feed: The
actual loss to the farmer, oftentimes, in
q single season, exceeds the cost of the
necessary racks for effectually saving
this waste. ANY farmer with a little
lumber, a saw, hammer and nails, axe
and augur can make one.
Jelly Cake.--Take two and q half
cupfuls of sugar, one and half cupfuls
Of melted butter, to- which add five
eggs; beat with your hands the eggs,
sugar and butter, and then add four
cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of
cream OF tartar, one teaspoonful of
soda, one teaspoonful of vanilla and
one cupful of sweet cream. Use cram
berry, strawberry or ounce jelly.
Ointment for Chapped Hands,
Mott ono or,nno rf onA oro-
half drachm of white wax in one ounce
of oil of sweet almonds, then add one
half ounce of pure glycerine and stir
until cold. Scent If you please with
whatever perfume liked. This is ex-
cellent for chapped hands or lips. For
the hands apply at night and draw on a
pair of old kids to prevent sOiling bed
clothing.
Fruit Cake.-One cupful of molas-
ses, one cupful of sugar, one cupful Of
butter, one cupful of sour milk, four
and a-half cupfuls of flour, three eggs,
one tablespoonful of allspice, one table
spoonful of cinnamon, one tablespoon
full of cloves, one nutmeg, one teaspoon
full of saieratus, one-haf pound of raj
sins, one-half pound of currants. or if
preferred, one pound of raisins. This
makes two loaves. They should be kept
in jar in cool cellar.
To prevent fence posts from being
lifted or thrown out of perpendicular
by frost, a correspondent recommends
cutting a couple of notches opposite
each other near the lower end of the
post, into each of which fiat stone
should be fitted, the earth of course
being rammed very solid, as we'll below
as above the stones. Why would it
not do exactly as well to form the low
er end of the post in the shape of a
cross, by halving on a short bit of tim
ber?-New England Farmer.
Invalid Cakes.-Three cups of
coarse wheat bran, three cups of sifted
flour, one full teaspoonful of cream tar
tar, half spoonful of soda, seven spoon
fuls of butter, milk. Mix the cream
tartar dry with the -four, and work in
the butter, then the bran; dissolve soda
in little milk, and add enough milk to
roll out in cakes third or half an inch
thick. Care must be taken that they
do not burn. and yet bake thoroughly.
To be eaten at every meal by invalids
Horses are quite sensitive to chill
ing draughts of air blowing upon them,
and especially upon their heads; hence,
in the construction of stables this
should be borne in mind. Many stables
have the horses face an alley along the
sides of which are doors, or q large
space is left entirely open; in such cases,
whenever the rear stable door and the
one leading out Of the alley are open,
the horses stand in chilling draught,
from which they cannot escape. Horses,
like many people, can stand much wind
in an open field, but will catch cold
while in a draught only short time.
With proper ventilation, the door of the
stable should Le kept closed in cold
weather, that no draughts may occur.
- american A7riculturist.