The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-16
home AND FARM.

berry nlants Is to wait till after a heavy
rain when the ground is soaking wet,
and take up clumps of them with the
ground attached and carry them where
you want them.
MILITARY PUDDINGs. - Chop very
finely one-half pound of suet, mix with it
one-half pound Of bread crumbs, and
the same quantity of moist sugar;
mince the rind Of a lemon, and strain
the juice; mix these ingredients we'll,
and put the mixture into small buttercd
cups, and ~Ake for rather more than
half an hour; turn them out on a dish,
and serve with lemon sauce. The above
Ingredients may be made into small
balls, and boiled for about half an hour.
They should be served with the same
sauce as when baked.
BAKED HAM.-Make thick paste Of
flour and water mot boiled), and cover
the entire ham with it, bone and all;
put in pan, on spider, or Two muffin-
rings, or any thing that will keep it an
inch from the bottom, and bake in a hot
oven; if small ham, fifteen minutes for
each pound; il large, twenty minutes;
The oven should be hot when put in.
The paste forms q hard crust around the
ham, and the skin comes off with it.
Try this, and you will never cook q ham
in any other way.
In one quarter of minute dahlla
that is all purple can be changed, SO
that every petal shall be tipped yellow.
This is simply done by burning some
birthstone. and holding the flowers .
few seconds in the fumes. The change
is instantaneous; and where there was
no fancy.tipped dahlia, it astonished
every body who did not know it and saw
the metamorphosis. Other flowers are
subject to change by the fumes OF br'm-
stone, which discharges the color wher-
ever it reaches. The experiment is
easily tried by lighting a few lucifer
Matches american Cullivator.
FINE GERMAN PUDDlNG.-Pour half
half a pint of boiling milk upon one
pound bread crumbs; beat up one.
quarter pound fresh butter to cream;
add to It the yelks of ten eggs, well
beaten; drain the milk from the bread,
and add the bread, with one-quarter
pound pounded sugar and the grated
peel of q lemon; whip the whites of the
ten eggs into solid froth, and add them
the last thing; butter cloth, and put
the pudding in, tying it loose, as it will
swell out q good deal; plunge it into
boiling water; boil one hour. Some
persons add one quarter pound jar raj
sins, slit and stoned.
Com loses One-fifth by drying and
wheat one. fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that 1t is more profita'
BILE for farmers to sell unshelled corn IN
the fall at Is cents bushel than at 81
bushel in the following summer, ant
the wheat at 81 .25 in December is equa
to 81 so in the succeeding June. In tn
! case of potatoes-taking those that ro
and are otherwise lost, together with tn
, shrinkage. there is but little doubt tina
, between October and June the loss II
the owner who holds them is not les
than 50 per cent.
, A PRACTICAL Vermonter tells tn
american Culliuator how to "burn
chimney out" He chose rainy day
There had SO much SCOT accumulate'
3 that it made very hot fire, but by CIV
ing only little draught the burning wa
safely. performed. Although the da
> was still the fire roared like an engine
Z, and red-hot cinders fell Kissing upo
y y the wet roof, showing the terrible resu
n n that would have followed had the chin
u ney taken fire on dry and windy day
> TO KEEP GRApEs.-Select nice fires
- clusters, and cut the end of the ster
- - smooth, and dip into melted sealin
;. wax; then put it in cotton batting; Pac
;. them away in wooden boxes; keep thel
;; in dry, cool place. In this way the
" will keep fresh all winter. Anoth'
; way-Take full punches, ripe and pc
y feet; seal the end that is cut from tt
4 vine so that no air can get in, or tt
~ Juice of the stem run out, and let the
!. stand one day after sealing, SO as to
!. sure they are perfectly sealed (if n
}, they will shrivel up); then pack
:. boxes of dry sawdust, and keep in
~ cool place; they will keep nicely
!. winter without losing their flavor:
~ packing, do not crowd the bunche
~ sprinkle the sawdust over the bottom
~ the box, then lay the grapes carefully,
:. :. bunch at q time, all over the box, tn
in sawdust and grapes, alternately, un
- the box IL full.