The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-11
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Steak should be broiled without
salt. Salt draws the juices in cooking; |
it is desired to keep these If possible.
Cook over a hot fire, turning frequently.
Salt and pepper to taste.
TO Clean Cistern Water.-Add two
ounces powdered alum and two ounces
borax to twenty barrel cistern5of ram
water that is blackencd or oily, and in q
few hours the sediment will settle, and
the water be clarified and fit for wash
ing. .'.a. ..t...
The sourness of rhubarb or ''pic-
plant" stalks is due to malic acid (the
acid OF apples) and citric acid found IN
lemons>, both Of which are as healthful
as they are agreeable. In some condi~
tons OF the system, however, these acids
may uot be beneficial. A simple rule
with regard to the use of rhubarb is, If
you, find it. doesn't agree with you.
The following jelly is excellent and
nutritious when given to an invalid:
One calls foot and one pound OF veal;
this put in four pints of water and boiled
very slowly for fully five hours; when
the water was reduced to one-third it
was strained, the seasoning of a little
ve1per Aad salt and nutmeg being
Added list. This jelly Keeps quite well.
1t should have no vegetables in it, or it
will Oil.-COr. N. Y. Times.
-Oil-cloth washed in hot water or in
soapsuds, or with brush, will look
dingy when dry, and soon crack and
peel off; but when always washed IN
fuke-warm water with piece of soft, old
flannel, and wiped perfectly dry each
time, will last longer and retain its
young looks down to old age; it greatly
improves its appearance to use half
milk and half water. Skim milk, if not
sour, is just as good as new milk. This
makes oil-cloth look as if vanished.
Neither soap, hot water or brush should
ever be used on it.
Farmers! don't sign anything to
pass into the hands of stranger. Don't
SIGN any contract, receipt, note, nor
even put your name down on a piece OF
paper, or your residence. There are so
many devices to procure fraudulent
notes, and so many innocent banks to
buy them, and so many Legislators to de-
fend them, that it is not safe to sign any
thing to travelling man. Don't rely on
your sharpness to protect you. The
sharpest men in the. State have been
takenlin. And weiknow one cas Sc where
| ! ame,nber of the Legislature was ,roped
! into signing the worst kind of a fraudu'
lent note. n't!-lowa State Register.
Where water can be commanded,
there is nothing so profitable as to well
soak the soil about small fruits; first
about the time that they have set then
fruits. Much of the value of this opera
ton, however, will depend on the nature
Of the soil. The advantages are least
in a tenacious, and greatest in porous
soil. 1t is said that an animal derive:
most benefit from food when it is hungry
before it begins to eat; it is certainly SC
with plants Water applied to sol
already wet is an injury; and water
never has so telling an advantage OF
vegetation as when every leaf is about tt
wither up for the want of it. A plan
that never seems to want water is in
/ very doubtful condition in regard to it
health. '''' '''sss - 'Hu " 10 =
Fruit pies in deep dishes, such a
made by the English and French, ar
> preferable to ordinary fruit pies, be
cause you obtain more juice and fruit
The best method of making these is a
follows: Take a deep, oval pie.dish
china (not tiny, line the edge with paste
also about half its depth inside. Nov
place q small cup, an egg cup is best
q ma bnk hStMlls stand a little above til
edge of the dish; next fill your dis
with fruit, then add little water
your fruit has not too much juice. Som
fruits, such as currants aud raspberrie!
have enough juice; also add sugar
taste. Now cover this with a crust
short paste, wash it with water or whit
: of an egg and dust withpowdered suga
Make a few fancy cuts on it before bal
:, ing and after it is washed and sugare
4 do not cut too deep. These cuts 81,
= it a rich-looking appearance. The Gu
: in the center collects the juice, and
3 the whole of the pie is not eaten at OF
meal what is left can be supplied vii
= juice by simply lifting the cup and q
lowing the juice to escape. The edge
J this pie, to be artistic should
pinched up with the.fagera and thdn
u then notched with knife. If you u
y fruit which gives too much juice y
. can prevent the boiling over by mixil
, little -four with the sugar, about Of
9 teaspoonful of iiour to twelve OF sugu