Dodge City times., 1881-07-21
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

knife. and it will not be clammy.
In dropping medicine place the
handle Of the spoon between the leaves
OF book.
Meat can be prevented from scorch-
i'm. during the r'asting process by
simply placing basin or cup OF water
in the oven. The steam generated not
only prevents scorching, Dut makes the
meat cook nicer.
A GOOD way to cook liver is to fry
il in bntier, with an onion cut in small
pieces scattered over it. Cook slowly;
when done add lump of butter and a
lite flour; stir well, and turn over the
liver. Serve with Saratoga potatoes.
For general purposes on the farm.
castor-oil. with little Kerosene added,
is the best lubricator and preserver-
For saws, mowers, buggip'. etc., 1t iur-
nishes more body, with less gum, than
most oil. The amount OF kerosene, II
any. to be added. must be governed by
the purpose for which it is designed.
drying Umbrellas. people
dry their umbrellas handle upward.
This concentrates the moisture at the
tip, where it is close, rusts the wires
which secure the stretchers, and rots
the silk After the umbrella is drained,
it is better to invert handle down, and
dry it in that position. or. better still.
not to spread it open, as nothing so
quickly spoils its shape.
Cherries intended to be dried must
be first stoned, spread on fiat dishes
and dry them in the sun or warm oven;
pour whatever juice ma run from them
over them, q little at Il time; stir them
about that thev may DRY evenly. When
perfectly dry line boxes or jars with
white paper and pack close in layers;
strew a little brown sugar and fold the
top of the paper over them and keep in
dry. sweet place.
Apple Cheese kes.-Take one
pound of apples. boiled and pulped
through a sieve. one pound powdere d
white sugar, the juice and grated rinds
of three large fresh lemons, and four
eggs well beaten. Mix these ingredi-
en,s carefully, and put them into a
saucepan in which you have quarter
of a pound of fresh butter melted. Stir
it constantly over slow fire for half an
hour, and let it cool. Line pie dishes
with fine puff paste, pour in the apple
mixture, and bake. without upper crust,
in quick oven. Sprinkle with pow
dered sugar. and serve when perfectly
cold.
Very Fine Currant Jelly.-An
equal quantity of white and red cur
rants free from stems, leaves and dirt.
Put into white porcelain kettle
with very little water. just
enough to keep the fruit from burn
ing at first. Boil twenty minutes.
Do not crush the fruit. Pour into
clean jelly-bag. Hang where the juice
can run through, but do not touch or
squeeze the bag. To each pint of this
clear liquor add pound of loaf sugar
and boil in the cleansed porcelain kettle
other jelly-bag and pour into glasses.
The bags can be well pressed out after
ward and the juice therefrom made into
an inferior jelly.
An ant bed on the lawn may be de-
stroyed with hot water; stir up the bed
and pour on boiling water; by pouring
on strong brine they may be driven
away. but as they might take up quar-
tiers as Objectionable, it is always best
to destroy them. When the bed is far
enough from the house. and in n posi-
tion to admit of it. they NAV be de-
stroyed by building fire around them,
and when hot enough, with a hoe dig
the bed up and thus burn them; when
the bed is well dug out fill the hole
with Goals: in this way we have de-
stroyed large beds; but near dwelling
hot water is the best, though it may re-
quire several gallons to make a sure
thing of it. The small red ants nest is
easily destroyed in this way, but large
ones, being at considerable distance
below the surface. must be so dug up
as to let the hot water to the bottom