The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-03-24
FARM AND PRESIDE,

If pork is well boiled, the trichina
which may be in it will be DESTROYED.
The lean meat of swine is the portion
infested with them. Swine sometimes
die from their effect.
According to DIR. Wiedehold, fun
gus growths in cellars may be COM
bated either by burning sulphur or by
pouring two parts of concentrated sui
phuric acid over one part of common
salt and so closing all openings as to
prevent any escape of the vapors.
Potato Salad.-Take about ten nice,
mealy, freshly-boiled potatoes; when
they are quite cool cut them in thin
slices and place them in an earthen dish;
add vinegar, pepper, salt and olive oil
to taste; mix with a wooden spoon; add
a chopped onion and parsley; if desired,
add capers. a.,...l ..,.'-
| Sweet Biscuits.-Rub four ounces
OF butter into eight ounces of flour, add
six ounces of ground loaf sugar, the
yelks OF two eggs, the white of one; roll
the paste thin, and cut it with wineglass
or cutter; egg over the top of each with
the remaining white and sift on sugar;
bake in a moderate oven. #.s
Baked Soup for Invalids.-Take a
pound of juicy steak, from which all
the fat has been removed; cut it up in
pieces OF about an inch square, salt and
| pepper it slightly; take stone jar to
hold two pints; pour into it a pint and
a half of cold water, teaspoonful of
whole rice; cover the jar with saucer,
and let it bake slowly for four hours; re-
move any fat present. , ,,,faa., ~
Cottage Pie. -Mince any kind Of
cold meat together (beef, mutton, veal,
| pork or lamb,) put it about an inch or
an inch and a half deep in a pie-dish,
and cover it with gravy; do not spare
salt and pepper; cover it over with
mashed potatoes, smooth at the top,
ana cut it across in diamonds with
knife; bake till it is crisp and brown at
| the top. A little Worcester sauce may
be considered an improvement if onions
are not objected to. )
"A delicious pudding can be made
in few minutes by taking one pint of
milk and stirring into it half cupful of
cassava, hall a cupful of cocoanut, two
eggs, little butter, salt and sugar to
taste; flavor with vanilla. Cook this as
you would boiled custard. When cooked
and put in the dish in which it is to be
served. pour over the top the white of
one egg beaten to stiff froth, with a
tablespoonful ofpulverized sugar added.
Set it in the oven for a short time to
brown. This may be eaten warm or
cold, with jelly or preserves or without
The recipe is handy one to have in the
house in case of the sudden Eruption
Of company" to dinner.
Plum Pudding.-A half-pound of
bread crumbs, one pound of flour, one
pound OF chopped suet, one pound Of
rasins. a half-pound of currants, a
quarter-pound of sugar, two ounces of
candied citron and lemon peel mixed,
four teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
two eggs, heaping teaspoonful of salt,
and spice to taste, three large table,
spoonfuls of molasses Mix the. half
pound of bread crumbs with milk or
water. This makes two ordinary sized
buildings. Grease the bowl and put it
in; tie cloth firmly over the top turn
ing the corners up over the top, secur-
ing with pin and leaving room in the
cloth for it to swell; boil six hours: set
away in cool place. This will keen
some weeks, when it can be reboiled.
Strange Water for Horses.
quality, as well as the temperature, of
the water drank by horses is of the
greatest Importance. A sudden change
OF water may often induce a severe at
tack OF collie, and this is so well known
to horsemen that when the valuable
trotters and racers travel from place to
place supply of water to which thew
have been used is always carried with
them. Toavoid any i'll effect it is better
to mix handful Of oatmeal or bran in
the strange water, and, if possible, to
warm it little. The temperature of
springs and wells varies very much, and |
a difference of ten or fifteen degrees is
quite frequent; that is quite sufficient
to affect injuriously the condition of 9 |
horse, which is an animal that easily |
suffers from disturbance of the digest
i've organs.
Mixing Seed.-There is not much
hope OF gaining anything by mixing
varieties of seed without a definite and
iudicious purpose. Mixed kinds are ant
to have more of the poor qualities of |
the seed than of the better qualities. In
endeavoring to improve seed it is best
to choose good kind and then stick to
1T; to cultivate few rows or a small
patch, especially for the purpose of i'm
proving the kind; to manure well. to
cultivate thoroughly; to select year
after year only the best grains and SO
to persevere until the Improvement is
established. If it is desired to mix two
kinds of corn, the different kinds
may be mixed and sown together in the
hill or drill. which will very thoroughly
mingle the varieties. The well-mixed
corn from the best ears should then be
selected.-N. 7. Times.
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