The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-01
FARM AND PRESIDE.


Goals in hot stove will, it is said, eft
fectually clean out q stove pipe, the va
pors produced carrying Of SCOT by chem
icaf decomposition.
Ink stains on mahogany or black,
walnut furniture may be removed BY
touching the stains with feather wet
in a solution of inter and water-eigh1
drops to spoonful of water. As soor
as the spots disappear rub the place al
once with cloth wet in cold water
If the ink stains then remain, repeat
making the solution stronger.
Ham Cake. IA capital way Of dia'
posing of the remains of q ham and
making an excellent dish, for breakfast
is: Take pound and half of ham,
fat and lean together; put it into NOR.
tar and pound it, or pass it through !
sausage machine; boil a large slice ol
bread in half q pint of milk, and beat il
and the ham well together; add an egg
beaten up. Put the whole into mold,
and bake rich brown.
Cream of Fish. For each quart Of
soup mix together over the fire one Ia
blespoonful each of fiour and butter un.
til quite free from Jumps; then grad
ually add one, quart of hot milk, STIR
ring constantly, until the soup is quite
smooth; then season it palatably with
salt and pepper, dust in q very little
grated nutmeg, and stir in with an egg.
whip cupful OF cold boiled fish PURGE
rubbed through sieve with potato
masher.
s. Egg LOAF. One pound Of dough,
two ounces of butter, two ounces Of
pounded sugar, two eggs. Beat all
well together, in a BASIN. in the same
manner as eggs are beaten, only using
the hand instead of the whisk; set in q
plain mold to rise for three-quarters Of
an hour, then bake In quick oven.
When cut, it should have the appear.
ance of honeycomb. This is q very
nice breakfast-cake, and will make de-
licious toast when stale.
Steamed Fruit Pudding. Two CUPS
OF suet. chopped fine, two cups Of boil
ing hot coffee, two cups OF sugar, half
pound of raisins, half pound OF currants.
quarter pound of citron, five cups oil
flour, teaspoonful of salt, three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Mix these
well together, cutting the
raislns, cnrrants and citron fine; put all
in a bag and steam three hours; doAnot
lift The cover till the pudding is done;
serve with nice sauce.
The practice of whitewashinr trees
is useful and beneficial, and one can af-
ford to be laughed at for doing it, for
"those who win may taught with the
best reason. The whiteWash reflects
the heat of the sun. and prevents SUM-
scald of the bark in warm, bright win
ter days;i il kills eggs OF insects and re-
peis the borer, and the lime. washing,
from the stems, reaches the roots and
fertlllzes the trees. All this will over
balance any ridicnle that NAV be cast
on the practice by over wise and hyper
critical persons who know nothing
about the business.
For the sake of variety and to please
children, who seem sometimes to Be fas-
cinafed by pie. make once year meat
and potato pie. Make q crust as for
chicken pie, and fill it with pieces .oi
beef stake, either partly cooked or raw;
season it well, and make gravy OF
melted butter and water thickened with
Hour; pour over tho meat and then sput
n layer Of mashed potato, and the
crust on the top of that. ii it Is tool
much trouble to mash the potato, put in |
mail cooked ones whole; be sure andj
lave enough gravy so the pie will not
e dry. Do not mako the crust SO rich
IS to be unwholesome.
begets vice just as well in |
he horse as it does in man, and among |
he various vices thus begotten in the
lorse, is the miscellaneous one Of kicking.j
There are several methods Of prevention
escorted to, with more or less success.
,ne is to let the horse 90 loose in 4.
oomy box stall or q she'd, instead 81 |
wing him up. Another method is to |
'uckle. q strap around the leg above the
EASTERN. to which strap is attached
hahn about.a foot long, to the end 81
Which is fixed log of hard wood
Weighing about two pounds. Every
ime The horse kicks he will hurt him.
ell, and after some ineffective trials 81
idding himself of the attachment he
naHy gives IN. and will gradually
bandon the practice of kicking; but Il
lay be necessary to keep the device
Ppiied to his leg for a long time, espec-
lily II he is an inveterate kicker.
ometimes horse only kicks to one
lde, or only with one leg, and it will
hen only be necessary to apply the
hahn to that leg. But il he kicks "a
9th sides it will be necessary to apply
ne on each leg.