The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-18
FARM AND FIRESIpE.

"A few drops of ammonia added to
the water in a vase of flowers will pre-.
serve them much longer.
| -Spiced Grapes. .ready five
| pounds of fruit, four pounds of sugar,
two tablespoonful each OF cinnamon
and mace. and QUE pint of the best vine
gar. Boil the sugar, spices and vinegar
| together about one hour or until thick
Heat the grapes and rub through col
| ander. Add the sirup to the fruit, and
let it boil up once.
Sponge Cake.-Two eggs, whites
and yelks beaten separately, one cup
powdered sugar, one cup Hour with one
teaspoon baking powder sifted with it,
havoring, lastly a scant half cup boiling
water stirred in. Bake slowly. This
is delicious. Bake in tins four by eight
inches and two inches high. Frost when
done. Check off into squares, stick the
half of an English walnut on each block,
and you have pretty basket of cake.
School Pudding teacupful
OF rice in pint of milk, sweetened and
favored to taste. When cold, mix with
it well-beaten egg. Have ready pint
basin well-buttered, and breakfast
cupful OF bread-crumbs with a teaspoon
full OF moist sugar well-mixed with them.
Lay the crumbs all round the basin
thickly with knife, and the rice in the
center. Lay more crumbs on the top,
and bake half an hour in quick oven
Eat with jam.
blackberry Sirup.-Make simple
slrup OF pound OF sugar to each pint
of water, boilit until it is rich and thick;
then add to it as many pints of the ex-.
pressed juice of ripe blaekberries as
there are pounds of sugar; put half
nutmeg grated, to each quart of the
sirup; set it by to become cold, then
bottle it for use. A tablespoonful for
child, or a wine-glassful for an adult is
a dose, and will prove valuable medi-
cine in case OF diarrhea or dysentery.
DR.. Moore. in the Country Gentle
man, says of cribbing: g The neck strap
is an eificacious remedy This consists
in broad, Hat strap buckled tight
around the neck, just back of the Jaw.
This prevents the arching of the neck
and spasmodic effort to crib. But the
best method, think, is piece of zinc,
in shape of heart or half-diamond,
with the sharp point downward, at
tached to a tive-ring halter, so that
when the animal attempts to crib, the
sharp point will prick the skin between
the jaws at place corresponding to the
point midway between chin and throat
OF man. This stops the habit effectu-
ally"
The average growth in twelve
years. OF "a number of valuable varieties
OF timber, when pla ated in belts and
is about as follows: White |
maple, one foot in diameter and thirty |
feet high; ash-leaf maple or box elder,
one foot in diameter and twenty feet |
high; white willow, eighteen inches in |
diameter and fifty feet high; yellow will
low, eighteen inches in diameter and |
Ihirty-five feet high; Lombardy poplar,
ten inches in diameter and forty feet
high; blue and white ash, ten inches in
diameter and twenty-five feet high;
black walnut and butternut, ten inches
IN diameter and twenty feet high.
Berry shortcake, a delicious deli
sacy, is very easily prepared when one
Knows how it should be DONE Take a
quart OF sifted flour, add half a tea
spoonful of salt, a pint of sour cream
md teaspoonful of soda dissolved in
water. Beat the cream into the flour
With spoon till well mixed, then knead
lightly and bake upon well-buttered
plates, The dough needs to be about
IN inch thick on the plates. Bake in
luick-oven. Have the berries mashed
With sugar and when the cakes are
baked split each cake open and butter
10Th sides; spread on a layer of the
berries; lay the upper half of the cake
'yer. Ii you have plenty Of berries you
IAN make triple cake by buttering the
OPP crust of the second cake and putting
N another layer of berries. Cut and
erVe The same as pie. If sweet cream
abundant it is an improvement to
'our some over the pieces of cake as it
served, but it is very acceptable
lessert without the cream during the
ntire season of berries.