The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
There is more nourishment in ono
pound of bananas than in three pounds
of meat.
Egg Bread-One pint Of milk. two
eggs, butter size of an egg, one-half
cupful of sugar, flour enough to make
batter; bake. This makes one loaf.
-Marmalade Pudding. "A quarter of
q pound of suet, a quarter of q pound of
bread-crumbs, two ounces of sifted
sugar, and quarter of a pound Of
marmalade. Mix we'll with an egg,
and boil well for two hours.
Two gallons sliced green tomatoes.
two quarts vinegar and twelve onions
sliced, one quart of sugar, two table,
spOonfuls each of salt, mustard, pep
per, and one tablespoonful each of all
spice and cloves. Stew all together
until tender and you will have very
good green tomato soy.
Rice mullins baked in gem pans
are delicious for tea; take one cup of
rice (steam it until tender). about q
pint of sweet milk end three eggs,
thicken with a tablespoonful of flour,
and bake until brown, or you may raise
them with bread sponge; they are par
ticularly good in this way, but of course
it takes longer to prepare them.
DIR. j. Lawes, of Rothamsted, En-
gland, says that the potato possesses
the property of converting q very much
larger portion OF the manure ingre-
dents of the soil into human food
than any of the cereal grain crops. For
instance, to every bushel of wheat
while the haum of the potatoes when
dry is SO light that in experimenting
we do not thinkit worth while to weigh
It,
Snow Pudding, or Rahm Sulz.-
This is a favorite German dessert.
Bring to boiling point one quart sweet
cream or rich new milk, and then pour
into it two tablespoons of corn starch
blended with little cold milk. Sweet
en- to taste and allow it to cook gently,
stirring for two or three minutes. Add
quickly the whites of six eggs beaten
stiff. Let it then boil up once, add va
nilla or lemon flavoring, and take quick
ly of the fire. Lay the snow quickly in
rocky heaps on glass dish.
Siberian Crab Apple Preserves.
Put two pounds of loaf sugar into a
preserving pan, with the peel of small
lemon and quart of wafer; boil until
it becomes thin strip; take some crab
apples with their stalks on; just prick
them with a needle, and put them into
the sirup. When you see the skins be-
gin to crack take them carefully out
and drain them separately on a dish.
Add the remainder of the sugar to the
strip and again boil it up. Put the
crabs into wide mOuthed bottles. When
the strip is cool pour it over them, and
tie the jars tightly over.
Washing the Bark of Trees.-This
practice is attended with an improved
growth of trees, for two reasons: Those
who take the trouble to perform it, take
good care of the trees in other ways;
and it removes moss, kills bark-lice, and
destroys the hiding places for cedling
moths. But it is far less important than
good cultivation of the soil. j. s.
Woodward, OF Lockport, finds caustic
soda, or in its absence sal soda, the
best Tor washing the bark. Potash is
more apt to injure and burn the bark.
When sal soda is used, it is heated in
an iron kettle, with stirring, until it
becomes reddish, when it is ready to
apply. Annual whitewashing with lime
has killed many young trees.
Preserved Ounces. loaf
sugar. Pare, quarter and core the
ounces, saving skins and cores. Put
the ounces over the fire, with water to
just cover them; simmer till perfectly
tender, but do not allow the pieces to
break. Take the quarters out with a
fiat skinner, and spread on large dish
es to cool. Add the parings and cores
to the water, and boil briskly for one
hour. Strain this liquor, and to each
pint add one pound Of sugar. Boil and
skim this till perfectly clear; add the
fruit, and simmer fifteen minutes. Let
the fruit stand in the sirup in deep
dish twenty -four hours, in a cool place.
Drain off the sirup, and boil again; add
ounces, and simmer fifteen minutes.
Take out the fruit, and spread on dish
es to cool. Boil the sirup till thick.
When both fruit and strip are cold, put
in jars; cover tightly.
"A cold frame for propagating early
vegetables that are hardy and will stand
frost, as cabbage and lettuce, is made
as follows: Dig out the ground eight
cen inches deep, replace the top soil,
and make it rich with fine manure,
leaving the surface a foot below the
level OF the ground. Board up the
sides and ends in such a manner that
the frame is like that of . hot-bed, six
inches high in front, eighteen inches
high behind, and sloping at the ends,
six feet wide, and as long as may be
needed in multiples of three feet. SO az
to fit the sash, which are three by six
feet. The frame is made tight, and the
sash to fit closely to keep out the cold.
The seed is sown in these frames about
September, and as the cold weather ar
rives the sash are put on and the frame
surrounded with coarse manure to keep
out the frost. The bed slopes to the
south to catch the sun, and it is OF the
greatest importance that plenty o. air
be given by raising the sash every day
to keep the plants from willing or grow
ing weak and spindling.
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