The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Hot lemonade is excellent for a
cold; drink it just before going to sleep.
-Eggless Cookies. cups sugar,
one cup sweet milk. one cup butter,
one half teaspoonful soda. Flour
enough to roll. Use vanilla, lemon or
nutmeg for seasoning. They are very
nice.
Sour Milk Cake.-Beat together
one cup sugar, half cup butter and one
egg. Add one cup of sour milk with
one even teaspoon of soda stirred into
it. Then add two cups of sifted flour,
half cup of chopped raisins and spice
to taste.
BY emitting all shortening-that
is. both butter and lard-frOm any
good fried cake recipe, and using in
place of it a cup of sweet milk, the
cakes will be light and almost entirely
free from grease. Take care to have
the lard in which they are fried very
hot.
I'm propagating honeysuckles cut
tings of wood when nearly ripe will
strike if inserted in a shady border in
the autumn and duly watered. Perhaps
the most successful mode of propagat-
ing is by layers pegged in moist soil in
the autumn, when the leaves COM
mence falling.
Pound Seed Cake.-One pound
butter beaten to cream, one pound
sifted lump sugar, one pound -four,
we'll dried. eight eggs, yelks and whites
beaten separately, and caraway seeds
to taste. Mix the ingredients and beat
all we'll together for an hour. Put the
batter into tin shape, lined with paper
and buttered. Bake in a moderate
oven.
The much abused dragon-flies, says
q recent writer. are perfectly harmless
to human beings. They neither bite
nor sting, but destroy vast numbers of
mosquitoes, flies and other insects. If
brought into the house, they will catch
flies and mosquitoes as long as they are
not molested. In fact. they ought tobe
made household pets, instead Of being
ruthlessly driven out as though their
presence was dangerous.
kerosene the nests and roosts of
the poultry houses. Whitewash every
thing in them--ceilings, roosts, nests
and all. Sprinkle little flour of sui
phur in the nests. First, however,
change the hay or straw. If confined
in runs, give them daily quantity Of
grass and clover. Provide lime. A
little bone flour mixed with their food
is excellent. and helps provide material
for shell-making. Keep the houses
clean.
The disease known as blackleg is
not contagious; it is blood disorder,
which is brought on by indigestion or
inefficient assimilation of the food.
Overlooking and plethora. with disor-
dered liver, will produce this disease,
in which the blood becomes thick and
black and the tissues gangrenous. The
disease prevails chiefly in the fall, when
the feed becomes hard and indigesti-
BILE, and in the spring, when the new
grass is too full of sap and is imma-
ture. 1t is very difficult to treat, be-
cause the animals are too far gone be-
fore they are known to be diseased and
cure is impossible. But it may be
prevented by giving salt regularly from
e,rly in the fall until the spring, and a
dose of half an ounce of sulphur, twice
repeated, once month during the same
season.-N. Y. Times.
Bacon and Greens. Don't
cook the greens with the bacon. ham,
pork. or what not. 1t makes no differ
ence what kind of greens one has
whether spinach from the garden, or
..cowslps, or dandelious from the
streams or fields. don't cook either with
fat meat. The fact that vegetable food
tends to correct evils from the long
continued use Of sailed meat has given
rise to the notion that greens should
be cooked with the meat. Cook the
greens in separate vessel, with only,
ii need be, little salt. Thus treated,
every variety of greens will not only
be more acceptable to the taste, but
vastly more dlgestible. Most kinds of
greens, after they are boiled quite
tender, should be thoroughly drained
upon q colander; then turn them into q
wooden bowl and chop very fine.
Salt Rising Bread.-The earlier in
the morning it is set the better. A
most convenient hour is six o'clock.
Take one pint of water, one-half tea
spoonful OF salt and one teaspoonful of
sugar; stir to the thickness OF pancake
batter. The water used should be as
warm as the hand can bear. Place the
vessel containing this batter into water
OF the temperature of that first used.
And let it stand for three hours. In
that time water will arise to the sur
face; then thicken with flour until the
batter is as chick as it was in the COM
mencement. Let it stand three hours
longer. when it will again rise, making
total standing of six hours. Then get
what flour you need for your baking,
scald about one pint of it, and after it
is cool mix the rising together with
warm water and mix to q stiffness to
knead on a warm board. A great deal
of kueading is required. Place the
dough in your baking pan. set aside until
it rises to twice its original size and
then bake in quick oven. If you are
successful, and a careful following of
these directions will make you 81, you
have the most delicious bread that has
ever entered mortal's mouth If you
have large baking the ingredients are
to be proportionately increased.