The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-07-09
FARM AND PRESIDE.

. One gallon of white paint should
cover forty -four square yards of surface.
Vines are said to extract from the
soil only about three-fourths the guam
fity of potash and phosphoric acid which
the cereals take up.
Potato Pone.-This is favorite
dish in the West India Islands Wash.
peel and CRATE two pounds of potatoes;
add four ounces each of sugar and but
ter melted, one tcaspooniul each of salt
and pepper; mix well together; place
in baking dish and put into quick
oven until it is done and becomes
nicely Drowned.
Bread Sauce.-Pour half pint of
boiling milk on a teacupful of fine
bread crumbs. add small onion stuck
with three cloves, a small blade of mace,
a few peppercorns. and salt to taste;
let the sauce simmer five minutes, add
small piece of fresh butter, and at the
time of serving remove the onion and
mace. This sauce is used for stewed or
boiled fowls.
"A correspondent of the Farmer and
Fruit GROCER recommends the use of
common salt as cure for ssred rust"
the deadly scourge of our native black
berries and black raspberries. This
so-called "rust'' is one of the higher
forms of parasitic fungi. and not gener-
ally observed on the growing plant I'M
til it shows its bright orange red fruit
ing heads in the form of large red scales
on the under side of the leaves in June
and July.
Here is rule for making boston
brown bread" Take four cupfuls of
Indian meal and four cupfuls of rye
meal (not flour); sift through coarse
wire sieve; add two teaspoonfuls of
soda, little salt, one cupful of mo-
lasses, one cupful of sour milk. and
water sufficient to make a soft dough.
Bake four hours in a moderately heated
oven, OF what would be better, two
hours in brick oven.
Chicken and Ham Pie.-Season
some slices of boiled ham, lay them on
a puff-paste about half an inch thick;
then season some pieces of chicken and
place them on the ham, with the yelks
of some hard eggs; cover these with
more slices of ham, season as before,
put some gravy in over half cup of
tomato sauce and put puff-crust on
the top and bake it thoroughly. If to
be eaten hot, more gravy may be added
when done.
"A Dust Bath. the stock
enjoy more at this season of the year
than dust bath, and nothing will con-
tribute more to their health and clean
illness. As they culver and shake it off
mark how bright and smooth it leaves
their hair. 1t seems to be the peer of
water in cleansing their hides. Witness
horse, how he will roll in dry road
bed, or flock of cows, how they will
stamp and throw the dust all over their
backs. at the same time shaking them
selves and operating the ever active
tail in removing it, leaving the skin
purged of all parasite vermiD. Give
them all chance for frequent dust
baths. The chickens succumb to the
seductive influences of the bath " the
most readily, therefore give them all
the ashes fer the purpose they require.
Compete of Cherries. this red
cherries are to be preferred, because of
their piquant flavor. Kentish or Mo-
rellos are the best. They must not be
prepared as for PIE, because every
cherry should have portion of the
stalk remaining. The best way, there
fore, is to shorten the stalks with pair
| of scissors. Put the fruit in stewpan
with fine sugar in the proportion of a
quarter-pound sugar to one pound fruit,
and to the same quantities add the
juice of one lemon. Put them over a
slow fire; shake occasionally; let them
boil for three minutes, then take them
out with spoon, put in basin, and
carefully drain away all the sirup.
which put into the pan again and re-
duce by boiling. To thicken the strip
little isinglass may be added. but If it
can be done without it is much better,
because a jelly of pure strip is beauti-
fully transparent, but isinglass destroys
the transparency. Tb strip must be
poured into plate to set, and when the
compete is required the cherries are
piled in a pyramid and the jelly turned
! over them