The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-08-13
FARM AND PRESIDE.

"A few drops of ammonia added to
the water in vase of flowers will pre-
serve them much longer.
-Spiced Grapes.-Get ready five
pounds of fruit, four pounds of sugar,
two tablespoonful eich of cinnamon
and mace. and one 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 strip to the fruit, and
let it boi! up once. ...-
Sponge Cakc.-Two eggs, whites
and yelks beaten separately, one cup
powdered sugar, one cup Hour with one
TEASPOON baking powder sifted with it,
fiavoriDg. lastly 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 Oft into squares, stick the
half of an English walnut on each block,
and you have pretty basket of cake.
School Pudding. Swell 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 q breakfast
cupful of bread-crumbs with teaspoon
full of moist sugar well-mixed with them.
Lay the crumbs all round the basin
thickly with a knife, and the rice in the
center Lay more crumbs on the top.
and bake half an hour in quick oven.
Eat with jam. .rs~fg stremt.
Blackberry Sirnp.-MaSe simple
q of q f,annH .f 20. .nh ..t
of water, boil it until it is rich and thick;
then add to it as many pints of the ex-
pressed juice of ripe blackberries as
there are pounds of sugar; pat half
nutmeg grated. to each quart of the
strip; set it by to become cold, then
bottle it for use. A tablespoonful for
child, or wine-glassfui for an adult, is
a dose, and will prove a valuable medi-
cine in case of diarrhea or dysentery.
DIR. Moore, in the Country Gentle
man, says of cribbing: The neck strap
is an efiicacious remedy. This consists
in d broad, Fat 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, l think, is piece of zinc,
in shape of heart or half-diamond.
with the sharp point downward, at
tached to a tve-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 planted in belts and
cultivated, 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
thirty-fve 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. delicious deli
cacy, is very easily prepared when one
knows how it should be done. Take a
quart of sifted flour, add half tea
spoonful of salt, q pint of sour cream
and teaspoonfui of soda dissolved in
water. Beat the cream into the flour
with a spoon till well mixed, then knead
lightly and bake upon well-buttered
plates. The dough needs to be about
an inch thick on the plates. Bake in a
quick oven. Have the berries mashed
with sugar and when the cakes are
baked split each cake open and butter
both sides; spread on a layer of the
berries; lay the upper half of the cake
over. If you have plenty of berries you
can make a triple cake by buttering the
top crust of the second cake and putting
on another layer of berries. Cut and
serve The same as pie. If sweet cream
is abundant it is an improvement TO
pour some over the pieces of cake as it
is served, but it is a very acceptable
dessert without the cream during the
entire season of harries