Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-05
HOME AND FARM.

-Dandruff is caused by an inflamma-
ton of the skin, and is often very diff
cult to cure. If the hair is kept short
and the scalp frequently washed with
solution of borax in warm water, the
trouble will be ameliorated, and in time
cured.
-Mince Meat.-Two bowls chopped
apples, one of chopped meat (beef's
hearty, one-fourth pound suet chopped
fine, grated rind and juice of one lemon,
three teacups sugar, one large teaspoon
full each cinnamon and cloves, one nut
meg, one pound stoned raisins, half
pound currants, quarter of pound cit
ron, one quart cider, salt to taste.
Pork chops fried and served with
apples are not to be frowned upon; put
the meat in the frying-pan, and then
scatter little sage and pepper and salt
over it; if it is fat enough so that there
is plenty of gravy, fry the sliced apples
in that; if not, add a lump of butter,
brown the apples and lay them over the
pork.
Take dry sand, twenty parts; wood
ashes five parts; sulphur, one part, and
mix together for dust baths for poultry
during the winter months. Place this
in large boxes, and keep them sheltered
from rain. Whitewash the houses now
and later, kerosene the perches, and
your poultry will not be troubled with
insects. sesa7
Don't forget (says Mr.. Philbrick, in
the NesO England Farmer,) to rake up
all the forest leaves you can get; they
make good litter for stock, covering for
pits, and banking to put around cellars
or greenhouses or hot-beds. To keep
them from blowing away, spread over
them a little coarse bog hay, or ever
green boughs, or cornstalks.
Apple cider jelly is made by boiling
down sweet cider until it becomes a
firm jelly. This is done in large way
in the ordinary sugar evaporators in
which maple sap is boiled down, but it
may be done in ordinary preserving
kettles or any copper or brass utensils.
Enameled iron pots may be used, but
no plain iron ones, as these give a dark
color to the jelly.
-Custard Without Eggs.-One quart
flour, two of sugar. Season with nut
meg or cinnamon, and add salt to your
liking. The milk should be placed over
quick fire, and when at a boiling
point, the flour should be added, being
previously stirred up in cold milk. AS
soon as thoroughly scalded, add the
sugar, spices and salt. This is an ex-
cellent dish, and deservedly priced by
every one who has tried it.
Pocket books.-A lump of dough
aboutsas large as quart bowl, two eggs
beaten light, tablespoonful of lard and
flour enough to make it as stiff as the
dough. Work it we'll. About an hour be-
fore baking spread out thin on the bread
board and sprinkle on very little soda
and dessertspoonful of white sugar.
Work it well again, then roll out thin
and grease the surface with butter. Cut
them out little larger than biscuits and
double over. Put in pans and let them
rise again. Bake quickly.
Ruby Sauce.-One quart of cram
berries, two quarts of cold water, sugar,
apples. Place o porcelain saucepan,
with close-fitting cover, on hot fire,
and in it put the cranberries and water;
stew at high pressure twenty minutes.
remove the pan from the fire, and add
sugar till the juice is sweet; then add
some nice cooking apples, pared, quar-
tered and cored, cook them moderately
till tender, but not broken, and have alb
sorbed the juice till they are ruby color.
This sauce is delicious, and is excellent
for tarts or pies, and keeps well.
Unless you want large proportion
of cockerels do not set the largest eggs
you can pick out. There are no means
known by which the sex of eggs can
with certainty be determined. Although
many thought some sign indicated the
sex, yet, after repeated fair trials, all
these indications have entirely failed
with me, except the one which follows:
With regard to the eggs of most of the
feathered kingdom, If you pick the
largest out of a nest they are the ones
that generally produce males, especially
if they happen to be the first laid. Even
in a canary's nest it is noticeable that
the first egg laid is very often the largest,
the young from it is the first out, keeps
ahead of its comrades; is the first to
quit the nest, and the first to sing
Henry Hates, In Rural NeW Yorker.
The reason why cabbage disagrees
with you is, the cabbage is not cut thin
across the fiber as it ought to be, and
not from point to root. 1t is boiled in
too small a saucepan, has not plenty OF
fast boiling water to roll about in, or
not enough salt and soda have been
used, and the cabbage has been boiling
too long,till it has become soft, brown,
disagreeable mass or 'smush," In this
state it is a poison. Cabbage cut in
rounds across the fiber and boiled in
plenty of fast-boilinS water with two
ounces of salt and soda of filbert size.
boiled for fifteen minutes, strained, and
the water we'll pressed from it, comes to
table bright in color, little crisp, and
sweet as a nut to taste and smell. In
this state it is most wholesome and deli
cious; but if it has been allowed to stand
in the water even for minute after it
is quite done the cabbage loses its de-
lghtful taste and has strong, unpleas.
ant odor.
Fall Cuttings.
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