Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-09-22
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tention than others.
Mint Sauce-Mix one tablespoon
full of white sugar to half teacup OF
good vinegar: add the mint and let it
infuse for half an hour before sending
TO the table. Serve with roast lamb or
mutton.
A New York farmer, who is also a
practical sheep grower, gives the fol-
lowing rs sure cure for grub in sheep:
Turn into each nostril OF the animal
affected half a teaspoonful OF kerosene
oil.
Dry sulphur is given as remedy
for lice on cattle by one who says he
kraocs it IS effective. 1t should be
sprinkled all over the body and worked
into the hair.
The remnants of any pudding left
from one dinner may be served for the
next by arranging il into compact
mass and covering it with meringue
of whipped whites of eggs and little
powdered sugar. Set into hot oven
just long enough to brown.
To prevent choking. break an egg
into n cup and give it to the person
choking, to swallow The white of the
egg seems to catch around the obstacle
and remove it. If one egg does not
answer the purpose. try another. The
white is all that is necessary.
To ascertain ii water is hard or soft
procure a small quantity of soap dis
solved in alcohol, and let few drops
of it fall into a glass of water to be
tried if the water becomes milky it is
hard, but if little or no milkiness results
the water may be said TO be soft.
To make jelly-eake fritters rut some
stale sponge or other cake into rounds
with cake cutter. Fry these nice
brown in hot lard; dip each quickly
into bowl OF boiling milk and Law upon
hot plate, spread thickly with jam or
preserves. Serve hot, with cream to
pour over them.
Quail Pie.-Quail, butter, pepper
and salt. Cut the quail in pieces and
stew them about ten minutes, or till
tender. Line Your baking dish with
nice paste; put in the birds; little of
the water in which they were stewed,
thickened with little flour; shake in
pepper and salt and bits of butter;
cover with nice crust and bake deli
cate brown.
Tomato Jelly.-Tear in pieces some
ripe tomatoes and stem them until
thoroughly cooked, with only sufficient
water to keep them from burning; put
the pulp into jelly-bag, and when the
Juice has trickled through, put pound
Of sugar to each pint OF juice and boil
rapidly until it jellies. If the color is
not bright red, few drops of cochineal
will improve it. This jelly may be eat
en- with roast meat.
"A timely suggestion, on its travels
without credit, is to the effect that be-
fore removing threshing machine to
another farm it should be run empty
from five to ten minutes at 4 high rate
of speed in order to throw out any seeds
of cheat, cookie, ETC.. aud to discharge
particles OF smut that may have ad-
hered to it In this way the germs of
weeds or fungi will be left where raised
and not introduced by this medium as
pest to other fields.
The Onion Maggot. writer SAYS.
in TIct's Magazine. that neighbor and
he each secured an ounce of Danvers
Yellow Onion, and prepared the ground
and sowed the seed in the same man.
ner, with one exception-the neighbor
covered the bed with a good supply of
coal ashes. The crop in both cases
came up and looked well until the
plants were about sixinches high, when
the onions without ashes became in
tested with the onion maggot, and in a
short time wholly disappeared. The
neighbor never lost an onion. The
gardens were adjoining. the beds being
less than 100 feet apart.
-Four medium heads of cabbage,
twelve good-sized cucumbers, one peck
OF Green tomatoes. three ounces of