Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-10
HOME AND FARM.


Never cut fowls wing to prevent
its flying. Pull out the flight feathers
OF one wing. tl.
old table-cloths can be used for
making napkins, soft towels for infants,
and the Oldest and most worn pieces do
nicely for wash rags.
Animals when confined and sup
piled with fattening food always in
crease largely in weight during the first
few weeks, after which the rate of in
crease diminishes to considerable ex-
tent.
Tossed Potatoes. Boil some pota-
toes in their skins; peel them and cut
into small pieces. Toss them over the
fire ina mixture of cream, butter rolled
in -four, pepper and salt, till they are
hot and well covered with the sauce.
Egg Sauce.-Take yelks of two
eggs boiled hard; mash them with a
tablespoonful Of mustard, a little pepper
and salt, three tablespoonfuls of vine
gar and three of salad oil. A table
spoonful of catsup improves this for
some. .
1t is an old adage to give the ami
mails all they will eat. 1t would be bet
ter to say give them all they can digest.
There are great many animals which
eat more than they can digest AS a
general thing horses which stand in the
stall idle eat much more than those
which work all the time.
Tomato Catsup.-One-half peck
ripe tomatoes, six large onions, four red
peppers; add two cups sugar, four cups
vinegar, tablespoonful each of salt and
ground mustard, two tablespoonful
cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg and
cloves; boil three hours; strain and bot
tie for use; leave out sugar if you pre-
fer; this will keep for years.
Peach Shortcake.--Make dough
as for soda biscuits, only shorter; roll
to one-fourth of an inch thick, and place
on baking tin; spread this with butter,
and place another layer of dough on
top. Bake in quick oven. While hot,
separate the two layers, and spread
mashed fresh peaches with plenty of SUI
gar between, also over the top, and
serve with cream.
Manure should be forked over oc-
casionally to make it fine. If it is heat
ing, muck or loan should be mixed with
it to absorb the ammonia which is
formed during the process of decompo-
sition. Sprinkling the heap with ground
plaster is also advisable. The plaster
will absorb any ammonia which escapes
from the pile and save it for the use OF
growing plants. Ammonia is too valu-
able an element of plant food to allow ii
to be wasted.
To make Bavarian cream with
peaches, allow eighteen fine peaches to
half pound of sugar, cut them in small
pieces and boil. When reduced to a
marmalade, squeeze them through q
sieve or colander. Add half a package
of dissolved gelatine and a glassful Of
good cream. Stir it we'll to make il
smooth. When it is about to set add 6
pint of whipped cream, and mold it. II
makes q still prettier dish to serve
halves or quarters of fresh peaches, hall
frozen, around the cream.
Chow Chow.-Two quarts of toma,
toes, two white onions, half-dozen green
peppers, one dozen cucumbers, two
heads of cabbage, all chopped fine; lei
this stand over night; sprinkle teacur
of salt in it. In the morning drain of
the brine and season with one table,
spoonful of celery seed, one ounce Of
tumeric, Tablespoonful of cayenne
pepper, one cup of brown sugar, one
ounce Of allspice, one ounce of BLACK
pepper, one-quarter ounce of cloves
vinegar enough to cover, and boil two
hours.
"A Nice Little Side Dish.-TakC
boiled Irish potatoes and mash then
smooth, and take of minced cold mea
(any kind of roast meat) about half al
much as you have potatoes, and a finely
chopped onion Gf onions are not liked
it is good withou), season well will
pepper, salt and butter, and break int
it two eggs, mash and mix well togeth
er, put it on pie-plate, and mark i
in high, round cone, set it in brisl
oven, and let it brown evenly. Serv,
hot.
Seed wheat is prepared for sowing
as a preventive of rust and smut, in sew
eral ways, such as by STEPPING in ;
strong brine of salt and water and thel
drying in air-slacked lime; by steepins
in solution of four ounces of sulphatt
of copper in one gallon of water, or in
solution of four ounces of glauber salt
(sulphate of soda) in a gallon of water
and then while wet mixing with air
Stacked quick lime. The stepping
continued for twelve hours, and is dom
Immediately before sowing. The effec
of these preparations is to destroy an,
germs of the smut fungus or seed spore
of which the smut consists by their cars
tic action. AS the process is certainl,
effective to some extent, it should b
generally practiced, for if this wer
done the diffusion of the spores of smu
far and wide from the smut in the crop
would be materially reduced more an,
more every year.
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