Morris tribune., 1881-08-25
HOUSE AND FARM,
Recipes of Various Sorts.

SoUR MILK CAKE.--Beat together one
cup of sugar, half cup Of butter and one
egg. Add one cup of sour milk with one
even teaspoonful Of soda stirred into II.
| Then add two cups of sifted Hour; d half
cup of chopped raisins, and spice to taste.
] SWEET PtoKnE.-T Take 5 lbs green to,na.
| toes, and chop fine; add 4 lbs brown suear.
and boil down three hours: add o quart OF
vinegar, a teaspoonful each Of mace. cinna-
mon and cloves, and boil about ffteep
minutes; let cool and put into jars or other
| vessels.
For BURNs.-Raw potatoe sscraped and
! applied to burns are very soothing and
healing Common starch made into {,
paste with cold water and applied is also
good. This is an excellent remedy for
chafng IN infants.
PASTE For SCRAP Books. There is
nothing at the same time SO cheap and 80
good for pasting scraps into book as
| -four paste. Make 1t quite thick and per-
fectly smooth. A tablespoonful OF pulver-
lied alum to quart of paste will make ii
keep long time. Photographers paste
may be bought in quart bottles, and is ex-
cellent for the purpose. A Mark Twain
scrap. book is the ideal convenience, as the
pages require only to be moistened with
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL. the
blackberries till they break, strain, and to
each pint of juice put pound of white
sugar, one half ounce cinnamon, one quar-
ter ounce mace, two teaspoonfuls cloves.
little brandy, though the brandy is not
| an essential.
LEMON BUTTER FOR TARTs.-Lemon
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follows: One pound pulverized white
sugar, whites Of six eggs and yolks of two,
three lemons, including grated rind and
juice. Cook twenty minutes over a slow
| fire, stirring all the while.
CHOCOLATE ROLL PUDDING.-This
pudding consists of cake ,frosting and sauce.
1t is very nice. Beat the whites of three
| eggs to stiff froth, and add the yolks.
Beat into the eggs one cupful Of sugar and
| one of flour, As soon as all are thoroughly
mixed, stir in half cupful Of cold water,
| in which has been dissolved soda about the
size of pea. Pour thin into d buttered
pan, and bake in q moderate oven from
| twelve to fifteen minutes. When baked,
sprinkle the top with two tables poonfuls of
milk. Frosting- Beat the whites O. of six
| eggs to froth, and divide into two parts.
Put teaspoonful of sugar to one half, and
one teaspoonful of sugar and three of
grated chocolate to the other. Take the
cake from the pan and put it on flat dish
or tin sheet. Spread half of each mixture
over the top. Return to the oven for about
| five minutes, to harden the frosting. Take
out and roll up. Put the remainder of the
frosting on the top and sides of the roll.
Put again in the oven to harden the frosting.
Take out and slide on fiat dish. Pour the
sauce around, and serve. The yolks of tb o
eggs may be used for puddings or custards
Sarce-One egg, one teacupful of powder
ed sugar, five tablespoonfuls of boiling
milk, one teaspoonful of vanilla extract.
Beat the white of the egg to stiff froth,
and gradually beat in the sugar. Add the
yolk of the egg, the vanilla, and lastly the
boiling milk From Miss Porloa's Neao
Cook Book.
SwEET-BREADs WITH TOMATO SAUCE.
| Lay two sweet breads in cold water for
an hour, then carefully remove all fat, sin
ews and meat from them: wash and put
them in stewpan with sufficient cold wat
er to cover, teapoonful of salt, pinch of
cayenne pepper, quarter of an onion and a
sprig Of parsley; put the pan on the stove
and let it come to boil, taking off the
scum carefully; then cover and let it sim
ner for half an hour, adding boiling water
| so as to always keep the sweet breads well
covered; take the sweet-breads out and re-
move any of the seasoning or scum that
may adhere to to them, SO as to have them
perfectly white; then lay them in the center
Of dish of tomato sauce, made after the
following receipt: Season a can of tomatos
with an onion, six allspice, saltspoonful
of white pepper, pinch of cayenne, a tea
spoonful of salt, two slices of breakfast
bacon, teaspoonful of chopped parsley;
add pint of water. Let it stew steadily
for two hours; then cream together an
ounce each of flour and butter and stir
it into your boiling tomatoes. Pass the
whole through o coarse sieve with the 20
ato masher.
The Mistake of Having too Much Land.
If we go into the country we find nine
tenths of our farmers owning two or three
times as much land as they can work with
profit A little capital is spread over great
deal Of surface, and the results are small
profits, If any are realized at all. In the
newer states it is worse than in the older
ones, because the pioneer is usually Door.
and has little beyond his labor to help him
make home or obtain living. But, as
land is cheap he makes an attempt to secure
large number of acres, with the hope that
by some stroke of good l1ck he will be en-.
abaed to pay for it in the near future, for
| getting that taxes, unfavorable seasons, in.
sects, and even i'll health may interfere
with his plans. Thousands of farmers have
learned their mistake when it was too late
IN purchasing too much land, and to- day
there is not town or neighborhood in any
| agricultural district in the country where
farmers cannot be found who are, to use a
| common phrase, ''laad poor;" that is, they
| hold more land than they can possibly work
with profit owing to want of sufficient
| capital. sa
To obtain land and have it paid for is
but the commencement of successful farm
ing; there must be some extra capital with
| which to prosecute the business in order to
make it profitable. Every year about har-
vest time we hear of localities where the
crops cannot be gathered in time, owing to
! the scarcity OF farm laborers, the farmers
having pursued the same policy in putting
| IN crops that they did in purchasing their
land; and the result is loss from spread
ing their capital over too great surface.
From years of observation aad some
practical experience in this matter. we are
confident that q large majority of the farm
ers OF the United States have from two to
~NNSS eAi1ASo oo 4uuSA ldlll Ill6y GILL wOTH
with profit, and if they would sell the sur
plus for just what it would fetch, and put
the money in the remainder, they would
gain largely by the transaction. The low
average in the yield of all kinds of farm
crops throughout the entire country plainly
indicates that there is something radically
Wong, or larger returns would be obtained.
AS these meagre returns cannot be attrib-
uted-except ina few instances-to natural
| ly poor soils or unfavorable climate, itmust
be due to forced negligence in the case of
crops, owing to an attempt to cultivate more
land than can be done in proper manner.
| We ask our farmer readers to think of this
matter; to look at their own farms, end con
| slider the propriety of tilling less land and
doing it better. Concentration of capital
and labor on the farm will probably bring
larger profits than further expansion,
Salt and Manure For Asparagus.
Mr.. Charles Il. Jones, Newark, N. j.,
| tells the Fruit Recorder that he cut last
season an enormous yield of asparagus
some Of the shoots were 5 1-2 inches in
circumference, all tender and succulent,