The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-03
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

1t pavs to sow salt and lime on
ground which IS worHy, especially the
Strawberry bed.
Providence never hides q smiling
CCuuteuanee from those who manure
highly, cultivate often and seed LIBERAL
u.
Nut Cake.-One and one-half cups
surar. oae-Ealf cup butter, three cups
flour, one-haIf cup sweet milk, three
eggs. three teaspoonfuls Of baking
powder. one cup OF hickory nuts, one
teaspoCnfUl vanilla.
Irish Potato Pie or PUdding--One
pound mashed potato. rubbed through
coIIauder; half pound butter-cream
with the sugar; six eggs, whites and
velkS separately; one lemon squeezed
I into the potato while hot; one teaspoon
nutmeE, same Of mace; two cups white
sugar. nix as sweet potato pudding;
bake in open shells OF paste. To be
eaten cold.
/ Green Tomato Pickles.-Slice one
peck Of tomatoes into q jar and sprinkle
/ little salt over each layer; let them
1 stand twenty-four hours, drain off the
/ liquor, put the tomqtoes into a kettle
with a tcaspoonfIfl OF each of the follow
Z lliL SljlCC1- OAOttAAAI EAiSCAs SAAiStSASN--
7 cloves, mace. cinnamon, teaspO0nful
/ Of scraped h6rseradish, twelve small or
I three large red peppers, three onions, q
cup full of brown sugar; cover all with
( vinegar; boil slowly for three hours.
Grape Jelly.-Grapes too coarse or
/ acid for table use make good jelly; have
/ them irm. sound and ripe. Pick from
stem, wash in cold water, drain, put in
. . ~, ~, a,lA ta,. hn:I
/. till skins are loose, remove skins, as
they darken jelly and make slightly
astringenu; save all juice. Boil puIps
once again, pour into flannel bag,
squeeze through; allow pound lump
! sugar to pint Juice; mix, boil steadily,
not too quickly. until il will Jelly when
tried on saucer. Put in small glasses
which are first wet in cold water. Place
over each piece of paper dipped in
brandy; tie closely and keep in cool
place.
Fat Turkeys.-An old turkey raiser
gives an account of an experiment in
tattening turkeys, as follows: -Four tur-
KEYS were fed on meal, boiled pOtat pes
and oats. Four others of the same
brood were also at the same time con-
fined in another pen and fed daily on
the same articles. but with one pint OF
very finely pulverized charcoal mixed
with their fO0d-miXed meal and boiled
potatoes. They had also q plentiful
supply OF charcoal in their pen. The
eight were killed on the same day and
there was Il difference OF one and one
half pounds each i'll favor of the fowls
which had been supplied with charcoal,
they being much the fatter, and the
meat being greatly superior in point OF
tenderness and flavor.
| One mode of getting green food for
, cattle and sheep in early spring is to
! SOW rye in corn stubble early enough to
get good fall growth. What feed is
J thus grown is as nutritious as ordinary
J pasture or roots and costs nothing eX-
J cept for seed and cultivating under.
Really the feed costs nothing, for in
sowing the rye many weeds are destroy
; ed. new surface is turned up and the
weed seeds which sprout perish in the
, winter. This alone is ample pay fo1
} labor and seed. There is further adj
| vantage in having the soil covered dur.
] ing the winter instead of being naked
J as it otherwise would be. Rye sown
! now will give considerable feed fol
l sheep and cattle this fall, and more ye
: in the spring before plowing. Thi!
g spring feed is especially valuable fol
ewes with lambs after the ground has
settled.
I How to Pit Apples.-Fall apples
5 may be preserved in pits made as fol
, lows: Choose an elevated piece o
r ground in the orchard and scoop out /;
r shallow basin, in which heap the apple!
, in quantities of not more than ten o.
, twelve bushels; cover them with straw
I laid lengthwise from top to bottom o
the heap. Leave them thus for two Oh
n three days, during which they will hea
/ and sweat. After they have dried
= cover the straw with light coating o
earth, except in three or four small
. places at the bottom and at the top
: where large wisp of straw should b.
= inserted and bent over to make waite
+ shed. The apples viii keep much long
!, er in this way than in barrels, ani
winter apples may be kept until sprins
in fine order. If the apples are picket
: before they are quite ripe they vii
q keep longer.