Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-04
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teaspoonful each OF ground cloves and
cinnamon with dash of cayenne pep
per. Boil until thick strip. then bot
tie and seal.
Stewed Onions the onions
and boil them in sailed water with 4
little milk. until they are perfectly
tender. then drain and put them into
white sauce to simmer for ten minutes
before serving.
To prepare mustard. let pint of
good vinegar come to 4 boil, stir in a
quarter of a pound OF mustard, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, tablespoonful of
salt and a small spoonful! of white pep
per. Let the mixture boil five minutes.
To Preserve Plums.-Look them
over and pick out all that are imperfect
or. unsound. Make strip of clean.
brown sugar and clarity it. When
perfectly clear and boiling hot. pour it
over the plums. Let them remain in
the srup two days, then drain it of,
make it boiling hot, skim it and pour it
over again; let il remain another day
or two, then put over the fire and SIM
mer gently till the sirup is thick and
rich. Use one pound of sugar to each
pound of fruit.
The American AGricnitHriS utters
timely warning against the use OF
iced-water, or even Of large quantities
of cold water from well, when one is
overheated. Ii is better to drink mod
eratelv of cool water frequently than to
wait until one is excessively thirsty, and
then drink very cold water. The best
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open air is to wrap several thicknesses
OF carpet about the vessel and keep it
constantly moist. If there is free cir
culation OF air about it. the rapid evap-
Grafton will keep the water as cool as it
ought to be for safe drinking.
--Canteloupes. the fruit be-
comes the size of a fist. place under
each one piece of slate, TO be obtained
where a building is slated. or at the
yard OF the slater, or a piece of shingle
will answer This keeps the melon
from contact with the ground and will
prevent the ground from extracting the
flavor from any portion OF it, rs is gen
orally the case with warermelons and
canteloupes which we buy in the mar
kets. as we all know. For private do
nestle use, the little trouble which this
protection gives is repaid hundred
fold in the excellence of the flavor of
the fruit, and we think causes them to
mature earlier. - GernaantoUR Iele-
graph.
-Stewed Cucumbers. the Gu
cumbers fully half an inch thick right
through; put them in saucepan, Just
covering them with hot water, and let
them boil slowly for a quarter of an
hour. or until tender. but not so as to
break them; then drain them; YOU
want now a pint of good cream. and
put your cream with 4 teaspOonful of
butter In a saucepan, and when it is
warm pop in the cucumbers; season
with a little salt and white pepper,
cook i've minutes, shaking the sauce
pan all the time, and serve hot. 1t is
Just as delicate as asparagus, and very
nice dish indeed.
Blind Staggers. stomach of
the horse and the brain are directly
united TO each other in the ties of svm-
pathetic relationship through the great
sympathetic nerve, and. whenever de-
leteriOus food is fed or where the
stomach is overwhelmed with nutri-
tlous diet, it then becomes incapable of
performing its normal function and the
intelligence of disturbance is suddenly
communicated to the brain and the
brain becomes secondarily affected and
staggers are developed. The stomach
when IN normal condition will to n
great extent overcome the evil effects
produced by either indigestible, fer
mented or decayed articles of food on
the nerves or mucous membranes of
the stomach. As soon as any disturb
ance takes place in the stomach
whether produced by corn meal grown
on old or new ground (bOth of which