The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-04-16
HONE AND FARM.

HONE AND FAkA.
-cood Breakfast Dish.-Pick over
and wash two quarts Of wheat; cover
with water. and cook for At least four
honrs-better if all day. Eaten with
milk and sugar.
Novelties in Cooking:-A side dish
which is . general fayorite is made BY
steaming oatmeal until it is thoroughly
done; when cold, cut it in slices and Try
tin brown in butter; crushed wheat and
corn meal may be served the same way.
Rice au Jus.-Thoroughly boil q
c,,pful of rice, have ready buttered
nie-dish. and q pint and q half Of good
Strong stock. Drain the rice, turn it
into The pie-dish, pour the stock over
it: add a seasoning otpepPer, salt and
butter. Place it in the oven Tor ten min
utes, and serve very hot.
The United States Miller advises
when one wants to rid their premises
Of rats to set 4 trap and catch one alive.
Paint him q bright red color and let him
90. Then set the trap in another place
in the house, mill or barn, and catch q
second rat: paint him and let him loose.
"A Nice Plain Pudding.-One quart
of flour: butter the size OF an egg; 9
pint of milk; two tablespoonful OF
baking.powder; one cup Of cut rasms.
Steam one hour in two-quart dish.
Boil pint of milk, add sugar, two ia
blespoonfuls Of flour and havor1ng Tor
the sauce.
Oatmeal Cake.-Grease deep pie.
tin and fill it half full Of oatmeal t9at
has been ground middling fine; add =
little salt, and fill up with sweet milk;
stir it carefully, and set it in the oven
and bake slowly three quarters OF an
hour, and you will be surprised to lind
what q nice cake you will have. IL
should be eaten warm with butter.
The A,erican Chemist says that q
Western farmer discovered many years
ago that wood could be made TO last
longer than iron in the ground. Time
and weather, he says, seem to have no
effect on it. The posts can be prepared
for less than two cents apiece. This IS
the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and
stir in it pulverized charcoal to the con
sistency of paint. Put coat OF this
over the timber, and, he adds, there i
not q man who will lye 70 SEA Fof.
Stuffed rurnips, Peel .sad boil j!
, boiling water wen sailed a quart OF me
dium-sized turnips; as soon as they ar
tender drain them, cut slice from tn
TOP Of each, scoop ont half the middle
, with teaspoon, mash the part take'
, out, with : little salt, pepper; butter an
, the yelk of an egg, and fill the turnlp
, with the mixture; put on each one tn
: slice cut from the top, brush them owe
with the beaten white of an egg, set thel
in a baking dish and brown them in
hot oven. Serve them hot.
4 Outside Whitewash-Take one.ha
2 bushel of good unslaked lime, Stake
8 with boiling watet Cover It dugilpg tn
. process to keepsmsthe steAm) Sstrai
o the LIQUID through'a sieve, and; add or
Q peck of salt, dissolved IN WARN waite
= three pounds Of ground rice boiled to
8 thin paste; stir in boiling hot one.ha
q pound of powdered Spanish within
J. one pound Of white glue. Add five Ga
b Ions of hot water; let the mixture star
e q few days, covered from the dirt, ar
is apply with calcimining brush.
II Cottage Cheese. Cottage cheese
% made either of sour milk curdled
N heating moderately in kettle or
l. sweet milk curdled by rennet. The Gu
10 must not be heated over 100 deg. Att
to standing half an hour the curd is dipp
u out into q thin muslin bag or cloth .
3, hung up in warm place to drain of
N whey. In twelve hours it may be tax
e. out, broken up, sailed sufficiently, q
to nodded into desirable shapes, and eth
be used fresh or put away for q week
IL two to acquire q full cheesy flavor. !
he immediate use the ctra may b6m a
BY with sweet cream aud~sweetenedn I
nd sired. BY adding lemon-juice, eggs q
Oh sugar, the curd may be made into le
all on cheese cakes in the manner in vi!
lat custards are baked. .......,..,
he Grease Is. fatal to Ill insect life. ]
~ scots breathe by means Of small .po
or on their sides. Grease or oil that con
ne in contact with the insects closes
by pores and stops the breathing. Mer
rdr rial ointment kills as much by the Il
De- in IL IS by the mercury -that is, 10
lgs as the vermin are concerned, but not
&C. to the animals that lick it off from II
ses bodies, 80 that almost any oily or gre
&C. application will be destructive to ms
Eed vermin that infest animals, If it is
Piled where it will do the most good.
vid Strawberries for Family Use.
- 1tseems strange that while the "a
q lies Of village and city people usp
M have fair supply Of this, the most
N licious, the most healthul and n
a. a. easily grown Of all the small fruits,
a. one farmers family in five has eve
a a taste, Of the cultivated varieties at
Z I'D Il rate, to say nothing of . good suE
falI through the season; and yet each tar
! s,. might have an abundance at one-hat
, , one-f fourth the price the villager ha
Tho tho pay for them. If you ask household
Mo why they don't raise strawberries
ths their families, the most common ex'
+a;,, is that they cause too much troubl.
AZ a. cost more than they Ute worth. !, n
For ing that is worth having cdn be