The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-08
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Oak warps and twists much in seas
oning. and shrinks in width about one
thirty-seventh part.
-Molasses Pudding.-Six ounces
suet, three-quarters pound flour, half
pound stoned raisins, one tablespoonful
sugar, one pint of molasses, half cup
milk. Mix as stiff as possible and boil
four hours.
Cream Potatoes. and cut the
potatoes into small squares or rounds,
cook twenty minutes in boiling water
and little salt. Turn this off, add a
cupful of milk, and when this bubbles
up tablespoonful of butter, With tea,
spoonful of water, wet up with cold
milk; also little chopped parsley, SIM
mer five minutes and pour out.
-Oil-cloths washed in hot water or in
soap-suds, or with q brush. will look
dingy when dry, and soon crack and
peel off; but when always washed in
luke-warm water with a piece of soft
old flannel, and wiped perfectly dry
each time, they last much longer, and
will retain their young looks down to
old age; and it greatly improves their
appearance to use half milk and half
water. Skim-milk, if not sour, is just
as good as new milk. This makes oil
cloth look as if vanished. Neither soap,
hot water, nor brush should ever be
used on it.
Pork Pie.-Two pounds fresh pork,
one pound lard, two pounds flour. Take
one pound nice lard and heat it until
melted; then mix flour into it with a
little salt till it forms a paste; work it
very smooth, divide it, and form each
piece into ball, gradually working a
hollow in the center, and raising wall
two or three inches high all round.
Have ready the pork fat and lean, cut
in small pieces, fill each pie; season
highly; fita cover of paste neatly over
the top, brushing it with the white of an
egg; and bake light brown in steady
but not too hot oven.
Contrary to the old idea, winter
with the farmer is the season which re-
quires the greatest diligence. Even the
dry stock should not be neglected, since
within two months or SO they will be
needed for the milk supply and a large
flow cannot be expected when the cows
come in if not properly cared for now.
Young stock should receive such atten-
ton as they demand, or the farmers
purse will suffer in the future. In fact,
the active enterprising farmer cannot
afford to neglect any department. His
is a never ending task. Tie first duty
in the morning is the care of stock, the
last business at night to see them prop
erly fed and bedded down and the
doors of the barns and outbuildings
properly secured. With the affairs of
the farm properly in hand, with the live
stock in proper quarters and in COM
Portable condition, the farmer may then
find time to store his mind with facts
and thoughts to aid his future opera
tions.
Delicious Mince-meat. Two pounds
of currants, well washed, carefully
picked and rubbed dry, half of them
slightly chopped; two pounds of raisins,
stoned and finely chopped; three-quar-
tiers of a pound ofcandied peel, chopped;
of pound of the under
side of the sirloin of beef Breasted, but |
not Over-dOne), or. fillet of veal,
chopped; the grated rinds and strained |
juice of two lemons and one orange, one |
and half pounds of most sugar,
half a nutmeg grated, half teaspoon
full of powdered cinnamon, half salt
spoonful of powdered ginger, two grains
Of powdered cloves and a pint of cider;
mix these ingredients well together, put |
the mince in stone jars, tie them over
with bladder and keepin cool, dry |
place till wanted. 1t will keep a year
or longer, and should be made a few
weeks before it is wanted; new fruit |
must be used.
Horses, if well fed. usually feel
bright and lively in winter, and young
horses are, for this very reason. more
easily trained than when the weather
and running at pasture makes them
dull. Whenever horses are used so as
to warm them up at all, blanket them
as soon as they stand still, if only for
two or three minutes, those two or three
minutes are sometimes enough to give
. chill, which may end in pneumonia, or
other serious troubles. Grooming saves
feed, and also promotes health in horses,
and should never be neglected. 1t will
probably pay even to groom boarding
horses, and it will certainly pay the
owners to stipulate that their horses
should be groomed daily. Blankets,
except mere dusters," are worse than
useless in stables; they make the horse
tender and more likely to take cold when
brought in hot. Litter very freely if you
nave the material; straw. leaves. swamp
hay, etc.