Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-07-28
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moderately broad wheels are preferable
to narrow tires TO- use Oh heavy
wagons.
"A Plain Seed Cake.-IIalf quar-
tern of dough. a quarter of pound OF
dripping, quarter of a pound OF sugar
one egg. one teaspoonful carbonate OF
sofa, three ounces carraway seeds.
Bake for three hours in slow oven.
Blackberry Mush-Two quarts OF
ripe berries, a quart of boiling water,
two cups of white sugar and a lutte
salt. Boil slowly five minutes, then
thicken with Graham flour and cook 4
few minutes longer. Put into creased
mold to cool. Serve with cream.
French Mustard an onion in
a bowl and cover with good vinegar;
after two days pour off the vinegar,
add to it teaspoontul of cayenne pep.
per, teaspoonful of salt, tab espoOn-
fu of sugar and mustard enough to
thicken; set on the stove until il boils;
when cold it is fit for use.
Every careful farmer, SAYS 4 recent
writer. will see that the compost heap
and other refuse stored as food for the
such distance from the house and well
as not to contaminate the air and waite;
essential TO the preservation OF health
and life.
Corn Starch Cake.-Two cupfus
of sugar, a cupful OF sweet milk, two
cupfuls OF flour, cupful of butter.
cupful of corn starch mixed with flour.
a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a
teaspoonful of soda, the whites of eight
eggs beaten 10 stiff froth; dissolve
soda in milk. and mix cream of tartar
with starch and -four.
Baked Tomatoes. Sprinkle a layer
of bread-crumbs into yellow nappy or
a baking-dish. and spread over it Il lay
er of chopped raw tomatoes. seasoned
with pepper and salt, and bits of butter.
Fill up the dish. having The upper layer
of bread, with bits of butter. Bake for
three quarters of an hour. An excel
lent breakfast relish.
For drawn butter sauce put two
ounces of butter into a stew-paI and
when it bubbles sprinkle in one ounce
of Hour; stir il well with a wire egg
whisk until the flour is thoroughly
cooked, then mix in half pint of water.
Take from the fire and pass through
sieve and stir in another ounce of but
ter and season with salt and pepper.
When properly mixed and melted it is
ready for use. This recipe makes
about one pint of sauce. When it is
desired that the sauce shall be slightly
acid. add little lemOn-juice or a few
drops of vinegar just before serving.
Here are two recipes for cake.
which are nice to have on the table at
the same time: For the nrst, which we
call familiarity Tirza's cake. take two
cups OF sugar, one cup of butter. half a
cup of milk. three and half cups Of
flour, the whites of several eggs, two
.easpoonfuls of baking powder; flavor
with lemon. This will be as light rs a
feather and the quantity here gwen will
make two small loaves. For the Sec
ond, which is a spice cake, take TWO
eggs, half a cup o. butter, one emp OF
sugar. half cup of molasses, half a
cup of milk. two cups of flour. one cup
of raisins Chopped fine), one cup OF
currants. one nutmeg. one teaspoonful
of cloves, two of cinnamon, two OF bak-
ing powder.
-One thing in the treatment of work
horses in hot weather we are disposed
to deprecate, viz: the custom of water
in them three times day and no
more. 1t is simply cruelty on the part
of man towards his beast 10 compel the
:eam 10 pillow or NOW from early morn
ing until noon, or from nocn until night
without allowing it the privilege of
refreshing draught- II is announcement
many times TO water the team during
the forenoon or afternoon, and we are
apt to think the time thus taken lost,
but when the farmers millennium
comes. there will probably be drinking
tronghs in every field. supplied from
some elevated spring or from running