Sharp County record., 1881-09-08
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

A little cold coffee in water is a
good tonic and a refreshing drink in
warm weather.
1t is advantageous to turn sheep
into orchards in summer and allow them
to run there until the apples begin to
ripen.
Summer squash should be steamed
and not boiled, as it will be less watery
if steamed. Hubbard squash is nice
cut in strips and baked; it is almost
certain to be mealy.
Common Tomato Sauce.-Cut up
some ripe or preserved tomatoes IN
halves, place them in stew-pot, with
few strips of lean ham, some sliced
onions, thyme, laurel-leaves and a little
beef liquor, and stew them half an hour
over a slow ire; then add two or three
spoonfuls of beef liquor, and boil. After
wards pass through sieve, add little
butter and serve up.
-Bannocks.-Int one pint of Indian
meal stir one pint of buttermilk, one
half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoon
full of molasses, one of butter, and add
two well beaten eggs andapint OF wheat
flour. Thin with milk to thin batter;
last, stir in two large teaspoonfuls OF
soda dissolved in hot water. Pour into
buttered shallow pans and bake an hour
in quick oven, which bakes top and
bottom brown. Excellent.
"A run at pasture at night will be
beneficial for working team, but other
feed is necessary to keep the flesh hard
and in good working order. A net
that costs but a small sum will keep of
most of the flies, and prevent one OF
the most serious anoyanceS to the work
ing horse at this season of the year.
The dry, hot ground may induce feet
troubles, making the hcofs dry and
brittle. Shoes should be changed fire.
quently or be off entirely.
To Preserve Pears.-Parboil the
pears until q straw can be darted
through them. Set them on dishes to
cool. Meanwhile to each pound of fruit
allow one pound of white sugar. Make
a nice sirup of nearly one pint of water
to pound of sugar, and when clari-
fed put in the pears--in the blossom end
of each should be stuck a clove-and
boil gently until clear. Pear jam is
made precisely like peach jam, only
pears must always be parboiled in the
first instance.
Ginger Beer.-Clarify two gallons
of water and two and half pounds ol
granulated sugar with the white of an
egg, well beaten. Then boil and skim
it, adding two ounces of bruised gin.
ger, quarter ounce of hops and the
thin outer rind of two lemons. After
it has boiled about half an hour, add
the rest of the two lemons, except the
seeds and the white part of the rind.
Pour the liquid while boiling into q
stone jar, in which you have put hall
ounce of cream tartar. After it cools
stir in two tablespoonfuls of yeast to
gallon. Then put it in a keg and
close the bung tight. 1t may be drawn
off and bottled in two weeks, and in
about the same length of time after will
be ready for drink" r.
For a number of years we have
been advising farmers who keep bees to
plant Eastwood trees in every available
place for the purpose of furnishing past
ures for the little honey gathers. Honsy
gathered from the flowers of any of the
numerous species of Eastwood or lin
! dens-as they are known by both Of
these common names-is equal to that
obtained from the white clover, and
there is no good reason why the farmers
should not provide pasturage for his
bees as well as for his cattle. The Eu.
ropean basswoods come into bloom at
an earlier age than our American spe-
cies, and produce florain greater abun-
dance, and for this reason are preferable
for supplying the bees with honey; but
all the species are excellent for this pur'
pose. Y. Sun.