The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-04
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
do not allow the soil about your
young fruit trees to become hard and
erusted. but keep it clean and constant
" mellow.
Ii the cucumber which grows near
est the root be saved for seed for q
number of years the result will be a
smaller and earlier variety. If the fruit
on the extremity be saved it will make
larger and later variety. -FGrnser's
Home Journal.
Dreaded Eggs. -Boil hard and cut
in round. thick slices; pepper and salt
and dip each in beaten raw egg, then
in fine bread crumbs or powdered
cracker crumbs and fry in butter, hiss
ing hot. Drain Oft every drop of grease
and serve hot.
Stove luster, when mixed with tur-
pentine and applied in the usual man.
ner. is blacker and more glossy than
when mixed with any other liquid, and
the turpentine also prevents rust. II
stoves are rubbed with kerosene when
put away in the spring they will not
rust.
TO make warm weather breakfast
cakes, take one cup of molasses. one
cup of brown sugar, nearly one cup Of
butter, or lard and butter mixed, one
cup of sour milk. four cups of flour,
four teaspoonfuls of soda, not heaping
but even full, one teaspoonful each Of
cinnamon, salt and ginger, one egg;
bake in gem tins. These will keep well
for week. 1871
The best food for horses is hay
with corn and oats mixed. Oats alone
is the best food for road horses that are
driven good deal at q rapid gait, but
for work horses at least vne-half the
grain food should be corn. When no
other grain but corn is fed it is apt to
produce q heated and infammatory con-
dition of the system which may induce
various forms Of disease.
-Sphced Cahbage.-Qua:ter a cab.
bage head, put it in q kettle of hot
water with a little salt, boil until very
tender. take out carefully and drain,
then place closely in q jar. Take two
quarts of vinegar, one teaspoonful each
of whole cloves and allspice, a stick OF
cinnamon and one pound of sugar, boil
all together ten minutes; pour over the
cabbage while hot and cover the jar.
In two days it will be fit to use.
To cure heaves give the horse no
dry, dusty food of any kind. Sprinkle
his hay and oats in winter with very
weak lime water or ordinary well
water. Avoid clover hay at all times.
and If you can raise some nice corr
fodder. sown thickly in order to have
the stalks small and tender, and then
cure it we'll, feed this in preference to
hay. Good, clean corn fodder is al
most a specific for heaves if accom-
panied with care in working the ami
mal.-M Y Sun.
Whips. One pint of rich cream,
sugar, lemon. Rub Jumps of sugar on
the lemon to extract the oil, then mix
with the cream, but not too sweet; put
it in a shallow dish and set it on the ice
awhile; when quite cold use the whip
syringe. or if you do not have one a
large fork will do: as fast as the froth
rises lay it on sieve to drain. Then
p ace in the bottom of youlrjelly glasses
any kind of jelly or jam, and fill the
glass with the whip. Serve with deli
cate cake.
Dainty Sandwiches. the lean
part Of some cold boiled ham very fine.
Make dressing by mixing the yelks of
two boiled eggs with four tablespoonful
of mixed mustard and four of salad oil
added gradually; put in dash of red
pepper and thin with little vinegar
melted butter may be used instead of oil
if preferred. Mix enough of this dress
ing with the ground ham to make it
slightly moist. Cut all the crust from
a small loaf of fresh bread and spread
the end very lightly with softened but
ter, then with the preparation of ham,
which should be soft and smooth enough
to spread evenly. Cut the slice with a
sharp knife) as thin as possible, roll it
up and punch the ends to keep it in
place., or, two slices, with layer OF
ham between, may be fitted neatly to-
gether and afterward cut into triangles.