Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-02
HOME AND FARM.

Good Breakfast Dish.-Pi over
and wash two quarts of whescover
with water, and cook for at Ut four |
Householder if all day. Ea with |
milk and sugar.
Novelties in Cooking.-Al lie dish
which is general favorite isade by
steaming oatmeal until it is thoughly
done; when cold, cut it in slicend fry
till brown in butter; crushed pat and
corn meal may be served the sac way.
Rice au Jus.-Thorough boil a
cupful Of rice, have ready puttered
pie-dish, and pint and a h, of good
strong stock. Drain the ri, turn it
into the pie-dish, pour the ock over
1t; add a seasoning of peppe salt and
butter. Place it in the oven fl ten min
utes, and serve very hot.
The United States MiLr advises
when one wants to rid the premises
OF rats to set trap and catclone alive.
Paint him bright red color nd let him
60. Then set the trap in anther place
in the house, mill or barn, all catch a
second rat; paint him and lethim loose.
"A Nice Plain Pudding. quart
OF flour; butter the size of N egg; a
pint OF milk; two tablespqnfuls OF
baking-powder; one cup of cit raisins.
Steam one hour in q two-qlart dish.
Boil pint of milk, add sugal two Ia
blespoonfuls of -four and Aa'oring fol
the sauce.
Oatmeal Cake. -Greasea deep pie
tin and fill it half full of oatmeal tha
has been ground middling fine; add
little salt, and fill up With s III Atate over
and bake slowly three quarters of al
hour, and you will be surprised to fine
what 8 nice cake you will have. /
should be eaten warm with butter.
The american Chemist says that ,
Western farmer discovered many year
ago that wood could be made to las
longer than iron in the ground. Tim
and weather, he says, seem to have nj
effect on 1t. The posts can be prepared
for less than two cents apiece. This i
the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil an,
stir in it pulverized charcoal to the con
sistency of paint. Put coat of thi
over the timber, and, he adds, there i
not man who will live to see it rot.
Stuffed Turnips.-Peel and boil il
boiling water well sailed quart of me
diminished turnips; as soon as they ar
tender drain them, cut slice from tn
top of each, scoop out half the middl
with teaspoon, mash the part take
out, with little salt, pepper, butter an
the yelk of an egg, and fill the turnip
with the mixture; put on each one tn
slice cut from the top, brush them owe
with the beaten white of an egg, set ther
in baking dish and brown them in
hot oven. Serve them hot.
Outside Whitewash-Take one-ha
bushel of good unslaked lime, slake
with boiling water (cover it during til
process to keep in the steam); strai
the liquid through sieve, and add on
peck of salt, dissolved in warm waite
three pounds of ground rice boiled to
thin paste; stir in boiling hot one-ha
pound of powdered Spanish within!
one pound of white glue. Add five ga
Ions of hot water; let the mixture stan
a few days, covered from the dirt, an
apply with calcimining brush.
Cottage Cheese.--Cottage cheese
made either of sour milk curdled /
heating moderately in kettle or
sweet milk curdled by rennet. The cul
must not be heated over 100 deg. Aft
standing half an hour the curd is dippc
out into a thin muslin bag or cloth al
hung up in warm place to drain off Il
whey. In twelve hours it may be tax,
out, broken up, sailed sufficiently, al
nodded into desirable shapes, and eth
used fresh or put away for a week
two to acquire full cheesy flavor. f
immediate use the curd may be mix,
with sweet cream and sweetened if d
sired. BY adding lemon-juice, eggs al
sugar, the curd may be made into lei
on cheese cakes in the manner in viii
custards are baked.
Grease is fatal to all insect life.
sects breathe by means of small por
on their sides. Grease or oil that com
in contact with the insects closes t
pores and stops the breathing. Nero
rial ointment kills as much by the la
in it as by the mercury-that is, so I
as the vermin are concerned, but not
to the animals that lick it off from tn,
bodies, SO that almost any oily or grea
application will be destructive to inse
vermin that infest animals, if it is a
piled where it will do the most good.