The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-08
FARM AND PRESIDE.

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Cooking does not render diseased
or putrefying meat wholesome.
The Chicago Times says mules are
not liable to be afflicted with the disease
known as piDk-eye.
| -Wintering in cellars seems to be
better for bees than wintering out; the
| bees will consume less honey, have less
loss and be healthier at the end.-Food
and Health.
An easy way to make hard water
soft is this: Fill the wash-boiler with
hard water, then put half teacupful of
wood ashes into little cloth bag; let
this lie in the water until that is warm
enough to use.
DO not let your Iaundress or wash
erwoman put clothes into the bluing-
water until they have been well-shaken;
II tossed in while folded, as they come
through the wringer they are almost
certain to be streaked with bluinp, and
although after repeated washings these
streaks will come out, everyone knows
how aggravating it is to use napkins or
handkerchiefs that show traces of care.
less washing.
The usual way of making ginger.
bread is to mix a paste of flour with
butter and add about two ounces of
ground ginger to the pound of flour. A
very good gingerbread is made out of
oatmeal and molasses mixed to stiff
paste and sufficient ginger added to
flavor it. A little butter may be first
worked up with the oatmeal. The
paste is rolled out and baked in q mod
erately hot oven.
Rabbit, Farm House Way.-Cut up
rabbit into quarters, divide the back
into three pieces Slice large onion.
which must be previously parboiled in
order to remove the strong taste, and
place layer of onion and LAYER of
rabbit alternately in large stone Jar,
with a few whole peppercorns and a
blade of mace, half a pint of milk and
water, or good stock, a little salt,
punch OF sweet herbs-some people add
sliced boiled carrots. Tie the lid down
and put the jar into pot of water; let
1T boil very slowly, and then simmer for
an hour, when it will be ready to serve.
Cream Puffs. Melt one-half cup of
butter in one cup of hot water; while
boiling beat in one cup of flour, then
take from the fire and cool. When ouite |
cold stir in three eggs one at a time |
without beating them; drop on tins and |
bake in a moderate oven. Do not let |
them touch one another. For fiflinc
the putfs make custard of one and one.
half cups OF milk. two eggs, four table,
spooniuts OF Hour or corn starch; sugar
10 taste; boil same as custard-best in a
vessel set in boiling water-and when
cold flavor. and fill, by cutting with
sharp knife piece from the top of the
puifs and then replacing it after the
puffs are filed
The wonderful and mysterious prin-
ciple OF life is the same in mankind and
animals. 1t is touched and affected and
destroyed BY the very same influences
n each class. But with our stock il il
question of dollars and cents. 1t ought
% De made question of humanity and
morality: 1.-The righteous man regard
,th the life of his beast" The converse
,elng true, he who disregards it is UNI
lghteous. Let us seriously think of
his obligation which appertains to our
llgher position as holding .sdominion
'ver the beasts of the field" and make
'ur rule humane and kindly. This is
'ur duty and cannot be avoided with
nut criminal responsibility. -Ruras Neu
Yorker.
1t is believed that the general free
om from disease among hogs for the
ast two seasons has been the result Of
ot only greater liberty given hogs, but
lso is due to giving them a more ex.
ended grass diet. The wild hog ia
rass eating animal, diet only varied
y "shack'' which it obtains in the fan
,onths. Domesticated, the hog has
carly all of it's habits modified, and
rom a life OF largest liberty it has be-
ONE a condition OF close quarters. AMI
he converting of SO much corn into its
quiyalent of pork in the shortest time.
iiven the range of clover lot during /,
10 summer, the hog in the fall is in fine
to fatten rapidly. The grass
let has put the animal in condition to :
lpidly take on fat and pork unsur- !,
assed in quality must result.