The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-07-30
FARM AND PRESIDE.

in making crust OF any kind, DO
not melt the lard in flour. Melting will
injure the crust.
Ceilings that have been smoked by
kerosene lamp should be washed off
with soda water.
Pack canned fruits in saw-dust.
This material will certainly help to keep
the cans cool in summer and prevent
freezing in winter.
Furniture needs cleaning as much
as any other wood work. 1t may be
washed with warm soap suds, quickly
wiped dry and then rubbed with an
oily rag.
New Carrots with Cream.-Trim
quantity of the smallest new carrots
that can be obtained and boil them in
sailed water; when done drain off the
water. Melt one ounce of butter in a
saucepan, add to it a dessertspoonful
of flour. pepper, salt, grated nutmeg.
pinch of powdered sugar and a little
cream. Put in the carrots, simmer
gently few minutes and serve.
-Fruit-cake Pudding.-Take one
pound of flour, three-quarters of pound
of sugar, half pound of butter and
one nutmeg, one pound of clean Smyrna
raisins. a teaspoOnful of bicarbonate OF
soda, dissolved in a cup of sour milk or
buttermilk, and added the last thing.
Be sure to save out little OF the flour,
wherewith to sprinkle the fruit well be-
fore putting into the batter. Send to
table hot, served with sauce.
Amateur fruit-growers are very
chary of performing the operation known
as thinning out" the promising crops
on their trees and vines. They can't
bear to remove single pear or peach
or bunch of grapes. But judicious thin
ming of the crop is one of the surest
ways of securing bountiful harvest of
the best quality. A little nerve at the
beginning will afford vast deal of sat
isfaction at the end of the season. ;.
Cream Nectar.-Two pounds of
lump or granulated sugar, two ounces
of tartaric acid, juice of one lemon,
half cup of flour mixed smooth in a
little water, and three pints of water.
Boil five minutes. When cold stir in
the whites of three eggs beaten to a
stiff froth and half ounce of winter
green or any other tlavoring one may
fancy. Bottle and keep in cool place.
When wanted put fourth teaspoonful
of soda into glass of ice water and
then add two tablespoonfuls of this
strip.
Fruit Cellars.-A correspondent
gives the Gardener's Monthly an account
of a mode commonly adopted in Canada
for storing winter apples. A special
cellar, not connected with the house
cellar, is sunk deep, lined with straw
and mortar, and rising only three inches
above the surface, where there is a
small window The cover of the cellar
is double. and filed with moss or saw
dust, over which is roof. The bar
relied apples are placed in the cellar
just before severe frosts, through trap
door, which is then closed and packed.
The fruit is taken ort at intervals DUR
ing mild DAYS in winter, for market or
for other uses. In all case fruit-room
should be entirely separate from other
apartments; if in the basement of the
house, sufficient brick partition should
divide it from the rest of the cellar, and
hanging windows and thermometers
regulate the temperature.
Professor Fontaine gives some hints
for abating the mosquito pest which is
sure to come with the advent of sunny
days. First, he says, mosquitoes re-
quire water for the deposit OF their eggs
and the rearing of theirlarve or wiggle-
tails. Therefore, all cisterns should be
made close and covered with close,
woven brass wire netting to prevent
their laying in them. No old tubs. bar
rels or receptacles of water ought to be
permitted, and no stagnant pools left
undrained within mile of any dwelling.
Then they can be killed by the cheap
est and most abundant of alkalies, com
mon lime. Therefore this ought to be
poured into every cesspool and spring.
A pound of strong lime to every one
hundred gallons of staenant water is
sufficient. But even a pound to one
thousand gallons of cistern of drink
ing water win kill them, although il
will probably give the water an unpleas
ant flavor, and make it too hard for mos
domestic uses.