The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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thirty-seventh part. PIT ~ '5 .'' <2t
-Molasses Pudding. ounce
suet, three-quarters pound flour, hal
pound stoned raisins, one tablespoonful
sugar, one pint of molasses, half cur
milk. Mix as stiff as possible and boi
four hours.
Cream Potatoes.-Pare and cut tn
potatoes into small squares or rounds
cook twenty minutes in boiling waite
and little salt. Turn this off, add
cupful of milk, and when this bubble
up tablespoonful of butter, with tea
spoonful OF water, wet up with COLI
milk; also a little chopped parsley, sim
mer five minutes and pour out.
| -Oil-cloths washed in hot water or il
s0ap-suds, or with q brush, will lool
dingy when dry, and soon crack anC
peel OFT; but when always washed il
luke-warm water with a piece of sof
old flannel, and wiped perfectly dry
each time, they last much longer, anC
will retain their young looks down tt
old age; and it greatly improves theiI
appearance to use half milk and hall
water milk, if not sour, is Just
as good as new milk. This makes oil
cloth look as if vanished. Neither soap
hot water, nor brush should ever be
used on it. .s- If IT, eli +. ~.
Pork Pie.-Two pounds fresh pork,
one pound lard, two pounds flour. Take
one pound nice lard aud heat it until
melted; then mix flour into it with a
little salt till it forms paste; work il
very smooth, divide it, and form each
piece into a ball, gradually working a
hollow in the center, and raising wall
two or three inches high ali round.
Have ready the pork fat and lean, cut
in small pieces fill each pie; season
highly; tit a cover of paste neatly. over
the top, brushing it with the white of an
egg; and bake a light brown in steady
but not too hot oven. ,,,,,..- l., g. ar,o
Contrary to the old idea, winter
with the farmer is the season which re-
quires the. greatest diligence. Even the
dry stock should not be neglected, since
within two months or so they viii be
needed fer the milk. supply and a, large
flow cannot be expected when the cows
come in if not properly cared for how.
Young stock should receive such atten-
ton as they demand, or the farmers
purse will suffer in the future. In fact,
the active .enterprising farmer cannot
afford to neglect any department.. I. His
is a never ending task. The first duty
in the morning is the care OF. stock, the
last business at night to see them prop.
erlF fed sand bedded down and the
doors of the barns and outbuildings
properly secured. With the affairs of
the farm properly in hand, with the live
stock in proper quarters and in COM
Portable condition, the farmer may then
find time to store his mind with facts
and thoughts to- aid his, future opera
tions.
delicious Mince-meat. two 81 pounds
OF currants, well washed. carefully.
picked and rubbed dry, half of them
slightly ehoppedntwo poundsof RAISING
stoned and finely chopped; three-quar-
tiers OF pound ofcandied peel, chopped;
three-quarters 81 pound of the under
side of the sirloin of beef (reasted,i but
not .over-done), or fillet of veal,
chopped; the grated rinds and strained
juice of two lemons and one orange; one
and a q, half pounds of most sugar, 1
half nutmeg grated, half a teaspoon
full of powdered cinnamon, half a salt
spoonful Of powdered ginger, two grains
of powdered cloves and a pint OF cider;
mix these ingredients well together, put
the mince in stone jars, tie them over
with bladder and keepin cool, dry
place till wanted. twill keep a. year
Or longer, and should be made a few
weeks before it is wanted; neU fruit |
Horses, if well fed. usually feel
bright and lively in winter, and young
horses are, for fhis very reason, more |
EASILY trained than when the weather |
md running at pasture makes them |
tull. Whenever horses are used SO as |
q warm them up at all, blanket them
IS soon as they stand still, if only for
'wo or three minutes, those two or thres I
minutes are sometimes enough to give,
! chill, which may end in pneumonia, or
,ther serious troubles Grooming saves
eed, and also promotes healthi in horses.
md should never be neglected. 1t will
pay even to groom boarding
horses, and it will certainly paw the
owners to stipulate that their horses
should be groomed daily. Blankets,
except mere busters = are worse than
Useless in stables; they make the horse
ender and more likely totake cold when
'reught, in hot. Litter very freely if YOU,
lave the material; straw, leaves, swamp
lay, etc. f5'e.@'-'t dit iip'lf2di-