The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-07
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FARM AND FIRESTDE.

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! One gallon of white paint should
overforty-four square yards of surface.
| Vines are said to extract from the
| soil only about three fourths the GUAM
tity of potash and phosphoric acid which
the cereals take up.
/ Potato Pone.LTAis is favorite
dish in the West India Islands. Wash.
| peel and CRATE two pounds of potatoes;
add four Dances e.,ch of sugar and but
| ter melted, one teaspoonful each of salt
| and pepper; mix well together; place
in a baking dish and put into a quick
oven until. it is done, and becomes
nicely Drowned. a
Bread Sauce.-Pour half pint OF
boiling milk on a teacnpful of fine
bread crumbs, add a small onion, stuck
with three cloves, small blade of mace.
q few peppercorns, and salt to taste:
let the sauce simmer five minutes, add
a small piece Of fresh butter, and at the
time OF serving remove the onion and
mace: This sauce is used for stewed or
boiled fowls. :.
"A correspondent of the Farmer and
f7uM GroaOe' recommends the use of
common salt as a cure for .red rust, y
the deadly scourge of our native black
berries and black raspberries. This
so-called rust is one of the higher
forms OF parasitic fungi. and not gener-
ally observed on the growing plant un-
til it shows its bright orange red fruit
ing heads in the form Of large red scales
on the under side of the leaves in June
and july i 80 g4as l!1 81
Here is a rule for making ). Boston
brown bread" Take four cupfuls of
Indian meal and four cupfuls of rye
meal mot -FOUR; sift throush a coarse
wire sieve; add two teaspoonfuls Of
soda, little salt, one cupful of mo-
lasses, one cupful Of sour milk. and
water sufficient to make soft dough.
Bake four hours in moderately heated
oyen,. or what would be better. two
hours in brick oven.
Chicken and Ham Pie.-Season
some slices Of boiled ham, Law them on
a puf-paste about. half an inch thick;
then season some pieces of chicken and
place them on the ham, with the yelks
of some hard eggs; cover these with
more slices of ham, season as before,
put some gravy in over half cup of
tomato sauce and put puff-crust on
the top and bake it thoroughly. If to
be eaten hot, more gravy may be added
when done.
"A Dust Bath.-Nothing the stock
enjoy more at this season of the wear
than dust bath, and nothing will CON
tribute more to their health and clean 1
illness. As they CULVER and shake it off
mark how bright and smooth it leaves |
Their hair. 1t seems to be the peer of !
water in cleansing their hides. Witness
a horse. how he will roll in dry road |
bed, or flock of cows, how they win |
stamp and throw the dust all over their |
backs. at the same time shaking them I
selves and operating the ever active |
tail in removing it, leaving the skin
purged of all parasite vermin. Give I
them all a chance for frequent dust
baths. The chickens .snccumb to the
seductive influences of the . bath ), the |
most readily. therefore give them all
The ashes fer the purpose they require.
Compete of Cherries. For this red
cherries are to be preferred, because of
their piquant flavor. Kentish or Mo-
rellos are the best. They must not be
prepared as for a pie, because every
cherry should have a portion of the
.talk remaining. The best way, there
ore, is to shorten the stalks with pair
IF scissors. Put the fruit in stewpan
With line sugar in the proportion of
luarter-pound sugar to one pound fruit,
md to the same quantities, add the
uice of one lemon. Put them over a
How fire; shake occasionally; let them
boil for three minutes, then take them
'ut with spoon, put in a basin, and
carefully drain away all the sirup.
which put into the pan again and re-
luce by boiling. To thicker the sirup
little isinglass maybe added, but if it
an be done without it lis much better.
because a jelly of pure strip is beauti.
ully transparent, but isinglass DESTROYS
he transparency. Th strip must be
'oured into plate to set, and when the
ompote is required the cherries are |
'iled in a pyramid and the jelly turned
ver them. 3s5s