The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
FARM AND PRESIDE.

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"A little cold coffee in water is 3
good tonic and a refreshing drink in
warm weather.
1t is advantageous TO turn sheen
into orchards in summer and allow them
to run there until the apples begin to
ripen.
| Summer squash should be steamed
and not boiled, as it will be less watery
If steamed. Hubbard squash is nice
cut in strips and baked; it is almost
certain to be mealy.
Common Tomato Sauce. nm
some ripe or preserved tomatoes in
halves, place them in a stew-pot, with
few strips of lean ham, some sliced
onions, thyme, laurel-ieaves and little
beef liquor, and stew them half an hour
over slow fire; then add two or three
spoonfuls of beef liquor, and boil. After.
wards pass through sieve, add little
butter and serve up.
-Bannocks.--Into one pint of Indian
meal stir one pint of butfermilk, one
half teaspoonful of salt. one teaspoon
ful OF molasses, one of butter, and add
two well beaten eggs and pint of wheat
Hour. Thin with milk to thin batter:
last, stir in two large teaspoonfuls of
soda dissolved in hot water. Pour into
buttered shallow pans and bake an hour
in quick oven, which bakes top and
bottom brown. Excellent.
"A run at pasture at night will be
beneficial for working team, but other
feed is necessary to keep the flesh hard
and in good working order. A net
that costs but small sum will keep Of
most of the flies, and prevent one of
the most serious anoyances to the work
ing horse al this season of the wear.
The dry, hot ground may induce feet
troubles, making the hcofs dry and
brittle. Shoes should be changed fire.
quently or be of entirely.
To Preserve Pears.-Parboi; the
pears until q straw can be darted
through them. Set them on dishes to
cool. Meanwhile to each pound of fruit
allow one pound OF white sugar. Make
nice slrup OF nearly one pint of water
to pound OF sugar, and when clari- |
ned put in the pears--in the blossom end |
OF each should be stuck a cleveland |
boil gently. until clear. Pear lam is
made precisely like peach Jam, only
pears must always be parboiled in the
first instance.
Ginger Beer.-Clarify two gallons
of water and two and half pounds OF
graduated sugar with the white of an
Egg. well beaten. Then boil and skim
t, adding two ounces of bruised gin
ger, quarter ounce of hops and the
hin outer rind of two lemons. After
t has boiled about half an hour. add
he rest of the two lemons, except the
leeds and the white part of the rind.
Pour the liquid while boiling into a
tone jar, in which you have put a half
'unce OF cream tartar. After it cools
tir in two tablespoonfuls of yeast to
gallon. Then put it in a keg and
lose the bung tight. 1t may be drawn
n and bottled in two weeks, and i'm
bout the same length of time after will
'e ready for drink"
For number of years we have
cen advising farmers who keep bees to
liant Eastwood trees in every available
lace for the purpose of furnishing past
res for the little honey gathers. Honey
altered from the flowers of any of the ,
umerous species of Eastwood or lin.
ens-as they are known by both OF
nese common names-is equal to that
blamed from the white clover. and
here is no good reason why the farmers
hould not provide pasturage for his
ees as well as for his cattle. The En-.
opean basswoods come into bloom at
n earlier age than our American spe.
les, and produce fiorain greater album
ance, and for this reason are preferable
n supplying the bees with honey; hui =
Il the species are excellent for this pur. :
ose.-N T. Sun.