The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-09-17
HONE AND FARX.

HONE AND RAR4.
Black teeth IN pigs do not cause
disease. but are symptoms Of disease.
This distinction is very important.
Common earthen plant Jars arc very
pretty when bronzed with bronze pow.
der mixed with varnish. They are not
scrviccabie for outdoor plants, but to
set on brackets In tho house.
Popcorn Pudding Three pints Of
milk, two eggs, three pin,s OF popped
corn (each kernel must be white, and
not In the least scorcked), half tea.
spoonful Of salt. Bake hall an hour.
Served with sweetcned cream.
do not water your plants q little at
. time too frequently. A.horough wet
ting less oftenis better. Continual wet.
ness makes tho soil sour and kills the
plants. A little wood-ashes put on
earth will remedy the trouble sometimes
when it has already been brought about.
Baked Hominy Grits.-One quart
milk. one cupful hominy, two eggs and
q little salt; salt the milk and boil, then
stir in hominy and boil for twenty min.
utes; set aside and fully cool, beat eggs
to stiff froth, and then bake them well
and hard into the hominy. Bake halt
an hour.
Fallen apples should be gathered
up and fed to pigs, horses, or cows, for
which they are good in moderation. All
these apples contain larvae Of the codling
moth, which soon after they fall to the
ground with the apple leave it and ma
ture in short time into . moth, and
these lay eggs upon the remaining ap.
pies, which become infested with the
worm. The destruction of the early fall
len apples will save the remainder left
upon the tree.
--One way to serve pork and beans
which is relished by some of those per-
sons who have a constitutional aversion
to pork is this: after preparing the beans
in the usual way for baking (this is
soaking over night and parboiling in
two waters next day., cut the small
piece of pork you allow to season the
beans in thin slices, and lay them over
the beans; they will be sufficiently fla
vored, but will not be greasy, the pork
will bake to crisp, and will not taste
as well as it does when it is baked in a
square piece down deep in the bean
dish
Canada thistles may be destroyed
without difficulty by blowing them un-
der and drawing them into the furrow
by means of chain topped from the
end of the doubletree to he plow beam
behind the standard. The loop is left
so that it drags in the furrow, just be-
fore the turning furrow slide, and pulls
the weeds under it so that they are
buried. They will grow no more after
that, and If the work is we'll and clearly
done there is an end of them. Ii these
foul weeds were generally destroyed
they would not spread; but when in
some localities the roadsides are permit.
ted to become covered with them in full
growth and ripening seed, the whole
country will be more and more stocked
with them.
Fruit G!ace. Boil together for hall
an hour one cupful of granulated sugar,
one of water, and the juice of lemon.
Dip the point of q skewer in the syrup
after it has been boiling the given time,
and then in water. II the thread formed
breaks off brittle the syrup is done.
Have oranges pared, divided into eighths
and wiped free of moisture. Pour part
Of the hot syrup into small cup, which
keep in boiling water. Take the pieces
of orange on the point of q large needle
or skewer and dip them in the syrup.
Place them on dish that has been
Slightly buttered. Grapes, cherries,
walnuts, etc., can be prepared in the
same way. Care must be taken not tc
stir the syrup, as that spoils it.
The editor of the Journal of Com.
n,erce says the following recipe for to-
mato catsup has been in use in his fam
lily for fifty years. It is certainly old
enough to be good: Take a bushel Of
tomatoes, cut them in small pieces, boi
until soft, then rub them through wire
sieve, add two quarts Of the best cider
vinegar, one pint Of salt, one-quarte1
pound Of whole cloves, one-quartel
pound Of allspice, one tablespoonful Of
black pepper, one good-sized pod Of re-.
pepper (whole), and five heads Of gar.
lie. Mix together and boil until re-
duced to one-haf the quantity. When
cold strain through colander, and bot
tie, sealing the corks. It will keep two
or three years a. fresh as when first
made.