St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-12-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Rye Breakfast Cakes. Two cups of
rye meal, one half cup of molasses, one
and one-half cups of sweet milk, one
teaspoonful of soda, and little salt.
Bake at once in gem pans.
Sauce for Boiled Beef.--Grate a
quantity of horse radish, boil it in
sufficient water to give it the consistency
OF sauce, add a pinch of salt aud two or
three tablespoonfuls of tarragou vine
gar; then stir in. off the fire, gill of
cream, beaten up with yelk of an egg.
The haelustrialist states that Mr.. J.
M. Van Nordstrand, of Kansas, who
narrowed and rolled his wheat in
spring, harvested q! bushels per acre,
while his neighbors' crops from similar
SOIL and seed, but without such extra
attention. yielded only at the rate OF
three to sixteen bushels
FOR some reason or other saws the
Rurdt Home, new varieties of potatoes
deterorate more rapidly than they
dld before the appearance of the pota-
to-beetle. and the consequent use of
Paris-greer. If the poison affects the
vitality of the leaf so that it ceases to
perform its functions before the
maturity of the tubers, their quality
would be affected thereby.
The composition of buckwheat has
been examined by M. G. Lechartier.
He states that the proportion of mineral
matter in the straw increases with the
weight. The straw may indeed become
richer in phosphoric acid than the
grain, differing thus completely from
that OF the other cereals. The straw of
q crop of buckwheat may contain more
mineral matter than does the grain.
The sum of the principal fertilizers re-
moved from the soil by an entire crop
is much more considerable than for a
crop OF wheat containing the same
quantity of grain.
More might be said about whole
some cellars additional to the excellent
remarks quoted from DR.. Dempsey. 1t
is question of prime Importance,
greater to farmers and their families
than perhaps any other sanitary one
Old houses around which the soil is
reeking with slops of all kinds, the foul
air from which is sucked into the house
through the walls by the draft of the
warm building, are undoubtedly cause
of many of the mysterious visltations of
Zymotic diseases to solitary and appar-
emily breezy and healthful, and even
cleanly-kept country homes.-M. Y
Tribune.
Cream to use with any kind of
layer cake is made from this recipe:
Take one pound OF blanched almonds.
pounded to a paste, one coffee cup
OF thick, sour cream, two tablespoon
fuls of corn starch scalded in little
sweet milk, beat all together and
spread between the layers of the cake;
flavor with little almond extract
This is very rich and is suitable for the
incest kinds of cake. For more COM
mon use an inviting cream may be
made in this way: Take pint of sweet
milk, thicken it with half a cup of corn
starch, add half a cup of sugar and boil
until the cream or custurd is of the
consistency of starch. When almost
cool add onetablespoonful of lemon or
vanilla and spread between the layers
of the cake.
Pumpkin or Squash Pie.-Cut the
pumpkin or squash into very thin slices
and boil until tender in as little water as
possible, watching carefully that it does
not scorch; set the stew kettle ON top
the stove. drain Off all the water. mash
and rub through the cullender or sieve;
for two pies take three heaping coffee
cupfuls.of the strained pumpkin, add
ing to it while warm piece of butter
the size of walnut, one pint OF rich
hot milk, ten heaping tablespoonfuls
sugar, two slightly heaped teaspoonfuls
of ginger, one and half teaspoonfuls
powdered cinnamon, three-fourths of
grated nutmeg, two teaspoonsiuls OF
vanilla, a pinch Of salt, and foare ggss (the
yelks and whites beaten separately;
bake with an under crust and in a hot
oven or they will not be nice and brown.
When done sift a little powdered sugar
on top. 1t is well to heat the batter
scalding hot before pouring it into the
pie dishes. Do not bake until the whey
or the crust will be softened and the
favor spoiled. ~
|. There is no better way of restoring
soil than by growing and plowing nnder
clover. The difficulty is in inducing
the clover to grow upon soils 30 poor
as to need this method Of improvement.
But when the soil - Tin fair condition,
if this practice Id begun and continued,
it will then keep it Improving without
difficulty. If yoar soil is good enough
to produce clover, there would be no
better way to improve it ti1anby seed
ing it and plowing'in the crop But if
it is already poor, it is probable that
the attempt to grow a crop Of oats and
get good catch Of clover by the use Of
plaster alone might fail This depends
on the condition Of the soil, of which
you will be the best Judge. If the soil
is too poor to do this, it would be bet
ter to sow buckwheat in May and plow
it in in July and sow again, and then
seed with clover, and in August run
over the field with mower, when the
buckwheat is in blossom, and cut it