Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-03
HOME AND FARM.

Black teeth in pigs do not cause
disease, but are symptoms of disease.
This distinction is very important.
Common earthen plant jars are very
pretty when bronzed with bronze pow
der mixed with varnish. They are not
serviceable for outdoor plants, but to
set on brackets in the house.
Popcorn Pudding. = Three pints of
milk, two eggs, three pints of popped
corn (each kernel must be white, and
not in the least scorched), half tea
spoonful of salt. Bake half an hour.
Served with sweetened cream.
do not water your plants a little at
time too frequently. Athorough wet
ting less often is better. Continual wet
ness makes the 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 Hofniny Grits.-One quart
milk, one cupful hominy, two eggs and
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 half
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 a short time into a moth, and
these lay eggs uponthe remaining APP
pies, which become infested with the
worm. The destruction of the early fall
len apples will save the remainder left
upon the tree. -s ...t no.
l. One way to serve pork and beans
which is relished by some of those per-
sons who have constitutional aversion
to pork is this: after preparing the beans
in the usual way for baking (ths 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 q
square piece down deep in the bear
dish. cas- 1ro .. ..-
Canada thistles may be destroyed
without difficulty by blowing them un'
der and drawing them into the furroW
by means of chain looped from the
end of the doubletree to he pillow bean
behind the standard. The loop is left
soithat 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 well and cleanly
done there is an end of them. If these
foul weeds were generally destroyed
they would not spread; but when il
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 Glaze. Boil together for hal
an hour one cupful of granulated sugar
one of water, and the juice of lemon
Dip the point of a skewer in the syrup
after it has been boiling the given time
and then in water. If the thread formed
breaks off brittle the syrup is done
Have oranges pared, divided into eighth
and wiped free of moisture. Pour par
of the hot syrup into small cup, which
keep in boiling water, Take the piece
of orange on the point of large needl,
or skewer and dip them in the syrup
Place them on a dish that has beer
slightly buttered. Grapes, cherries
walnuts, etc., can be prepared in TIN
same way. Care must be taken not t.
stir the syrup, as that spoils it.
The editor of the JomRal Of Com
merce says the following recipe for to
mato catsup has been in use in his fam
| lily for fifty years. 1t is certainly OLE
enough to be good: Take a bushel o
tomatoes, cut them in small pieces, boi
until soft, then rub them through wiz
sieve, add two quarts of the best eide
vinegar, one pint of salt, one-quarte
pound of whole cloves, one-quarte
i, pound of allspice, one tablespoonful o
black pepper, one good-sized pod of rel
pepper (whole), and five heads of gar
/ lie, Mix together and boil until re
! duced to one-half the quantity. Whel
\ cold strain through q colander, and bot
tie, sealing the c0rks. 1t will keep tw,
or three wears aS fresh rs when frs