St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-07
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If f1annels are washed in boiling hot
suds and rinsed in boiling hot soft water
they will not shrink.
Stale read.-Stale bread should be
cut in slices, dried in the oven, crushed
with rolling-pin, and put away IN a
jar. 1t makes capital crumbing for GRO
quotes, veal outlets, or thickening soup.
1t may not be known to all good
housewives that they can effectually re-
move dust from their oil paintings by
washing them with soft cloth dipped
in lukewarm suds. Wipe dry.
Young trees-both fruit and orna-
mental-currants and gooseberry bush
es set in the fail should have the soil
banked up against the stem or trunk,
and forming a mound which supports
the tree and prevents heaving out.
"A ready method for hot fomenta-
tons is to place fannels in the steamer
Of an ordinary potato steam kettle. They
readily become permeated with the
steam when the kettle is placed on the
fire, and can be readily changed without
any fear of scalded fingers during the
attempt to wiring them sufficiently dry.
as in the ordinary method.
1t may be we'll to remind those who
grow window plants, that by removing
them away from the window, and ar
ranging cover Of newspapers over
them, they may be preserved from harm
in severely cold nights. With the plants,
as with ourselves, it is not so much that
cold comes in, as that the heat goes off,
and often slight protection will pre-
vent the escape of heat.
Homemade Crackers.-Beat two
eggs very light, whites and yelks to-
gether; sift into them a quart OF flour, a
teaspoonful of salt; and a tablespoonful
each OF butter and lard and nearly a
tumblerful of milk; work all thoroughly
together; take fourth of the dough at
a time and roll out half as thick as a
milk cracker, cut in small rounds, and
bake quickly to a light brown.
--Smothered Steak.--Take one dozen
large onions, boil them in very little
water, until they are tender. One
pound of steak, season it with pepper
and salt, put it in a pan with some hot
beef-dripping, and fry it till it is done
4 Take it out, put it on dish, where it
will keep hot Then, when the onions
are soft. drain and mash them in the
pan with the steak gravy. and add pep
per and salt to taste. Put it on the fire,
and, as soon as it is hot, pour it over the
steak, and serve it.
Quail on Toast. -Dry-pick them,
SINCE, cut off the heads, then the legs at
first joint, split down back, draw, put
into salt water for fifteen minutes, drain,
dry with cloth, lard them with little
pieces of bacon, and broil over a good
fire. If one does not care for the bacon
dip each into melted butter two or three
times. Have ready as many slices OF
buttered toast as you have birds, and
serve a bird breast up on each piece.
Thin slices of broiled bacon are very good
served with the quail.
4 The relative merits of hauling ano
spreading manure during the winter
months and deferring the operation
until spring provide question about
which there is much debate among
4 farmers. Those s-g who advocate the
former course reason in this wise
There is more time in winter, the LAND
is dry and hard, the teams are in fint
condition and more ground can be gone
over with green manure than after fer
mentation has taken place. The actor
= Of the frosts and rains will decompost
and pulverize the manure, mixing i
with the earth. The soil will be dry
several days earlier in the spring thar
without the application Of manure ane
an earlier season is the result. Oppo
nents to this practice contend that ma
nure spread in the fall loses its ammonia
Collie in horses is often brought Oh
by feeding hay passed through the corn
] stalk cutter, mixed with meal, mid
dlinys or bran, and then wet up. TIL
horse eats this food, thus prepared, 81
!, rapidly, that it is not properly masti
Gated, and consequently becomes 81
. clied in the stomach as to cause indiges
j, ton, followed by collie; more especial,
if directly after eating he is allowed t.
drink heartily of water; and the colde
this is, so much the more liable to brin!
on collie The best way, when hors
is brought into the stable, is to let hin
stand a short time, particularly ifsweat
inc. then give him three or four quart
Of water, not over cold, then some I'm
cut hay; after this feed of grain O
meal: and half an hour or so after tina
is eaten, all the water he pleases t
/ drink. Some horses will eat cut ha
, with impunity, others cannot, or at leas
+ not till after they have first eaten som
uncut.-NQtiOnal LiUe Stock Journal