Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-31
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

If horses are caught in . cold.
heavy rain, they should be rubbed dry
and blanketed as soon as they reach
home.
White Cake.-Whites Of four eggs,
one cupful of white sugar. one-half cup.
full of butter, one-half cupful of sweet
milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking-pow-
der, lemon extract and two oupfuls Of
flour.
Meat Cakes.-Chop any kind of
fresh. cold meat very fine. season with
salt and pepper. then make nice bat
ter, lay q spoonful of the batter on q
creased griddle, then spoonful of
chopped meat, then spoonful Of bat
ter; when Drowned on one side turn
carefully, brown on the other and serve
hot.
Rice Waffles.-One large cup Of
boiled rice, two eggs. a teaspoonful OF
cornstarch, one of melted butter, one
quart of milk in which dissolve half q
teaspoonful of soda. and flour enough
to make stiff batter. Mix we'll in the
flour a teaspoonful of cream of tartar.
Butter your irons and have them hot
when you goto bake.
Wait until a severe frost comes
that freezes the ground at least two
inches in depth before covering straw
berry beds. Then use straw or coarse
manure to cover. Straw is better be-
cause it contains no weed seeds. Cover
lightly, but as uniformly as possible.
Sticks of any kind may be used be-
tween the rows to hold the covering.
Nut Cake.-Half a pound of sugar.
five ounces of butter, creamed together,
four eggs beaten in, one at time; a
teacupful of cold water, three-quarters
of pound Of flour. two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder sifted in the flour, and
small pinch of salt; last of all, two
cups of carefully picked shell-barks; the
utmost care must be taken not to leave
in any shells, or broken tooth may be
the consequence; bake in a quick oven
in small pans.
Pumpkin Pie.-Cut the pumpkin
up and pare it, and put in an enameled
saucepan, with little water to stew
until quite tender. Put it through a
sieve and set what is not wanted aside
for future use. 1t will keep a week in
cool weather, but the frost must not be
allowed to reach it. Take q large tea
spoonful and a half for each pie; thin it
with milk little thicker than custard
and add two eggs well beaten, sugar to
taste. and little nutmeg and ground
cinnamon, or any seasoning preferred.
Put it in pie dish lined with paste and
bake.
Peach growers may be congratu-
lated on the art displayed by them in
covering the different varieties with diff
ferent colors Of gauze, ostensibly to
prevent too frequent testing Of samples
of the fruit, but, in fact. to enhance ths
beauty and price of the produce. No
one but the initiated imagines how
marvelously beautiful a basket of red
checked Crawfords or Fosters may be
made by stretching two-cent strip of
gauze or mosquito netting over it. The
observer will notice that different colors
of gauze are used with different varie.
ties. which he supposes to be merely a
matter of chance, but the suiting of the
color to the variety is closely and
shrewdly followed to the pecuniary ad.
vancement of the peach grower. fsaw
man exhibiting some Crawfords at the
fair in baskets covered with pink gauze.
and his peaches attracted q crowd,
while others on exhibition, equally
large and snowy, were passed without
nOtice.-COr. Rural Ne,0 Yorker.