The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24
HOUSE AND FARM.

KEEPING EGGs.-By setting fresl
eggs on the small end and packing fine
salt tightly around them, and keeping
in a cool, dry place, they will keep fol
year or more.
BUTTER One-half pint mo
lasses, one-half pint water, one pound
loaf sugar, one-quarter pound butter
Let boil without stirring until, by
dropping little in water, you find it is
done.
PoTATo PUFF.-Mash the potatoes
soft with milk and butter, season and
beat very light with two raw eggs.
Smooth, and bake to a light brown in a
CREASED pudding-dish, in which, also,
serve it.
CoLTs.-Thc best feed for colts is
wheat shorts. Its special value consists
first in keeping the stomach and bowels
in fine condition; second, IN keeping
the blood cool and third, in the bone
making material.
GREEN PEAs.-Boil twenty minutes
in hot sailed water, with lump Of
white sugar, unless the peas are newly
gathered from the home garden. When
tender drain well, pepper, and add q
generous lump Of butter. Serve hot.
SPIyAcH.-Boil in hot, salted water,
twenty minutes drain, and press hard
chop fine, and return to the saucepan
with large spoonful Of butter, pepper,
salt, little sugar, and pinch Of mace.
Stir, and beat until very hot +; then pour
into deep dish.
NEW KETTLES. To remove the
iron taste from new kettles, boil a
handful Of hay in them, and repeat the
process if necessary. Haywater is a
great sweetener Of tin, wooden and iron
ware. In Irish dairies everything used
for milk is scalded with haywater.
PABsSIP OYsrEBs.-Boil parsnips I'M
til tender, and mash we'll To a pint of
mashed parsnips add tablespoonful of
butter, three well-beatcn eggs, salt and
pepper to taste, and enough -four to
hold the mixture together. Make into
small, fat balls. and fry in butter until
brown.
REMEDY For SHEEP TIcKs.-We give
a remedy for sheep ticks. 1t is Scotch
snuff. \ cents worth will be enough
for one sheep. Lay your sheep down
and part The wool where the ticks most
congregate. Then dust little Of the
snuff on. 1t kills them rs dead rs Paris
green kills potato beetles.
DEvuLED HAM.--Take six table
spoonfuls of sherry, two of best vinegar,
one desertspoonful Of current jelly, a
large lump of butter, and cayenne to
suit the taste. Slice the ham very
thin, and put it in the chatting dish :.
having mixed the dressing together,
pour it on the ham, and let them
cook together for few moments, stir
ring it well, when it will be ready to
serve. A nice dish for luncheon.
Scorer PoTATo ScoNEs.-Rub one
pound of cold boiled potatoes through
a sieve, put them on the baking board,
and scatter over them seven ounces of
flour work first with the rolling-pin
into paste, then little with the hand
until smooth; strew -four heavily on
the board and over the paste, which
roll about the thickness of half a crown,
and cut into shapes. Lay the scenes
on hot stove; when a little brown on
one side, turn and finish ON the other.
Serve hot in napkin.
LEMON CHEESE CAKES. Stake two
ounces of butter, two eggs, three table
spOonfuls of moist sugar, the grated rinds |
and juice of two lemons, and two stale |
Savoy biscuits Cor hard crackers of any
kind, also finely grated. Mix all to-
gether, and then simmer over the fire
for few minutes in saucepan. Have |
ready some patty pans lined with puff
paste. Put very small quantity of
the mixture into each, and bake for
fifteen or twenty minutes in rather a /
quick oven. This quantity will make |
one dozen and half cheese cakes.
PEANUT Sour WITH OYSTERS. Pre-
pare three pounds of nuts as directed in
the EXAMINER of April 30th; mix with I
themtwo tablespoonfuls -four, smooth
" blended with half pint of cold water:
place this mixture in saucepan over
the fire, gradually stir into it pint of T
boiling water, or milk and water, add
small red pepper and palatable season.
ing of salt, and boil for fifteen minutes,
taking care that the soup does not burn;
then put in one pint oysters from which
Ill bits of shell have been carefully re-
moved let the soup boil once, and serve
t Immediately.
STEERS The eye of a steer, when
prominent, bright and clear, with mild
md gentle expression. is an indication
if health, with a quiet disposition and
,ood feeding quality. Ifthe ere is dull
nd sunken the capillary circulation viii