The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-04-06
HOUSE AND FARM.

HOUSE AND FARM.
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Dome stic Recipes.
SWEET CREAM CAKE One cup Of su.
gar, one cup of flour, one-half cup of sweet
cream, two eggs, one teaspoon of cream Of
tartar, one-half teaspoon Of saleratus. Sea-
son to taste.
HAsH.-"Make hash of two parts
boiled potatoes, one part boiled beets and
one part cold corned be.f. Chop fine, mix;
season with pepper and butter, add little
hot water to keep them from burning, and
just before you take from the fire turn over
third cupful of vinegar with q teaspooDful
of made mustard mixed with it. Mix thor
oughly anG serve"
FRIED CABBAGE.-Wash and slice me-
dunn sized. white::cabbage and lay it in cold
sailed water for an hour. Put two heaping
teaspoonfuls of lard into large frying pan
and when the lard is melted, take the cab
bage from the water, put it into the frying
pan with the lard, and palatable season.
ing of salt and pepper; put cover on the
frying. pan and place it on the stove where
the cabbage will cook slowly without burn
ing; stir and turn it occasionally so that all
parts of the cabbage may cook equally.
When the cabbage is quite teuder pour in
two tablespoonfuls Of vinegar and it will be
ready to serve. Young, tender cabbage will
cook tender in from 20 to 80 minutes.
FRosTING.-For frosting beat the white
of two eggs to stiff froth, add gradually
half a pound of best pulverized sugar, beat
we'll for at least half an hour, flavor with
lemon or vanilla for fruit cake, or with rose,
pineapple or almond for white cake. If
the cake is rough or brown when baked,
dust with little -four, cut off all the loose
particles with cloth, rub on the frosting,
pour it around the center of the cake and
smooth off as quickly as possible with
knife. If the frosting is rather stiff, dip
the knife into cold water. It is better to
frost while the cake is still warm. Set in
warm oven for the frosting to harden.
For Woman's Eyes.
The newest yalances for mantel- shelves
have large design worked only in the GEN.
corresponding design is in the corner
dearest the fire. A design of large lilies or
rich red peonies, or sunhowers on peacock.
blue plush, looks most beautiful.
Gloves are wor longer than ever this
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tire gloves are worn with colored dresses.
rhe tan or chamois co,ored undressed kid
or real chamois mousquetaire gloves is as
much in favor as it was last.
To thoroughly rid a house of red and
black ants, cockroaches, bedbugs, spiders
and all crawling pests which infest our
homes, take two pounds Of alum and di-
solve it in three or four quarts of boiling
water. Let it stand on the fire until the
alum disappears, then apply it with brush
while nearly boiling hot to every joint and
crevice in your closets bedsteads and pantry
shelves.
A lovely tidy which will brighten up a
dark chair, is made of two strips of shaded
scarlet satin ribbon. Paint a little green
vine and two or three daisies on the ribbon
between the two strips put an insertion of
hand-knit linen lace; on the edge put lace
knit in the same way, pulling it at the cor
torchon may be used for this, but the knit
lace is little later style.
Pink is the color for rosebud" debu-
tantes, either the fayorite rose tint, sea-
she'll, coral, or shrimp. At a recent debut
the mother wore pale blue satin, while the
daughters dress was of sea-shell pink.
no uOVuC1 ulCoS, uONoScI, Was llOuuCSu
and draped with duchese lace, while the
rosebud's was softsned with tulle plaitings.
Something About Lung Disease.
Il statement was recently made in
European journal, that arsenic smoking
has been successful in the hands Of some,
in restoring consumptive persons to the
fullness of flesh and to the soundness of
health. This article, in consequence of the
reckless and careless manner in which
newspapers ara "scissored" up, daily be-
coming more common, has been extensively
copied, and without warning may do in
jury. It is fact smoking arsenic, or eating
It, will give plumpness to the flesh, and SO
will porter OF cod liver oil; it will paint up
on the cheek the ruddy hue of health. and
80 W IL good brandy; it will remove short
ness Of breath with astonishing promptitude,
so will plug Of tobacco or opium, or a
good treath of ether or laughing gas. We
rave no objection at all to the arsenic treat
ment, except that as soon as the patient
ceases to use it, he dies; and if he continues
its use, he dies anyhow, only more rapidly
than he would with opium, cod liver oil,
porter or brandy. Let it not be forgotten,
that no agent is curative of consump-
ton which does not impart
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lungs to use larger amount of that which
great nature has expressly provided for
their nourishment, the pure air of heaven;
and which, as every educated man must
know, is the only thing in the wide universe
which can put the finishing stroke to that
which is then called blood, the only thing
which can perfectly unload the blood, when
diseased or impure, of that which has rem
uered it so. We conclude therefore, that
the best and safest remedies for coasump-
lion are pure air, sunshine, exercise, COM
Portable clothing and wholesome food
The "spirometer" is rapidly gro wing into
favor with our beet physicians, particularly
as means of diagnosis Of lung diseases.
There is no doubt but its judicious use is
decidedly beneficial, and not ouly to con.
sumptives but to oil persons, and particu-
larly to those who have not an opportunity
Tor frequent exercise in the open air, since
1t brings into action that large portion Of
the lungs which the Dir does not reach it
the act of natural breathing. It in fac
supplies food to the lungs.
The Mormon Percferon Horse.
The great demand for heavy draft b orses
has stimulated the importation of this
breed, and extensive studs are established
for breeding. There are three breeds OF
heavy horses which have been imported 70,
this purpose, viz. The English draf
horse, the Clydesdale from Scotland and
the Norman Percheron. The last two are the
most numerous, and the contest for suprem.
acy between these two breeds has been
warm and still increases. The name Nor
man" has been given by the herd book as
sociation of that name to oil horses import
ed from the various districts of France. II