The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-04
HOUSE AND FARM.

Hickory-nut Cake-One cup of white
sugar, one beaten egg, halt cup of
sifted flour and q cup of minced nuts.
Drop on buttered tins.
Mountain Dew Pudding-One cupful
OF rolled crackers, one pint and half of
milk, three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of
white sugar, half teaspoonfuls OF salt;
favor with nutmeg; serve with sauce.
Good Milk-A quart of good milk
should weigh about Is pounds, or
nearly pounds 2H ounces. If milk is
weighed, this rule will give the monthly
yield in quarts more exactly than
measuring.
Baked Squash Boil, mash, and let it
get cold; then beat up light with table
spoonful of melted butter, two raw eggs,
three Jablespoonfuls of milk, with pepper
and salt to liking, put in buttered
bake dish, sift dry crumbs over the top,
and bake in a quick oven.
Onions.-If onions which are to be
boiled are put in salted water after they
are peeled, and are allowed to remain in
it for an hour before they are cooked,
they will lose SO much of their distinctive
favor that they will rarely remind one
hours after of what he had for dinner.
Onions that are to be eaten raw may be
treated in the same wav.
Shorn Sheep-After sheep are shorn,
great care should be taken to protect
them from cold and storms. If an open
shed is provided in the field they will
flock under it during the worst of the
bad weather. A week after shearing old
sheep is the proper time to dip the lambs
in tobacco water to destroy ticks.
Small Beer Take one quart of West
India molasses, one ounce essence of
spruce, ,one ounce essence of wintergreen,
half ounce essence of sassafras; mix well
with hot water in a pan; let it stand nm
til it becomes blood-warm, then add one
pint of yeast; let it remain ten or twelve
hours; bottle it, and in three hours it is
| flt for use.
Cream Tomato Soup. Use one small
| knuckle of veal and one pound of shin
bone of veal; boil slowly one hour with
| some slices of onion, two or three pota-
toes and half can of tomatoes. When
cooked strain through colander. Mix
together one teaspoonful of cracker pow
| der and one cup of cream. add to it q
cupful of soup; mix thoroughly and pour
all together; season to taste, boil few
minutes, and serve.
To Fatten Hogs.-Pasture ought to be
had for hogs. They will be all the
healthier for having the run of a good
clover pasture, but they will lay on flesh
faster when kept in close confinement
and fed all the grain they will eat. The
best breeders believe the best plan is tc
give the stockers or young swine the rur
of pasture up to within about two
months of the time when they are to bt
marketed, and then confne them t.
close, comfortable quarters. They vii
gain but little when exposed to sever
cold.
Cherry Pudding. six tablespoons
full of sifted -four with enough milk t.
make a smooth paste. Melt one tea
spoonful of butter and stir in one tea
spoonful of salt; beat four eggs, th
whites and yolks separately; add th
yolks to the paste when well beaten; sti
in one pint of milk and the whites of tn
eggs. Have ready one quart of stone
cherries; -four them before spripklin
them in the batter. Tie in puddin
cloth or put into tin form. Boil tw
hours. Serve with foaming sauce @
soon az done.