Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-09-19
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARM AND FIREsIDH.
GINGER CORDIAL is made OF four
pounds Of red or white currants, eight
ounces of ginger-root, two ounces of bitter
almonds, one-half ounce Of sweet almonds,
three lemons sliced, one gallon of whisky.
Mash the currants, cut the ginger-root In
small pieces, crack and split the nuts,
pour the whisky over these ingredients,
and let it stand for ten days; then pour it
off carefully. add four pounds Of loaf
sugar and bottle it.
1T IS still time for layering and moth
ing is more simple. Scrape out an open
ing in the earth an inch deep and three
or four inches long for each shoot. Bend
these down into place and fasten them
there by laying stones on them or with
crotched sticks, afterward covering them
with soil. by layering the grape shoots,
which have length, in and out at foot
apart, number of plants may be raised
from one cane.
RICE MILK.-Pick and wash the rice
carefully; boil it in water until it swells
and softens; when the water is boiled
away, add some milk. 1t may be boiled
entirely in milk, by setting the vessel in
which the rice is in in boiling water;
sweeten with white sugar and season with
nutmeg. 1t also may be thickened with a
little flour or beaten egg.
IN training horses great pains should
be taken to induce habit of fast walk
ing. This is the easiest and most Geo.
nomical pace, and it is strange that it is
not better appreciated. A fast walker
may readily be worth twice as much as
slow one, other things being equal, for
such one gets over vastly more ground
in day, even with heavy load, and
without any special effort.
PALMgTTo BATTER CAKEs.-To one
quart of milk add the yolks Of four eggs,
beaten very lightly; mix boiled rice or
hominy to suit your taste, and add -four
enough to make the proper consistency
Lastly, beat the whites of the eggs very
light, and stir in just before baking. But
termilk can be used instead of sweet milk
but the acidity must be corrected with
little soda.
No OTHER farm stock Is more beneficial
to the land than sheep. Pastures, occu-
pied by sheep. instead of becoming poorer
each year, becomes richer and richer and
| produce more and better feed. The bushes
and briars which so readily spring up in
| almost every pasture, are eaten off and
kept down by the sheep and their places
occupied by grass. The weeds and worth
less plants will be kept down and exter-
| minated.
| IT is good plan when making dresses
| for very small boy to make two pairs Of
| sleeves. Jonah's gourds did not grow
faster than do the arms of healthy in
FAINT, and it is frequently cause of dis
may when dresses that should be worn for
six months answer only for three. It is
| simple matter to rip out the small
sleeves and sew in the large ones il they
are already made.
WHERE kigh manuriEg is desirable,
| sometimes poultry manure will be used
too heavily to do the good aimed for. This
| Is more apt to be the case if it is less than
six months old. Perhaps the best way of
using it is to mix it up with COW or other
| manure, for then it become diluted in a
sense, and yet loses none of Its value.
PAPER-HANaER's PAsTE.-English pa
per-hangers use paste of flour and water
which only differs from ordinary paste in
being very thoroughly boiled, but after it
is made they add glue liz the proportion of
a lump about as big as walnut to each
quart. A tablespoonful of flour to pint
of water is their rule.
CREAM PUDDING.--Stir together one
pint of cream, three ounces of sugar, the
yolks of three eggs and little grated nut
| meg add the well-beaten whites, stirring
| lightly, and pour into a 4buttered pie-plate
on which has been sprinkled crumbs of
stale bread to about the thickness of an
ordinary crust. Sprinkle over the top
| layer of bread crumbs. and bake.
| If before you put rolls in the tin to
| bake them you rub the edges with little
melted butter you will not be troubled by
their sticking together when baked, and
the edges will be smooth.