Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-09-12
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

FARM AND FIREsIDE.
SPICE PUDDING.-Take one small
square loaf of bread, put off the crust, cut
In pieces and pour upon it one pint of
boiling water, and add teaspoonful of
salt. Take one pint of flour, add one
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder,
two coffee cups of raisins, seeded and
chopped mix all we'll with flour, first
powder and next raisins, then add soaked
bread and one teaspoonful each of all
spice, cinnamon, mace and cloves; then
add by degrees one coffee cup of sweet
milk, and beat the mass well together.
Scald pudding bag and put in the pudding.
which should be pretty stiff. and boil
three hours. The whole secret lies in
plunging pudding in boiling water imme-
diately after they are mixed, never letting
them cease boiling. Be sure and turn
them over, aud always leave room in the
bag for swelling.
PINEAPPLE PUDDING.-Line a deep
and buttered pudding-dish with slices of
sponge cake; slice some pineapple in very
thin slices and put it into the dish cover
layer of pineapple with layer of cake,
and so on until the dish is full; scatter
sugar plentifully over the pineapple; the
top layer of cake should be moistened with
water and have sugar scattered over
it. If you ale the happy possessor of
pudding dish with an earthen cover, put
this over the pudding, otherwise cover it
with dinner plate and bake slowly for
an hour and three quarters. The cover or
plate should be buttered.
THERE is no use IN applying Paris green
to potato vines early so as to poison the
beetles before they lay their eggs. Few
will eat at this stage, and the work of egg
laying will 60 On without interruption.
Neither is it advisable to let them alone.
II the mature beetles are not hand picked
the larvae will do much damage to vines
before the poison takes effect. Tue larvae
always appear in swarms when the hot
weather comes.
BEES love high temperatures, but in
midsummer thu co T bined heat o. the sun
and their own warmth is too much for
them, as is shown by their gathering on
the outside of the hives. But it is only at
midday that this heat is too great. Morn
ings and most nights it is just right.
Hence dense shade all tie day long does
more harm than good. A projecting board
to protect from tho midday sun, leaving
the hive exposed mornings and afternoon,
is the best kind of shade.
A GOOD set of carpenter tools should be
owned by every farmer, with as much of
a blacksmith's kit as he can find USE for. A
farmer with some taste for mechanics can
do much building and repairing at home
when other work is not pressing. Often
the time lost in sending an implement to
the shop for repairs is more than it would
take to repair it. if the farmer had re-
quisite bits. bolts and screws within reach.
ing herself she is rarely cured. The habit
may be prevented by putting a girdle
about the COW an a halter o. her head,
and fitting wooden rod from a ring in
the girdle to another iu the halter, max
ing it pass between TIE forelegs. She en-
not then get her head around to her side
But generally it is best to fatten such
troublesome COW for the butcher.
RICE PUDDING.-Take one teacupful
of raw rice, one on ion, one cup broth, one
cup milk, one egg, one cup. chopped cold
meat, pepper and salt. Boil the rice with
the onion in the broth, adding water;
when it is soft, remove the onion; add
raw custard made of the milk. egg, etc.
Mix well with the meat put into creased
| mold, set in pan of boiling water, and
bake, covered, till.frm. About forty i've
minutes should be enough.
CHICKEN PATTIEs.-Chop very fine the
dry. poorest bits left from baked chickens;
season carefully with pepper, salt and
little chopped celery. Make light puff
paste, roll quarter of an inch thick. cut
with neatly shaped paste cutter; lay
narrow strip of paste all around then put
some of the mince on the paste; cut an
Boil fifteen minutes.
CHOCOLATE PUDDING.-One quart of
milk, three ounces grated vanilla choco-.
late, three tablespoons of cornstarch, two
eggs, half cup pulverlzed sugar; boil the
milk; stir in the chocolate, starch, sugar
and beaten yolks of the eggs, and bake;
when the pudding is cold, beat the whites
of two eggs to froth, stir in half cup
pulverized sugar, place this frosting on
the pudding and serve.
CHOCOLATE PUDDING.-Half cake of
chocolate, vanilla to flavor, scant half
pint of soda cracker crumbs, butter size OF
an egg, one-half-pint boiled milk, white of
six eggs. half-cup of sugar; salt to tai!e;
boil in mold for one hour; serve hot.
WHERE red clover fails farmers should
try incerne or alfalfa. 1t does well in hot.
dry climate. 1t has more food than rcd
clover.
DESTROY the old nests when the hens
come off with the chicks. Burn the straw
and the vermin, if there are any, and
cleanse the box.
CHARCOAL is remedy for meldew.
CRUDE petroleum preserves wood.