Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints That VIII be Found Useful to the
Farmer and His FamiIv


Farmer and His Family.
LEMON PiEs.-Take two large lemons.
gratina off the yellow rind, and stripping
off the white skin, which throw away,
squeeze the juice and chop the pulp.
Add to this a small pinch of salt, 1 cupful
of water, l cupful of sugar, 2 cupfuls of
molasses, and eggs well beaten. Bake
in paste made of one cupful of lard, 2
cupfuls of -four, l teasponful of baking
powder, and as little water as you can
mix it up with. This quantity of filing
will make three good sized plates Of pie,
it being so rich that you don't need it
receipt for the paste. It does not need
corn starch or flour to thicken it, as it
does not run" as one lady said.
water stir4 ounces of butter and ounces
of -four. When this mixture is cool, add
eggs beaten well and half teasponful
of seleratus. Put into patty pans and
bake in a very hot oven. When cold,
pull open the cakes and put the custard
between. For the custard take one pint
of boiling milk, one cupful ofsugar, three
beaten eggs, half a cupful of flour or
corn starch. Stir these Ingredients to-
gether and flavor with vanilla or lemon,
or both mixed, and stir them into the
boiling milk.
PoTATo F'RITTERs.-G1ate six cold pota-
toes, add to them one pint of milk, or
half pint of cream and half a pint of
milk, and -four enough to make as stiff
as other fritters. The yelks of three or
four eggs beaten well added first and
afterwards the whites beaten stiff. A
little salt and fried in hot lard.
HONEY COOKIES These cakes are
very delicious if rightly made, but they
require considerable care. The flour
must be spread in a pan and set in a
warm place to dry, before mixing. To
one quart of honey, add half pound of
butter, half pound of white sugar. four
pounds of flour, one teaspoonful of gin
ger and two teaspoOnfuls of saleratus.
Leave out -four enough to roll them out
with.
CURTAINS hair, or any of the
light WOolens used nowadays, of a rich
color, can be made into very handsome
looking and comparatively inexpensive
curtains. To make them hang heavy
and have the appearance of rich cur
tains, line them with cheap Canton fan
mel and then an outer lining of sateen,
if contrasting color. Fasten back with
brass chains.
SMOKE FROM ACCIDENTS you
have spilled anything on the stove, or
milk has boiled over, and suttocating
smoke escapes, filing the room and your
breathing tubes, sprinkle with a guam
tity of salt, and it will cease almost i'm
mediatley.
In an address before the Maryland
Horticultural Society, William Saun-
ders. Superintendent Grounds and Gar
i n n
said: "The blight on apple and pear
trees is in the aggregate a source of much
loss. will not discuss the points as to
whether this malady is caused by low
form of vegetable life, fungi, or by a low
form of insect life, bacteria, but allude to
| it to mention the fact that no part of
tree covered with lime has ever been af-
| fected."
When sows are bred so that they
come in during January, February or
March, their pigs can be pushed rapidly
| by good attention and a proper system
of feeding so that they will make excel
! lent pork at nine and ten months of age.
It is expensive to winter hogs, and much
of the profit is lost where farmers under
take to do this. The most profitable
hog is the one that is farrowed in the
Spring or the latter part of Winter and
slaughtered in the following December.
At this age they may be made to weigh
all the way from two hundred to three
hundred pounds.
Concerning the honey locust for hedg-
es, the Western Rural says: "a good hedge
can be raised to turn stock at a cost of
ten cents per rod, under favorable cir
cumstances, and it can be raised much
cheaper on new ground than old. 1t Is
! I, - CIV %En HCrn
good attention" The honey locust can
be twisted into rope when young, and
will continue to grow in that form, just
off the ground, sending up a network
from the main rope so thick that bird
cannot fly through. AS it is always full
of strong, hard thorns, no animal will
attempt passage through it, and being
hardy and easily grown it should be
more extensively cultivated.
There is no trouble in making a water
tight ditch in COW stables if you have
good clay. Dig the trench as deep as
| the width of the boards you use for the
sides, which should be not less than
fourteen inches. They should also be
! two inches thick, as they will take the
place of floor joists, and they ought to
be of durable timber. If good thick clay
can be had pound six inches in depth Of
| it into the bottom of the ditch, and on
this floor of inch boards can be fitted.
This floor need not be nailed at all, but
should not be omitted, as the ditch can
be more easily cleaned from its use. The
floor back of the ditch should be on a
level with that on which the COWS stand;
and should be wide enough to allow the
passage of a wheelbarrow.- Pittsborg
| StOckmaGn.
! Mr.. w. H. Bull writes to the american
! Garden about his method of managing a
greenhouse. The benches which hold
the soil are five feet wide and six inches
deep, the path being in the centre. The
soil is such as has been used in hot beds,
and is rich in vegetable mold. 1t has