Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-10-31
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81 Special notices 20 cents per line Efor every
FARM AND FIREsIDE.
! JULIENNE SOUP.-Cut into small strips
equal quantities of turnips, carrots and
celery; slightly brown over a slow fire in
| little fresh butter. Add some strips of
leek or onion, some lettuce, sorrel leaves
| and small Jump of sugar. Boil all these
vegetables in your stock over slow fire
| for an hour, and just before serving add
tablespoonful of green peas and two of
asparagus heads, both previously boiled
in sailed water. Pour into soup tureen
| over cubes of fried bread-c rusts. Be sure
that no fat remains on the soup.
The advantage in letting hogs run at
large in summer is found chiefly in the
grass, weeds and other bulky food that
they pick up, which distends their stom-
achs and keeps them in healthy condition.
If pigs are kept in the pen during summer
they should have cooling, laxative food
rather than grain. Wheat bran or ship
stuff with milk will make rapid growth
without undue fatening.
CANNED PEARs.-When canning pears
allow one half pound Of sugar to one of
fruit; prepare syrup; add pears and cook
until tender; skim out and boil syrup un-
til rather thick; return the pears; let them
coil up, and can while hot; halve pears for
canning.
IF land is very weedy, careful culture
for one or two seasons will tell on the
weeds by reducing them wonderfully.
Aim at their destI uction when they ale
small and soft; allow none to grow large
and stir the soil frequently to cause new
crops to sprous until all are cleared off.
SCRAMBLED MUTToN.-Three cups Of
cold boiled mutton chopped fine, three
tablespoonful of hot water, one-fourth
Of cup of butter; put on the stove and
when hot break in four eggs and stir con-
stantly until thick. Season with pepper
and salt.
FLOWER beds should ba hoed and raked
as soon as the ground dries after rain
Loose surface prevents The under stratum
drying out. Peg down bedding plants
where practicable. Split twigs make the
best pegs. In dry weather do not Water
flower beds two often, but do it thorough
ly when it is done. See that the water
does not run off, but into and through the
soil.
DYPEPsIA BREAD.-Three quarts of I'LL:
bolted wheat flour, one quart Of molasses,
and one teaspoonful of soda.
Sow PLAsTER.-Where plaster can be
had for from three to five dollar per ton,
the man who neglects to SOW it neglects
one of the best means of enrichlng his
land, for plaster will help the clover and
clover the land. Plaster is also very bene-
fetal to peas. Sow from one to two BUSH
els per acre,
CORN OYsTERs.-Take one quart of
grated young sweet corn, four eggs we'll
beaten, one teaspoooful of salt. a little
pepper and one teacupful of -four. Heat
some butter. in the frying pan, drop the
mixture in by spoonfuls and cook slow.
1T Is A mark of the unprogressive
character of grazing husbandry that the
grasses in common use are the same in
number and variety as they were so years
ago. Timothy. red top and clover are
now grown. In all other crops there are
varieties almost innumerable and many
of much greater value than any formerly
known. A large variety of grasses is a
subject worthy the study and attention of
our farming classes.
JUMBLEs.-Take two cups of white su-
gar, one cup of butter, four eggs we'll
beaten, one teaspoonful Of saleratus, and
flavor with nutmeg. Mix the dough as
soft as it will roll out and cut good. This
cake will keep good for some time.
A WRITER on the subject of the diet Of
the farmer says that mutton and lamb of
his own raising should be so common on
his own table as to make unnec essary the
continued use of sailed meats or of the
weekly, or almost daily, visits of the
buther's cart. Fresh fruit and vegetables,
bread of wheat. rye or Indian corn, sweet
butter and fresh eggs, with nice bit Of
lamb or mutton. make up, most appetz.
ing bill of fare.
ToP-ovERs.-One egg, a piece Of butter
the size of walnut, a little salt, one cup
Of milk, one of -four. Bake 10 small tins.
Eat with sauce.
MILK fever carried off another famous
cow. Bomba, a Jersey COW, belonging to
Mr.. A Darling, near Ramsey's IS, N. j.,
which has been added to the list of milk
fever victims, yielded nearly TWENTY-FIVE
pounds of butter in seven days, and her
owner predicted that she would yield 900
pounds in year. Two offers of $4,000
had been refused for Bomba, ard
daughter of hers, 8 months old, brought
IS, 200 at auction.
BOMBAY TOAsT.-Melt piece of but
ter about an inch square, stir into it two
eggs, cayenne pepper to taste. add a few
drops of anchovy sauce; spre ID the mix
ture on pieces of buttered toast, all cut to
the same shape, and serve hot.