The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-Toads In hot-bed on greenhouse
destroy, it is said, many harmful in
sects.
Baked Bread Pudding: Soak pieces
of dry bread in milk; when soft mash
them, and add four eggs, butter, sugar
and spice, cinnamon or nutmeg, and
rasins if preferred. Bake one hour and
half. - The Cook.
-Ropy milk is ascribed to several
causes but bad food, which disturbs
the cows health, is the most frequent
cause. The trouble, however produced,
may generally be remedied by a dose Of
sixteen ounces of epson salts and a
daily dose of hyposulphite of soda for
a week Cincinnati Times.
Dolly Warden Cake: One half cup
of butter, ene-half cup of sugar, one
half cup of milk, two cups of flour,
whites of three eggs, one teaspoonful
cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonsul OF
soda; flavor with vanilla. Frosting:
The yelks of three eggs, fifteen tea
spoonfuls of powdered sugar-The
Household.
"A few hours can be proftably
spent in nearly every cherry and plum
orchard after the leaves fall, cutting
out the limbs affected with black knot
chat have escaped observation during
the summer. Every limb should be
carefully inspected and all unnatural
engagements cut off and burned. CHI
cGgo Tribune.
Cranberry Sauce: Wash and pick
a quart of ripe cranberries, put into a
saucepan with teacupful of water.
Stew slowly, stirring often, until they
are as thick as marmalade, just be-
fore removing from the fire sweeten
abundantly with white sugar. If sweet
ened while cooking the color viii be
had. Put them in mould and set aside
to get cold.-EGchaage.
-Johnnycake.-
Two cups Indian, one cup wheat,
One cup sour milk, one cup sweet,
One good egg that you will beat,
One-haf cup of molasses too,
One-half q cup sugar add thereto,
with one spoon OF butter new,
Salt and soda each spoon,
Mix 1t quickly, bake it soon.
The Caterer.
''Hortus,' in the Husbandnsa7,,
says there are already too many in
ferior varieties of seeding potatoes in
the market. Great care should be taken
to thoroughly test all new varieties be-
fore sending them out. In an exhibit
at the New York state fair of four hum
pred varieties, not to exceed twenty
five could have been selected on &C.
count of the superiority.
For the winter protection of many
half tender garden plants, leaves from
the woods prove valuable, and it is well
therefore to secure a good supply in
time. For covering tender Frustrated
grape-vines orraspberry canes, they are
less liable to produce rotting than an
entire covering with earth. A little
brush, or sprinkling of soil, will hold
them in position. They are less suita-
BILE for covering strawberries, as they
exclude air, and evergreen branches
are better.-N b. Farmer.
-Custard and Apple Sauce: One pint
OF the pulp of roasted apples strained,
one-haIf pint of pulverized sugar, the
whites of three eggs. Beat the whites
of the eggs to a stiff froth, then add a
spoonful of apple and a spoonful of
sugar alternately, beating all together
until the mixture stands perfectly stiff
on the spoon. It will swell very much.
Make boiled custard of the three
yolks of eggs, one pint of milk and two
tablespoonful of sugar, and flavor with
vanilla. Place the custard in saucers,
eoverwith the apple sauce and serve
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