Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-08
General Hints.

A lady in Vermont sends this recipe
for rhubarb pie: Peel and slice the
rhubarb, press the juice from it, lay it
upon the under crust without cooking,
add one tea-cup sugar, little flour,
then the upper crust. 1t does not soak
the crust, and is not as sour.
A forty-quart can of milk contains
enough bone earth to form seven
ounces of bone, enough nitrogen to
make several pounds of lean meats,
and proportion of potash. If the
milk is sold off the farm all these 20
with it, and if the process is kept up a
long while exhaustion follows.
In squash or melon culture it is not
we'll to let the vines run together in
such numbers that they become mat
ted mass. The stems as they grow
should be guided and arranged so as to
give each plenty of room for itself and
it's branches, removing them where
they grow too closely. Pinching the
ends of the main shoots will cause them
to throw out more branches and induce
greater fruitfulness. Vines having all
their leaves exposed to the light and
air, and we'll furnished with branches,
cannot easily have too great a supply
of manure for their roots.
A correspondent of the Farming
World suggests black pepper as rem
edy for cabbage worms. The way to
apply is to reduce the pepper to the
finest powder possible and put into a
cloth that you can cause it to dust
through by striking it with the finger.
Go early in the morning, while the dew
is on the cabbage, and dust small
quantity on each plant, and the vermin
will 60 without standing on the order
of their going. 1t is simple, cheap and
harmless.
Very few Americans have yet learned
how little land is required for furnish
ing food to a human being year, pro-
viding that little is we'll cultivated, and
the crops we'll chosen. A woman in
the Hudson river valley, who cultivates
only six acres, supplies her family with
all a garden will yield, keeps COW
and horse and sells beside some $500
to $500 worth of fruit and garden truck
each year. 1t is needless to add that
she raises more than one crop in a year,
and allows no waste places.
Walnut waters are best the second
day. Eyes, if the children will let you
keep them,' remarked some one.
Cream one-fourth of cupful of butter
and one cupful of -four. Have ready
half a pound of English walnuts, which
have been shelled and chopped very
fine. Stir them in. This mixture is
not thick enough to roll, but if one
chooses more flour may be put in. 1t
is best not to do so, however, but to
drop the mixture from spoon upon
tin sheets and flatten with a wet stamp.
Bake in moderate oven. This guam
tity makes about two dozen waters.
Iced Rice Pudding.-Parboil one
half a pound of rice in sailed water;
strain and put in double boiler with
one quart of milk, one cupful of sugar
and one saltspoonful of salt. Cook
until very soft; then add the yolks of
six eggs and cook for about two min
utes, as for Bavarian cream. Take
from the fire and run through fine
strainer. Add one-half cupful of sugar,
one pint Of cream, one tablespoonful of
vanilla. Pack in the freezer, using one
measure of rock salt to three of ice.
Divide twelve oranges into sections
and cook for two minutes in a syrup
made of two cupfuls of sugar and one
cupful of water. Let the syrup boil
until the quantity is reduced one-half.
Flavor with one tablespoonful of wine,
if liked, and cool. Turn out the pud-
ding into a large dish and garnish
with fruit and sauce.