Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

When you have spilled any thing
on the stove, or milk has boiled over,
and suffocating smoke arises, sprinkle
the spot with salt and it will disappear
immediately.-Albamy Journal
Some insects may be trapped by
placing a raw potato, or sweet SUBJ
stance, ON the soil around plants. Col
lected on these they can be taken up
and put in hot water Western RuraI.
Animals must be fed on food that
they like in order to produce the best
results. Chemical analysis of food
stuffs do not always correspond with
an animals appetite. Chicago Tri6-
une.
Pie crust can be kept a week, and
the last be as good as the first, if put
into tight-covered dish, and kept in a
cool place. We have frequently done
this, both summer and winter, and it
has always been perfectly successful
Toledo Blade.
Crust for meat pies: One quart of
flour, three tablespoonfuls Of lard, two
and half cups of milk, one teaspoonful
of soda wet with hot water and stirred
into the milk, two teaspoonfuls of
cream of tartar sifted into the dry
flour, one teaspoonful of salt Work
up very quickly and do not get too
stiff. Cincinnati Times.
Ice cream cake: One cup of sugar,
half cup of butter, one cup of flour,
and the whites of three eggs beaten to
a stiff froth, mix very lightly and bake
in two cakes. When cold, or nearly so.
spread between and over them the
cream made of the yolks of two eggs
and coffee cup of powdered sugar
mixed together with a teaspoonful of
vanilla.-Ihe Caterer.
Nothing will purify and keep
stable so free from odors as the free use
of dry earth, and every one keeping
horses or cattle will find it pays to keep
heap of it at hand, to be used daily. A
few shovelsful Of earth scattered over
the floor after cleaning will render the
air Of the apartments pure and whole
some. The value Of the seasons manure
pile may be largely increased by the
free use of such absorbents. The
strength Of the gases and liquids alb
sorbed is retained, and is the very
essence of good manure.-N Y. Iele-
gram.
The object in pruning. says GREEN'S
Fruit Recorder, is to lessen the amount
of fruit, thus securing larger clusters,
larger berries, better quality, and
enabling the vine to mature its fruit
earlier. A grape vine overloaded will
not mature fruit at all. If it bears
little more than it ought, it will ripen
its fruit late, or if it Bears very small
crop, it will mature its crop early and
yield better in quality. In trimming,
if only one bud could be left on every
young shoot it would be sufficient, but
as sometimes the wood dies back for
few inches from the point cut, it is de-
sirable to leave two buds.
Apples and rice make a tasteful
and easily prepared dish for tea. Peel
and with a scoop take out the cores of
as many apples as are required for
your party. Put them in baking
dish with a little lemon peel, and a
syrup of sugar and water. Cover with
baking-sheet or plate, and let the
apples bake very slowly until done;
but they must not be the least broken.
Place the apples on dish, fill up the
center of each with boiled rice, and if
you wish the dish to look pretty at a
small expense, place a dried cherry on
the top, or little preserve of any kind
will do. Put boiled rice also round
the apples, and pour over it the syrup
in which they were cooked.-Clereland
Leader.