The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-27
Jarm, 4onre aud Barden.
RECEIPTS.

Fruit BucEDhedts-Add a quart Of
tender apples pared and sliced, or halves
of pears or peaches (pears are better
stewed) to a pitcher of batter made as
for ordinary buckwhea cakes. Cock
on a griddle and eat with maple syrup or
liquid sauce.
Griddle Wheat griddle cakes
made with fresh buttermilk and soda,
may be substituted; or, still more deli
cate, rice or hominy cakes, in which two
or three eggs are used, with sweet milk
and little -four.
Mock Plum Pudding.- Cut stale mo-
lasses cake into thin slices; butter each
slice lightly, and press layer OF fruit
upon it with knife. The fruit may be
raisins and currants, or dried fruit OF any
kind; huckleberries fresh or canned are
good. Pile the slices neatly in basin
or mold, and pour over them batter
made OF quart of milk, three eggs, three
tablespoopfuls OF corn starch, and a
pinch of salt. Let it stand for half an
hour before putting in the oven; then
bake half an hour and serve hot.
Pansy Mats-Crocheted.
For a pair, get one. fourth ounce OF
black, one-fourth ounce of white, one
half ounce canary yellow, one ounce
shaded purple, single worsted.
Commence with white, make chain Of
six stitches; join it; into that crochet
twelve long crochet stitches with one
chain between each, fasten it and make
the chain stitches to begin the next row.
Do this at every row.
Third row. Two long crochet stitches
into every loop of second row.
Fourth row. Two long crochet, with
one chain between, and alternate with
one long crochet into every loop (not
stitch).
Fifth row. Two long crochet alternate
with two separate stitches of long crochet,
with one chain between each.
Sixth row. Two long crochet with
three chains between each.
Seventh row. Commence with the
black, two long crochet into every loop
of white.
Eighth row. Commence with the yell
low, and crochet two long crochet into
every loop of black.
Ninth row. Commence with purple
and crochet the same as last two rows.
Thread needle with fine black thread
and catch down the fullness, so as to
look like pansies.-EUa III. Niles IN Good
Housekeeping.
Preparing the Asparagus Bed for Winter.
The usual practice is to NOW off the
tops of asparagus after they have been
killed by frost and burn them up. This
il done to get rid of the seed, but by 80
doing the land is left exposed to the
sweeping winds of winter, unless, as some
do who have small beds, the land be at
once covered with stable manure. But
there is another way to get rid of the
seed, which in large fields is sometimes
resorted to, which is to go over the bed
and cut out the seed stalks, carry them
from the field and burn them, or other
wise dispose of them, so they will not
seed the land. The stalks that have
no seed on them are left on the field and
a roller run over them that they may be
in a condition to mulch the land; in the
spring they must be raked off clean be-
fore ploughing. When the tops are all
taken off in the autumn, it is important
that the land should be covered with a
good dressing OF manure as soon as the
land is laid open to the sun and winds,
but when only the seed stalks are taken
it is not so important that the manure
should be put on in the autumn; in fact,
when the land is covered with good
crop OF tops, the manure may not be ap-
piled until the next spring, then it may
be applied, not on the surface, but in
furrow made on each side the row of
roots, thus placing it down where the
plants readily get hold of it; but when
the manure is applied In the autumn this
should not be done, because the roots
will some of them be disturbed at sea-
son when they ought not to be, and the
land will be left in an exposed position.
Whenever manure is applied to an aspar-
agus bed in the autumn, it should be
spread on the surface as a protection to
the land.
When person has only small bed OF
a rod or two in the garden for family use,
the garden will look better if the tops be
all cut down and the land protected by
two or three inches in depth of manure.
but when more than an inch in depth of
manure is applied, it should be raked off
early in the spring or it will keep the
ground cold and the asparagus will not
start as early. We have seen asparagus
beds that had been covered with six
inches in depth Of manure in the autumn,
kept back at least two weeks by the frost
getting into the ground and kept there
quite late by the heavy mulchiug of
manure. II early asparagus is wanted,
the manure should be removed early, and
the bed dug up as soon as the frost is
ut.-Massachusetts Ploughman.
Treatment Of Caulifower.
Many who attempt to raise this delicious
vegetable fail to get it in it's best condi-
ton. We observe that some who raise it
do not tie up the leaves over the heads