Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Fried onions should be boiled first

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Fried onions should be boiled first
in milk to be mild and odorless.-E1.
change.
There is nothing SO fruitful of dis
ease and death among young chickens
as damp, unclean quarters.-Rural
NeaO Yorker.
Sod is an excellent protection to an
orchard in winter, and should not be
plowed under in the fall unless through
necessity. When plowed in the fall
coating of manure, which has been well
decomposed, should be applied as q
muloh.-Troy Times.
There is one class Of animals
which it will never pay to feed till they
are matured. In the cattle line these
are known as scrubs; in that of horses
those seriously blemished; amongst
sheep they are termed stunted. and
amongst swine Western Rural.
White Lincoln cake: Whites OF
four eggs, one-half cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk,
three cups of -four, three teaspoonfuls
Of baking powder. Beat butter to
cream to ensure lightness; add sugar,
milk, eggs and baking powder, well
sifted in -four. May be baked in
sheets, large cake or patty pans.-Bos-
ton Budget.
An excellent dish for a plain home
dinner is made by stewing some veal
until it is tender, thicken the gravy
with flour, and season with pepper and
salt, and put in enough butter to flavor
it; then make nice crust like biscuit
dough, have it when baked an inch and
a half thick. Put the veal and gravy
into an earthen pudding dish and cover
the dish with the crust. Bake and
serve hot.-C Chicago Journal.
The guinea fowl is great forager,
and destroys many insects that the hens
will not touch. They do not scratch
the garden, and, though not easily kept
near the house, they make known the
places where they lay by a peculiar
noise which enables one accustomed te
them to find all the eggs they lay.
They really cost nothing to raise, and
when roosting near the house create an
alarm should intruders make their ap.
pearance.-M p. Examiner.
Orange pudding: Peel and slice
three or four oranges and lay in a pud-
ding dish, with one-third cup of sugar.
Make q boiled custard of one pint OF
milk, the yolks of three eggs, one
spoonful of corn starch and one-third
cup of sugar; when cold, pour over
the oranges. Beat the whites of the
three eggs 10 a stiff froth, with one
third cup pulverized sugar and pour
over and set in the oven few minutes
to brown. To be eaten cold.-1oledo
Blade.
In the horse, too bulky food does
much harm if given in inordinate guam
titles, even although it is of the best
quality, for the organs can only digest
certain amount consistently with
health. This assertion will hardly be
received in most quarters as correct il
peoples actions are expressions of theiI
principles, for it is the usual custom in
this country to allow hay without lin.
iting the quantity, and the less work
horses are doing the more time they
have for overlooking their digestive
apparatus.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Golden pudding: One cup of gran.
ulated sugar, one egg, one cup of sweet
milk, three tablespOonfuls of melted
butter, two and one-half cups of -four,
two teaspoonfuls Of baking powder.
Pour in q low, square tin and bake
twenty-five mintes. It should be served
warm with sauce poured over il
made as follows: Stir to cream one
tablespoonful of butter and half cup
Of sugar; moisten with little cold
water two teaspoonfuls of flour and
pour pint of scaldirg water over ii
to scald it, and then stir in the butter
aud sugar; beat the white of one egg
10 stiff froth and stir it in the sauce
Just before sending it to the table;
aavor with lemon.-The Household.