Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
HOME AND FARM.

HOME AND FARM.
stale lard can be made sweet BY
bringing to u boil, with slices Of cold, ]
raw potatoes thrown in. The impuri-
ties will rise to the top and can be
skinned off.
Corn Fritters: Take two cups Of
canned corn, and three eggs we'll
beaten, tablespoonful Of milk,
enough flour to make the batter just
drop from q spoon, then fry in boiling
lard.
Sardine Salad: Bone and skin
some sardines and divide them into
hllets; have ready some lettuce; put
them In the center of the dish, put the
hllets all around, alternately with
French olives washed and stoned.
In case of a burn or scald the best
application is to dampen q soft cloth
with a solution of baking soda, and lay
1t on the place. It quickly soothes the
pain and reduces the Inflammation.
Comb honey keeps best in a warm,
dry room-the temperature should not
60 below eighty degrees, and q little
warmer. would be even better. The
Wilderness of the comb would be better
preserved in dark room. The honey
will gather MOISTURE when the tenn
perature goes below sixty degrees.
knowledge of the amount desira-
BILE for each meal of each separate
food must be acquired by practice and
by studying approved works on dieta-
ries. This knowledge can never be
any thing more than approximate, for
one child will be hearty eater. and
another will only pick at food, but a
good general estimate is soon arrived
at by q little practice. Christian at
Work.
-Prune Pudding: Stone one-quarter of
a pound of prunes and stew them in
just enough water to cover the fruit.
Beat the whites of five eggs to very
stiff froth and beat in one-half cup of
powdered sugar. Add one-quarter tea
spoonful cream tartar and the same
amount of salt. Add the prunes which
have been chopped after being stewed.
Put into an earthen pudding dish and
bake for twenty-five minutes in slow
oven. .m
The COWS to give plenty of milk
must have grass. This is not neces-
sary to get rich milk, but some succu-
lence is always healthy and best. The
worst rut of the American farmer is
the corn rut. So long as an animal
has plenty of corn the average farmer
is content. Not so. Expend the price
of half of the corn in lighter and more
succulent foods, and the gain will be
more in milk, growth, or in fattening.
Overlooking is very common, and it is
always loss.
Tea Biscuit: One quart sweet
milk, one small teacup of butter, one
small teacup of sugar, one gill of good
yeast, flour to make sponge. Mix
over night. When light stir in -four
till the dough is of the proper consist
ency; press the knuckles firmly into
the middle of the dough till they reach
the bottom of the bowl. and when it
reaches uniform oval it is ready to
be worked over into biscuit. Knead
twice. and when light the third time,
bake in quick oven about twenty min
utes.
The stalks OF sweet corn, after be-
ing riaed Of their delicious grain, are
generally left standing in the garden
to dry out and become next to worth.
less. and any thing but an ornament
to the promises. While mature. but
yet succulent, and with the nubbins
left on, they will come acceptable to
milch COWS, and greatly increase the
flow of the tactical food. Utilize these
stalks while in prime condition, and
get them of the land. -Farxp ond Fire.
ride.