Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
HOME AND FARM.

BY using hot. moderately strong
sod a-water to clean them, the bristles
of hair-brushes will remain white and
stiff for long time.
Where hoed crops are intended to
be grown between young trees it
should be the aim to manure freely,
or the growing crop will injure the
trees.
Put the onions in cool place. If
they should freeze do not disturb them,
but allow them to thaw gradually. Do
not lay them too thickly. Onion sets
may be kept in the same manner as
M al ured onions.
If one should have no turnips or
parsnips for the poultry. give them
fodder or clover hay. It will be sur
prising to see how much they will eat
if it be kept before them all the time
in a clean, nice condition.
White Fruit Cake: One pound of
flour. one pound of sugar. one pound
of butter, one pound blanched al
monds. three pounds citron. one graf
ed cocoanut, whites of sixteen eggs,
two teaspoonfuls baking powder. flavor
to taste.
In carving fish care should be
taken TO avoid breaking the flakes. In
serving salmon long slices cut from
the back bone and along the flank are
the best Mackerel and shad should
be carved so as to raise one side of the
meat from the bone; the upper end is
considered the best
Baked Cheese: Take one and
half cups of finely chopped or grated
cheese, add half cup of bread crumbs,
one cupful of milk. one egg beaten
light little red pepper, and salt to
taste. Put it in bultered dish and
bake fifteen minutes i'll q quick oven.
This is good way TO use the last of a
piece of cheese, when it becomes too
dry to be nice alone.
Apple Jonathan: Fill a pudding
dish with apples pared and sliced.
and pour over the dish batter made
of buttermilk brought to foam with
soda and thickened with flour. so it
will just spread witha spoon. When
the apples are tender and dinner is
served. turn upside down on q
platter. Beat the soft apples smooth
ly on the crust; add a lump of but
ter, nutmeg or cinnamon, as one pre-
fers. Serve hot, with plenty of
sweet cream or milk.
Chain dish rags are rs ef1icacious
in securing the molding board and
pantry shelf as they are in cleaning
IL kettle. The best way. when hot
grease has been spilled, is to dash
cold water over it so as to harden it
quickly and prevent it striking into
the boards. If this precaution has
been neglected, and you have faith
fully secured up a large grease spot
one morning. only to behold it grin
ming up at you the next, it will give
way TO soap rubbed in with the chain
dish rag. If your hands are tender,
few folds of old cloth placed be-
tween chain and hands will protect
them.
Under the most favorable circum-
stances twenty per cent of the cost of
feeding sheep can be counted as profit;
sixty per cent. of the food of animals
is used up to keep them from freezing.
Any thing which decreases the growth
of flesh decreases also the growth of
wool and vigor The most profit com es
from securing the greatest increase
in wool and meat for the least expen-
diture of food. The skin of the sheep
is extremely delicate, and it is a great
fallacy to say that the cold wind does
not cause suffering and diminish
profits. The close housing of sheep
under proper conditions would greatly
assist in the economic feeding not only
of fattening sheep, but of store sheep
as we'll. Plenty of good water, easily
accessible. is a necessity.