Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-09
HOME AND FARM.

Rice Pies: Four egg, well beaten.
stirred into quart of milk, two cups
| boiled rice, sweeten to taste and flavor.
| When boiling rice add a little salt
Bake with under crust same as custard
pies.
Spanish Soup: Boi, half peck OF
| spinach with two tablespoonfhis OF but
ter, a little salt and pepper; strain, add
cup of cream, and drop IN one raw
egg for each person. Serve with dry
toast.
If any one in the world has right
to have choice berries, vegetables or
| fruit upon his table, it is the farmer.
| Carelessness is generally the reason
| why many do not possess these req
uisites. They are cheaper, far better
| and much more wholesome than the
strong bacon and coarse diet too often
found upon the tables of the tillers of
the soil
Beet Salad: Place boiled beets in
steamer over kettle of water until
warm, then slice and cover with fol-
lowing dressing: Two quart bowl of
sliced beets, three tablespoons melted
butter, salt. pepper and mustard to
season, rather sharply, and seven
tablespoons of vinegar. Cover bowl
while warm and place in cellar or re-
frigerator to cool quickly as possible.
A very nice salad.
1t will cost but little to keep the
surface of the ground around young
trees well sprinkled with fine lime.
Many insects will avoid the lime, and
on some soils the lime will prove ben
efcial. An excellent mixture for such
purposes is two parts wood ashes, one
part lime and one part coarse salt.
Only a snail quantity need be used at
each application.
For putting up fruit a porcelain
lined kettle holds the first place with
most housewives, but good agate or
granite ware, and even brass kettle,
secured very clean and frightened, are
used. A wooden or silver spoon for
stirring is much better than an iron
one. Many people use self-sealing
jars as a matter of economy, because
less sugar is required to keep the fruit
In them.
Your daily work. the dishes
washed or the floor swept, are homely
things, and count for nothing in them
selves; but it is the anger, or the
sweet patience, Or zeal, or high
thoughts that you put into them that
shall last. These make your life. No
efn &c h. no,
to be forced to do work which they
feel is beneath their faculties. yet no
discipline is more helpful Youths
Companion.
Water absorbs odors like milk,
hence it is imprudent to leave it sitting
in an open vessel where there is any
disability of ifs becoming affected
rom deleterious substances. It is
endered fat and insipid. Tea made
with such water can be detected at
once by the connoisseur. This indi-
Gates that drinking water should be
fresh from the well or spring. When
it has to be kept any length of time,
as over night, it should be covered
closely in tin pail. Wood vessels,
whether painted or not, soon render
water unfit for drinking.
1t will be found upon trial that the
soaking of corn to be fed to working
stock, especially old horses or mules,
will be attended with good results.
Indeed it is not unwise to soak corn for
all work stock after hot weather has
set in. At this time corn, especially
fiinty varieties, becomes very hard, and
is, therefore, not easy of mastication.
By soaking the corn in water, even for
the space of six hours, it becomes softer
and easier of digestion. Or a days
supply can be put into the soaking tub
every night, and a handful of salt
thrown into the water with it does
good.