River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-12-13
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HOME AND FARM.

Roast turkey with cranberry sauce
or an acid jelly should be served with
potato eroquettes, peas, tomatoes and
scGlloped oysters.
The latest addition to Withla-
cooohee tFla.) fame is "a han which
Matched and raised to the size OF
partridges sixteen chicks from fifteen
eggs.
For membranous Group or an at
tack of asthma take a little tar and
turpentine, place it in cup IN top of
the stove or some live Goals. A dense
smoke will be emitted which will bring
relief to the sufferer.
Orange Pancake: One pint OF
warm milk, add one tablespoonful Of
melted butter, one pint of -four, two
eggs beaten stiff, two tablespoonfuls of
sugar and juice of one orange. Bake
on griddle. Butter and sweeten.-
Good Housekeeping.
The pigs will gain the fastest in a
pasture of fresh grass. 1t is unnatural
and Improbable TO confine pigs in "a
pen or naked yard The yard is not
so bad as the pen, hut the field is the
hogs realm.
"A writer who has given attention
TO the matter of feeding sheep states
that the best ration he ever knew was
composed of equal parts, by weight,
of corn, oats, peas and millet, to every
fifteen bushels of which one bushel of
fiaxseed should be added, and the
whole ground together. 1t fattens
sheep very rapidly.
Ounce Snow: Quarter five fair
looking ounces and boil them till they
are tender in water, then peel them
and push them through coarse sieve.
Sweeten to the taste and add the
whites of three or four eggs. Then
with an egg whisk beat all to a stiff
froth and pile with a spoon upon a
glass dish and set away in the ice-box,
unless it is to be served Immediately.
If the old crooked rail fence is di-
lapidated and nuisance, no time should
be lost in setting the needed posts and
using the rails in straight fence, each
length going half as far again as where
the rails are placed in zig-zag order.
II only few rails are used, barbed
wire at the top makes an effective bar
rier, not liable to blow over or form
deep snow banks behind it.
Soft soap and good sand, together
with I've made from wood ashes, and
vigorous applications with the scrub
bling brush are the best implements
with which to scour the floor and
tables and the woodwork of the room
if it is implanted. All paint requires
a little more careful handling, and can
be wiped down with wooden cloth.
wrung out of water in which a little
soap or I've has been dissolved.
The oven should be as hot as for
roasting meats, several degrees hotter
than for bread. The quick cooking OF
oysters is essential, as otherwise the
oysters will lose their juice and become
tough. Put them on the bottom of the
oven, so the bottom will heat through
first. Leave them there fifteen min
utes without looking at them. Then
look into the oven, and if the top is
not brown set them up on the CRATE to
brown.
-AnchOvy Cakes: Take a dozen
anchovies, scrape them clean, remove
the bones and put the flesh into a
mortar with half the weight of the fish
in fresh butter, a tablespoonful of
scalded. tinely-minced parsley and a
teaspoonful of lemon juice. Pound
these ingredients to a perfectly-smooth
paste and spread this between small
rounds of stale broad. Press the rounds
firmly together, then brush the cakes
entirely over with beaten egg and fry
In hot fat