Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-20
HOME AND FARM.


"A timely drain will carry off the
'urplus water around the house and
essen the amount of mud.
Potash water is tho quickest cure
tor wasp and bee stings. A small
quantity should be kept in glass
stopped bottle. Open the sting with a
needle and put on one drop of potash
water
Strawberries Italian: Place as
many berries as will form layer at
the bottom of a dessert dish, and
sprinkle thickly over powdered loaf
sugar; then another layer of berries
and sugar. until the dish is full. Then
squeeze over the top the juice of a
fresh lemon; stir them around before
serving. that they may imbibe the
lemon and sugar.
Lemon Turnovers: Four dessert
spoonfuls of -four. ono dessert spoon
full of powdered sugar; the rind and
juice of one lemon. two ounces of
melted butter, two eggs and a little
milk, mix flour, sugar and lemon with
the milk to the consistency of butter.
add the butter and eggs we'll beaten.
Fry and turn over:
The successful farmer must be a
good business man. There is as much
in the selling of farm products rs in
the raising, so far as the profit is con-
cerned; and, in order to sell we'll. the
farmer must understand value, and
he reasonably we'll posted in business
matters Home. Farm and Factory:
III hen be properly fed she will
continue to lay without desiring to in
cubate. She should not be allowed
to become fat. The supposition that
q hen lays Il certain number of eggs.
or ''clutch." or Glitter" as it is
sometimes called, lis erroneous. If
properly fed hen will continue to
ny until the period shall have arrived
for her to mott.
Chocolate Mcringue Pudding: Boil
one pint of rich milk, add half tea.
cup of butter. one tea-cup Of sugar
and three ounces of grated chocolate;
let it boil. and when cool add the
whites of four eggs; pour this into u
pudding-dish lined with shoes OF
sponge cake and bake; cover with
meringuc and let it brown. Eat with
lemon sauce.
-Granulated Gems: To a pint of
mixed milk and water add a salt
spoonful Of salt and teaspoonful of
melted butter Stir slowly into this a
pint of granulated wheat flour. beat
ing the mixture rapidly and as long as
strength lo!ds out. Have the gem
pans we'll buttered and very hot. Fill
quickly and bake in very hot oven.
For filled eggs boil four or five
eggs till quite hard, lay them in cold
water, shell and cut them in halves
crosswise. carefully remove the yelks.
and cut the tips off the whites. so tn at
they will stand in a dish. Put the
yelks in basin, and rub up with them
a small piece of stale breadcrumb
slightly soaked in milk, and two
washed, bsned. and finely minced sar-
dimes. Add a very little oil. vinegar,
pepper and salt Mix all we'll togeth-
er, fill the whites with the mixture,
and keep i'm a'cool place till wanted.
1t costs no more to keep a thor
oughbred than a scrub; it takes no
more vital energy to assimilate good,
wholesome food than the common
dietetic abomin atoms; it takes no
more labor to operate a good imple-
ment than q poor one; it takes no
more time to read instructive books
than gossipy, sensational newspaper
trash; it takes no more mental effort
to live a good life and bless mankind
with its fruits than to cooperate will,
the evil one by Sinking honest labor
and beating the world out of living.
In brief it pays to have the best-the
best implements, the best food. the
best literature and the best morality.
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