The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-22
Home and Farm.

Rice Pies: -Four eggs, well beaten
stirred into a quart of milk, two cups
boiled rice, sweeten to taste and flavor.
When boiling rice add little salt.
Bake with under crust the same as custard
pies.
Spanish Soup: Boil half peck of
spinach with two tablespoonfus of butter,
a little salt and pepper; strain, add a 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 up
on his table, il is the farmer. Carelessness
is generally why many do not possess these
requisites. 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 following dress
| ing: 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 refrigera
tor to cool quickly as possible. A very nice
| salad.
1t will cost but little to keep the sur-
face of the ground around young trees well
sprinkled. with fine lime. Many insects
| will aYoid the lime, and on some soils the
lime will prove beneficial. An excellent
mixture for such purposes is two parts
wood ashes, one part lime and one part
lime and one part coarse salt. Only a
small quantity need be used at each appli-
cation.
For putting up fruit porcelainlined
kettle holds the first place with most house
wives, but good agate or granite ware, and
even brass kettle, secured very clean and
frightened, are used. A wooden or silver
iron one. Many people use self-sealng
jars as matter of economy, because less
sugar is required to keep the fruit in
them.
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or the floor swept, are homely things, and
| count for nothing in themselves; but it is
the anger, or the sweet patience, or zeal,
high thoughts that you put into them that
| shall last. These make your life. No
strain is harder upon the young than to be
forced to do work whichthey feel isbeneath
their faculties, yet, no discipline is more
helpful.
Water absorbs odors like milk, hence
it is imprudent to leave il sitting in an
open vessel where there is any possibility
of its becoming affected from deleterious
substances. 1t is rendered fiat and insipid
Tea made with such water can be detected
at once by the connolsseur. This indicates
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 at in pail. Wood
vessels, whether painted or not, soon rend-
er 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 IL is
not unwise to soak corn for all work stock
after ho weather has set in. At this time
corn, especially flinty 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
days supply can be put into the soaking
tub every night, and handful of salt
thrown into the water with it does
good