St. Landry democrat., 1888-01-21
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE,

/ USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE,
Honey AID flour made into salve
is an excellent remedy for boils.
When you sell your produce by
sample. show sample that the goods
will equal.
The farmer who sells the best ant
| keeps the poorest seeds and animals
is on the right road to the wron9
place.
All low and wet places should be
drained. A few rods of drain til,
will prevent slush and mud around the
house.
Pudding Sauce: Beat together foul
teaspoonfuls of sugar and two ounces
OF butter; stir in Il teacup of boiling
water; flavor to aste.-Bos!oD Budget.
Vinegar is better thanice for keep
ing fish. BY putting q little vinegar
on the fish it will keep perfectly well
even in very hot weather. Fish is often
very much improved in flavor under
this treatment.
Cranberry Pie: One cup cranber-
ries, one cup sugar, one cup water, two
desert-spoonfuls flour. Chop cranber-
ries, make with two crllsts, mix all to-
gether before putting in the pie
Good Cheer.
1t is said that in canning fruit,
after the jar is filled, if the fruit is
stirred with a spoon that reaches the
bottom of the jar, until all the air bub-
bles rise to the top, the contents will
never mold on top.
Manure is the farmers savings
bank, and if more of them would have
large heaps of it every spring to spread
upon their lands, instead of money at
interest, they would prosper better in
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If corn only is fed to poultry they
are liable to become too fat. An occa-
sional change of food is desirable and
nothing is better than oats. Soak
them by scalding in bucket and when
cool feed them to the hens.
-Stewed Plover: Truss the birds,
put in each button mushroom, and
season with salt and pepper. Add
pint of cream, cover the saucepan and
stew slowly until the birds are cooked.
Serve on thin slices of buttered toast.
and Manufacturer
To make good watfies, take one
pint of butter milk, one teaspoonful of
soda; one tablespoonful of melted but
ter, one teacup of flour. the yelks of
four eggs and a small pinch of salt,
beat the whites separately to a stiff
froth, and add them the last thing
Have the waffle tins well creased and
very hot, pour in the batter and bake
brown. When taken up, spread with
butter and keep warm.-IndiaaaEois
Journal
Old English Christmas Plum
Pudding: One pound of stoned raisins,
one pound of currants, one pound suet
chopped fine. Mix, then add one
quarter pound flour or fine bread
crumbs, three ounces sugar, one and
'hree-quarter ounces grated lemon peel,
blade of mace, small nutmeg, teaspoon
'ul ginger, six eggs we'll beaten. Work
we'll together, put in cloth, tie firmly, |
giving room to swell, put in boiling
water, boil three hours.-1oledo Blade |
Malaga Cake: Two cups of SUI
gar and half a cup of butter, beaten to
! cream, and half a cup of sweet milk;
nix three cups of flour with three
easpoonfuls of baking powder, beat
he whites of seven eggs to froth,
tir all together and flavor with lemon;
'ake in sheets. Filling for the above
AXE: Whites of three eggs beaten
With sugar as for frosting, leaving out
nough for the top of the cake; add one
ofeecup of raisins, seeded and
hoped, two tablespoons of lemon
ugar and one of extract of lemon;
pread between the sheets.
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