St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
HOME AND FARM.

"A solution of equal parts OF gum
arabic and plaster of paris cements
china and earthenware.
The horse with plenty of curry
comb outside and oats inside doesn't
show his ribs before midsummer.
Coarse bones in fowls indicate
coarse meat. A coarse -meated fowl
is a poor thing beside fine, juicy
meated one
Orange Padding: Put in baking
dish three sweet oranges peeled and
sliced; pour over one cup of sugar.
one pint of milk. yelks of three eggs,
one tablespoon of cornstarch boiled
until thick. Whip the whites, poar
over the top and set in the oven to
stiffen.
"A very palatable dish in soups
may be made of beef soup, to which
add pancakes folded and then cut fine
after the style of cold slaw, specially
in a country home, where butter, eggs
and milk arc SO handy, and something
unusual is desired to put before q
guest
Tomato Soup: Take pint of
canned tomatoes, or four large raw
ones, cut up fine, add one quart of
boiling water and let them boil, then
add one teaspoon of soda, when it
will Dam; Immediately add one pint
of sweet milk, pepper, salt and plenty
of butter. When this boils add eight
small crackers. rolled fine, and serve.
If you wish to clean your copper
teakettles with very little labor and
without soiling your hands or making
them rough on sore, rub them while
filled with hot water with very sour
butter milk. Other sour milk will
clean them. but buttermilk is pref
cradle. Clean them thus once or
twice a week, and they will keep as
bright as a new penny. and your
hands wild not be made as rough as a
crater, as is the case when salt and
vinegar is used.
Potato and Corn Mullins: Two
cups of cold mashed potato; two cups
of sweet milk; two eggs. we'll beaten;
two cups corn meal or enough for q
batter. Soften the potato with the
milk, working out al the Jumps; then
stir in .cornmeal till the batter is just
thick enough to drop easily from the
spoon; add the whipped eggs and
beat hard. Drop into the gem pans,
oiled and hot, and bake in an even
oven from twentyto thirty minutes.
We improve roads surface with
aview. 1. TO substitute a hard and
smooth surface for the soft and yield =.
ing earth. @ To protect the ground
from the action of the rainwater.
Let water once get into the soil be-
ueath the road and it is soft and
yielding. The Object of the firm road
bed is to supply roof that shall pro-
tect the ground from the weather 1t
is not n substitute for the soil under it.
but protection TO that soil. -Rardl
NeW Yorker.
strawberry Cream Tarts: Line
patty-pans with paste. bake. fill with
stewed straw berries; stir half tea
spoonful of eorn-starch into half II tea
cup of milk with the beaten whites OF
two eggs. and two tablespoons of white
sugar; set on the stove and stir until
thick and snloolhe. let cool and add
half a teaoup of whipped cream, beat,
and pour over the tarts. Raspberries
or other small fruits may be used in-
stead of straw berries.
In order to improve the oat crop,
take a mashtub or large barrel. fill
it two birds full of water; pour half a
bushel or so of seodoats at time into
the tub of water. and skim off all oats
that will not sink to the bottom. Drain
off Inc water and dry tho oats that are
left You now have fine quality of
oats to sow. They will give You fully
seventy-five percent. better yield than
before. besides having n -superior'lot Of
seed for yonr mel glbors the following
year Ohio Former.