The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-21
HOUSEHOLD.
BAKING-POWDER.

cipe for baking-powder, for the lady
who requested one
9 ounces of bi-carbonate of soda,
4 ounces of cream of tartar,
ounces of tartaric acid,
10 ounces of wheat -four.
Thoroughly sift this several times;
then put away in air-tight boxes or
wide-mOuthed bottles carefully la
belled.
This is from 'The Modern Cook
Book" published by us, the most COM
plete book of the kind for young house
keepers yet published.
LOvEJOY TIDY, ~CROCHETED IN SQUARES.
First round-Chain 6, join, chain 3,
Is treble in ring of 6 chain, l6 treble,
counting 3 CHI: join with short crochet
to top of 3 chain.
Second round-Chain 4, 1 treble in
first treble of previous round; chain 10,
/ long treble in next stitch, keeping
last over and stitch on needle, 1 treble
in next. Now have four stitches on
needle; throw thread over and draw
through 3 stitches; thread over and
draw through the 2 remaining stitches;
repeat from X till you have 8 loops of
10 chains; join to top of first 4 Oh.
Third roundE 10 double crochet I'm
der first three-fOurths of 10 chains;
chain Z, 10 double crochet under last
t~hree-fourths Of next 10 chains; repea4
from = four times; fasten. You now
have one square When making the
rest. join them together by two stitches,
first andIast stitch to chain, and double
crochet.-ELG McGOWen.
OYSTER SALAD.
Slice or chop very fine, enough white
.oTo,rr FO T00En O0n mint S0TSInE1n
bits of ice over it and set away in a
cool place. Take one quart of solid
oysters, drain the liquor from them
and rinse them in a little water; add
it to the liquor and boil and skim thor
Oughlv. then put in the oysters and
scald. but do not allow them to boil.
Then drain them and cut each one in
several pieces and pour over them the
dressing made as follows: Beat three
eggs and add to them one-half teacup-
full of vinegar, two tablespoonful of
butter. one teaspOOnful of made nus
tard, one-half t%easpOOnful of black
pepper. One-half teaspOonful OF salt.
Place the dish containing this in a pan
of boiling water and cook until like
thick cream, stirring constantly. Do
not allow it to boil or it will curdle.
Pour this over the oysters, stir lightly
and set them away to chill. When
wanted for use, drain the water from
the celery, then add the. celery to the
oysters, toss all up lightly with a fork,
place in a salad-dish and garnish with
blanched celery tops, and olives if you
wish. Nasturiums with their leaves
make a lovely garnish, if one has them
growing in their window, which all
should do, as they are splendid winter
blooming plants, and of easy culture.
SWEET PEAS.
We are all admirers of this sweet
scented annual, but many seem to fail
in cultivating it. Prepare the ground
early. even in March, if there comes a
warm spell so that the frost may be
out of the ground. Plant the seed
quite thick and about an inch in depth.
The soil does not need to be so very
rich: Just good, common garden dirt,
enriched with a small amount of thor
oughly rOtted manure. Right here is
a point I wish amateur flower growers
would note and heed. Manure must
be old enough to be thoroughly rOtted
to give most satisfactory esults
The peas should be furnished with
support as soon as they are two or
three inches high. Wire netting is ex-
cellent. If the vines Once get tangled
on the ground it is difficult to straighten
them. They grow slowly at first, and
you will think they are not going to
amount to anything, and that they
were started too early. Have patience.
Keep down the weeds and give them
rope" By and by your care will be
rewarded, and thousands of blossoms
nod you a happy goOd-morning. Do
not allow seed-pOds to formif you wish
the bloom to be continuous. 1t is a
good plan to plant a few for seed by
themselves in some corner of the gar
den, where they may mature early
and not injure the looks of the flower
display.
If you make several different plant
ings of two weeks between, you will
have a succession of bloom all summer.
But begin early, or the last planting
will probably give you but very few
blooms .-GgpSy.