Year: 1874

Household Recipes.

 MILK STAINs.-Milk stains on serge dresses may be removed by steeping the part in warm water.

 CUP OAKE.-One cup of butter four eggs ; two cups of milk three cups of sugar one teaspoonful of soda five cups of flour.

 To HAVE CoRNED BEEF JUIoY.-After 1t is cold and not dry as chip, put it into boiling water, when it is put on to cook, and do not take it out of the pot, when done, until cold.

 CHARLESTON PUDD1Na.-Four cups of Hour, sifted, with one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream tartar beat six eggs with three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, and one of cream in them, and gently stir in the flour.

 WAFFLEs.-One quart of flour, one pint of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, four eggs, piece of butter the slze of large egg, and little salt. Bake m waffle irons. Sour cream and less butter improves them.

 PUMPKIN PIEs.-Pare the pumpkin. grate it, and add sugar and ginger to taste, and milk enough to make it of the proper consistency. Then line your tins with pie crust, put in your pump Kin, and bake in the ordinary way.

 BuTTERMILK PUDDNa.-Two eggs, two cups of sugar, half cup of butter, one teaspoonful of soda sifted in two cups of Hour, three cups of buttermilk stir the flour in lightly. It can be turned out.

 Eco CAKE.-Two cups of sugar, one egg, piece of butter the size of an egg, one cup of sour milk, one table spoonful of soda, little salt and nut meg, one tablespoonful of lemon, three cups of flour; beat the white of egg separately, the sugar and yolk and but ter together; bake in a thoroughly heated oven.

 Maturing for Vegetables.

 J. B. Root, successful market gar dener of Rockford, H., states in the Fruit Recorder that he applies to his ground heavily in winter, broadcast, at the rate of forty loads per acre, we'll rotted manure, so that the soluble food IS leached out and is at hand in the soil for the young vegetables in spring. In no other way can he make the same amount of manure tell so we'll, and he IS never delayed @ day in getting his manure ont in spring before planting. This practice of winter manuring is be- coming more and more appreciated, and possesses many advantages; and although especially useful when ap- p1ed to grass for inverting as sod in spring, We have long since found it etficaclous when used on mellow or worked soil. Fresh manure may be used in this way to better advantage than 1n the common mode of applica- tlon, lnasmuch as all the soluble parts are carried down and more finely diff insed among the particles of the soil than can be done mechanically with the finest compost while the coarse htter which remains, may be either lett as mulch, spaded in, or raked of, as may be most advisable.

 Drying Or Cows.

 A Vermont farmer says Ethat at the period of drying off COWS he has found, particularly with such COWS as are in the highest condition, that clotted milk IS very apt to collect in one or perhaps all the quarters of the bag, after milk ing has been discontinued, and some- times even much later, after I have supposed the flow of milk to be entire !y arrested and the bag quite dry. As this secretion goes on, unless the clot- ted matter is withdrawn, the teat and udder become more and more distend- ed, inflammation ensues and putrefac- tion of the contents sets in. make no question but that neglect of this matser IS the cause of permanent mis- chief to the udder, and particularly of that contracted condition of the muscles which regulate the passage of the milk from the bag into the teat, condition discovered not unfrequently, and with surprise as well as regret when the COWS come into milk in the spring, and which ever after renders the milking of such COWS very irksome."

 French Beef.

 Take circular piece from the round (having removed the bone), and trim it nicely from the fat, skin, etc. Then lard 1t all over with long slips of fat pork or bacon. The place from whence the bone was taken must be filled with a forcement, made of minced suet, grated bread-crumbs, sweet marjoram rubbed fine, and grated lemon peel i; add a little salt and pepper. Tie 8 tape closely round the outside of the beef, to keep it compact and in shape. Put it into broad earthen jar with a cover or into an iron bake-oven. Add some whole pepper, large onion, Q bunch of sweet herbs, three bay leaves, a quarter of pound of butter, divide into small bits leach piece rolled in hour), and half pint of claret or port wine. Bake or stew it thus in its own liquor, for five, six or seven hours, Gin proportion to it's size), for it must be thoroughly done, quite tender, and brown all through the inside.