Year: 1877

PLUM PUDDING. - One half cupful
sugar, one-half cupful molasses, one egg,
one cupful chopped suet, one cupful
sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, three
cupfuls -four, one teaspoonful salt, and
one of cinnamon lastly, add one cupful
raisins, seeded and chopped, after
sprinkling a little -four over them to
prevent settling steam three hours to
be eaten with sauce. Sauce for Pudding.
Six tablespoonfuls sugar, two of but
ter, and one heaping tablespoonful -four;
stir all together; when thoroughly mixed
add boiling water till thin enough, stir
ring all the while place it on the stove,
let it come to a boil, remove, and add
the beaten white of an egg.


CHEESE STRAws.-Sift one eupful of
flour upon a pastry board, make well
in the center and put into this two table
spoonfuls of cream, three ounces of
grated cheese, two tablespoonfuls of
butter, the yolks of two eggs, and half
teaspoonful of salt, dust of pepper and
little nutmeg if the the paste is too
stiff use a little milk until you can work
it without breaking roll out thin, cut it
in narrow strips, lay them on buttered
tin, and bake to pale yellow serve as
a relish, hot or cold. %


JOHNNY CAKE.-One teacupful sweet
milk, one of buttermilk, teaspoonful of
salt, one of soda, tablespoonful of butter,
enough meal to make very stiff batter !;
spread it upon buttered tins bake forty
minutes as soon as it begins to brown,
baste it with melted butter; baste several
times. ...... 3D.


DRLMoNIoo HAsH. Take cold roast
lamb or mutton ; throw away the fat
portions chop very fine, and add water
enough to make it quite thin boil in
frying-pan add butter, salt and pepper
to suit taste have ready hot toast which
has been well buttered and dipped into
cream or rich milk, and spread the hash
over the toast, and serve Immediately.


FRIED CHICKEN. Put one pint of
cream into a frying pan large enough to
hold chicken, and set it over moder-
ate fire until it begins to color then
lay into it one chicken, nicely dressed
and cut in joints, and fry until the under
side is nicely Drowned when the cream
acquires rich brown hue dip out
enough to serve as sauce for the dish,
and set it aside to keep hot. Season the
chicken with pepper and salt, and turn
it over in the pan. Let it brown equally
all over. Do not let the cream burn.
When done lay it upon a flat dish, and
pour cream in the center.


Stacking Corn Fodder.
after hFay trying rssGaa 3SGas 8syS think it dec
edly preferable to all other modes, be-
cause first, none but the butts, the
worthless portion, are exposed to the
bleaching rains of winter, and second,
because larger quantity can be placed
close by the feeding-place than by any
other way. Iput usually fifty shocks
of 100 hills each in a stack. A few
sticks are placed on the ground to raise
the center of the stack. The center
must be kept up sufficient to shed rain
from the butts throughout the stack.
The stack must be made of such dame
ter only as to allow the tops of bundles
to lap and thus keep up the center,
single row of bundles only forming the
circle. The finishing of the stack should
be in form similar to an ordinary 100
hill shock, and be well tied with band.
l feed only four bead of cattle from such
stack, and never had any damaged by
rain only one course appears to get
damp, and the cattle prefer it in that
condition. If snow storm occurs, or q
sleet storm, or very heavy rain, I i'm
mediately remove one entire course, and
set on end all not fed. I feed in the
ordinary box manger, always in the
stable, being particular to have the butts
of bundles placed in bottom of manger.
None is ever wasted-not even a husk.
Liz butlhb Ioluuullle ulO oilloWh uhtOi
the COWS, and make good bedding, al
ways keeping them an.-Practical
| Farmer. ......
Early Ripening Of the Tomato.


BY cutting back the ends of the tomato
vine as soon as the fruit is sufficiently
set to insure plentiful crop, the ripen-
ing season can be pushed to good advan-
tage. Not only will the fruit ripen
sooner, but it will be of finer size and
more perfect development. If possible,
the fruit should be ripened on the vines
the flavor is so much richer when so
ripened, that it is worth while to take
extra pains in order to protect it so that
it may ripen in its natural state. A
most effectual scarecrow to fight away
poultry from the ripening fruit can be
made by sticking turkey or hen feathers
into crooked neck summer squash,
SO it will resemble hawk put stick
through the body, tie strings to either
end, and fasten to tall pole, letting the
nondescript swing back and forth
over the tomato bed. 1t will prove ef
fectual, we know.