Year: 1877




A Coop PLAIN PIE CRUST. one
quart of -four into bowl chop into the
-four (using chopping -knife) ole-half
pound of good firm lard chop until
very fine pour in enough ice-water to
make q stiff dough, and work it with
your hands -four your hands work
your dough into shape handle it quick
" and as little as possible (; -four your
pastry-board, and roll out your dough
very thin always roll from you have
ready one-half pound of good butter
that has been washed in two or three
cold waters to rid it of salt; spread the
dough with butter; fold it mp, then
roll it out thin again |; spread again
with butter fold again, and repeat the
operation until the butter is all used up.


To Roast CoFFEE.-If you desire to
have extra fine favored coffee, buy the
green coffee-pure Java. Pick it over,
wash it well, drain it and spread it out
on pie pans roast it in moderate
oven, or on top of the range stir it
often to keep it from burning, and roast
it until it is good brown then drop o
small piece of butter in each pan and
mix it up Just enough to make the coffee
shine grind it fresh every morning;
The flavor will then equal, it not excel
the "Vienna" coffee.


CALVES FEEr.-Boil them until
tender cut them in two, taking out the
larger bones. Season with pepper and
salt and sweet marjoram, and dredge
we'll with flour; fry light brown in
lard and butter mixed. Serve with
parsley sauce.


CRAcKERs.-Butter, one cup; salt,
one teaspoon -four, two quarts. hub
thoroughly together with the hand, and
wet up with cold water beat well, and
beat in -four to make quite brittle and
hard then pinch off pieces and roll out
each cracker by itself, if you wish them
to resemble bakers crackers.


POULTRY GRAvY.-Poultry should be
picked and drawn as soon as possible I;
never allow it to remain over night
updrawn, for the flavor of the craw and
intestines will penetrate the whole fowl
never cook it in less than eight hours
after it is killed after drawing turkey
rinse it out with several waters, and at
the last mix in half teaspoonful OF
pulverized borax the inside OF the
turkey is sometimes a little sour, and
will flavor the dressing the borax will
act as corrective !; fill the turkey with
this water and let it remain while you
prepare your dressing when the dress
ing is ready pour out the borax water,
and if you wish rinse the turkey out
with clear water in roasting, if your fire
is good and turkey young and tender,
allow ten or twelve minutes to pound
baste often, first with melted butter
and hot water, afterward with the gravy
in the pan wash the giblets we'll and
chop them up fine boil in just water
enough to cover, and when the turkey
is done place it on o heated dish add
the chopped giblets with the water in
which they were boiled to the drippipgs
in the pan thicken with spoonful OF
flour-wet, to prevent Jumps: boil up
once; pour into a gravy-boat; serve
the turkey with cranberry sauce. In
making gravy of any kind, If the meat
or poultry is very fat, it must be skim
med off before adding the fionr.


Medical Hints.


Sour SToMACH.-A sufferer from want
of appetite and sour stomach can be
greatly benefited by leaving all medi-
cines alone and for time existing en-
tirely on milk and lime water; table
spoonful of lime water to tulnbler OF
milk. If this disagrees in any way, IN
crease the quantity of lime water.


How TO GET FAT.-Abstain from the
use of tea, coffee and tobacco, and acids
of all kinds; take a sponge bath daily,
and dry with q coarse towel, using plenty
OF friction to promote the general cir
culation of the blood; then consume with
your meals large bowl OF oatmeal por-
ridge with fresh milk.


How TO GET THN.-Take regularly
three times day in little water fifteen
drops of hydrate Of potassium-always
after meals-and little moderation IN
eating will help.


RELIEF FOR AsTHMA.-One to two
tablespoonfuls of syrup Of rhubarb.


NEURALGIA REMEDY.-Extract of gel
semin (yellow jessamine,) five to ten
drops, in. about tablespoonful of water;
three doses taken at intervals of an hour
apart, not sooner, have relieved very
severe attacks.


Cost Of m Aero Of Wheat.


A correspondent of the Ohio Farne-
er gives the following estimate of the
cost of growing wheat. He says: We
will now take 1O-acre lot and sec what
it costs to raise and put crop OF wheat
into market, and what profit when there
is yield of fifteen bushels per acre:
Flowing ten acres, eight days, at four dol. AN -,


lars per day .:..,....' SSS " "
Narrowing over twice, two and hsif days. ~ w
Drilling wheat, one and quarter days.. "
Seed wheat, fifteen bushels, at 81 S......" ~ 20
Harvesting, at two dollars per acre. %. ~ W
Thrashing, 150 bushels, at ten cents per ., ~


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