Year: 1877

| Recipes,


MoLAssEs COOKIES. cupful but.
ter, two cupfuls molasses, one teaspoon.
full cloves, one tablespoonful ginger,
sufficient -four to make q stiff batter, not
dough; mold with the hands into small
cakes, and bake in steady rather than
hot oven, as they are apt to burn.


A BREAKFAST OR SUPPER DISH FOR
CHILDREN. one quart of milk and
add, while boiling, half cupful of oat-
meal, and cook few minutes. Have
ready a vegetable dish half full of bread,
cut in pieces half an inch square, and
pour the milk over it, having previously
seasoned it with salt. A free use OF
both oatmeal and beans. They are both
very nutritious. Fried mush for break
fast and mush and milk for tea are very
nice, and when desired molasses may be
used instead of milk for change.


To Bo11 SWEET CoRN.-Choose full
grown corn, and let the rows be even
and medium size. Pierce the grain with
your nail, and if the corn is fresh and
tender the milk will escape in jet and
not be thick. Corn, like potatoes, is
best steamed. If no steamer is at hand,
place the corn in just enough water to
cover it, and boil fifteen or twenty min
utes, according to the size of the kernel.
If boiled too long it becomes hard. Send
it to the table wrapped in napkin or
towel placed on meat dish. Serve hot.
To MAKE SWEET PICKLES OF RIPE
CUcUMBERs. Select those that are about
half yellow with ripeness, cut them open,
remove the seeds cut them lengthwise
in strips an inch or more wide, and soak
for two days in salted water and alum ;
then soak half day in clear cold water.
Bring strong vinegar, enough to cover
the cucumbers, just to boiling, and pour
over them, and let them stand over night.
Then remove and pack in large mouthed
bottles dissolve one pound of sugar In
one quart strong vinegar strew in the
bottles spices to suit the taste, cover with
the sweetened vinegar, cork, and let it
stand all night the next morning set
the bottles in a kettle of cold water on
the fire, bring to a boil, and make the
corks tight. Keep in cool place.


SILVER CAKE. - Three cups sifted
-four, one and half cups of sugar, one
egg, one teacup of sweet milk, two table
spoonfuls of butter, three tablespoonful
of yeast powder. Flavor with vanilla or
lemon, to taste. Beat the butter and
sugar to cream, add to it the milk and
egg, well beaten, then add the extract.
Mix with this very slow three cups of
-four in which the baking powder has
been well mixed. Bake in quick oven.


TOMATO Sour. Boil two and one-half
pounds of lamb In four quarts OF water !;
boil the lamb to shreds and the water
down to two quarts strain it. Peel and
cut ND fine two quarts fresh tomatoes ;
mix them with the liquor; stir them
very hard and boil them half an hour ;
season with parsley, pepper and salt ;
strain them again; stir in one table
spoonful of butter before pouring in the
tureen. The broth in Which chickens
were boiled is often preferred to the
lamb.


CHICKEN SALAD.-Wash and dry two
or three white heart lettuces, reserving
the center leaves, cut them fine, and lay
them at the bottom of dish mince all
the white meat from broiled chicken
without the skin, and place it on the
lettuce. Rub the yolks of two hard
boiled eggs to smooth paste, with two
dessert spoonfuls of melted butter. Add
to it two spoonfuls of made mustard and
one of pounded loaf sugar, and stir very
gradually in cupful of vinegar. Ar
range as border the center leaves of the
lettuce, with some small, delicate cress
between the chicken and the edge of the
dish, and, when ready to serve, pour
over the chicken salad dressing.


Corn for Seed.


In selecting corn for seed, it is often
the practice to merely choose large ears
from the general crop. This is not the
best method, for while the plant may be
strong and vigorous, and bears large
ears, the corn may have been fertilized
by pollen from feeble or stunted plants
near it, and the seed may retain and
repeat these adverse qualities in spite of
the vigor of the plant on which it grew.
A better plan would be to plant some of
the seed in small plot by itself, at a
little distance from the main crop, and
to give this patch plenty of room and
high culture. When the tassels appear
in the seed every plant should be ex-
amined, and feeble stalks should be
pulled out or cut below the tassel before
it has an opportunity to bloom. By
this Arrangement both the plants on
which the ears grow and the pollen
scattered from it's own and neighboring
tassels will partake of the strength of
both its parents.


Sow Spinach.


The market gardeners as well as those
who only wish to supply their own
tables, should now make preparations
for sowing spinach; any vacant land that
is rich enough will answer, but as it
needs thorough preparation and as the
manure also needs to be thoroughly pre-
pared. it will be well to begin now to get
ready the manure and work it thoroughly
fine; a liberal admixture of night soil is
excellent for this crop, promoting rank
and rapid growth. Land from which
peas or potatoes or some other early
crop has been cleared, should be cleared
ND and plowed so as to be ready for the
seed. For fall use and for storage to be
used in winter, spinach seed should be
put in about August 14th. For winter
ing over in the field it is sown from
cf RI 1Sth