Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HUTTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HUTTS.

Roast pork, sans apple-sauce, past doubt, Is Hamlet with the Prince left out. —Exchange. Graham Muffins.-— One quart of sour milk, one-half cup bf melted butter, three eggs—two will do—a little sugar or molasses, one teaspoonful "bf saleratus and Graham flour enough to make a stiff batter. Bake in a hot oven about twenty minutes. * - Delicious ArifLE Pudding.— Pare and chop six large apples, butter a pudding, dish, put in a layer half an inch thick of grated bread, add bits of butter, then a layer of chopped apples, with sugar and nutmeg; repeat till the dish is full, pour over it a teacup of cold water and bake. Tomato Marmalade. —To two pounds of tomatoes allow two pounds of sugar and the juice and grated rind, of one lemon. Scald and skin the tomatoes, add the sugar and- boil slowly for an hour, stirring and skimming; add the grated lemon and boil half an hour, or till.it is a thick, smooth mass.

Tomato Catsup. —To half a bushel of skinned tomatoes add ope quart best vinegar, one pound of salt, one-quarter pound of black pepper, two ounces cayenne pepper, one-quarter pound of allspice, six onions (omit at pleasure), one ounce of cloves and two pounds of brown sugar. Boil this mass for three hours, stirring it constantly. When cool, strain it through a fine sieve or coarse cloth, bottle and seal.' Tomato Honey.— To each pound of tomato allow the grated peel of a lemop and six fresh peach-leaves. Boil them slowly till they are all to pieces, then squeeze them-through a bag. To each pound- of liquid allow a pound of sugar and the juice of one lemon. Boil them together half an hour, or until they become a thick jelly. Then put them into glasses and lay double tissue-paper over, the top. It willscarcely be distinguished from real honey.. The following rule for boiling fruit in cans will doubtless prove useful: The first figure after (he name nf the fruit refers to time of boiling in minutes, the second to ounces of sugar to the quart : Cherries, 5,6; raspberries, 6,4; blackberries, 6, 6 ; gooseberries, 8,8; currants, 6,8; grapes, 10, 8; plums, 10, 8; peaches (whole), 15,. 4; peaches (halves), 8,4; pears (whole), 30, 8; crab apples, 25, 8; quinces (sliced); 15, 10; tomatoes, 30, none; beans and peas, three to four hours. —Scientific American.

At this season of the year farm horses are obliged to work very hard, and it is not only right and just, but for the pecuniary interest of their owners, to see that they are well fed. And they ought not only to have good food and plenty of it, but it should be given to them wet. A great many horses are permanently injured by being kept in the summer, when they work, upon dry hay and meal. A large whale stranded on the beach at Rockaway, L. 1., has been one of the sights there, but lately has become one of the smells. .