Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Cherry Pie.—Stone the cherries, make a paste in the ordinary way, put in the fruit; add sugar and a little water. Stir a tablespoonful of flour smoothly into two of witter, and spread it evenly on the edge ol - the paste; put on the cover and hake till done. All fruit pies can,- by using this mixture of flour and water, be jsept from running over in the oven. —How to Make Cake.—Do not leave tlte oven-door open, or change the cake from one oven to the other, except in extreme eases. If it hardens too fast on the top, cover with paper. It should rise to full height before the crust forms. Except for gingerbread use none but white sugar. Always sift the flour. Be accurate in your weights and measures. — Western llural. —Holy-Poly Pudding.—Take a crust of equal parts of Graham flour and fine corn meal, wet with rice boiled quite soft in six parts of water. Knead lightly and roll out as thin as it will hold together. Then spread on whortleberries or blackberries or rhubarb or gooseberries, and, beginning at one end, roll ft over upon itself. Sew up in a cloth and boil or steam one hour and a half. Then take off the cloth and cut in slices crosswise, and serve hot, with strawberry pudding sauce or some other sweetened fruit juice. —Sherbet.—Rub the yellow rind of three lemons with lumps of sugar to get the flavor. Squeeze the juice of six lemons and careful]}' take out the seeds. Put the sugar and juice witli one pound of nice -white sugar in half a gallon of water. Beat to a stiff froth the whites of five eggs, sti'ring in two tablespoonfuls of pulver.zed white sugar. Then slowly stir it in the lemonade and put it immediately in a patent freezer, with salt and ice around the freezer (the same as for ice-cream), and turn it until it is frozen as hard as you wish it. This Is very delicate and resembles a dish of snow. None but patent freezers should be used, however, as it must be stirred constantly. —Green Tomato Pickles. —One peck green tomatoes, half a head of a goodsized cabbage, two bunches of celery, or, what is better, a little celery-seed, half a pint of white mustard-seed; also three or four small carrots, using only the red part, six onions, five large bid I peppers. Chop them and mix them together, sprinkle over a cup of fine salt, let it remain over night -drain well,- sprinkle in the seeds and pourover one pint of molasses. Take three pints of vinegar, two tablespoons of ground allspice, two tablespoons of ground cloves, two tablespoons of ground cinnamon, two tablespoons of ground yellow mustard. Heat the spices in the vinegar and pourover scalding hot. This should be kept four or five months before using.

—The same principles that apply to the summer pruning.of trees and shrubs apply with equal force to those Canes that grow one season and bear fruit and die the next. Raspberries, if left to their own course, grow tall and slender, branching but little, and, falling over, trail upon the ground. Some allow them to grow thus through the season and then cut them back to the desired height; but if pinched off when they reached the proper height, from twenty inches to two feet, much of the material” pruned off would have been appropriated in forming laterals and in increasing the size of the Canes. So with blackberries, pinching them off at the height of two feet causes them to grow stocky, throw out laterals and form a compact head.—2Y Y. Ilerald. —An Ohio farmer writes as follows: “I have a town lot planted in early potatoes, which for the last two years has been allowed to grow up thick with mustard after the potatoes were worked out the last time. As a result , mustard Came up very thick this spring before the potatoes appeared, and when the plants were up the ground was so dry and hard 1 could not have them worked. This mustard is very thick among them, but it does not seem to interfere in the least with their growth. I have just been all over the lot, and hasten to report ‘ nary bug.’ I was among the vines last week often, and only captured two. My neighbors, whose potatoes are not as smart as mine (for want of mustard), are undergoing a fearful struggle for life. The present prospects seem strongly to indicate their ultimate failure. As for mustard being a remedy for bugs, I will only state the above facts.”