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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Pumpkin Pie. One quart pumpkin tewed and strained; one quart milk, ne cup sugar, geven eggs, beaten very a;ht: one teaspoon ginger, sarao maco ld cinnaraon each. - A correspondent of the Sural New 'orher answerd a query as to the remoy for wornis in a norie, which he says ïas ncver failed of a curo, by simply I aking half a cup of pure, h:rd wood ashes, tincly sifted and mixed dry wit h ie masli or food. If one dose should ot prove sufficient, repeat itafter aday r two. - Sweot l'otato Pie. - Parboil, peel, ice crosswise iirm, sweet potatoes. ine a dish with paste; put in a poato or sliced potato; sprinklc thicky with silbar; scatter among ïem a few wliole c!oves, cover with more sliced potato. Fill dish in :iis way; put tablespoon melted butter n each pie; pour in little water; cover with ernst; bake, cat cold. - Spiced Apples. - Eight pounds of pples, pared and iuartered; four ounds of SUgar, one quart of vinegar, ne ounce of thick cinnamoa, one half ounce cloves; boii the vinegar. sugar and spice together; put in tho apples while boiling, and let them reniain utitil ender (about twenty minutes); then ut the" apples in a jar; boíl down the irup until thick, and pour over them. - Plowing Corn Stubble. - All plowng under or otherwise diaposing of rubbish from gathcred crops should bc done during September and October. f roots are to be grown next seasou vhere cprn stubble is to be plowed unier let it be done deeply and all the stubble well covered. Root culture equires good farming, and róngb, uneven plowing, with loose corn stubs on he surfaee, is not good farming. A vcll-plowed corn stubble may be workcd with the disk harrow in the. spring and veil iitted for roots, wbioh are prefera)le to oats to föllow corn. - Apple Jam. - Peel and core the apples, and cut them in thin slices; lien put them into a preservíngtpan or enameled saucepan; and to every one ound of fruit add three-quarters of a )ound of white sugar, brokeu sniall, md put in tied up in a piece of coarse muslin, a few cloves, a sniall piece of ginger, and a rind of a lemon very thin; slir with a wooden spoon on a quick re for twenty minutes or longer. If he apples are juicy, when sullieiently )oiled, the jam will cling to the spoon. iemove the cloves, etc, and put the am into jam-pols, and when quite cold, ie them down with thick paper or jladder. To be kept in a eool, dry )lace. - In farming for prolit, the stoek and team foree is a proper subject for study. A New Jersev farmer, writing on tlie subject, says that, in theoldcr States, a nan with a small family and ambitious may buy thirty to fifty aeres of land, ay one-half on it, make a living and !et out of debt, with ono team and jorresponding live stock, doing the work himself. Two tcanu aml an adlitional hand are needed on 100 acres, and on a farm of 150 acres threc teams ind three hands beside the projirietor, who will fiad cnough to do in oversight, will be needed; and over 200 acres can be well workod with the same forcé, by good management on the part of the proprietor. - Stutled Cabbage. - Parboil a small cabbage, but leave it wliole. Minee very finely aay remains of coldmeat, and half the quantity of beef suet, sad a small quantity of chopped .shallot, pepper, salt and mineeil herbs to taste, the same quantity of fine bread crunibs as of suet, and the yelks of two or more cggs. Make an incisión on the top of the cabbage, open the leaves lightly, insert the foreenieat, and tic up the cabbage with thread. Line asauucpan with bacon, lay in the cabbage with a little stock orbroth; sinimer on the fire for two or three hours. At the tim! of serving remove the thread from the oabbage; strain the sanee, freo it from excess of fat, thicken with butter or flour, and pour it over the dish. [Detroit, Western Home Journal.] St. Jacobs Oil is an excellent, medicine. Have used it in our householii witti great benefit. - Therc is a grand work and a big field open for all who want to seo the human family iirst wcll-born, and then well taken care of by parents, teachers, physicians and, finally by themselves.

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