GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



January, 1919 



Our Food Page — Coiitinued from page 27. 



oven. If it is a commercial graham flour, 

 from which much of the bran has been sift- 

 ed, a larger proportion of graham may be 

 used. This proportion is about right for the 

 home-ground flour. 



SOUR MILK BUCKWHEAT GSIDDLE CAKES. 



1 qt. sour milk 1% teaspoons salt 



31/i teaspoons soda 1 tablespoon melted 



3 cups buckwheat flour shortening 



Mix the soda and salt with the flour and 

 sift into the sour milk, beating well. Add 

 the melted shortening last. If the batter is 

 too thick, thin with a little water. If it is 

 too thin, add more flour. Part white flour 

 may be used, in which case it will be neces- 

 sary to use a little more. Bake on a hot 

 griddle and serve at once with plenty of 

 honey. The shortening may be omitted, but 

 with it the cakes are less apt to stick. 



STEWED PRUNES AND APRICOTS. 

 1/^ lb. dried apricots Vz lb. dried prunes 



Vi to 1/3 cup honey 

 Wash the apricots and prunes thoroly, 

 cover each with water and soak several 

 hours, preferably over night. In the morn- 

 ing place the fruit on to cook in separate 

 dishes and simmer very slowly until tender. 

 The prunes will probably require a longer 

 time to cook than the apricots. When done, 

 combine them, sweeten to taste with honey 

 and cool before serving. 



FRUIT CUP. 



1 cup pineapple 1 banana 



2 oranges 1 ciip canneid peaches 

 % cup dates honey 



Cut all the fruit in small pieces and com- 

 bine, measuring the dates after they are 

 stoned and cut up. Sweeten to taste with 

 honey and serve cold in sherbet glasses. It 

 is difiicult to give the amount of honey, as 

 some canned fruit is much sweeter than 

 others. 



All mrnmrcments level. 



Bees Not Proved Guilty. — Continued from p 16. 



early in the spring, and is often found in 

 large numbers on the opening flower buds 

 and young stems. We know, too, that the 

 aphis is a sucking insect, that it punctures 

 the skin with its tiny beak and sucks the 

 sap. These opening buds and leaves are 

 often covered with honeydew which the 

 aphids exude from their bodies, and which, 

 according to Professor Gossard, furnishes a 

 good medium for the growth and distribu- 

 tion of the blight germs. May it not be. 



therefore, that a study of the green aphis 

 in its connection with ants, will furnish a 

 much more promising field for investigation 

 along this line than will the honeybee? My 

 opinion, based upon a study of these species 

 of insects, is that if we can eliminate the 

 apple aphis, and other sucking species, nota- 

 bly leaf hoppers, from our orchards, we 

 shall have made a long stride toward elimin- 

 ating the fireblight. 



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