Vol. X. — IVo. 26. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL, 



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FfOiu the Fruoral Housewife. 



PUDDINGS. 



Bailed Indian Pudding. — Indian pudding is 

 good l)ak(!d. Scjild a quart of millc, (skimmed 

 milk will do,) and stir in seven table spoonfuls of 

 sifted Indian meal, a tea-spoonful of salt, a tea- 

 cupful of molasses, and a great spoonful of ginger, 

 or sifted cinnamon, Balied three or four hours. 

 If you want whey, you must be sure and pour in 

 a little colli milk, after it is all mixed. 



Boiltd Indian Pudding. — Indian pudding should 

 be boiled four or five hours. Sifted Indian meal 

 and -warm milk should be stirred together pretty 

 sUfE. A little salt, and two or three great spoon- 

 fuls of molasses, added ; a spoonful of ginger, if 

 you like tliiit spice. Boil it in a tight covered pan, 

 or a very thick cloth ; if the water gets in, it will 

 ruin it. Leave plenty of room ; for Indian swells 

 very much. The milk with wliich you mix it 

 should be merely warm ; if it be scalding, the 

 pudding will break to pieces. Some people chop 

 sweet suet fine, and warm in the milk ; others' 

 warm thin slices of sweet apple to be stirred into 

 the pudding. Water will answer instead of milk 



Flour or Batter Pudding. — Conmion flour pud- 

 ding, or batter pudding, is easily made. Those 

 who live in the country can beat up five or six 

 eggs with a quart of milk, and a little salt, with 

 flour enough to make it just thick enough to pour 

 without ditficulty. Those who live in the city, 

 and are obliged to buy eggs, can do with three 

 eggs to a quart, and more flour in proportion. — 

 Boil about three quarters of an hour. 



Bread Pudding. — A nice pudding may be made 

 of bits of bread. They should be crumbled and 

 soaked in milk over night. In the morning, beat 

 up three eggs wth it, add a little salt, tie it uj) in 

 a bag, or in a pan that will exclude every drop of 

 water, and boil it little more than an hour. No 

 piuldings shoidd be put into the pot, till the water 

 boils. Bread prepared in the same way makes 

 good plum puddings. Milk enough to make it 

 quite soft ; four eggs ; a little cinnamon ; a spoon- 

 ful of rose-water, or lemon-brandy, if you have it ; 

 a tea-cupful of molasses, or sugar to your taste, if 

 you prefer it ; a few dry, clean raisins, sprinkled 

 in, and stirred up thoroughly, is all that is neces- 

 sary. It should bake or boil two hours. 



Rennet Pudding. — If your husband brings home 

 company when you are luiprepared, rennet pud- 

 ding may be had at five minutes' notice ; provided 

 you keep a piece of calf's rennet ready prepared 

 soaking in a bottle of wine. One glass of this 

 wine to a quart of milk will make a sort of cold 

 custard. Sweetened with white sugar, and spiced 

 with nutmeg, it is very good. It should be eaten 

 immediately ; in a few hours it begins to curdle. 



Custard Puddings. — Custard puddings suffi- 

 ciently good for common use can be made with 

 five eggs to a quart of milk, sweetened with brown 

 sugar, and spiced with cinnamon, or nutmeg, and 

 very Uttle salt. It is well to boil your milk, and 

 set it away till it gets cold. Boiling milk enriches 

 it so nnich, that boiled skim-milk is about as good 

 as new milk. A little cinnamon, or lemon peel, 

 or peach leaves, if you do not dishke the taste, 

 boiled in the milk, and afterwards strained from 

 it, give a pleasant flavor. Bake fifteen or twenty 

 minutes. 



Rice Pudding. — If you want a common rice 



it in to boil When the water is cold. Wash i(, tie 

 it in a bag, leave plenty of room for it to swell, 

 throw it in when the water boils, and let it boil 

 about an hour and a half. The same sauce answers 

 for all tliese kinds of puddings. If you have rice 

 left cold, break it up in a little warm milk, pour 

 custard over it, and bake it as long as you should 

 custard. It makes very good puddings and pies. 

 Bird's JVest Pudding. — If you wish to make 

 what is called ' bird's nest puddings,' prepare your 

 custard, — take eight or ten pleasant ai)])les, pare 

 them, and dig out the core, but leave them whole, 

 set them in a pudding dish, pour your custard 

 over them, and bake them about thirty minutes. 



From Cobbett's Advice lo Young Men. 



MARRIED .LIFE. 



A bare glance at the thing shows that a farmer, 

 above all men living, can never carry on his affairs 

 with profit without a wife, or a mother, or a daugh- 

 ter, or some person. To be sure a wife woidd 

 cause some trouble, perhaps to this yoimg 

 man. There may be the doctor and the nurse to 

 gallop after at midnight ; there might be, and there 

 ought to be, if called for, a little complaining of 

 late hours ; but what are these, and all the other 

 troubles that could attend a married life, what are 

 they, compared to the one single circumstance of 

 the want of a wife at your bedside during one 

 single night of illness ! A nurse ! what is a nurse 

 to do for you ? Will she do the tilings that a wife 

 will do ? Will she watch your looks and motions 

 and your half uttered wishes ? Will she use the 

 urgent persuasions so often necessary to save life 

 in such cases ? Will she by her acts convince 

 you that it is not a toil, but a delight, to break her 

 rest for your sake ? In short, now it is that you 

 find that what women themselves say is strictly 

 true, namely, that without wives men are poor help- 

 less mortals. 



As to the expense, there is no comparison be- 

 tween that of a woman servant and a wife, in the 

 house of a farmer or a tradesman. The wages 

 of the former is not the expense ; it is the want of 

 a common interest with you : and this you can 

 obtain in no one but a wife. But there are the 

 children. I for my part firmly believe that a 

 farmer, married at twentyfive, and having ten 

 children during the first ten years, woidd be able 

 to save more money during these years, than a 

 bachelor of the same age would be able to save, 

 on the same farm, in a like space of time, he 

 keeping only one maid servant. One single fit of 

 sickness of two months' duration, might sweep 

 away more tlian all the children would cost in the 

 whole ten years, to say nothing of the continual 

 waste and pillage, and the idleness, going on from 

 the first day of the ten years to the last. 



Besides, is the money all ? What a life to lead ! 

 No one to talk with without going froin home, or 

 without getting some one to come to you ; no 

 friend to sit and talk to ; no pleasant evenings to 

 pass ! Noliody to share with you your sorrows or 

 your pleasures ; no soid having a common interest 

 with you ; all aroimd you taking care of them- 

 selves, and no care of you ; no one to cheer you 

 in moments of depression ; to say all in a word, no 

 one to love you, and no prospect of ever seeing 

 any such one to the end of your days. For, as to 

 parents and brethren, if you have them, they have 

 other and very different ties ; and, however lauda 



It does very well in bantering song* to say that 

 a bachelor's life is ' devoid of care.' My observa- 

 tion tells me the contrary, and reason concurs, in 

 this regard, with experience. When he quits his 

 home, he carries with him cares that are unknown 

 to the married man. If, indeed, like tiie <'onnnon 

 soldier, lie have merely a lodging place, and a bun- 

 dle of clothes given in charge to some one, he may 

 be at his ease ; but, if he possesses anything of a 

 horup, he ia never sure of its safety ; and this un- 

 certainty is a great enemy to cheerfulness ; and as 

 to efficiency in life, how is the bachelor to equal 

 the married.' In the case of the farmers and 

 tradesmen, the latter have so clearly the advantage 

 over the former, that one need hardly insist upon 

 the point ; but it is and must be the same in all 

 situations in life. To provide for a wife and chil- 

 dren is the greatest of all spurs to exertion. — 

 Many a man naturally prone to idleness has be- 

 come active and industrious when he saw a 

 family around him ; many a dull sluggard has 

 become, if not a bright man, at least a bustUng 

 man, when roused to exertion by his love. In- 

 deed, if a man will not exert himself for tlie 

 sake of a wife and children, he can have no ex- 

 ertion in hini ; or he must be dead to all the dic- 

 tates of nature. 



Our Children can do as we did. — Dr told 



me, that when the schoolmaster went to one of 

 the families, the man treated the schoolmaster po- 

 litely, but could not encourage him : but the good 

 wife said, ' I have no notion of these schoolmas- 

 ters ; it is only to make money. I know as nuich 

 as most people do; and when I was young, a 

 schoolmaster came round, and I was signed for a 

 (piartor, and I went two or three days, and I did 

 not know one bit more than I did before I went, 

 and then } was signed to the singing school, and 1 

 went two or three days, and I did not know ojie 

 bit more than I did before, and I reckon I know 

 as much as most people, who go to these schools, 

 and our children can do as we did.' 



From East India Papers. 

 An extra nmnber of the India Gazette, which 

 we have unfortimately mislaid, contains a long 

 and friendly notice of Dr Bowditch's translation of 

 La Place. Some mortification is expressed, that 

 the work should have come from Boston, in North 

 America, instead of Cambridge, in England. — 

 ' Why is it,' the reviewer asks, ' that British math- 

 ematicians should have so tamely allowed this 

 glory to be snatched from their hands.' 



The Hobart-Town (Van Diemen's Land) Cou- 

 rier celebrates a radish, 'as thick as a stout man's 

 thigh, and from ten to eleven feet high.' 



Infant Schools have been established at tiie 

 British Colony in South Africa. 



It is a proof at once of the imiversality of the 

 press and of the English language, tliat the same 

 discussions on the question of parliamentary re- 

 tbrm, which have circulated throughout the United 

 Kingdom and Nortli America, are also finding their 

 way through India in the Calcutta gazettes. — 

 Salem Gazette. 



ble your feelings as son and brother, those feel- 

 pudding to retain its flavor, do not soak it, or put ' ings are of a very diflTerent character. 



Most Unfortunate. — The insurance of Mrs 

 Staats, of Buffalo, whose loss is estimated at 

 .$10,000 by the late fire, expired at 12 o'clock of 

 the very day on which the conflagration occurred 

 in the afternoon! 



