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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



powdered white sngar till they are well coated 



with it. 



Nut Cake. 



Beat two cups of sugar and' two-thirds of a cup 

 of butter and two eggs together for fifteen minutes. 

 Mix itwo teaspoonfuls of cream tartar in three 

 cups of flour and aitd it to the sngar, butter and 

 eggs. Then dissolve a small tcafpoonful of salcr- 

 atus or soda in a cup of milk and stir it all well 

 together. Pour it into a broad pan that has been 

 well buttered. Sift sugar over it, and then cover 

 it with the meats of walnuts. Bake it twenty min- 

 utes. 



Cocoa-nut Cakes. 



Beat the whites of three eggs very light and dry ; 

 stir into them very gradually ten ounces of pow- 

 dered sngar, then stir in as much grated nut as 

 will make a stiff paste. Take a tablcspoonful in 

 your hands and roll and form it like a pyramid 

 for each cake. Place them on paper upon tins and 

 bake them in rather a cool oven till just a little 

 brown. 



Dimples. 



Beat the whites of three eggs very dry; add 

 gradually three-quarters of a pound of sugar, and 

 beat it till ft is well mixed. Blanch almonds and 

 cut them into pieces as small as peas, and stir 

 them into the egg and sugar — you will want three- 

 quarters of a pound of almonds for three eggs. 

 Drop the mixture in spots as large as an old-fash- 

 ioned cent on white paper, upon a tin, and bake it 



in a cool oven. 



Kisses. 



Beat the whites of three eggs to a froth, then 

 stir in powdered white sugar, a little at a time, till 

 you have formed a very thick batter. Add two or 

 three drops of the essence of lemon. Wet a sheet 

 of white paper and lay it on a tin, and drop this 

 mixture upon it in lumps about the size and shape 

 of a walnut. Set them in a cool oven, and as soon 

 as their surface is hardened take them out, and 

 remove them from the paper with a broad-bladed 

 knife. Let the oven cool still more, then place 

 these little cakes— laying the flat part of two to- 

 gether—on a sieve, and return them to the oven ; 

 where they must remain for fifteen minutes before 

 they are done. 



Sugar Candy. 



Three cups of sugar, one cup of vinegar and one 



cup of water. Flavor with anything you please, 



or drop in nutmeats cut in small pieces, and boil 



gently till it will harden when dropped in cold 



water. 



Molasses Candy. 



One cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, and a 

 piece of butter an inch square. Boil it till it will 

 rope ; then stir in half a teaspoonful of soda, and 

 pour it immediately into a buttered dish. When 

 it is cool pull it and cut it into strips. 



Chocolate Candy. 

 One cup of sugar, one cup of molasses. Boil it 

 till it will rope, then grate into it two ounces of 

 chocolate, (one quai-ter of a cake,) and after it is 

 well stirred in, pour it into a flat dish ; and before 

 it is cold cut it into pieces about an inch square. 



Nena. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 "WOKMS IW FLOWER POTS. 



Me. Editor : — Will you or some of your coitcs- 

 pondents tell me through the columns of New 

 England Farmer the troul)le frith my house 

 plants. The dirt is full of white worms, from one- 

 fourth to half an inch in length. I have used 

 woods dirt, and that became wormy in the same 

 way. My Monthly Rose seems to sufler worst of 

 any. One of my neighbors has one that troubles 

 her the same way. m. c. 



NoHhfield, Vt., March, 1868. 



Remarks.— We should advise our correspon- 

 dent to adopt the following plan. Take the plant 

 from the pot, carefully removing the dirt from the 

 roots. Wash the roots, taking care not to break 

 them. Then repot, in dirt that has been heated in 

 an oven sufficiently to kill any eggs of insects, or 

 other animal life that may be in the soil. A little 

 air slaked lime mixed with the dirt will have a 

 tendency to keep out the worms, besides being 

 beneficial to the plant. Mix in a little powdered 

 charcoal with the dirt, which will keep it sweet, 

 and add to the thrift of the plant. Roses need 

 soil and drainage, and, in the words of Breek's 

 Book of Flowers, '-arc not injured l)y heavy manur- 

 ing. I have found that the more manure, if not 

 an extravagant quantity, the better the bloom." 



