380 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



Recipe for making Potato Pudding. — Take one pound of potatoes, half a pound of frcBh 

 butter, mix them well together and press them through a cullender ; then add the yolks of 

 eight eggs, the whites of four eggs, half a pound of sugar, and a tea-spoonfull of butter — to 

 which add mace, citron, or currants, if you choose. S. 



In our last we gave you a recipe for buckwheat cakes ; but as the idea of soda is stai'tling, 

 and may frighten you from that, wo give another whicli you may rely upon as being ^rs<- 

 rate. 



To MAKE Buckwheat Cakes. — Warm the earthen pot well by the fire before the meal ie 

 put into it ; but do not let it be so hot as to scorch the meal. To one-half peck of buck- 

 wheat meal put a common sized tea-cupfuU of good yeast — first mixing the meal with water the 

 wannth of new milk, and some salt in it — and mix it well together with the yeast. The bat- 

 ter should be made about the same consistency as that for pancakes. If the batter is set 

 about midnight it will be ready for cakes at breakfast — at about 8 or 9 o'clock in the morn- 

 ing — if set with good yeast. A deep pan should be put imder the pot, and the pot contain- 

 ing the batter should be set near the fire, but not too near or it will tuni sour. 



These cakes to be served up '• hot and hot," and eaten with an abundance of good butter ; 

 to which some may choose to add nice synip or honey, but not molasses, if in a Christian 

 country. S. 



To Cure Injuries to Trees. — When the ornamental or fi-uit trees, in yard or garden, 

 which may happen to be your pets, get injured, as they often do, by the carelessness of men- 

 folks, you should remember that such wounds of the bark or body not only injure and im- 

 pair the growth and beauty of the tree, but it is in such injuries, jirecisely, that insects choose 

 to deposit their eggs. The best thing to be done then is to scoop out the decayed part, bark 

 and wood, and cover the wound with a good coat of tar, to which should be added a little 

 tallow and saltpeti-e, to be renewed from time to time as it hajipeus to be exhaled. This 

 application, it is said, will prevent rapid decay, offend the insects, and assist the growth of a 

 new bark over the wound. What a field does the study of insect and vegetable life open to 

 the female mind, and how congenial to her domestic duties and position in life ! 



The Wife. — It needs no guilt to break a husband's heart; the absence of content, the 

 mutterinss of spleen, the untidy dress, the cheerless home, the forbidding scowl and desert- 

 ed hearth : these, and other nameless neglects, without a crime among them, have harrowed 

 to the quick the heart's core of many a man, and planted there beyond the reach of cure, 

 the germ of dark despair. Oh ! may Woman, before that sight arrives, dwell on the recol- 

 lections of her youth, and, cherishing the dear idea of that tuneful time, awaken and keep 

 alive the promise she then so kindly gave. And, though she may be the injured, not the in- 

 juring one — the forgotten, not the forgetful wife — a happy allusion to the hour of peaceful 

 'love — a kindly welcome to a comfortable home — a smile of love to banish hostile words — a 

 kiss of peace to pardon all the past, and the hardest heart that ever locked itself within the 

 breast of selfish man, will soften to her charms, and bid her live, as she had hoped, her years 

 hi matchless bliss — loved, loving, and content — the soother of the sorrowing hour — the source 

 of comfort and the spring of joy. [Chambers's Journal. 



Polishing. — The ladies are very fond of keeping the door-knobs, spoons, plates, &c., in 

 brilliant order. Now, if instead of water and chalk and such preparations, ladies will use 

 ramphinie and rotten stone, a far brighter, more durable, and quicker polish can be obtained 

 than in any other way. Camphene is the article used fur producing the exquisite polish of 

 Daguerreotype plates ; and notliing has been found to equal it. 



To DESTROY Red Ants. — Every housekeeper may not know how to get rid of these trou- 

 blesome little intruders. Place a piece of fat bacon, or a pan of grease or butter, near the place 

 where they enter the kitchen or pantry. This will soon attract them together, wheu they 

 can be easily removed, or destroyed by a little hot water. Thousands may be destroyed in 

 this way in a few days. 

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