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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



ties are concerned', the May Flower Apples are all 

 you give them credit for, if they did come up unbid- 

 den on your land. Some of the apples were baked 

 and tested at our social board, and the only regret 

 seemed to be, that you did not send a barrel, in- 

 stead of "the package." They are deserving of 

 extensive cultivation, and the introduar of them, 

 of the thanks of all the apple-eating people. 



Cabies' JHepartmcnt 



DOMESTIC RECIPES. 



Indian Meal Dough Nuts. — A tea-cup and a 

 half of boiling milk, poured on two tea-cups of 

 sifted Indian meal. When it is cool add two tea- 

 cups of wheat flour, one tea-cup of butter, one 

 and a half of sugar, one of yeast, and two 

 eggs with a table spoonful of cinnamon or a grat- 

 ed nutmeg. If not sufficiently stiff, add equal 

 portions of wheat and Indian meal. Let it rise 

 till very light. Roll it about half an inch thick, 

 and cut it into small diamond shaped cakes, and 

 boil them in lard. 



Indian Meal Short Cakes. — Stir into a pint 

 of sweet milk, three well beaten eggs, add a little 

 salt, and half a cup of butter, with enough sifted 

 Indian meal to make a thick batter. Drop it from 

 a large spoon, upon buttered tins. Bake them in 

 a quick oven — when they are lightly browned they 

 are done. Send them to table hot, and eat them 

 with butter. 



Indian Meal Waffler. — Boil two cups of 

 hominy very soft, add an equal quantity of sifted 

 Indian meal, a table spoon full of salt, half a tea- 

 cup of butter, and three eggs, with milk sufficient 

 to make a thin batter. Beat all well together, 

 and bake in waffle irons. When eggs cannot be 

 procured, yeast is a good substitute. Put a spoon- 

 ful in the batter, and let it stand an hour to rise. 



To Boil Ham. — Wash the ham in cold water 

 two or three times, and put in a kettle of hot 

 (not boiling) water to cover it ; let it boil gently, 

 according to its weight, (fifteen minutes to each 

 pound) ; it must be kept slowly boiling all the 

 time; keep the pot covered except to take off the 

 scum as it rises ; if it is like to boil over, take the 

 lid partly off. 



Putting meat down to boil in cold water draws 

 out its juices. Hard or fast boiling makes it tough 

 and hard. 



When it is done, take off the skin, trim off the 

 under side neatly, and put spots of pepper and 

 stick cloves at regular intervals over the whole 

 upper surface. Or dredge it well with wheat 

 flour or rolled crackers, and brown it in a hot oven 

 or before a hot fire. Serve hot with the gravy 

 from it, and boiled vegetables ; or it may be 

 served cold. Trim the bone with parsley or the 

 delicate leaves of celery, and put sprigs of the 

 same around it on the dish ; lemon sliced and 

 dipped in flour, or batter and fried, may be laid 

 over the ham and on the dish. Mashed potatoes, 

 stewed apple, or cranberry, dressed celery, or 

 boiled spinach, or cauliflower and mashed turnips, 

 are served hot with ham. 



• With cold ham serve pickles or dressed celery, 

 or both, and bread and butter sandwich. 



Bob's Pcparlment. 



THE SUIiKY BOY. 



This is a species of ill-temper with which you 

 are all familiar. We see persons afflicted with it, 

 almost every day — and a sad affliction it is, too, 

 both to themselves and to their neighbors. There 

 is Robert — for instance — a good boy, in many re- 

 spects, but once in a while he has a desperate fit 

 of the sulks, which nearly if not quite balances 

 the credit side of his character, and leaves him 

 with more demerits than merits. So long as he 

 can have his own way, every thing goes on pleas- 

 antly, but let his f;\.ther interfere with some plan 

 he has formed, or set him about some job he does 

 not like, and you will soon find out what his tem- 

 per is. For hours after, perhaps for a day or two, 

 he is surly, morose and gloomy. He says but lit- 

 tle, but when he speaks, he snaps and growls like 

 an angry wolf. He pouts, scowls and looks sour 

 at every body, friends as well as foes ; and should 

 you attempt to reason kindly with him on his fol- 

 ly he grows more obstinately sullen than ever. 

 Do you ask what good all this does 1 I do not 

 know. There certainly can be no pleasure in thus 

 punishing one's self; on the contrary, he greatly 

 aggravates his disappointment. A cheerful, 

 sprightly temper makes its possessor happy ; but 

 a sulky one can only render its owner wretched. 

 The lad I have described indulges only occasional- 

 ly in these fits ; but there is danger that this sul- 

 len state of mind will after a while become per- 

 manent with him, if he does not soon break him- 

 self of the habit. He is gradually souring his dis- 

 position, and the habit is growing upon him. It 

 will be well if he does not turn out in the end a 

 mere Nabal — the churl whosecharacter is described 

 in 1 Sam. 25. — Boy''s Own Guide. 



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English Fancy Lop-ear Rabbits. 



THE undersigned will be happy to show a choice lot of im 

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