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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



DOMESTIC KECIPES. 



SELECTED FBOM VABIOOS SOUBCES. 



To KoAST Fowls. — Pick and draw them; be care- 

 ful not to break the gall-bag in drawing, as, if the gall 

 be spilled, it will render any part which it touches bit- 

 ter; a fowl should be so cleanly drawn as to require 

 uo washing, but merely to be wiped out with a clean 

 diy cloth. Singe them; then press domi the breast 

 bone. Break the legs by the middle of the first joint, 

 draw out the smews, and cut off the parts at the 

 break. Put the ^zzard in one pinion and the Uver 

 in the other, and turn the points on the back; put a 

 skewer in the first joint of the pinion and bring the 

 middle of the leg close to it; put the skewer through 

 the middle of the leg and through the body, and the 

 same on the other side; put another skewer through 

 the small of the leg and the sidesman, and another 

 through the other side. Cat the head off close to 

 the body, leaving sufficient skin to tie on the back. 

 Suspend' it neck downwards. Baste with butter for 

 some time after putting to the fire. They will re- 

 quire from half an hour to an hour, accorchng to the 

 size. When fowls are large they are very good stuffed 

 like turkey. 



Serve roast fowls with melted butter or gra^y 

 sauce. Before you send them to table, remove all 

 skewers and strings which may have been used in 

 trussmg. Fowls and all other feathered animals are 

 served with the breast upwards. 



HoE Cake. — Stir together a quart of Indian meal, 

 and a tea-spoonful of salt, and a piece of butter the 

 size of an egg. Wet it with milk, not very stiff; af- 

 ter you have stirred all well together, spread your 

 dough about half an inch thick, upon a smooth board 

 prepared for the purpose. Rub it over with sweet 

 cream, and set it up, before a good fire, supporting 

 the board with a fiat-iron. When it is well browned 

 turn it over, loosening it vnth a knife. After moisten- 

 mg it with cream, brown the other side, as before. 

 When it is done, cut into square cakes, and send them 

 to the table, hot; split and butter them at table. 



Buckeye Bread. — Take a pint of new milk, warm 

 from the cow, add a tea-spoonful of salt, and stu- in 

 fine Indian meal until it becomes a thick batter; add 

 a gill of fresh yeast, and put it in a warm place to 

 rise; when it is' very light, stir into the batter three 

 beaten eggs, adding wheat flour until it has become 

 of the consistence of dough; knead it thoroughly, 

 and set it by the fire until it begins to rise; then make 

 it up into small loaves or cakes, cover them with^ a 

 thick napkm, and let them stand until they rise again, 

 then bake in a quick oven. 



Kextucky Corx Cake. — ^Take a quart of corn 

 meal, put in it a spoonful of salt, and water enough 

 to make a stiff dough. Knead it into a cake. Then 

 rake open the ashes on the hottest part of the hearth; 

 put in the cake, and cover it with hot ashes, and then 

 with coals. It -will take two hours to bake it; when 

 done wash off the ashes with a wet cloth. 



Minot's Pudding. — A baker's loaf sliced, the crust 

 taken off, the slices buttered, laid upon a flat dish, 

 and a custard poured over, as much as the bread will 

 absorb; let it stand half an hour, then fry it 



To Make Yellow Butter ix Winter. — Put in 

 yolk of eggs just before the butter comes, near the 

 termination of the churning. This has been repeat- 

 edly tried, and it makes very fine, sweet butter. It is 

 kept by many as a great secret, but its gi-eat value 

 requires publicity. 



Cure for Boxe-Felox. — A coirespondent of the 

 Baltimore Clipper, says that a thimlileful of sn/t 

 soap and quicksilver, niLxed and bound tightly over 

 the felon, will draw it to a head in the course of ten 

 or twelve hours. The curative can then be removed, 

 and by the application of the usual poultices, the sore 

 will soon be healed. This remedy is said to be a veiy 

 severe one, but altogether preferable to the disease. 

 Bone-felous of late years are quite common, and the 

 remedy, if effectual, will prove a real blessing to the 

 sufferers. 



Gum Paste. — IMr. A. Tate^i, of Philadelphia, gives 

 the following recipe for making gum paste, in the 

 Scieiitijic American: Take of gum arable 3 ounces, 

 white sugar 1 ounce, cold water 4 J omices, acetic 

 acid (vinegar) | ounce. The gum should first be dis- 

 solved in water, then add the sugar, and lastly the 

 acid. This affords a beautiful, almost colorfess and 

 permanent paste, possessing the adhesive quaUties of 

 the gum, and will answer almost all the puiposes for 

 which an adhesive paste is desired. 



IxsTAXTAXEous Black Ixk. — The Scientific Ameri- 

 can has the follo\\iug : " Dissolve one ounce of ex- 



tract of logwood in 72 ounces of warm rain water, 

 then filter (strain) and add, while wann, a solution of 

 30 grains of neutral chromate of potash in a very 

 Uttle warm water; shake it well and the ink is made." 



RULES IX BREEDING STOCK. 



Mr. Clixe, a distinguished anatomist and surgeon, 

 and one of the most scientific and successful breeders 

 and Nvi'itera on stock breeding that England has ever 

 produced, lays down the follo^^■iug rules on this subject : 



Although the form of domestic animals has been greatly 

 improved by selecting with care those possessed of tlie 

 best shape for breeding, vet the theory of improvement 

 has not been so well understood that rules could bo laid 

 down for directing the practice in every case ; and although 

 the external form has been much studied, and the propor- 

 tions well ascertained, these are but indications of iiUernal 

 structure. The principles of improving it must, therefore, 

 be founded on a knowlede of the structure and use of the 

 internal parts ; and of these, the lungs are of the first im- 

 porta,nce ; it is on their size and soundness that the strength 

 and health of an animal principally depend — the power of 

 converting food into nourishment being in proportion to 

 their size, an animal with large lungs being capable of 

 converting a given quantity of food into more nourishment 

 than one with smaller lungs, and therefore having a greater 

 aptitude to fatten. The external indications of the size 

 of the lungs are the form and size of the chest, but a deep 

 chest is not capacious, unless it be proportionately broad. 



The pelvis is the cavity formed by the junction of the 

 haunch-bones with the bone of the rump, and it is essen- 

 tial that this cavity should be large and capacious ; its size 

 is indicated by the width of the hips and the breadth of 

 the twist — which is the junction of the thighs — the breadth 

 of the loins being always in proportion to that of the chest 

 and pelvis. The head should be small ; the length of the 

 neck in proportion to the height of the animal ; the mus- 

 cles and tendons large, the strength of the animal depend- 

 ing more on the muscles or tendons than on the bones. 

 Many animals with large bones are still weak, and those 



