Vol. C— No. 44. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ry fiom gorseberry, or tlie resemblance of the biisb 

 to gorge"; others, as Professor Miirtyn, from its be- 

 ing used as a saiioe with yoiiiii; or green geese, — 

 Gerrard says, it is calleil feaberry (feverberry) in 

 Cheshire, and it has the same in Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire. In Norfolk this term is abbreviiited to 



i'eabes, or, as they pronounce it, fabes. Carberry , •. ■ ,■ u ij 



is another British name for this fruit. The goose- bo, lit up and pour it ,„ your dish ; you n.ay add a 



■ halt pint of - -.--- -1 ...u... J . 



USEFUL. RECEIPTS. 



Celery Sauce for Roasted or Boiled Fowls. — 

 Take a large bunch of celery, wash it very clean, 

 cut it in little thin bits, "nd boil it softly in a little 

 water till it is tender, then add a little beaten 

 mace, some nutmotjs, pejiper and salt, thickened 

 with a good piece of butler rolled in flour, then 



ream, a glass of white wine, and a 

 ■■spoonful of catsup. 



Brown Celery Sauce. — Stew the celery in a lit- 

 tle water, then add mace, nutmeg, pepper, salt, a 

 piece of butter rolled in flour, with a glass of red 

 wine, a spoonful of catsup and half a pint of good 

 gravy, boil all those together and pour thein into 

 the dish. — 



To dress Calfs Head Soup Take a calf's 



head, (with the skin on if you can get it) part of 

 the liver and lights, boil it in six quarts of water, 

 until you can take the bones out, put it on a dish 



berry-bush is a low brarjching, prickly shrub, with 

 trilobate sub pubesoont leiives, one flowored nod- 

 ding peduncles, and pt-nlulous berries, nairy or 

 amootli. It is a native of several parts of Europe, 

 and abounds in the ValUiis in copsewoods. where 

 it pr iduccs a sniiiU, t'reen, liairy, high-flavored 

 fruit. In EngUnd it is naturalized in various pla- 

 ces on old walls, mini, and in the woods and hedg- 

 es about Darlington. It is cultivated in greater 

 perfection in Lancashire than in any other part of 

 Britain ; and next to Lancashire, the climate and 

 treatment of the Lolhians seem to suit this fruit. 

 In Spain and Italy the fruit is scarcely known — 



In France it is neglected and little esteemed. In , , • i 



some parts of Germany and Holland the moderate | thyme and sage, mace and cloves, skim the water , ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ Spartium scoparium.— This 

 temperaiure and humidity of climate seems to suit if there be any fat on it, then put it all back in j ^^^^.^^^ ^^^.^^ .^^ .^^ such great plenty in different 

 the fruit ■ but in no conntrv is its size and beauty the same water that you boiled it in, and let it I ^^ Scotland, EnMnnd, and Ireland, as to sub- 



to be compared with that produced in Lancashire, boil till done ; just before you take it up, put one 1 ^^^^.^ ^^^ ^j. ^^^ commonest purpose,^ of the hou.se- 

 or from the Lancashire varieties cultivated with glass of wine and brown it with a little birntj|^^|^ .^ also one of the most ornamental shrubs 

 care in the more temperate and humid districts of sugar, thicken it wilh a little butter and flour.— It ; ^^^^^ ^^^ ^.^ ^^ decorate the .shrubbery. It grows 

 Britain. Neill observes, that when loreigners you want to make a great deal of soup, you must | ^^ ^^^ ^^. .^ ^^ ^j^. ^^^^ . j,,^ branches are very 

 witness our Laiicnshire gooseberries, they are add a knuckle of veal, as the head only will not i^^^^^^^^ ^^^1 j^^^^^j^.^^^ j^^ bark is quite ffreen. 

 ready to consider them as forming quite a differ- make it rich enough, fry some forcemeat balls and I ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^;,^p,g ^j,,j trifoliate 



BOSTON PUDDING. 

 Make a good common paste with a pound and a ; 

 half of flour, and three quarters of a pound of but' 

 ter. When you roll it out the last time, cut off 

 the edges, till you get the sheet of paste of an even 

 square shape. 



Have ro.idy some fruit sweetened to your taste. 

 If cranberries, gooseberries, dried peaches, or dam- 

 sons, they should be stewed, and made very sweet. , 

 If apples, they should be stewed in a very little wa- 

 ter, draineil, and seasoned w ith nutmeg, roge-water 

 and lemon. If currants, raspberries, or blackber- 

 ries, they should be mashed with sugar, and put 

 into the pudding raw. 



Spread the fruit very thick, all over the sheet of 

 paste, (which must not be rolled out too thin.) 

 When it is covered all over with the fruit, roll it 

 up, and close the dough at both ends, and down 

 the last side. Tie the pudding in a cloth and boil 



Eat it with sugar. It must not be taken out of 



season it with pepper, salt, and sweet marjorum, the pot till just before it is brought to table. 



eot bramh of fruit. Happily thiswbolesome and put in it. If you wish to make the dish without 



useful fruit is to be found in almost every cottage soup, boil the head in the same way, and season it 



"arden in Britain ; and it ought to be considered in the same manner, in the dish, with a little of 



as a part of everv gardener's duty toencourage the the water it was boiled in. thicken it a little with 



introduction of its most useful varieties into these butter and flour, put it in the oven till you think 



liumble emlosures. In Lancashire, and some parts 't is done. 



of the adjoining counties, almost every cottager P«" Sou/?.— To two quarts of peas put two gal- 



who has a uarilen, cultivates the gooseberry, with 'ons of water, three large onions, a handful of 



a view to prizes given at what are called goose- parsley, a little thyme, pepper, and salt. 



berry prize meetings; of these there is annually — 



published an account, with the names and weight •^'"- G"« Famous Buiins.— One pound and a 



of the successful sorts, in what is called the Mm- half of fiour, (a quarter pound left to sift in last) 



c/ie.s'<"r Gooseberry- Book. The prizes vary from and a half a pound of butter cut up fine together ; 



10s. 10 £.5 or £10. Tlie second, third, to the sixth then add four eggs beat to a high froth, four tea- 



and tenth degrees of merit, receiving often pro- cups of milk, half a wine glass of brandy, wine 



portionate pri es. There 



spring to -'make ap," as the 



persons, and the conditions of the exhibition ; and ponnd of sugar, then sifMn the quarter of a pound 



in August to weigh and taste the fruit, and deter- of flour, and when the lumps are all beaten fine, 



mine the prizes. In the gooseberry-book for 1819 set them to rise in the pans they are to be baked 



is an account of 13(j meetings ; the largest berry , in. This quantity will make four square pans full. 



produced, was the Inp sawyer seedling, a red fruit, I — 



weighing 26 dwts. ITgrs.— 40 red, 33 yellow, 47 ' -B'^^A: Cake, much esteemed. — Three pounds of 



green, and 41 white sorts were exhibited, and 14 butter and three pounds of sugar beat to a cream, 



new-named seedlings, which had been distin- three glasses of brandy and two of rose water, 



guished at former meetings, stated as "going out" 

 or about to he sold to propagators. 



Use The fruit was formerly in little esteem ; 



but it has received so much improvement, that it 

 is now considered very valuable for tarts, pies, 

 sauces, and creams, before being ripe, and when 

 at maturity it forms a rich dessert fruit for three 

 months ; and is preserved in sugar for the same 

 purpose, and in water for the kitchen. Unripe 

 gooseberries can be preserved in bottles of water 

 .igainst winter ; the bottles are filled with berries 

 close corked and well sealed ; they are then plac- 

 ed in a cool cellar till wanted. By plunging the 

 bottles, after being corked, into boiling water for 

 a few minutes, (heating them gradually to prevent 

 cracking,) the berries are said to keep better. — 

 London's Encyclopedia of Gardening. 



The upper part being of the former, and the 

 lower part of the latter description ; these will be 

 sometimes retained by the plant for a portion of 

 the winter, but when entirely divested of foliage, 

 its numerous shoo's being green, give to it a pleas- 

 ant appearance. It is the flowers, however, which 

 constitute its principal beauty: these expand in 

 the month of May ; they are large and yellow, 'of 

 a papilionaceous form, and are produced in such 

 profusion in some seasons, as almost to cover the 

 shrub ; the seeds grow in compressed pods, are 

 small, and of a kidney shape. There is a variety 

 with white blossoms, and another with variegat- 

 ed leaves ; there is also the Spartium junceum, pi' 

 .... L _, . , r Spanish Broom, with single and double flowers, 



are meetings held in and rose water each, and one vvine glass of yeast ;, J^ ^,^,^ ,^^^j^,^ .^^ i^ „„t sufiiciently hardy to 



I term is, the sorts, the sfr U ^» together^ with a knife, and add half a j ^__^^^_.^ ^^^ ^.^^^^^ ^^ ^^;^ latitude, though it would 



suit the climate of North Carolina, and south of it. 

 Prince's Horticulture. 



Mthea frutex or Hibiscus syrincu.t. — This shriib 

 grows generally to the height of 10 or 13 feet; 

 but there are some on Long Island which are :il 

 least 1.5 feet in height. It forms a fine conical 

 shaped head, and the different varieties continue 



twenty-eight eggs, and three pounds of flour ad-,, ' . „' ., , „„.„„„, „f =,,mmt.r tn the 

 J 1 i! J . .L ■ 1 c blooming from the latter part ot summer to tne 



ded by degrees together, six pounds of currants, 



end of autumn. The single flowering ones com- 



SIX pounds ot seeded raisins, one ouice ot cinna- ,. .. • .u „ „„,i „,i,o.i thov arr> 



•^ ' mence earliest in the season, and when tliey are 

 mon, one ounce ot nutmeg, three quarters of an , .. iv j ui „..„„ „„mr„or,/.o ^nrt cnn- 

 ' r • nearlv past, the double ones commence, ana con- 

 ounce ot cloves, halt an ounce oi mace, one pound . ■,,<•. . ii,„ f.,rti,or ovnnnainn of 

 „ . ,T 1 1 V, I J fi r \ tiniie till frost prevents the turther expansion oi 



of citron. (Two large loaves baked five hours.) 



A beautiful specimen of American Leghorn, was 

 yesterday left at Mrs. Tew's for inspection by the 

 ladies. It was manufactured of the native spear 

 grass of our meadows, by a young lady of Danvers, 

 [Mass.] and for the beauty and neatness of work- 

 manship, surpasses the imported Leghorn of No. 

 50. We hope some of our munificent ladies will 

 be the purchaser of this superb article at a liberal 

 price, as a reward of native ingenuity and indus- 

 try. — Pkovi. Am. 



their flowers. There are a number of varieties, 

 among which are two new double ones, originated 

 from seed within the last few years. — Ibid. 



Improvement of Morals. i f^entleman at Ha- 

 vana states, that murders in that city are becom- 

 ing very rare, not more than two a week having 

 been perpetrated during the last year. 



Jamaica. — The sugar crop has commenced, anfl 

 a luxuriant harvest was anticipated ; but the cof^ 

 fee plantations yielded very short of their usunt 

 supply. 



