AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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beaten). Stir the milk well while pouring in the 
eggs. Then set it on the fire again and let it just 
boil, when it is immediately poured through a 
strainer to remove all lumps. When cool, put it 
in the freezer, and proceed the same as for pure 
creams. 
Another.—4 qts. milk ; 2 lbs. sugar ; 10 eggs. 
To be mixed same as the first. The flavoring rnay 
he added to the milk, or, if extracts are used, add 
them to the milk when strained into the freezer. 
Freezing the Mixture. —To do this well, re¬ 
quires a few trials, but is soon learned. The 
apparatus described in our last Vol. page 215, 
(July No.) facilitates the work, but for making 
a small quantity for occasional home use, a tin 
pail, a pail or tub large enough to receive it and 
the ice and salt around it, with a paddle like a 
pudding stick to stir and beat the cream, are suf¬ 
ficient. 
The freezing mixture is made of one lb. of coarse 
salt to 3 lbs. ice pounded as fine as peas, well 
mingled together. Place a thick lump of ice in 
the bottom of the tub, set the can or pail contain¬ 
ing the cream upon it, and fill the tub to near the 
top with the ice and salt. Pour in the cream, put 
on the cover and whirl the kettle around by the 
handle, first one way, then the other, until it be¬ 
gins to freeze pretty freely at the sides. Then 
take the ‘‘beater” and handle it so that with 
each stroke the frozen cream is scraped down 
from the sides of the can ; this brings fresh por¬ 
tions of the cream in contact with the freezing 
surface, and ensures a uniform congelation. The 
beating is also necessary to impart “ lightness ” 
to the cream, by forcing in air. Pure cream, 
properly frozen, is very soft, smooth, and light to 
the taste—if not properly done, it will seem coarse 
and contain frozen particles. The more milk that 
may be added to cream, the more difficulty in beat¬ 
ing it light; for milk, or even eggs and milk, 
will not catch and retain the air like pure cream ; 
neither will it taste so soft and smooth. 
If the cream freeze very rapidly to the side, 
indicating the use of too much salt, raise the can 
out of the tub for a few minutes, but continue to 
use the beater. As a general rule, a can half-full 
of pure cream, should be beaten until it is very 
nearly full, or double in quantity; the freezing 
going on at the same time. 
When the beater is taken out, scrape it off 
lightly, so that none of the greasy, soapy sub¬ 
stance which may have collected upon it, will get 
into the cream—as it would spoil the flavor and 
quality. When the cream is finished, draw off'a 
part, or all of the water in the tub, and place 
around the can more ice, in larger pieces and 
with less proportion of salt. If the cream is not 
to be used for some hours, immerse the can in the 
ice and salt, and lay a cloth over the tub. These 
directions are to be observed in making all kinds 
of ice creams ; during the whole process great 
care must be taken to keep any salt or salt wa¬ 
ter from the cream, as this would ruin the flavor. 
Eecipes. 
To Settle Coffee.— J. Armstrong, Columbia 
Co., Wis., recommends the following method: 
Brown the coffee in the usual manner, and when 
nearly cool, break an egg upon it, and stir it well, 
to have each kernel coated. The coffee should 
not be warm enough to cook the egg. Use one 
egg to a pound of coffee ; let it dry well before 
grinding. When boiled for use, it will settle with¬ 
out further trouble. 
Pork Apple Pie, contributed by “ la.” Line 
a deep plate with pie crust, pare and slice apples 
prunt? 1 to nearly fill it, sweeten and spice to the 
taste. Cut slices of salt pork very thin ; lay them 
over the apple, and cover with the top crust. 
Bake two hours. [Rather greasy to digest well.] 
Mrs. E. Gilbert, Lenawee Co., Mich., contrib¬ 
utes the following three: 
Cheap Sponge Cake.— One cup white sugar, 
two tablespoonfuls butter, one cup sweet milk, 1 
teaspoonful cream tartar, | teaspoonful soda. A 
little less than a pint ot flour, 1 egg, and nutmeg 
to taste. 
Cookies. —One cup butter, two cups sugar, one 
cup sweet milk, half teaspoonful soda, nutmeg or 
caraway, for spice ; mix with flour until quite 
stiff, roll thin and bake quick. These I think su¬ 
perior to those made with eggs. They improve 
with age if kept in a covered stone jar. 
A Good Plain Gingerbread. —One coffee cup 
thick cream, one cup molasses, one tosspoonful 
soda, ginger to taste, a salt spoonful of salt. Stir 
quite thick with flour, and bake in square tins. 
To Keep Hams in Summer. —Contributed to 
the Agriculturist. Cut in slices and trim off the 
rind and outside ; fry it about half as much as you 
would for the table. Packit tightly in jars ; pour 
over it the fat that fries out, and enough lard 
to cover it; close the jar tight, set in a cool place, 
and it will keep fresh all Summer. 
183 
Armer, J. D. Baldwin, Howard Adams, J. McKinnio 
Turner, and Edward C. Hinman. 
No. M. Anagrams. 
I’ve no tax, transposed reads Vexation. 
Rural grist Tout, “ Agriculturist. 
No lies etc., “ Elections. 
Ah 1 of sin, “ Fashion. 
Answered correctly by A. E. Smith, Robert Forsyth, 
Mary E. Schoonmakcr, A. J. B , and Robert C. Himnan, 
(This lad sent us a model letter, telling his story in few 
words, giving answers to all the problems, and better 
still, giving his mother credit for helping hi in.—We shall 
be pleased to hear from him again, as well as from all 
our other girls and boys.) 
No. 10. Aunt Sue’s Rebus. The picture reads “11 in well 
round-ed is II-arm in gfeet-ewer;” which pronounced 
quickly, with the right emphasis gives the answer, “A 
chin well rounded, is a charming feature.” 
Read correctly by Mary L. Bartley, Samuel F. Rath 
von, Angell Matthewson, A. E. Smith, Edward C. Mia 
man, and Carrie T. Warner. 
Bread Cake.— To one cup of light bread 
sponge, add one egg, one cup of flour, half a cup 
of butter, half a teaspoonful of saleratus, spice to 
your taste ; stir well together, and put immedi¬ 
ately in the oven : bake as for bread. 
Baked Indian Pudding —Contributed to the- 
Agriculturist by Mrs. L. Bright, Isabel Co., Mich. 
Scald ten tablespoonfuls of Indian meal in three 
pints of sweet milk : add an ounce of butter, 
and sugar or molasses to sweeten to the taste. 
Bake two or three hours. 
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'i'Bie Editor with his Yotmgr Readers, 
No 11 is worked by the follow 
ing rule. Start from any cornel 
you choose, but after the first 
lime, jump into the corner last 
started from ; thus, first place a 
kernel at a and jump lo c, then 
start from a vacant corner, on 
a line with c and jump to c, and so 
on, until the nine kernels are placed. Solved by E. P. 
Nichols, Edward II. Burd, A. E. Smith, EiroyM. Avery, 
and Edward C. Hinman. 
No. 12. Labyrinth. Additional answers received from 
G. L. Emery, Edward C. Hinman. GilbertSpicer, W. A. 
Buckhont, Silas Bice, Fitch A. Rockwell, Doltic Noble, 
P. P. Halladay, and Robert Mowbray. 
New Problems. 
Answers to Problems. 
No. 13. Illustrated Rebus. A man can knot purse-ne 
the road two-on-R fairn and well-th wilhe-ou t-in-duster 
y per-sea-V-ear-ants and kn-owl-edge.—This properly 
straightened out, ’reads A man can not pursue the 
road to honor, fame, and wealth, without industry, perse¬ 
verance and knowledge.” Translated correctly by Anna 
M. Pettinger, “A Reader,” Wm. H. Simmons, D H. Du 
Bois, H. H. Witmer, J. L. McCreery, Flora and Sylvia 
MeClintock, John II. Young, A. E. Smith, Elroy M. 
Avery, T. Howard Corning, P. P. Halladay, Mrs. F. R. 
Wildbahn, Robt. Forsyth, Fitch A. Rockwell, Joseph 
Flowers, Charles Flowers, Wm. Bradshaw, S Henry 
Hickock, E. C. Clairborne, Henrietta V. Geron, Maggie 
A. Walker, Mary E. Schoonmaker, A. J. B., George I’. 
No. 16. The Accountant's Puzzle. 
A Farmer was much puzzled upon receiving the fol¬ 
lowing bill from an illiterate mechanic. The amount, $7 
was correct, but the difficulty is to find how it w as ob¬ 
tained. Please make it clear. 
John Stouter, 
To C. Speedy, Dr. 
To 2 Iron Plows, ®$7. $14 
I Wooden do... 7 
1 Wood do... 7 
$7 
No. 17. Anagrams. The transpositions of several of the 
allowing are quite comical. 
’lit on cheering angel. Spare him not. 
l nice cold pie. Moon starers. 
lomic trade. Golden land, 
fay I repent it. Nine thumps. 
This sweet singing bird is a native of England, where 
he is a universal favorite. He is about the size of a reed- 
bird or bobolink. He somewhat resembles the female of 
that species, except that the breast is yellow, am! more 
spotted. You may recognize him by the fact that lie nev¬ 
er alights upon a tree, but always on the ground ; his foot 
is so formed that he can not clasp a branch. His mariner 
of singing, too, is peculiar. Early in the morning he 
springs from the ground, commences Iris song, circles 
round and round, winding his way up to a great bight, 
sinking as he goes, sometimes passing quite out of sight. 
He continues his flight and his song from five to fifteen 
minutes, descending as he arose irr a spiral line, until 
when from one hundred to twenty feet high, he closes 
his wings, shoots down almost like a bullet, until near 
the ground, then spreads his wings lo arrest his motion, 
and alights. 
Seven years since a gentleman procured seventy five 
of these birds from England and liberated them in New¬ 
castle County, Delaware, in the hope that they might 
propagate and become naturalized in this country. A 
year after, he heard of a colony of thi-rn not very distant 
from his' residence, where they spent the Summer anti 
delighted the residents with their music. Since then ho 
has heard but little reliabUconcerning them, but believes 
