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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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rectionsfor putting up the best pickled oysters 
the writer found on New Tear’s day. “Put the 
oysters (say 200), with their juice, into a large sauce¬ 
pan (on the fire, of course): let them simmer'(but 
not boil), until the edges curl, and they become 
solid but not shriveled. On this part of the per¬ 
formance depends success or failure. Now strain 
off the juice and wipe the oysters with a nice 
clean cloth. Let the juice settle, then pour off 
about a quart, leaving the sediment undisturbed. 
To this clear juice, add 1 pint white-wine or 
other vinegar, a little mace, two dozen cloves, 
and a handful of black peppers. Heat it over the 
fire (but don’t let it boil), pour it while hot over 
the oysters. Put them in a stone jar and in two 
days they will be ever so nice, provided the family 
haven’t devoured them the day before.” 
Sweet Apple EPsasMisag-.—Contributed 
to the American Agriculturist, by Mrs. E. M. Voor- 
hees, Seneca Co., N. T.: Pare and core the apples, 
chop them fine, and stir them into a batter made of 
sweet cream, eggs and flour, say three eggs to a pint 
of cream, and flour enough to make it not very 
thick. Stir well, and bake on round buttered tins, 
or pudding dishes. This needs to bake two or three 
hours. The best sauce to eat with it, is sweetened 
cream; any other preferred, will do. 
Oaea.p SSice S®aiel<tliHag'.—Contributed to 
the American Agriculturist by Mrs. Lansing, Jeffer¬ 
son county, N. T. : Soak 2 cups of rice in 1 quart of 
sweet milk for 1 hour. Then add 1 teaspoonful 
salt, % pound raisins, 4 eggs, 1 cup flour. Spice to 
your taste. Pour in a deep dish, and bake 2 hours. 
JPaitiuliaig- Mint. — A lady contributor sug¬ 
gests that the Farmer’s Pudding described in the 
January Agriculturist, page 23, would be much im¬ 
proved by baking two or three hours, instead of 40 
minutes as there recommended. Indian meal needs 
long application of heat to fit it well for food. 
Sweet Apple IPie.—Contributed to the 
American Agriculturist, by Mrs. E. M. Voorhees, 
Seneca Co., N. T.: Pies made of sweet apples used 
in precisely the same way as pumpkins, omitting 
the ginger and adding a little lemon if liked, for 
seasoning, are better to the writer’s taste than 
pumpkin pie itself. Pare, cut, and stew the apples. 
If cooked in a covered deep earthen or other dish 
in the oven, they are better. Strain through a col¬ 
ander, add a little milk—cream is better. If there 
be no eggs to spare, stir in a handful of flour, of, 
about a spoonful to a pie. Sweeten to taste with 
sugar, a nfere trifle will be found sufficient; bake 
a good while in a moderate oven. 
©ridUUe Calces.—Mrs. Dr. J. TV. Smith, of 
Charles City, Iowa, writes to the American Agricul¬ 
turist, that in the absence of buckwheat flour, owing 
to the frosts of 1863, she finds that unbolted wheat 
meal mixed with sweet milk so as to form a rather 
stiff batter, and baked a little longer than buck¬ 
wheat, forms not only an excellent substitute, but 
is in some respects even superior to that article. 
The meal was of spring wheat. [One of the edi? 
tors has thoroughly tried the above and pro¬ 
nounces it a healthful and palatable article.] 
Soft Gimg-ev Cake. —Mix 1 cup of sugar, 
1 of molasses, 1 egg, butter the size of a walnut, 1 
cup cream (milk, or buttermilk will do,) 4 cups flour, 
ginger to taste, and a small teaspoonful of soda. 
It bakes quickly, in iron pans. . 
Sc»l«ledL Cream.”-A lady, “ E.”, Onta¬ 
rio Co., N. Y., writes to the American Agricultur¬ 
ist: : “ To make the dish called ‘ Scalded Cream,’ 
or ‘ Junket ’; two preparations are necessary. 1st, 
place milk as soon as it is obtained, in a cool place, 
in a tin pan, and let it remain undisturbed for 12 or 
24 hours according to the weather. Then, place it 
on the stove to thoroughly heat, hot not toil. When 
the shape of the bottom of the pan is seen clearly 
defined on the cream, it may be set away to cool 
for another 12 hours. 2nd, prepare new milk with 
rennet as for cheese, being careful neither to put 
in too much or it will be bitter, nor to break it lest 
the whey i ise, It should be made in the same dish 
from which it is to be eaten. When it is cur¬ 
dled, some of the cream prepared as above must be 
placed over it, and the whole powdered with sugar 
and nutmeg. To be eaten directly after making.” 
933“ For other Household Items, see “Basket.” 
!©¥§ <k tHEW ©©WMm 
Me Knew Mow, and IM«1 I»is BSest. 
No one can tell what good may come from doing well. 
This is seen in the case of M. Bravay, a very wealthy 
gentleman in France. When a boy, he learned the shoe¬ 
maker’s trade. The business did not pay well in Paris, 
and after travelling about for a while, he went to Egypt 
and worked for a shoemaker in Cairo. One day a gentle¬ 
man brought in an embroidered slipper to be mended, 
and it was handed to Bravay, who was the most skillful 
and careful workman in the shop. When the work was 
finished, the gentleman was so greatly pleased with it, 
that he promised to send for him the next day, to 
give him another job. Accordingly a messenger came and 
conducted him to the Palace of the Viceroy, or reigning 
governor of Egypt, who to Bravay’s surprise was the 
stranger he had previously worked for. The Viceroy 
after a little conversation proposed to him to contract for- 
making shoes for part of his army ; the terms were soon 
settled, and from that time his fortune was made, the re¬ 
sult of knowing how to work, and doing his best. There 
are many more fortunes to be made by following this rule. 
TTSae Slaimg-le I5oa£.—A do oil SS.os-y. 
Little John Cole’s father was about to die, and as he 
had no property to leave to his wife and children, he felt 
very anxious and unhappy. Johnny had been told that 
his father would die, but he did not know what death 
meant; and, therefore, with all the innocence of a good 
little boy, he asked his father what he could do to help 
him. “You cannot help me, Johnny,” said the sick fa¬ 
ther ; “ but when I am gone, you can help your mother.” 
—“Where is papa going to ?” said John, “ Can’t you let 
me go with him?”—“No, nobody can go with me; I 
must go alone.”—“When will papa comeback?” said 
the little fellow; “ without any papa where will we get 
money to buy our bread ?”—“ I shall never come back, my 
dear boy. When people die they never come back.”— 
“ Well, then, will you not to send for us, papa? for we 
can’t live without you.”—“You will break my heart, 
Johnny, if you talk so. I shall not send for you, but God 
will, and then we shall meet again. Now, my dear boy, 
you must stay with your mother, and try to make her 
happy.”—" So I will,” said Johnny, “ but I don’t know 
how to. I can’t work much yet. Yes, I can make 
shingle boats and sell them.”—“You can do better than 
that,” said the father; “ you can be a good boy, and be¬ 
have well, and love your mother, and this will help her 
more than any work you can do.”—“ Well, Pll do all 
that,” said Johnny ; “but people won’t love mother be¬ 
cause I love her, and then where is the bread to come 
from?”—“God will send it, if you are good,” said the 
poor man, who could hardly speak, he was so overcome 
by the innocent talk of his little child. 
The father died ; the poor widow had to go into a single 
room, and work out almost every day to support Johnny 
and his little sister. Johnny did all he could to help his 
mother ; and he did a great deal, for when his mother 
was absent, he took care of little Sis. When she was 
asleep, one day, he took the jack knife that belonged to 
his father, and made what he called a boat, out of a shin¬ 
gle, and then stood at the door and asked every one that 
came along to buy it. “Do you want to buy a boat?” 
said he to a large boy who was passing.— " You get out!” 
said the boy, as he knocked the boat into Johnny’s face 
and broke the mast. The poor boy’s heart was almost 
broken, too, but he made another mast, and stood at the 
door again. Two little girls came along, and Johnny 
asked if they wis.hed to buy a boat.—" What do you call 
it? a boat?” said one of the girls. “It’s a funny look¬ 
ing boat.” “We don’t sail boats,” said the other girl.— 
“Well, you don’t know what fun it is,” said the little 
boat-builder.—“ We have no wish to know,” said they 
as they went off, laughing at poor Johnny. 
Presently an officer of the frigate that was lying in the 
harbor, passed by. “ Please buy my ship ?” said Johnny, 
very imploringly.—“ Did you make it ?» said the officer.— 
“ Yes, I did all myself,” said Johnny.—“ What put it into 
your head to make a ship ?” said the good-natured man.— 
“ Why, you see,” said the little fellow, Sis hasn’t any 
bread to eat, and I thought I’d work and earn some money, 
and buy some.”—'“Who is‘Sis’?” said the Captain.— 
“ Why, don’t you know Sis ?” said Johnny ; “just look in 
here.” So the officer entered, and saw Sis asleep on the 
bed.—“Whom do you belong, t.o ?” said the Captain.— 
“ To mother, now,” said Johnny, “ for father is dead and 
gone away.” Just then the little Sis opened her eyes, and 
seeing the uniform of the officer she began to laugh.— 
“ What do you ask for your ship,” said the Captain.— 
“ One cent, if you can’t give any more,” said Johnny.— 
The Captain gave him a pat on the cheek, and said, 
“ Wait a few minutes, and I’ll come back and buy your 
ship.” He went out and bought two large loaves of bread, 
and gave them to Johnny. He then patted Johnny’s head, 
and told him to be a good boy, and he would come back 
and see his mother. He did call again, and after learn¬ 
ing all about the family, he promised to take care of them ; 
and when Johnny was a large boy he took him on board 
his ship, and when he had grown up and learned all 
about the ship, the Captain made an officer of him, and 
adopted him ; and after a battle, when he was dying of a 
wound he had received, he asked Johnny, who was now 
Lieut. Cole, to hand him that casket on the desk :— 
“ Open it,” said the Captain, giving him a key.—“ What 
do you find there ?” said the Captain.—" Nothing but my 
shingle boat,” said Johnny.—" When you made that boat, 
you made your fortune,” said the Captain. “ Under the 
boat is my last will, and all the property I have is yours.” 
John became a rich man and he deserved it. 
Now, what is the object of this story ?—Merely to teach 
you that, if you are good, and do all you can, God will in 
some way help you. The shingle boat was a small affair 
to the unfeeling boy who broke it, and to the thoughtless 
girls who laughed at it, but to the officer and to God it was 
above all price. Go, then, my young friends, and in 
your conduct imitate Johnny Cole.—S'. S. Gazette. 
lew Muzzles to l»e Answered. 
No. 72. Mathematical Problem .—The wheels of a 
chaise, 5 feet apart, each 4 feet high, in turning within a 
ring, moved so that the outer wheel made two turns, 
while the inner made one. What was the length of the 
circular track described by each wheel ? 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
No. 7S, 74, 75. Puzzling Pictures.— Fig. 1 is designed 
to represent a coxcomb. 
Fig. 2 is what soldiers are 
pleased with. Fig. 3 is 
a vegetable production 
found most abundantly at 
the South, and West. 
Please explain the resem¬ 
blances. Some idea of 
the manner of solving 
these and similar puzzles 
may be gained from in¬ 
specting No. 56, Novem¬ 
ber Number, page 345. 
6. Illustrated Rebus .—Very good advice for all. 
WITH402D 
Answers to Problems and Muzzles. 
The following are the answers to the Mathematical 
Problems, Nos. 62, 63, 64, in January No., page 23 : 
No. 62, the diameter of the gold ball, 248. 206+ inches— 
No. 63, the diameterof the silver ball 659.207+ inches— 
No. 64, area covered by the bills 4869 A., 1 R., 12 Sq. P., 
197 Sq. Ft.. 63 Sq. In— Answers to problems etc. in Feb¬ 
ruary No., page 55.—No. 66. Mathematical Problem. 
The required parts are 8, 12, 5, and 20.—No. 67. Illus¬ 
trated French Rebus. Pai dix nez a cinq clous vis-a-vis 
duroi; which may be read, J’ai dine a St. Cloud, vis-a-vis 
du roi.—No. 68. A Curious Word —Manslaughter, which 
may be divided into man's laughter.—No. 69, Mathemat¬ 
ical Problem. The land of the daughter who had the 
square portion, was worth $1,115,136; the circular por¬ 
tion, $875,827. 8144.—No. 70 Illustrated Rebus. “Matches 
made in hay star of ten ruin us ” or “Matches, made in 
haste, are often ruinous.” No. 71. Genealogical Puzzle. 
Explanation. A man married a widow who had a daugh¬ 
ter : afterward his brother, a widower who had a son, 
married the daughter. Only the following have sent 
in correct answers up to February 6th. Willie F. Ben¬ 
nett, 65; John Montelius, 66; “G. R. B.” 69; Anthony 
Alsop, 64 ; W. S. Negus, 67; C. Addison Northrop, 62, 63, 
64 ; Lucv R. Weeks, 64 ; “fereenhorn”, 66 ; Richard Lov¬ 
ett, 66; E. Byron, 66 ; O. ICirchner, 66. 
