Gether your pees 'bout sun-down. The folrin day, 'bout leven o'clock,
gowge out your pees with your thum nale, like gowgin out a man's
eye-ball at a kote house. Rense your pees, parbile them, then fry 'em
with som several slices uv streekt middlin, incouragin uv the gravy to
seep out and intermarry with your pees. When modritly brown, but not
scorcht, empty intoo a dish. Mash 'em gently with a spune, mix with
raw tomarters sprinkled with a little brown shugar and the immortal
dish ar quite ready. Eat a hepe. Eat mo and mo. It is good for your
genral helth uv mind and body. It fattens you up, makes you sassy,
goes throo and throo your very soul. But why don't you eat? Eat on. By
Jings. Eat. _Stop!_ Never, while thar is a pee in the dish.--_Mozis
Addums._
CORNFIELD OR BLACK EYE PEAS.
Shell early in the morning, throw into water till an hour before
dinner, when put into boiling water, covering close while cooking. Add
a little salt, just before taking from the fire. Drain and serve with
a large spoonful fresh butter, or put in a pan with a slice of fat
meat, and simmer a few minutes. Dried peas must be soaked overnight,
and cooked twice as long as fresh.--_Mrs. S. T._
TO BOIL DRIED PEAS.
Soak in boiling water the night before. Then next day parboil and
drain. Put in fresh water with a piece of middling or ham, and boil
till tender.--_Mrs. Col. W._
TO BOIL DRIED LIMA, OR OTHER BEANS.
Soak overnight. Next morning, soak in fresh water till two hours
before dinner, when boil steadily in a covered saucepan two hours.
Drain and add a large spoonful fresh butter, and a little salt.--_Mrs.
S. T._
CORN PUT UP IN BRINE.
Late as possible in the fall prepare tender roasting ears for winter
use. Strip off the outer shuck, leaving the inner, silky ones next to
the grain. Have ready a nice clean wooden firkin or tub, properly
scalded and sunned. Sprinkle salt over the bottom. Pack closely with
corn. Wash a large flat rock and lay on the top, when nearly full.
Pour strong brine over the corn, covering it well. The day before
using, strip off the shuck and silk, place in a bucket of cold water
(renewing the water once, or twice), and let it stand till ready to
use it. Two ears soaked thus, and shaved into a pot of soup with other
vegetables, will impart a delicious flavor.--_Mrs. S. T._
PICKLES AND CATSUPS.
For pickles and catsups, use the best cider vinegar, it being not only
more wholesome than other kinds of vinegar, but the only sort that
will keep pickles or catsup for any length of time.
In making catsup, or in scalding pickles in vinegar, if a brass kettle
is used, it must be scoured with sand and ashes, washed and wiped dry,
and then scoured with vinegar and salt. By attending to these
directions, the brass kettle may be safely used--though the pickles or
catsup must be poured from it the instant it is taken from the fire,
or they will canker.
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