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To make Crullers.
One pound of flour to half a pound of good brown-sugar, and half a pound of
butter, let your hog's lard be boiling, then make them into what form you
please, and put them in to fry.
The following curious Method of rearing Turkeys to advantage, is translated
from a Swedish Book, entitled Rural ’conomy.
Many of our housewives, says this ingenious author, have long despaired of
success in rearing turkey's, and complained, that the profit rarely indemnifies
them for their trouble and loss of time: whereas, continues he, little more is
to be done, than to plunge the chick into a vessel of cold water, the very hour,
if possible, but at least the very day it is hatched, forcing it to swallow one
whole pepper corn; after which let it be returned to its mother. From that time
it will become hardy, and fear the cold no more than a hen's chick. But it must
be remembered, that this useful species of fowls are also subject to one
particular disorder when they are young, which often carries them off in a few
days. When they begin to droop, examine carefully the feathers on the rump, and
you will find two or three, whose quill-part is filled with blood,
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