Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-07
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

California is growing half million
mulberry trees for silk worms.
Brown Bread.-Take two quarts of
Indian meal, one quart of wheat flour,
one and one-half cups Of molasses, one
tablespoonful of soda, sour milk enough
to mix it quite stiff; put it promptly into
the oven and bake an hour. 1t makes six
bars.
Hotel Pudding.-Heat one quart of
milk to boiling heat; add one quarter OF
a cup of butter; then stir in six ounces OF
Indian meal, two eggs well beaten, three
tablespoonful Of cinnamon or ginger.
of butter and sugar.
There are often scraps Of cold meat
left from roast pork, beef fowls, &c, too
small to be served in slices. These may
be made into savory stew as follows :
Chop the meat fine; put it into a sauce.
pan with little water, small piece OF
butter, and salt and pepper to taste. When
the water boils add two tablespo6nfuls Of
-four stirred smoothly in a little cold
water. An onion or two may be added, if
liked. Serve with baked potatoes.
-Buckwheat cakes are many times bet
ter and more wholesome when made light
and thin. At night mix the flour with
milk warm water, little salt, and hall a
teacupful of good yeast, into rather a stiff
batter, and set it in warm place to rise.
In the morning thin the batter with milk,
and add soda dissolved in hot water. They
ought not to be baked up wholesale and
pitched into a deep dish-that makes
them heavy-but laid in neat piles on a
fiat plate, and baked as fast as needed at
the table.
To Pickle Red Cabbage. solid
ileads-smaii hard ones are better than
loose ones, but any kind will do-trim
and quarter them (unless the heads are
quite smal), stick into each whole cloves,
from ten to twenty in a quarter; add any
other pieces to suit taste; boil till tender
not too soft-in pure vinegar; no other
kind will do. When done, keep covered
with vinegar, as you would other pickles
1t is good plan to pickle in the fall for
winters use, and then in the spring TO last
till May or June.
-Spiced Tripe.-Take fresh tripe, cut
it up in pieces four or five inches square,
take an earthen jar, put in layer of
tripe, then sprinkle few cloves, allspice,
and whole peppers over it; another layer
of tripe, then spice; and so on, till the jar
is full take good vinegar, scald it, pour
over it, filing the jar full; cover it up,
and stand it away in cool place for few
DAYS, until it tastes Of the spice, then
serve it up cold for supper, or any other
meal. 1t is an excellent relish.
TO Color Scarlet.-For one pound Of
goods take two ounces cochineal, one ounce
cream tartar, one ounce quercitron bark,
one half ounce carcuma, two ounces mad
der compound; put all the ingredients,
except the madden compound, into enough
water to cover the goods, bring it to a
boiling heat, add the compound and put in
the goods; let it stand until you have the
color required. II you want bright,
pretty crimson, color your goods strong
madden first, and then in the cochineal
dye.
The process Of canning" eggs in
their own shells was recently explained at
q, meeting of the New York Farmers
Club. It Is done in this manner. When
two or three dozen eggs are obtained
from the nests, place them in dish, and
pour scalding water over them, and i'm.
mediately turn 1t of This process is re.
peated three times, by which means the
albumen is fixed or coagulsted, the pores
of the shell closed, and the egg, - it were,
canned in its own covering: The eggs
thus prepared are then packed In salt,
with the spex downward, and they are
mid to keep perfectly fresh for many
months.