Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-19
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

REMEDY FOR Hollow HORN-A writer
in an exchange has never known this to
fall Two tablespoonful of vinegar, one
teaspoonful each of pepper and salt; mix
and pour in the ear. If cure is not
effected in few days, repeat the dose.
BAKED APpLEs.-Sour-G are
the best Put them into deep baking
pan, sprinkle sugar over and around them,
fill the pan half full of water and bake
quickly. Sweet-Thcse require slow
fire. A little water in the pan is an i'm
provement, and little sugar also, though
they are very good without cither.-Er-
change. Ia ~
THE Country Gentleman says the only
reason why better crops OF potatoes are
obtained from large potatoes used for seed
than from small ones, is that the former
give greater supply of nutriment to the
young sprouts. 1t says that so far as any
other reason is concerned one might as
well expect that using gratis from large
tree would produce larger trees than gratis
from a small one Of the same kind
A NEW HAMPSHIRE farmer is reported
to have threshold with fail, two bushels
of wheat for seed These two bushels
were sown in the same field aud with the
! same conditions as seven bushels of ma
chine threshed seed. They were found to
Weld one third more per bushel than the
machine threshed. There is very gen,
efsh opinion that machine thrcshed wheat
| is somewhat injured for seed. If such in
jury is TO anything like the extent indi-
Gated by this experiment, it becomes q
matter of much importance.
APPLE PIE.-Slice peeled apples upon
pie plate, and cover with crust Do
! not press it down at the edge, but trim it
off neatly. Bake quickly and thoroughly.
Remove the crust, turn its upper side
down upon another pie plate. Mash the
i.apples, sweeten 1t TO the taste, flavor with
nutmeg, add piece of butter the size of a
hickory nut, and spread the mixture upon
the crust. A little sweetened cream pour
ed upon this when eaten, is delicious; or
the pie may be made very nice by spread
ing the wcll-beaten sweetened whites Of
eggs over the top. In the latter case, the
apples should be made very sweet.
GRAHAM AND BRowN BREAD.--For
Graham bread, boil pint Of milk, and
tiicken with wheat meal Graham fiour)
then add cold milk enough To make the
whole as thin as light batter. AS soon as
cool enough not to scald, add half a tea.
cupful of hop yeast, and set in warm
place to rise. When light, put in little
salt, and half teacupful OF syrup Tor
rather sweeten to taste), and as much
wheat meal Graham four as / can stir in
with spoon. Then / sprinkle little
fine -four on the dough board, and mould
my brown bread until 1t works clear from
my board and hands, but still careful not
to get it too stiff and dry, then put it into
round basin THAT will fit nicely in my
steamer) and return to the warm place TO
rise. When light enough TO bake, put it
into the steamer over boiling water, and
let it cook an hour, then bake twenty
minutes in the oven. By little practice
and good judgment, housekeeper can
alter the size Of the loaf and learn the
proper stiffness, observing carefully not to
open the steamer while the bread il cook
ing, or the bread will be heavy. For Corn
Bread, make the sponge the same way,
with scalded Indian meal, add salt and
syrup, but thicken with fine wheat -four
altogether. Let it rise, and steam and
bake as above described. Indeed, learned
to make corn bread in this way from my
mother, before we thought of using Ora
ham bread. Perhaps some of your readers
may not know that the quickest and best
way to boil milk ID to put 1t into tin dish
and set thst into q kettle Of boiling water
Thus scorching is avoided. -Amsrio0n AZ
rieultvrfpt.