Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-11
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fully ripe, cut off slice from the stem
side, scoop out the pulp of the tomato.
and mix with it bread crumbs, butter,
pepper and salt. Fill the empty shell
with this mixture, replace the slices,
put them in shallow pan, and bake
one hour.
FRIED CUCUMBERs. thepeel,
cut the cucumbers lengthwise in slices
about the thickness of your little finger,
sprinkle salt, pepper and -four on each
slice, and fry a delicate brown in but
ter or nice drippings. If these fried
slices are laid between layers of mutton
chops, most sayory and toothsome
dish is the result.
The best recipe for making eIderber-
rY wine is to express the juice of the
fruit, and then mix with the quantity,
| three parts water, and one part sugar
Lee this mixture stand and ferment, and
when 1t has ceased working, rack it off
into another cask, and let it stand until
wanted for use. Then bottle it, and
keep In cool place. We shall. be
pleased to hear from any of our readers
who may have any other method,
III. CLoEz, Of the garden of the Paris
Museum, gives, in the Revue Horticole,
an efficacious recipe for destroying
plant-lice and other insects Three and
! half ounces quassia chips and five
drains staveacre seeds in powder ARE
| placed in seven pin5s of water and boil
Ell down to five pints. When cooled
the strained liquid is ready FOR use,
| either III Watering-pot OF syringe.
A "RAw HAND at the business y asks
how to churn how rapid a motion OF
the dasher is needed should the dash
er be lifted out Of the cream, and the
proper tempera ure of the cream. The
cream should be sour, but not bitter :;
temperature about sixty degrees. The
dasher should be lifted out of the
cream at each stroke, and make abo1lt
leo strokes per minute. The rotary
churns, such as the Blanchard, are
| quicker in operation than the upright
dash.
EVEN in the matter of washing clothes.
| the Investigations of scientific men
have proved to be of considerable prac-
teal importance, if we may trust pa
per just published in French journal,
| wherein a writer recommends the fol-
| lowing mixture as one which viii save
| clothes from the I'M uriOus results pro-
! duced by the use of soda. Two pounds
of soap dissolved in five and halt gal
Ions of water, to which add three large
tablespoonfuls of ammonia and one of
turpentine. Experimenters would do
well to try it on small scale.
E. ". ASKS how to make husk mat
tresses. AnsWer the husks
are thoroughly dry, strip them up, re-
move all nubs and dirt, and, when you
have enough, put them in a tick, and
tack them as YOU would hair and wool.
! Mattress makers have a. machine for
preparing them, but children's fingers
are just as good. Old husk mattresses
may be made as good as new by rip
ping them to pieces, giving the con-
tents of the tick a good summing, re-
moving all dust, and adding enough
fresh material to make up the required
quantity.
= WHEN the clock stops do not take it
to the repair shop till you have tried as
follows: Take off the pointers and
the face; take off the pendulum and
its Wire Remove the ratchet from the
d" tick y wheel, and the clock will run
down with great velocity. Let it go
the increased speed wears away the
gum and dust from the pinions-the
clock cleans itself If you have any
sperm oil, put the least bit on the
axIes. Put the machine together, and
nine times in ten it will run lust as
well as if it had been taken 30 the
shop. In fact, this is the way that
most shopmen clean clocks. If instead
of a pendulum the clock has q watch
escapement, this latter can be taken
out in an instant, without taking the
works apart, and the results the same
It takes about twenty minutes to sc
clean brass clock, and saves dollar