Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-05
Tho Household.

The Household.
BAKED ToMAroEs.-Iake them when
fully ripe, cut of 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 q shallow pan, and bake
one hour.
FRIED Observation-Disclosures the peel,
cut the cucumbers leagthwise in slices
about the thickness of your little finger,
sprinkle salt, pepper and flour on each
slice, and fry o delicate brown in but
ter or nice drippings. If these fried
slices are laid between layers of mutton
chops, a most savory and toothsome
dish is the result.
TIE best recipe for making elderber-
~ wine is to express the juice, Of the
fruit, and then mix With the quantity,
three parts water, and one part sugar.
Lei this mixture stand and ferment, and
when it has ceased working, rack il Of
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.
NJ. CLoEz, .of tile garden of the Paris
Museum, gives, in the Revue Horticole,
an ef8cacious 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 pints of water AMI boil
ell down to five pints. When cooled
the strained liquid is ready for use,
either in watering-pot or syringe.
A "RAw HAND at the business - asks
how to churn how rapid a motion OF
the dasher is needed should the dash
or 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 about
100 strokes FER minute. The rotary
churns, such as the Blanchard, are
quicker in operation than the upright
dash.~ q. !
EVEN in the matter of washing clothes,
the Investigations of scientific men
have proved to be of considerable prac.
tical Importance, if we may trust q pa.
per just published in French journal,
wherein writer recommends the fol.
lowing mixture as one which will save
clothes from the injurious 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 dc
we'll to try it on small scale.
E. w. ASKS how to make husk mat.
tresses. AnssUer.-When the husks
are thoroughly dry, strip them up, re.
move all nubs and dirt, aud, when you
have enough, put them in tick, and
tack them as yo1 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
I ping them to pieces, giving the con.
tents of the tick good summing, re-
moving all dust, and adding enough
fresh material to make up the required
Quantity,
I LWHRN the clock stops do not take il
to the repair shop till you have tried as
follows: Take off the pointers and
the face; take of the pendulum and
its wire. Remove the ratchet from the
stick " wheel, and the clock will run
down with great velocity. Let it 60 ;
the increased speed wears away the
gum aud dust from the pinions-the
clock cleans itself. If You have any
sperm OIL put the least bit on the
axles. Put the machine together, aid
nine times in ten it will run Just as
we'll as if it had been taken to the
shop. In fact, this is the way that
most shopmen clean clocks. II instead
of a pendulum the clock has 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 raves dollar