Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-12
The Household.

BAKED TOMATOES. Take 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 a shallow pan, and bake
one hour.
FRIED CUcUMBERs. Remove the peel,
cut the cucumbers lengthwise in slices
about the thickness Of your little finger,
sprinkle salt, pepper and flour on each
| slice, and fry delicate brown in but
ter or nice drippings. If these fried
slices are laid between layers of mutton
chops, n most savory and toothsome
dish is the result.
The best recipe for making elderber-
ry wine is to express the Juice of the
fruit, and then mix with the quantity,
three parts water, and one part sugar
lie this mixture stand and ferment, and
when it has ceased working, rack it of
into another cask, and let it stand until
wanted for use. Then bottle it, and
keep in a cool place. We shall be
pleased to hear from any of our readers
who may have any other method
NJ. CLoEz, Of the garden of the Paris
Museum, glves,ln the Revue Horticole,
an etficaclous recipe for destroying
plant-llce and other insects Three and
"A half ounces quassia chips and five
drains staveacre seeds in powder are
placed in seven pints of water and boil
ed down to five plnts. When cooled
the strained liquid is ready for use,
either III watering-pot or syringe.
A "RAw HAND at the business asks
! how to churn how rapid 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 about
100 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 il a French journal
1 wherein writer recommends the fol
| loving 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 a halt gal
! Ions of water, to which add three large
tablespoonfuls Of ammonia and one Of
/ turpentine. Experlmenters would do
/ well to try it on a small scale.
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
tick wheel, and the clock will run
down with great velocity. Let it go !;
the increased speed wears away the
gum and dust from the pinious-the
clock cleans itself If you have any
sperm oil, put the least bit on the
axles. Put the machine together, and
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
I Of pendulum the clock has watch
escapnment this latter can be taken
ont III an instant, without taking the
works apart, and the resultis the same.
It takes about twenty minutes to SO
clean brass clock, aud raves a dollar.