Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-18
RECIPES, ETC.

Sugar Cookies.-Four eggs, two cups
of sugar, one cup Of butter, one teaspoon
full of soda, two of cream tartar.
How to Sweep Carpet-The right
way to sweep is to incline the handle
little forward, then give light, drawing
stroke, allowing the broom to scarcely
touch the carpet. Not one-half the weight
of the broom should be allowed to press
on the carpet, as the dirt is moved for
ward Let the dirt be moved and rolled
along lightly.
Corn Meal Breakfast Cake.-For two
baking Tins, take one and half pints of
coarsely ground corn meal Add water
nearly boiling, but not enough to wet
quite all the corn meal; add cold water, a
little at a time, stirring thoroughly be-
tween whites, until you have it SO thin
that it has a tendency to settle as you pour
it into your pie-tins. 1t should not be
more than half an inch deep in the tins,
and it should bake quickly in hot oven
Recipe for Washing Fluid-Take one
pint of soda ash, one-half pint of lime;
boil in five quarts of water until dissolved;
let it stand until it settles; pour off; put in
a jug and cork. When ready to wash,
soak the clothes over night; wiring out,
and to the first boiler Of clothes put in
one teacup of this fluid; to each sue
ceeding one, add half teacupful of fluid.
Rub the clothes on the washboard after
boiling; rinse good.
/ Lemon Cream. = Squeeze a large
lemon and CRATE the peel, add two teacups
and half Of water, and heat it over the
fire. While it is heating, rub two table
spoonfuls of corn starch smooth, and beat
the yelks Of three eggs. Stir the lemon
water gradually into the corn-starch, add
the egg, and set it on the fire to thicken
gradually, like boiled custard, sweetening
to the taste. After this is done, beat the
whites of the eggs stiff and stir them in !;
then pour into small tumblers or lemonade
glasses, and set them in the ice-boX to get
very cold.
Berry Pudding Steamed-Fouf cups
flour, one cup sugar, one cup milk, two
eggs, two tablespoons melted butter, one
teaspoonful soda, two teaspoons cream
tartar, one teaspoonful salt Steam one
and half hours. Butter the pan, into
which pour the batter. Shut the steamer
very tight, and keep in the steam until
cooked. When rightly done it comes
from the steamer looking like loaf of
cake. Fruit to taste, mixed with the bat
ter before cooking.
Grease or Scratches-The best rene
dy for incipient grease is to apply to the
general system or constitutional tendency,
as it is an ascertained fact that horses of a
peculiar idiosyncrasy are the subjects of
so-called scratches. Do not apply sulphur
to the foot Above all things, keep away
all fats or oils Give one ounce of sulphur
and half ounce pulverized charcoal, every
morning for week or so-then good
aloetic physic ball. Keep from wet or ex-
posure for while; paint the heel with
pure white lead, and dust on charcoal; get
well into the cracks. y ~ s7Gi
Destroying Ants Nests.-Take boil
ing water and pour in their nests, and
when they find you are in earnest, by your
following it up, they will leave, if any are
left-not killed. | have been successful
by putting few bricks or fiat rocks
around an infested shrub for the ants to
cluster under, so that [ could take nv
own time to kill them in. Then I exam
inc, by turning up the bricks, when have
plenty Of hot water, and can attend to
them. The above.is far better than pois-
oning the ground, as hot water does not
injure your plants or the ground about
them.
Lime and Salt Mixtures Professor
johnson recommends for fertilizing pur-
poses to mix one bushel Of salt and two
bushels of dry lime under cover, and allow
the mixture to decompose gradually, thus
forming an intimate chemical union of the
two materials. For this purpose the mix
ture should be made at least six weeks be-
fore use, or still better, two or three
months, the heap mentioned being turned
over occasionally. This salt and lime
mixture, when applied at the rate of TWEEN
ty or thirty bushels per acre, forms an ex-
cellent top dressing for many crops. 1t
acts powerfully on the vegetable matter
of soils; fifty-six bushels applied to tur-
nip crop have produced as large crop
as barn-yard manure. 1t is also very de
structive to grubs and other insects in the
soil. Like salt, it attracts moisture from
the air, and is useful against droughts
Its decomposing power is remarkable, and
if three or four bushels Of it are mixed
with a load of swamp muck, the latter
will be reduced to powder.