Connecticut western news., 1873-02-28
Farm, Garden and Household.
Practical Racinos,

Practical Recipes.
 CAnF's-HEAD STEw.-Take the pieces of meat from the soup pot and chop them fine, put them into a saucepan with some of the gravy and stew. Pick tho brains and mix them with grated bread, pepper and salt, and work them into small cakes with the yolk of an egg; fry them, and put them into the soup after 1t is placed in the tureen. Put paste around the stew that is baked separately; put them in dish, and add ketchup and Q few hard boiled eggs. FRENCH Warm one ounce fresh butter in gill of milk, add a large tablespoonful of yeast and little salt. Sift one pound of flour into a pan, pour in and stir we'll the milk, and let the dough rise in warm place, covering 1t with thick cloth. When light, knead we'll and form into rolls. Put these into well-houred pan in q warm place to rise, and bake in quick oven.
 A GERMAN SWEET DIsH.-Bon some chestnuts until they are soft enough to De crushed with a spoon and passed through seive. Beat up the whites of SIX or eight eggs into froth with half pound of lump sugar that has been grated on the rind of & lemon. Pile up the chestnuts while warm in dish. and cover them thickly with the whip just before serving them.
 The Housewife
 PEPPERMINT DRoPs.-A simple way of making these drops is to mix up the sugar and oil of peppermint with the whites of eggs, beating the whole we'll together, dropping it on white paper, and drying the drops gradually before the fire at distance. Another way is to sift fnely-powdered loaf-sugar into lemon-juice sufficient to make it of proper consistence then, gently drying 1t over the fire for Q few minutes, and stirring in about fifteen drops of oil of peppermint for each ounce of sugar, dropping them from the point of knife. 5- s- .'
 INDELBLE BLACK INK.-A German chemist gives this recipe for making an indehble black writing fluid Dissolve one drachm of aniline black in five drachms of strong alcohol, to which add some sixty drops of pure and strong hydrochloric acid next add hot solu- tlon of one and half drachms of pow dered gum-arabic in three fluid ounces of water. Writing made with this ink is indelible by chlorine, oxalic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids and caustic potassa.
 To JAPAN OLD TEA-TRAYs.-Firs clean them thoroughly with soap and water and little rottenstone then dry them by wiping and exposure at the fire. Now get some good copal varnish, mix it with some bronze pow der, and apply with brush to the de- nuded parts. After which set the tray in an oven at heat of from PIP to 300 degrees until the varnish is dry. Two coats will make it equal to new.
 A PIECE of red pepper the size of your finger-nail put into meat or vege- tables when first beginning to cook will aid greatly in killing the unpleasant odor arising therefrom. Remember this for boiled cabbage, green beans, onions, chickens, mutton, etc.
 Butter Making.
 It requires both attention and ex- perience to produce butter in the short est tlme.s If the cream be too warm, 1t froths great deal and thin liquid appears ln the vessel, especially at high temperatures when the cream is too cold, 1t froths too, but appears thick, like freshly fallen snow. In the latter case, the cream ought to be warmed, and in the former, cooled. The appear ance of the butter globules also serves to indicate whether the cream is too warm or too cool. In the former case, the -globules are soft and melting, in the latter, hard in both cases 8 slower churnlng IS advisable. Old cream pro- duces butter sooner than fresh. A temperature between 70deg. and S0deg. best in churning, and the cream hould be skinned of. Fresh air and trict cleanliness of the vessels are in- dispensable.
 What it Costs
 If man buys 160 acres from the Gov ernment within railroad limits the money needed to set him and 8 family comfortably on their feet in Nebraska oI Kansas will be about $2,5OO, as fol. lows:
 16O acres of Government land $4OC House, l6x24. ......... 50( Barn, 24x36. 3O( Fencing 40 acres. 32( Team $250, two Cows $7O. ....... 32( Wagon $120, Flows $40. ........ 16( Furniture $100, Tools, &c, $5O... 15( Provisions and Clothing one year. 3O( Cost of travel to Nebraska. 5(
 If he buys from the railroad compan, he will give more than $4OO for $16i acres, but will have several years tc O LrG &h4r 4