Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-11
RECIPES, ETC.

RECIPES, ETC.
-Diarrhea Remedy.-A tea made of
the common field strawberry vine and
root, stepped and drank daily. 1t is harm
less Eat whatever digests well.
-Crullers-One cup of sugar, one of
milk, two eggs. onethird cup butter, one
heaping teaspoonful cream tartar, one even
full of soda; seasoning, essence of lemon
or nutmeg.
-Cookies.-One heaped cup of sugar,
little over half cup of butter, two eggs,
one-half teaspoon soda and one of cream
tartar, dissolved in a little hot water.
Spice to suit the taste. Mix soft and bake
in quick oven.
Poison by Ivy-Dr. J. D. Stewart
writes to the Boston Journal of Chemsstru
that he has used the following remedy in
poisoning by ivy, which at once arrests
the tormenting, burning pain, and cures
the worst cases in one or two days
Bruise slightly handful of white oak
leaves; add new milk enough to cover;
simmer ten minutes, and apply, as hot as
can be borne, three times day.
Ginger Sponge Cake.-One cup mo-
lasses, one cup butter, two cups sugar, four
eggs, three cups flour, one cup milk, one
teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful gin
ger Mix to a cream the butter and sugar !;
then add the molasses, flour, milk and
ginger. After all are thoroughly mixed,
put in the eggs after they are well beaten,
and jus before putting the mixture into
the creased pan for the oven, stir in the
soda after it has been dissolved in little
milk. When all are mixed put into
good oven without delay.
-Cocoanut Cake.-Three cups of sugar,
two-thirds cup of butter, three eggs, one
cup Of milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream Of
tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, one grated
cocoanut, and flour to make somewhat
thicker than common cake mixtures. No
exact rule can be given for the quantity of
flour, as the nuts vary so much in size.
This makes two loaves. With medium
sized nut enough may be reserved to
sprinkle over the top of the loaves, after
frosting them in the usual manner, and
before it hardens, which will add much
to the beauty of the cake.
"A valuable concrete composition for
pavements, it is found, can be made by
dissolving quantity of plaster Of Paris in
sufficient water to make mortar of about
the consistency Of cream, care being taken
to let the plaster of Paris remain in the
water until all air has escaped from it,
after which it is stirred and thoroughly
mixed. To one volume of this mortar is
added an equal volume of coal ashes or
furnace cinders, the component parts be-
ing quickly stirred, and the compound
formed Immediately applied, as it very
quickly hardens into a concrete form. It
is stated that in respect to solidity and
permanency-the two qualities SO essen
tial in all kinds of pavement material
this composition has the advantage of all
others now in use. ~
Melon Wine-How true it is that it
takes everybody to know everything!
Pumpkins and a variety Of delicious
water-melons grow spontaneously in
Arabia. Perhaps they develop more
are extremely good. In the great plenty,
immensely beyond the demands of con
sumers where they most abound, the
prudent lockers ahead cut hole through
the riRd, while on the vine, down into the
pulp. 1t is then closed tightly with wax.
Under genial sun the cone soon begins
to melt away till it ali disappears, leaving
the shell nearly full Of delicious fluid
which is called melon wine. Like the
drink Of the gods, it is not to be compar-
ed with any other beverage on earth, say
the consumers. A hint here for an ex-
pertinent the coming season.
In this country coffee is generally
boiled, and eggs or some other article
used to clarity it. By this process the
aroma all escapes and the bad properties
remain The only perfect apparatus I
have ever seen for preparing coffee as
beverage is an urn which has two inside
cylinders, both having a strainer attached
to the bottom, the larger occupying about
one-half of the inside Of the main urn,
while the smaller fits inside the former,
but is not SO deep. The coffee or tea is
placed in the larger cylinder, and boiling
water is poured into the small cylinder,
which passes through the strainer upon
the coffee, not in volume, but in fine
spray, and then through the coffee and
the lower cylinder, taking with it all the
catfelD and leaving the tannin in the
grounds The coffee falls into the main
urn perfectly clear, and forms a most de-
lightiul beverage. Some time ago. while
dining with a celebrated French physi-
clan in Paris, we were taking coffee, when
he said to me: "Do not the people in
America generally boil coffee?" l replied
in the affirmative. He then said, off
coffee is boiled it should not be drunk, as
the best part passes off into the atmos-
phere and tickles the nostrils, while the
remainder contains the poison, which is
very injurious to the stomach"