Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Corn STARCH CAKE-One cup of but
| ter, two cups Of sugar, one cup OF SWEEP
milk, two of -four, one of corn starch, one
teaspoonful Of soda, two of cream tartar
whites of six eggs.
| STRAWBERRY CULTURE.-A straw berry
! grower states that to two barrels of rain
water he puts one-quarter of pound OF
ammonia and one-quarter of pound OF
common inter, and with this solution he
| sprinkled his strawberry beds every night
when blossoming The result was double
| the amount of large strawberries to that
just adjoining not so treated.
| JOHNNY CAKEs.-Rub two tablespoons
| full OF lard or butter into one quart of vel
| low corn meal; add to it three tablespoons
| full of molasses and one teaspoonful OF
| ginger and pour in enough boiling milk
or water to make it thin batter. Add,
when nearly cold, one or two eggs, and
| bake in shallow pans, in very hot oven.
HOUSEHOLD SUGGEsTIONs.--The white
of eggs with lime makes good cement
for broken china Honey and castor oil
mixed are excellent for asthma; tea
| spoonful may be taken night and morning,
with great benefit Rancid lard may be
purified by trying it over with little
| water, adding few sliced raw potatoes.
The potatoes seem to remove the bad taste
| from the lard
LEMON PUFFs-One pound Of pulver-
lied loaf sugar beat in the yelks Of four
| eggs; add one tablespoonful of tiavoring
beat the yelks and sugar as stiff as possible
then add the whites beat to a stiff froth
beat well, flavor with lemon juice and ex-
| tract Of the peel or citric acid, and extract
Of lemon: drop on buttered papers in
small cakes, and bake quickly without
browning; leave the puf1s on the paper
until entirely cold.
BREAD CREDIBLE CAKEs.-Save all your
| bits and crusts Of broken bread whether
| they are toasted or not; and when you
have good supply, turn upon them
| enough boiling water to soak them thor
| Oughly Let them stand until perfectly
! soft, then rub through a cOlander or sieve,
and mix three or four tablespoonfuls OF
flour with them. Add enough milk to
| make a thin batter, and also one beaten
egg. This makes delicious griddle cakes,
and saves all the odd pieces Of bread into
the bargain.
| HUsKING CoRN.-Fit your wagon box
to hold thirty bushels, then put at least a
| foot and half hang board on the oppo-
| oltS SittC TIC VIC upISt utAt 10 YOU 10 me
| other ones hame, to keep him from eat
ing; then take two rows, catch the ears
with The thumb toward the point, strip
both sides nearly at once, and give it q
| wrench with your right hand at the same
time In good corn good hand will in
this way crib sixty bushels in a day
| RECIPES FOR SoAP-For hard SOAP
take five pounds Of soda ash, dissolve in
| tn frol lnpc Of nf-,u To- 1
a half pounds of lime, and Stake with
boiling water When the soda ash comes
to boil, pour over the lime and stir well
when settled, pour off the clear I've. Take
ten pounds of grease, add the I've, and let
it boil. Pour more boiling water over the
lime, and stir well When settled, add to
the grease until you have ten gallons
| While making, if the I've settles to the bot
| tom, add more weak I've or water Boil
from two to four hours. When cold cut
IN bars. For soft soap, use the same guam
| titles OF soda ash, lime and grease, with
double the quantity of water.
| Cost OF ABUSING Mich Consular
ris Lewis, the eminent Herkimer County,
New York, dairyman, said lately, in an
address TO milk producers that he had
known COW which uniformly gave eigh-
teen per cent. of cream to her milk, to de-
| crease her yield to six per cent. in the
short space Of twelve hours, merely from
the excitement caused by the bad treat
| ment of brutal mixer. twas not guess
work, because he used graduated glasses
to test the matter. This shows pretty con-
clusively that it does not pay dairymen to
allow their cows to be iIl-treated And in
illtreatment is to be included anything
that will alarm or excite them-fast driv-
ing to and from pastures, worrying by
dogs, yelling at them and threatening
demonstrations by boys, etc. Civility and
good nature pay, even with cows.