Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

SPONGE CAKE-Four eggs, the white
beaten until plate could be turned
| quickly over without spilling the con
tents; one cup fine sugar, the yelks and
sugar beaten to cream; one and half
cups of flour; soda size of pea dissolved
| in a spoonful of cold water; a little salt.
| Bake in deep tin, in quick oven.
| TIP-ToP CAKE-One and half cups
! white sugar, one cup OF sweet milk, two
eg-s, the white separated from the yelk
and beaten to a stiff froth Butter size of
| a tablespoon bowl, melted and turned into
the milk two teaspoonfuls Of cream tar
tar one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoon
| full of lemon, and little salt.
| 1T is within the experience of many to
| find stove-pipes that were put away IN the
spring apparently sound, almost eaten up
with rust when taken out III the tall Tor
| use. A cheap and ettectual remedy Tor
| the rust is the application OF coal or I'm
seed oil. When the pipe or sheet iron IS
new, apply coal or linseed oil inside and
out. 1t does not distigure the iron, and is
not apparent after the first day that fire is
made. Afterwards, every spring when the
stove is taken down, clean the inside of
| the pipe and apply coal oil thoroughly to
the inside. and the rust will not disturb
| the iron.
OLD RECIPE FOR CUsTARDs.-The an
| tiquity of the following may be as accepta-
BILE as its excellence The date of it is
1863: Take two quarts of cream, and boil
it we'll with whole spice, then put in the
yolks of twelve eggs, and six whites, well
beaten and strained; then put these eggs
over the fire, and keep stirring lest they
turn then, when they are thoroughly hot
take it off and stir it till almost cold then
put in rose-water and sugar, and take out
the whole spice; then put your custard in
to several things to bake and do not let
them stand too long in the oven When
you serve them, strew on small French
comfits of divers colors, or else fine sugar,
which you please.
In France, the honey is extracted from
the hives by smoking the bees. DR..
Chairvou's system is now coming into
general use. Select bright, clear, sunny
day; place large table-cloth under the
hive, and introduce inside good quarter
of an ounce of chloroform on a pocket
handkerchief; then knot the table-cloth
on the top of the hive so as to exclude the
air. loud buzzing will be heard, similar
TO when the bees are about swarming, and
at the end of a few minutes complete sill
ence will ensue. Unite the table-cloth
raise the hive, and the bees will be found
in lethargic heap on the cloth, and the
few remaining inside will prove too
drOwsy to interfere with the removal of
the combs. On exposing the bees to sun
and air, they will gradually waken up and
return to their hives.
LEMONS are recommended as very whole
some and useful in certain states of the
system. People often crave an acid of
some kind, particularly in the warm,
weak-feeling days of spring and early
summer. When lemons are cheap in the
market it may not be amiss to purchase
quantity and prepare them for future use.
The following method is suggested Press
out the juice of the lemons, and remove
the seeds, which give bitter taste; separ-
ate the pulp from the peel, and boil the
former IN the proportion of a dozen pulps
10 pint of water, to extract the acid. Ten
minutes boiling is sufficient; strain the
water into the juice; add pound of white
sugar to pint of juice; boil the whole
ten minutes, and bottle it. One or two
tablespoonfuls of this lemon syrup in a
glass of water will make a cooling, health
full beverage.
BONEs.-A writer in the H0rticultufist
buys bones of butcher at a dollar the
hundred pounds, and considers them the
cheapest fertilizer he can obtain. He
transforms them into meal by the follow
ing simple and effective process: II have
a large water-tight hogshead standing out
doors, near the kitchen. In the spring |
cover the bottom about six inches deep
with dry soil. On this put a layer of
bones about the same depth, and cover
them entirely with unleached ashes On
these another layer Of bones, then ashes,
and 50 on until the hOgshead is full. |
leave it then exposed to the sun and rain
all summer and winter, until the next
spring. Then, on removing the contents
of the hogshead, | find nearly all the
bones SO soft that they will crumble to
powder under very slight pressure, and,
mixed with the ashes and the soil, they
give nice little pile of most valuable
manure, ready for immediate use. Any
OF the bones not sufficiently subdued, |
return to the hogshead again for another