Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
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Corn Meal Cakes-Take one quart of
sweet milk, and boil with half cup of
sugar and half cup of butter. Add
enough of Indian or Southern corn meal to
make stiff batter. Beat three eggs to a
foam; add little pinch of salt, and bake
in shallow pans for half an hour.
To Clean Furniture.-Take equal parts
of boiled linseed oil and spirits of turpen
tine, and apply sparingly with soft
cloth; Canton flannel is best Wipe dry
with a clean cloth Gilt frames may be
vanished with common white furniture
varnish, and afterwards be cleaned with
out detriment as esily as any other article
of vanished furniture.
Rice Griddle Cakes.-Take a coffee
cupful of cold boiled rice, add to it the
same amount of wheat flour-thin it to a
batter with cold, sweet milk-beat up one
egg to froth, and pinch ofsalt, and stir
into the cakes. Fry on hot griddle, and
you will always boil enough rice for dim
ner upon one day to give you cupful for
cakes for the next mornings breakfast.
Flannel Cakes.-Boil one pint of milk
with two heaping teaspoonfuls of butter
add one pint Of cold milk, and flour
enough to make as stiff a batter as you can
stir; turn in two tablespoonful of brew
ers' yeast, or a small cupful of home
made yeast Set it to rise in cool place,
if the weather is warm, over night. Pour
the batter into small baking-tns or "gem-
pans" and bake for half an hour.
An Antidote.-In cases of accidental
poisoning, it is well to have simple re-
medy at hand. Poisons of any descrip-
ton which have been Intentionally or &C
cidentally swallowed, may be rendered al
most instantly harmless by simply swal-
lowing two gills of sweet oil. An in
dividual with strong constitution might
take more. The oil will neutralize every
form of vegetable, animal, or mineral
poisons.
Temperature of the Air in Making
Butter.-Recent experiments indicate that
the best temperature of the air, as well as
of the cream, for rapid churning OF
butter, is from tifty-four to fifty de.
grees, instead of the average of sixty-six
degrees, as generally taken. A cellar
with temperature regulated by means of a
thermometer, seems most suitable for the
purpose, especially in summer.
Pea Bugs-A Jerseyman writes to the
Country Gentleman that in his neighbor-
hood the pea bug had been gotten rid OF
by thrashing peas, cleaning them, then
putting them in heap on the barn floor
and sprinkling them, at the rate of quart
to five or six bushels, with spirits of tur-
pentine Leave the peas few days to
dry, after shoveling the heap over to mix
their wall with the turpentine. Barrel
them, and the bugs are never heard OF
again.
Late Flowing of Clover Fields.-A
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette de
tails several experiments which show that
when clover sod is turned in May, after
the clover is up some inches, corn planted
thereon is far less liable to be troubled by
the cut worm, than if the land were plOw-
ed the fall before or early in spring. The
worms feed on the clover instead of the
corn. Besides, if the clover is in rank,
growing condition when turned under, and
the roots full of sap, it will be more rotten
at August than if plowed earlier, when the
roots are not full of sap.
To Hull Corn Take one quart OF
strong lye, prepared by pouring warm
water upon peck or more of ashes; add
two quarts of boiling water to it, and put
in the corn; let it boil until the bulls be
gin to start, which you can determine by
taking out few kernels and washing then
in cold water. Skim out all the corn
rinse it in two or three waters; put il into
cold water, and let it boil up; turn off tina
water so as to extract all the lye; fill uT
| with boiling water, and cook for foul
hours slowly; add salt to your taste; let j
| boil half an hour more, and serve. II
must cook great while to be palatable.-
| Country Geaetteman.
Milking Cows and Care of Milk
Cows should be MIXED at just such q
time of day, dividing the time as equally
| as possible, say, in summer, at O'Clock "a
M and O'Clock p. m. When you begin
to milk cow, do not daily to talk, but
keep right on till you finish. When you
commence on a COW, she "gives down, >
and the milking should go right along
No particular objection to singing OF
whistling while milking, if cows are not
disturbed. In the care of milk use cool
| err as soon as the milk is drawn from the
COW. Do not fasten strainer over the en-
| tire top of the can, but leave partly open
| for heat and odors to escape. Cooler
should float on top of milk SO as to cool
surface, where heat is; cool milk will set
tie to bottom, and SO keep up motion OF
its own, without being stirred by hand
Warm milk shut up in can, and taken to
factory, is apt to be damaged before it can