The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-12-04
HONE, FARn AND GARDEN.

HONE, TARn AND GARDEN.
Common I've of wood-ashes will
soften hard putty in few minutes.
The fumes of . birthstone match will
remove berry stains from book or paper
or engraving.
Dry paint is removed by dipping a
swab with handle in strong solution
of oxalic acid. It softens at once.
If there is rust on your dat-iron, or
other r0ughness, put some fine salt on q
board, rub it rapidly while warm until it
moves smoothly.
If . door does not shut without a
''slam," put drop of sweet oil on the
catch, or on the hinge, if it creaks. Soap
will do, but not 80 well.
"A single drop of the sesquipede
chloride of iron. put ON corn between
the toes, once day, with camel's hair
brush, will effect marvellous cure.
Ten grains of oxalic acid, in half q
pint Of water, will remove all ink and
fruit stains. Wet the article in hot water,
and apply it to the top of the bottle, so
that the liquid will reach it, then rinse it
well.
If rats are about, scatter powdered
glass about their holes, or powdered
copperas, or I'LL up the crevices with hard
soap, or smear their holes with soft tar,
or dip the rat in a cup of tar and let it 60,
and it will tar.plaster every hole in the
house.
If glass stopper won't move, hold
~ 80 \ To oySv,
it BY taking two turns Of string and see.
saw it; the heat engendered expands the
neck of the bottle before corresponding
expansion reaches the stopper.
-Borax, half teaspoonful in half 9
teacup of water, makes the mildest and
most efficient hair and scalp cleaner in
the world. Rub in into the hair and
scalp with the balls of the fingers, head
held over wash.basin, eyes shut, until
the entire scalp is in foam, then rinse
with warm water.
dutch Sauce.-Put into q saucepan
one teaspoonful of -four, two ounces of
butter, two tablespoonful each of vinegar
and water, the yolks of two eggs, and
salt to taste; put over the fire and do not
allow it to boil, but stir constantly until
thick; if it happen to curdle strain the
sauce through gravy.strainer: add the
Juice of half lemon, and serve in sauce
boat.
Keep some strong spirits ofhartshorn
in ground glass-stopped bottle. A tea
spoonful in q tablespoonful of water will
cleah combs and brushes, and restore
colors injured by acids. A weaker solu.
ton, applied to i'll smelling feet and arm
pits, removes the odor, and removes the
grease spots from carpets and clothing.
A weak solution in water makes a good
wash for the hair, and stimulates its
growth when impaired by fever, and
cleanses the scalp effectually. A weak
solution, scattered over the leaves of
plants, from soft, fine, timber brush,
gives new life to plants. Even if little
is sprinkled over the earth at their roots,
their growth is invigorated.
Force Meat Balls.-Take Il ID. of lean
through sieve (the parts that will not go
through may be added to the white stock
then skin, chop, and pound to a paste ID.
of fresh beef suet; then add 6 ozs. Of
panada-that is, bread soaked in milk and
boiled till nearly dry-pound this with
the suet and add the veal, tea-spoonful
Of salt, Il tea.spoonful Of pepper, and x
tea-spoonful of nutmeg; then add by de.
grees 4 eggs; when we'll mixed, take a
small piece in spoon and poach it in
some boiling water; if delicate and firm
it is fit for use.
"A few words in relation to roses which
are to remain in the open ground over
winter. 1t is an excellent plan to head
back the more tender varieties severely
say within nine or ten inches of the
ground-and then cover them over with
coarse manure and litter frcm the stables.
But don't kill with kindness; don't give a
coat of manure that would cover the
garden, and then expect the poor plant to
survive. This is almost certain death.
The object is not to keep the plant warm,
but to preserve it cool and free from the
fluctuating temperature of our trying win.
ter. Sudden freezing and thawing is
what does the mischief. The harder
kinds need only little protection from
the sun, such as is afforded by few
boughs Ofevergr Gems or rough weeds; but
it is mistake to tie them tight. A par.
ticular friend once put his up nicely in
corn fodder, thus affording an excellent
Judgment for mice-a courtesy which
these rodents, with sharp ingratitude, re-
ciprocated by eating up bushes, protection,
and all. In every case head we'll back,
trimming out the old wood, and the nearer
the ground the better; then give each
plant q good fork-full of manure, which
answers double purpose.
Lord Chancellor's Pudding.-Butter
with care every part of the mold in which
the pudding is to be boiled; cut into very
thin slices 8 ozs. of candied lemon peel
and place in fanciful device in the bot.
tom Of the mold, filling in the spaces be.
tween with currants and sultana raisins
then add slices of sponge-cake, dropping
little butter on each slice, and sprinkling
Zante currants thickly between each layer
proceed in this manner till the mold is
nearly full; then flavor 1 qt. of sweet
cream with nutmeg and grated lemon
rind, and add 6 table-spoonfuls of pow
dered sugar; beat thoroughly eggs and
stir into the cream; beat the mixture for
ten minutes and then pour into the mold,
which it should quite fill; tie buttered
paper over it and let stand for two hours !;
then tie with cloth, put into boiling
water, and let boil slowly but steadily for
one hour. In taking it up let it stand for
q minute or two before the cloth is remov-
ed, then quickly turn it out. For sauce
rub together table spoonfuls of -four, 4
of butter. and the juice of lemon, and
add the beaten yolks of eggs, then stir
in n pint of wine and the same of boil
ing water; beat to q stiff foam the whites
of the eggs and drop upon the sauce in
its boat; but if the pudding is to be eaten
cold, spread the beaten whites over it and
brown for one instant in the oven.
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