Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Excellent Drop Cakes.-Two cups
sugar; one cup sour milk; three teaspoons
soda; two eggs; one teaspoon cloves; enc
teaspoon cinnamon. Stir very thick and
drop on buttered tins.
Rye Drop Cakes.-One cup of sour
cream, three cups of sour milk or butter
milk, one-half cup of sugar or molasses,
two teaspoonfuls of saleratrs. Mix stiff
enough for the spoon to stand erect. A
little salt helps it.
Plum Preserves.-Plums are equally
good done in mOlasses as sugar. Ii sugar
is used, take an equal quantity of fruit
and sugar. Make a clear syrup and boil
the plums gently forty minutes. They
willrequire heating over once if to be kept.
Beech plums are very excellent prepared
in this way, as well as for pies.
Imitation Coral Baskets.-Bend bon
net wire into the shape of scolloped
basket; and two wires, crossed at equal
distances, for the handle; and then sew on
a few raisin stems, short and long ones.
Melt some beeswax, coloring it with
Chinese vermilion or red aniline; if the
aniline is used, it must be dissolved in a
little warm water and poured into the
beeswax. Apply this while hot, pouring
it on with a teaspoon, being careful to
just cover the frame.
"A correspondent of the RaUiGl Neao
Yorker gives the following as sure cure
for scratches and cOllar-gall and good for
man and beast: One quart linseed oil;
one quart spirits turpentine; two fluid
ounces sulphuric acid. Put oil and tur-
pentine together in common stone jug;
add the acid slowly, (keeping it uncorked)
and keep 1t in motion until cool. To cure
scratches use no wash but the oil, and
after two days application rub the affect
ed part with a cob and apply oil every
day.
-Carbolic Acid.-That great disinfect
ant, carbolic acid, should be on hand in
every household, and if bought by the
gallon or quart it is cheap; if bought in
Walls it is dear. An objection hitherto has
been its unpleasant odor, but this was on
account of its strength. Solutions will
kill the eggs of all kinds of vermin, will
destroy ants in the hill, and annihilate the
germs of disease and plaques in stables
and outhouses, but general cleaning out
is required in connection. All drains,
sinks, and pipes conveying water should
have sprinkling
How to Make Tomato Figs.-Pour
boiling water over the tomatoes in order
to remove the skins; then weigh them
and place them in a stone jar, with as
much sugar as you have tomatoes, and
let them stand two days; then pour off
the syrup and boil and skim it until no
scum rises. Then pour it over the toma-
toes, and let them stand two days, as be-
fore, then boil and skim again. After a
third time they are fit to dry, if the
weathcr is good; if not, let them stand in
the syrup until drying weather. Then
place on large eathen plates or dishes,
and put them in the sun to dry, which
will take about week, after which pack
them down in small wooden boxes, with
fine white sugar between each layer.
Tomatoes prepared in this manner will
keep for years.
Saving the Shingles-The Scientific
american says: Take a potash kettle or
large tub, and put into it one barrel of
wood ashes I've, five pounds of white
vitriol, five pounds of alum, and as much
salt as will dissolve in the mixture.
Make the liquor quite warm, and put as
many shingles in it as can be conveniently
wetted at once. Stir them up with fork,
and when we'll soaked take them out and
put in more, renewing the liquor as neces-
sary. Then lay the shingles in the usual
manner. After they are laid take the
liquor that is left, put enough lime into it
to make whitewash, and if any coloring is
desirable, add ocher, Spanish brown,
lampblack, ETC., and apply to the roof
with brush or an old broom. This wash
may be renewed from time to time. Salt
and I've are excellent personalities of
wood. 1t is well known that leach tubs,
troughs, and other articles used in the
manufacture of potash, never rot. They
become saturated with the alkali, turn
yellowish inside, and remain impervious
to weather.