Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-31
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Saratoga Potatoes.-Slice raw pota
toes and throw them into water. Have
ready lard, boiling hot; season the pota-
toes later draining) with salt and pepper;
fry little brown.
Roll Cake.--Three eggs, one cup OF
sugar, one cup of flour; Stir well into it
one teaspoonful of cream tartar and half as
much soda; bake quick, and roll with
jelly when hot; bake in square tins.
Apple Float.-To one quart of APP
Piles, partially stewed and well mashed
put the whites of three eggs well beaten,
and four heaping tablcspoonfuls of Loaf
sugar; beat them together for fifteen min.
utes, and eat with rich milk and nutmeg
"A Remedy for Corns.-Bathe the fee,
in tepid water to soften the corns; pare
these off very closely with sharp knife
then rub on well green peach-tree leaves
when, after continuing the rubbing once
or twice day, the corns will disappear
Dish for Breakfast.-Take half q
dozen, or as many as necessary, good
cooking apples; cut them in slices OF
about quarter of an inch thick. Have
ready a pan of fresh, hot lard; drop the
slices in, and fry brown. A little sugar
sprinkled over improves them.
Green Corn Soup.-Cut the corn from
the cob, and boil the cobs half an hour
Take out the cobs and put in the corn
and boil it half an hour Add half as
much sweet milk as you have of the corr
soup. Season with salt and little pep
per, and one or two eggs if you like. lie
all boil up together, thickening with {
little flour stirred smooth in milk.
Honey Soap.-Cut thin two pounds
yellow soap into double saucepan, stir
ring it until it is melted, which it will b.
in a few minutes if the water is kept boil
ing around it; then add a quarter of ,
pound of olive oil, a quarter of pound
of honey, five cents worth of oil of CHINA
mon; boil all together ten minutes, pour j
out and stand ii by until the next day; i
is then fit for use Made by these direc
tons it is very superior soap.
-Currant Jelly.-Take ripe, freshly
gathered currants, and fill up a gallon ja
with them, and set it in boiling water fol
an hour; then turn out the juice carefully
not letting the berries fall into it. To eacl
pint ofjuice take three-quarters of pound
Of best lump sugar; boil all together fol
twenty minutes; strain through jelly
strainer into cups or glasses which have
been dipped into cold water When per
fectly stiff, dip thin paper the size o.
the glass into the white of an egg, and la,
over the jelly; then paste over the glass !
piece of stiff brown paper, and write the
kind of jelly and the date upon it.
The Swede Turnip.-Mr. John Dey
in discussion on Root Culture by Wis
consin Farmers Club, said: 1.-THE Swed,
turnip is a good root for sheep, hogs anC
young cattle. Cows fed on them viii
keep in good heart, but they are not a:
good for milk as the carrot or beet. l
will pay well to raise them. If we do no
wish to feed them we can sell them; they
usually bring 40 or so cents per bushel
and if we say 600 bushels to the acre a
40 cents we have $4,000; and if we allow
one-half for raising and marketing W,
have $780, which would buy 200 bushcl,
of corn, and to raise 200 bushels of corr
we would want four acres of ground ant
expend more to raise and harvest than We
would the turnips."