The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
HOUSEHOLD

furnishes the n. Y. Tribune a receipt,
winch she says makes the best yeast
known to civilized women. She has
Kept 1T three months in the hottest
weather and much longer in cool
whether, and never had any sour. The
flour should be thoroughly dried by the
fire before being made into sponge, an
important item of which many Young
housekeepers are ignorant. The sponge
should be set at noon, mixed at night.
and moulded next morning. Stirring
the sponge after it begins to ferment
makes the bread white. Now for the
recipe One quart of hops put light
ly IN the cup, one quart of potatoes
pared and sliced, one pint of corn
Drowned like coffee; put the hops in a
small bag, add three quarts of boiling
water, boil two hours. Strain through
colander, add one cup of white sugar.
half cup of salt, and water to make
five quarts of the mixture. When
lukewarm add one pint of the same
yeast to ferment it. If that is not at
hand use potato yeast without meal OF
flour, as that might sour after a while.
Half a cup Is enough for a baking.
large or small. The yeast must be
made in tin or porcelain. Let it stand
"A hours In warm room, then bottle
or can tightly and keep in a cool cellar,
Half the ingredients will do for a small
family.
BLACK PAINT FOR IRoNwoRK.-A var.
nlsh for iron work can be made as fol
lows: Obtain some good clean gas tar,
and boil for four or five hours, until il
runs as fine as water; then add one
quart of turpentine to a gallon of tar.
and boil another half hour. Apply hot.
To WATERPROOF Doors AND SHOES
Before applying, warm the boots little,
but take care not to hold them too neal
the fire. Melt together half a pint oil
boiled hnseed oil, 2 ounces of suet, Ealt
an ounce of beeswax, and half an ounce
of resin.
RENEWING MAROON CoLoRs ON Wool
Wash the goods in very weak I've
then rinse thoroughly in clear water
thus you have beautiful, even color
although your goods may have beer
much faded and stained. Though the
color thus obtained may not be the
exact shade as when new, it is, how
ever, very pretty one. This may b.
new to others, as it was to me, until &C
cident led me to try the experiment.
have now tested it thoroughly, and fee
so much pleased with the result that
send it for publication, hoping that i
may be of use to some fair readers. The
above will not answer for other than al
wooden goods of a maroon color.
To MAKE WATER-PRooF CLOTH on,
OF THICK DUCKNG-the followins
French recipe is given: Take tive
pounds four ounces Of alum, and dis
solve it in ten gallons of water. In lik
manner dissolve the same quantity O
sugar of lead in a similar quantity O
water, and mix the two together. The,
form a precipitate of the sulphate O
lead. The clear liquor is now with
drawn, and the cloth immersed on
hour in the solution, when it is takel
out and dried in the shade, washed il
clean water and dried again.
COCHNEAL CoLoRNG.-The followin!
is a good recipe: CochineaI, alum
cream tartar, barb. petassa, each tire,
drachms; water, eight ounces. Rul
the cOchineal, alum and cream tarta
with eight ounces of boiling water, ant
when Geld, gradually add carb potassa
and strain; pour water on the straine
sufficient to measure eight fluid ounces
IRONING WITHOUT HEAT.-A lady O
experience says that much time ant
trouble may be saved by ironing with
out heat and fat-irons. When rinsin,
the clothes, fold coarse sheets, towel
and table-cloths III the shape they ar
wanted, and pass them through tn
wringer as tight as possible. Unfol,
and hang to dry where the wind doe
not blow very hard. They Will nee,
little or no ironing. The table-cloth
should be dipped in old, sweet, skim
med milk; this gives them lustre, ant
they need no starch.
ZINC WHUTEwAsH.-Mi oxide of Yin
with common size, and apply it with
whltewash brush to the ceiling. Ate
this, apply in the same manner wasl
of the chloride of zinc, which will
combine wish the oxide to form
smooth cement with shining surface
MOTH IN CARPETS. TO prevent moth
from injuring carpets, buy half pounC
of gum camphor and that Will save al
the carpets in your house for year, b,
placing a few little crumbs under tn,
edges of the carpets without moviny
them.
To PRESERVE FRUIT JELLIEs Fro,
MoULD.-COver the surface one-fourtl
of an inch deep with fine pulverize,
loaf sugar. When thus protected. tn
jellies will keep for years in good con
ditiOn, and free from mouldiness.
BLUE WRITING INK-Take SOLUBLE
Prussian blue, and oxalic acid, equa
parts; powder them finely; then adj,
soft water to bring them to thin paste
Let the mixture stand or 3 DAYS. the
add more water until the desired shad
of blue is obtained.
CHEAP BLACK INK.-Take of chippet
lOgwood 8 pounds; water, gallons
Boil three-fOurths of an hour, and adj,
2 ounces bichromate of potassa. Cost
about five cents gallon.
Suppose, Just to get a little praC
tice in the one-natiOn and one-languag
direction, we begin with attempting t
use the same language with some on
civilized nation on some one subject
for example, the same language as t
one class of qualities and quantities,
e., the same coinage, weights and meas
ures. This is Quite important, woul
reward any effort, yet would not pre-
ciDitate the millennium I1udu1v