Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-12-18
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A German scientist has discovered
that foul air has the same effect on the
system as bad liquor,
Coffee taken upon an empty stomach
renders the mind abnormally clear ana
the temper unnaturally bad.
Potato Pudding.-One pound mashed
potatoes, three-quarters of a pound of but
ter, three-quarters pound sugar, four eggs,
one gill of brandy, one gill of rose water,
one gill of cream; work the potatoes and
butter well together; beat the sugar ana
eggs to frOth; mix them well and bake
in quick oven.
Cure for Baldness.-Take of lockwood
shavings, six ounces; proof spirits, twelve
ounces; spirits of rose mary, two ounces;
spirits of nutmegs, half an ounce. Steep
shavings in the spirits at temperature
of 60o for fourteen days; then strain
liquid off, adding other ingredients. Rub
scalp thoroughly every night and morn
ing.
Thursday Pudding.-Filla tin mould
with stale cake broken up fine, and pour
over it a custard made of three eggs to
pint of milk, and let it stand one hour and
half Add little flavoring and little
sliced citron, and boil it one hour and
half Then let it grow cold; turn ii out
carefully, sift fine sugar over it and serve
with sauce.
Welsh Rarebit.-Put into frying-pan
quarter of pound of cheese cut up into
thin slices Pour on it half pint OF
sweet milk. Stir in an egg that has been
already beaten up, add fourth of tea
spoonful mustard, little less of red pep
per, and a teaspoonful of nice butter.
Have some bread slices toasted and pour
this mixture over them.
Apple Wine The following is highly
commended as a recipe for a homemade
wine from apples. Take sixty pounds
of brown sugar, one pound of sulphite
of lime, put into pure sweet cider from
the press, enough to fill forty gallon
barrel. Leave the bung out forty-eight
hours, then bung ii up and leave small
vent until fermentation wholly ceases.
1t should be kept in cool place. When
it has ceased to ferment it is ready for
use. The longer ii stands the better it is.
Duck Hashed.-The remains of cold
roast duck, rather more than one pint OF
weak stock or water, one onion, one ounce
of butter, thickening of butter and flour,
spoonful of minced lemon-peel, one des-
sertspoonful Of lemon juice, one-half glass
of port wine. Cut the duck into nice
joints, and put the trimmings into a stew
pan; slice and fry the onions in little
butter; add these to the trimming, pour
| in the above proportion of weak stock or
water, and stew gently for one hour.
Strain the liquor, thicken it with butter
and -four, season with salt and cayenne,
and add the remaining ingredients; boil
it up and skim well; lay in the pieces of
duck, and let them get thoroughly hot
through by the side of the fire, but do not
allow them TO boil; they should soak in
| the gravy for about one-half hour. Gar
nish with sippets of toasted bread. The
| hash may be made richer by using a
stronger and more highly-flavored gravy:
little spice or pounded mace may also
| be added. when their flavor is liked. Cook
one and one-half hour.-Mrs. Beeson.
Keep the Cows Warm-What sight
| is more pleasant than a row of sleek we'll
cared-for, healthy animals in Winterg
| Outside, the thermometer stands close
| upon zero; inside, the temperature is so
comfortable that we can well dispense
with our overcoat From whence comes
this genial warmthg No coal or wood is
consumed to raise the temperature. The
problem is easily solved Here are fifteen
stoves, not constructed of iron or stone,
but of flesh and blood, and in these stoves
hay and grain are burned constantly, and
hence the heat. IL is the warmth radiated
from the animals that we feel, and this
comes from actual combustion, produced
by the play of vital or chemical forces
within the organisms. A large percentage
of the food supplied adds neither to our
store Of milk or flesh, but is burned to
produce animal heat, and in the Winter
the supply of food must be increased, to
compensate for the loss by direct radia-
ton from the surface and through the
respiratory organs No greater mistake
can be made than TO house your animals
in cold, open barns, A shivering COW
can give no milk, nor gain any flesh. 20
feed cow, or any other animal, in the
| cold, open air, is about as foolish and
wasteful as to place stove out OF doors,
| fill it with fuel, and ext Oct to receive ben
fit by warming the atmosphere generally
Animals need protection and warmth as
we'll as human beings.-Jour7sGt Of Chem