The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-24
HOLE, FARM AND GARDEN.

FILTER for Cistern Water.-Perforate
the bottom Of wooden box with a number
of small holes; place inside piece Of fan
mel, cover with coarsely powdered char
coal, over this coarse river sand, and on
this small pieces Of sandstone.
Pickle for Hams.-For one hundred
pounds of ham take six gallons of water,
nine pounds salt, one quart of molasses,
three ounces of saltpetre, and one ounce
saleratus. When ready to smoke they can
be soaked and then freshened to taste, if
too salt.
Tomatoes in New Fashionable
following method of preparing tomatoes
for the table, says an exchange, we are as
sured by one who has made the expert
ment is superior to anything yet discov-
cred for the preparation of that excellent
article: Take good ripe tomatoes, cut
them in slices, and sprinkle over them
finely pulverized white sugar, then add
claret wine sufficient to cover them.
Tomato Catsup.-Wash the tomatoes
and press them through fine seive to six
quarts of juice and pulp; add the same
quantity of best vinegar; then set it over
the fire to boil. When it begins to thick
en-, add of pimento, cloves, and pepper
each half an ounce, cinnamon a quarter
OF an ounce, and two nutmees finely
grated. Boil to the consistency Of thin
mush, then add four tablespoonful of
SALT and take it out of the vessel. When
cold, bottle and cork tight. Boil in brass
or bell metal kettle, or tin-lined vessel.
This can't he beat.
An exchange says that last winter,
just previous to the extremely cold
weather, a lady bought large quantity of
envelopes, with which she enlirciy CIV
cred her peach trees. Then her neighbors
laughed; but now, while their trees are
either dead or barren, she laughs to see
her own heavily laden with the choicest
peaches, for which she can obtain the
most fabulous prices.
Generally, the first effect of wooden
pump put into we'll is to give an I'M
pleasant taste and smell to the water.
This may often be remedied Immediately
by suspending bushel of fresh charcoal
tied up in clean cotton cloth in the we'll;
but it will pass away in time of its own
accord. 1t is the result of the decompo-
sition of the soluble matter of the wood.
Chopped Cauliflower.- a fine
white head of cauliflower, and chop it
fine. Put piece of butter as large as
butternut into shallow pan; add three
or four tablespoonfu!s of strong vinegar.
Stew the cauliflower, covered over with a
flat tin, for twenty minutes, or until it is
perfectly tender. Serve ON slices of toasted
bread, or on platter with bits of toast
cut into triangles, and well Drowned, then
laid in points around the dish. This is a
nice supper or breakfast dish.
TO make courtplaster, take half an
ounce of benzine and six ounces of recti-
fed spirits; dissolve and strain. Then
take one ounce of isinglass and half a
pint of hot water; dissolve and strain
separately from the former. Mix the two
and set them aside to cool, when a jelly
will be formed; warm this, and brush it
ten or twelve times over piece of black
silk stretched smooth. When dry, brush
it with solution made from four ounces
of Chan turpentine and six ounces of
tincture of benZinc.
To make cheap frames, cut strips of
stiff pastebOard about an inch wide the
desired length, clip the ends to point, and
cover with any nice black cloth, like
broadcloth or fine cashmere; lap the ends
at the corners of the frames, and fasten
with white or gilt button. Bind your
picture and glass together with strips of
gummed paper, and glue on to the Frame
Hang against a white wall. Bronzed
paper, which can be bought for eight
cents sheet, may be used instead of
cloth, in which case a short strip across
the corners of the frame is great addi-
ton to its comeliness.