The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-15
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Potato Puff.-Two cups cold mashed
potatoes; stir in it two tablespoons OF
melted butter, beating to a cream; add
two well-beatcn eggs, one cup cream or
milk; pour into deep dish; bake in a
quick oven.
TO Waterproof Boots and Shoes
Before applying, warm the boots little,
but take care not to hold them too near
the fire. Melt together half a pint OF
boiled linseed oil, two ounces of suet, half
an ounce of beeswax, and half an ounce
of resin.
Black Paint for Ironwork.-A varnisll
for ironwork can be made as follows: Oh,
tain some good clean gas tar, and boil for
four or five hours, until it runs as fine as
water; then add one quart of turpentinc
to a gallon of tar, and boil another halt
hour. Apply hot.
Orange Cakc.-Three eggs, yolks and
white, one cup flour, three tablespoons
milk, one teaspoon baking powder, Il little
salt; CRATE the peel and chop the pulp of
one orange together; squeeze the juice out
and mix with soft frosting, and put be-
tween the layers of cake when cold.
-Cochineal COloring.--Thcf following is a
good recipe: Cochincal ,alum, cream tartar,
carb. potassa, each three drachms; water,
eight ounces. Rub the cochineal, alum, and
cream tartar with eight ounces of boiling
water, and when cold gradually add carb.
pOtassa, and strain; pour water on the
straincr sufficient to measure eight fluid
ounces.
Black Walnut ''Stain."-To impart to
common pine the color and appearance of
black walnut: One quarter of a pound
of asphaltum, one half a pound of COM
mon beeswax, to one gallon of turpentinc.
Ii found too thin, add heeswax; if too
light in color, add asphaltum, though this
must be done with caution, as very little
will make great difference in the shade.
Varnish is not essential, as the wax gives
a good gloss.
Ironing Without Heat.-A lady of ex-
perience says that much time and trouble
may be saved by ironing without heat and
tlat.irons. When rinsing the clothes, fold
coarse sheets, towels, and tablecloths in
the shape they are wanted, and pass them
through the wringer as tight as possible.
Unfold and hang to dry where the wind
does not blow very hard. They will need
little or no ironing. The tablecloths
should be dipped in old, sweet, skinned
milk; this gives them lustre, and they
need 10 starch:
To Clean Furniturc-Mix linsecd
oil, one quart; gin or spirits of wine, half
a pint; butter of anthony, two ounces,
with half a pint of spirits of turpentine.
This mixture requires to be well shaken
before it is used A little of it is then to
he poured upon rubber, which must be
well applied to the surface of the turni-
ture. Several applications will be neces-
sary for new furniture, or for such as has
previously been French polished'' or
rubbed with beeswax.
strawberry Shortcake.-Make your
crust the same as you would for saleratus
biscuits, and have it about half an inch
thick. When baked, split open and but
ter, leaving twO-thirds of the thickness of
crust at the bottom; put on a layer of SUI
gar, then Il good thick layer of straw
berries, another layer of sugar, then
the top crust, and set back into
the oven till it is slightly warmed through.
Some persons wash the berries, but | pre-
fer stcmming and sugaring an hour or so
previous, so they will become juicy.
When | do this do not put on any sugar
when [ fill the crust.
-SllOtlu 1llk VI NISftll UC NIlul
The N. Y. Observer reports an experiment
from which it appears that about 1850
pounds of milk made twenty-five pounds
of butter, or sixteen to one. The milk was
sour and thick. 1t was thought that the
quality of the butter would have been
somewhat better if the milk had only just
begun to turn. AS to velocity in churning
it was said there should be from forty to
sixty strokes of the dasher in a minute
Some say that the motion should be con
tinuOus; others, that the cream Tor milk
should have intervals of rest, and that the
air should occasionally be introduced. l,
has been discovered by the microscope
that butter exists in the milk enclosed in
thin sacks of albumen, and these sacks arc
to be thoroughly broken to make good
butter. They are sometimes seen mixed
with butter, being only torn in two. The
effect of souring is injurious. The great
objection to churning milk is the great
amount of power required.