Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

EXCELLENT DOUGHNUTs.-Three we'll
beaten eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of
cream, one teaspoonful Ct soda, little
salt and nutmeg.
WASHINGTON PIE.-One cup of white
sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one tea
spoonful of cream of tartar worked into a
pint of flour, one teaspoOnful of soda dis
solved in the milk, one egg, one table
spoonful of melted butter, and a little
nutmeg.
SMALL PUFFs-One pint of flour, a
piece of butter the size of an egg, two tea
spoonfuls of cream of tartar, one tea
spoonful of soda and mix with cold water
to the consistency of a stiff batter. This
is sufficient for four cups. Steam twenty
minutes. To be eaten with sweetened
cream.
RAILROAD PUDDING.-One cup of mo-
lases, one cup of cream, one cup Of sour
| milk, one teaspoontul of soda, one tea
spoonful of salt, nutmeg or spice, and
three cups of flour Steam two hours.
To be served with sour sauce. This makes
very good ginger cake by using ginger for
spice and baking.
To KEEP FLIES FROM PICTURE FRAMES.
Boil four onions in pint of water,
| then take clean brush, wash your frames
over with this liquid, and the flies will
not light on them. This onion water will
not injure the frames, and the odor soon
disappears. 1t is better than unsightly
| gauZe coverings to your pictures.
AMMONIA FOR VERBENAs.-Sulphate of
ammonia is an excellent manuriaI liquid
to apply to verbenas and other flowers,
giving to the foliage dark green, luxuri-
| ant and hpalthv II ic acnp
omical, clean, and easily applied Pre-
pare it in the evening before using, by dis
| solving one ounce of ammonia in two gal
| Ions OF water. 1t may be applied with
| safety about once a week.
For DESTROYING CATERPTLARs.-A
| formula recently introduced in England,
| consists of a mixture of coal dust, com
mon salt, and flour of sulphur, to be scat
tered just before a rain, over freshly-plow-
ed land. To eXterminate caterpillars on
| trees, they may be sprinkled with solu-
| ton of one part of sulphide Of potassium
| in 800 parts Of water. This, it is said, will
kill the insects, and do no harm to the
| trees.
SALT FOR PEAR TREEs.-Salting around
| pear trees to prevent the blight is becom-
ing a general practice in Central New
York. From 400 to 500 pounds per acre
are regularly applied each year, with sat
isfactory results. \ correspondent of the
lSmGU Fruit Recorder writes as follows on
| this subject: Last spring | put up a
small shoveltul of the refuse material from
the salt works-which is composed, | be
lieve, Of salt, lime and ash-arOund four
year old pear tree. 1t has made very
thrifty growth, and the leaves are all free
from blight or spot, and have very CLOS
sy, healthy look; while others of the same
lot, MANFRED with barnyard manure, have
grown but little, and the foliage is spotted
and dull.
How EASILY BETTER IS SPOILED.-A
farmers wife writing to the Ohio Farmer
says: "Of all the products of the farm,
butter is most likely to be tainted by noX-
| lous odOrs floating in the atmosphere.
Our people laid some veal in the cellar
from which little blood flowed out, and
was neglected until it commenced to
smell. The result was that lar of butter
which | was then packing, smelled and
tasted like spoiled beef. Another lady
reader observes that there is a filthy, sta o
nant pond of water a few hundred feet
from their house, from which an offensive
etf1uvium would be borne on the breeze
directly to the milk room, when the wind
was IN Il certain direction the result Of
which was that the cream and butter
would taste like the disagreeable odor
coming from that pond As soon as the
pond was drained we had no more dam
aged butter