Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-16
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Corn Starch Cake.-Take the whites
of nine eggs, two and one-half cups sugar,
one cup butter, two cups flour, one cup
corn-starch, one cup sweet milk, two tea
spoons baking powder: Flavor with
lemon. Bake in good-sized dish with a
pipe.
To Remove Grease Spots.-Apply
stiff paste to the wrong side OF the
material or garment. Then hang it up
and leave it for some time when you will
be surprised to find that the grease has
been entirely absorbed by the paste, which
can then be rubbed off.
Recipe for Crackers.-Butter, one cup /;
salt, one teaspoon; flour, two quarts. Rub
thoroughly together with the hand, and
wet up with cold water; beat well, and
beat in -four to make quite brittle and
hard; then pinch off pieces and roll out
each cracker by itself, if you wish them
to resemble bakers crackers.
Corn Bread.-Take one pint and a
half of sour cream; leave little in the
cup and have it hot In this dissolve one
teaspoonful of soda; stir in meal to make
batter thick enough to pour. Beat two
eggs-stir in the eggs and soda last This
will make enough for two dripping pans.
Sour milk and little shortening will do
instead of cream.
Cold in the Head.-When the head
feels swollen, and the nose INSTRUCTED, the
forehead hot, and the eyes watery, snuff a
few drops of tincture of camphOr up the
nose, every hour or two, and take inter
nally five or six drops on lump of sugar.
Ordinary cold, and even influenza, II
treated in this way in the very beginning
of the attack, is generally controlled at
once.
"A very superior glue may be made by
dissolving three parts of india-rubber in
| thirty-four parts of naptha. Heat and agl-
tation will be required to readily effect the
solution. When the rubber is completely
dissolved, add sixty-f0ur parts of finely
powdered shellac, which must be heated
in the mixture until all is dissolved. This
mixture may be obtained in sheets like
glue, by pouring it, when hot upon plates
of metal, where it will harden. When re-
| ouired for use, it may be simply heated in
a pot till soft. Two pieces of wood or
leather Joined together with this glue can
scarcely be sundered without fracture or
tearing of the parts.
-Arresting Decay in Potatoes.-Vari-
Gus plans for arresting decay in potatoes
after digging have from time to time been
made public, such as busting with quick
lime, gypsum, charcoal dust, etc. Prof
Church, of Cirencester, Eng, the eminent
| agricultural chemist, announces that sui
plate of lime appears to exercise very
remarkable influence in arresting the
spread of decay in potatoes affected by the
potato disease. In one experiment the
| salt was busted over some tubers, partially
| decayed from this cause, as they were be-
ing slowed away Some months afterward
the potatoes were found to have suffered
no further injury. A similar trial with
powdered lime proved to be much less
effective.
| Food Medicine-Dr Hall relates the
case of man who was cured of his bill
iousness by going without his supper and
drinking freely of lemonade. Every morn
ing, says the doctor, this patient arose
with wonderful sense of rest and refresh
ment, and a feeling as though the blood
had been literally washed, cleansed and
cooled by the lemonade and the fast. His
theory is that food will be used as RENE
dy for many diseases successfully. AS an
example, he cures cases of splitting blood
by the use of salt; epilepsy and yellow
fever by watermelons; kidney affections
by celery; poison, olive or sweet oil
erysipelas, pounded cranberries applied to
the parts affected; hydrophobia, onions
ETC. So the way to keep in good health is
really to know what to eat-not to know
what medicines to take.