The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

.,.-Corn Starch Cske;-Take the whites
one cup butter, two cups -four, one cup
corn-starch, one cup sweet milk, two tea
spoons baking powder. Flavor with
lemon. Bake in a good-sized dish with
pipe.
To Remove Grease Spots.-Apply
a still paste to the wrong side of the
material or garment Then hang it up
ana 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 we'll, and
peat in flour 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
half of sour cream; leave a little in the
cup and have it hot. In this dissolve one
teaspoonfal of soda: stir in meal to make
batter thick enough to poQr. Beat two
eggs-stir in the eggs and soda last. This
will make enough for two dripping pans.
instead of cream.
Cold in the Head.-When the head
feels swollen, and the nose INSTRUCTED, the
forehead hot, and the eyes watery, snuff
few drops Of tincture Of camphor up the
nose, every hour or two, and take inter-
nally five or six drops on a lump of sugar.
Ordinary cold, and even influenza, if
treated in this way in the very beginning
at 10 1nl M
once:
-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
phate of lime appears to exercise a 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
decaycd 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.
"A very superior glue may be made by
dissolving three parts of india-rubber in
thirty four parts of naptha. Heat and agi-
tation will be required to readily effect the
solution. When the rubber is completely
dissolved, add sixty-four parts of finely
powdered shellac, which must be heated
in the mixture until all is dissolved. This
mixture may he obtained in sheets like
glue, by pouring it, when hot, upon plates
of metal, where it will harden. When re-
quired 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.
Food Medicine.-Dr. Hall relates the
case of man who was cured of his bill
iousncss 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 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.