The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
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The Alpine hat is becoming fashiona-
BILE for ladies'
The fashionable country shoe is an
Oxford tie; the bridal shoe is a tie-too.
To MAKE pastry for three pies, take
three cups Of sifted flour, one tablespoon
full of white sugar, one tablespoonful of
salt, one cup of lard and half cup OF
cold water; stir with spoon, and roll
out for your pies.
To PREPARE very palatable dish pare
and slice potatoes and fry them in thin
batter seasoned with salt and pepper un-
til they are of light brown color, and
place them on few slices of cold roast
beef
GERMAN Pre- Make a soft Dutch
cheese or smearcase. Take enough to fill
a deep pie dish and beat it up smooth
and thoroughly with sweet cream, a
handful Of tart currants, sugar and one
egg; bake in a crust like custard.
THE stock of the wild apple may be
made to bear the russell, the greening or
the golden pippin.
To EXTRACT ink from cotton, silk and
wooden goods saturate the spots with
spirits of turpentine and let it remain for
several hours; then rub it between the
hands. 1t will crumble away without in
juring either the color or the texture of
the article.
THE best medicine in the world, more
| efficient in the cure of diseases than all
the potencies of the materia medica, is
warmth, rest, cleanliness and pure air.
THE raising of clover is found to be
the most successful and cheapest mode
of enriching the ground Wherever
| clover can he successfully cultivated the
land can be made productive and re-
munerative.
WOOD can be ornamented by punching
down carefully in patterns, planning off a
little and then wetting; the parts
punched down show in relief above the
planed surface and make quite puzzle.
To remove tattoo marks from the skim
blister the part with a plaster little
| larger than the mark; then keep the
place open for week with an ointment
| finally, dress it to get well. As the new
skin grows the tattoo marks will disap-
| pear.
Two recipes are given in the Scientific
| american for removing tallow and white
| yvh cd tn Al
ished parts of machinery to prevent rust ::
| l. Use turpentine, and rub it in well. 2.
! Try concentrated solution of caustic
potash, scrubbing with an old scrubbing
| brush.
| To CUT GLASS JARs-Fill the Jar with
lard oil to where you want to cut the
| jar; then heat an iron rod or bar to red
| heat; immerse in the oil; the unequal ex-
panson will check the jar all round at
the surface of the oil, and you can lift
of the top part
ALBUMEN EXTRACTED FROM MILK
Schwalbe has found that if oil of mus
! tard be added to cows milk in the pro-
| portion of one drop to IL drains the
milk does not coagulate even after being
kept for a considerable period; but that
| the caseine is transformed into albumen
If this discovery, says Les Mondes, is con-
! tirmed it will be of considerable impor-
lance in the printed-fabric industry.
To TELL whether there is alum in
| bread make saturated solution of am
monia carbonate and put teaspoonful
OF it with the same quantity of the log
wood tincture into a wineglassful of
water in white-ware dish: slice of
bread is put in for five minutes, then re-
moved and allowed to drain; in an hour
or two it turns blue if alum be present