The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
Farm Garden and Household,
Household Recipes.

Household Recipes.
To REMOVE MnDEw.-To remove
mildew, make very weak solution of
chloride of lime in water-about
heaping teaspoonful to quart of water;
strain it carefully, and dip the spot of
the garment into it, and, If the mildew
does not disappear Immediately, Law it
in the sun for few minutes, or dip it
again into the lime water. The work is
etfectually and speedily done, and the
chloride of lime neither rots the cloth
nor removes delicate colors when suffi.
GENTLY diluted, and the article rinsed
afterward in clear water.
How TO Do UP SHIRT Bosoms.-Take
two ounces of fine white gum arabic
powder, put it in pitcher and pour on
pint or more of boiling water, accord
ing to the strength you desire, and
then, having covered it, let it stand all
night. In the morning, pour it care
fully from the dregs into clean bottle,
cork and keep it for use. A table,
spoonful of gum water stirred in pint
OF starch, made in the usual manner,
will give to lawn, either white or print
ed. look Of newness, when nothing
else can restore them after they have
been washed.
FRENCH BREAD.-Take clean rice,
three fourths OF pound tie it up in
a thick linen bag, giving it room to
swell ; boil from three to four hours,
till 1t becomes perfect paste mix,
while warm, with seven pounds of
flour, adding yeast, salt and water.
Allow the dough to work q proper time
near the fire, then divide it into loaves,
dust them in and knead vigorously.
This quantity will make thirteen pounds
and seven ounces of excellent bread.
To POLISH BRAss.-Rub the metal
with rotten stone and sweet oil, then
rub off with a piece of cotton flannel
and polish with soft leather. A solu-
tion of oxalic acid rubbed over tarnish-
ed brass soon removes the tarnish, rem
dering the metal bright. The acid
must be washed off with water and the
brass rubbed with whiting and soft
leather. A mixture of muriatic acid
and alum dissolved in water imparts o
golden color to brass articles that are
stepped in it for few seconds.
APPLE BREAD.-Weigh one pound OF
frresh,. juicy apples; peel, core and
stew them into pulp. being careful to
use porcelain kettle or a stone Jar
placed inside kettle of boiling water !;
mix the pulp with two pounds of the
best flour; put in the same quantity of
yeast you would use for common bread,
and as much water as will make it
line, smooth dough /; put it into pan
and place 1t in warm place to rise,
and let it remain for twelve hours at
least. Form 1t into rather long shaped
loaves, and bake in quick oven.
Our Cellars,
All the refuse of q house is stored in
its cellar, therefore look to your cellars
occasionally. Old boxes, bins and bar
rels, which have contained vegetable
matter, meat, fish, etc., need thorough
overhauling. 1t is not that standing in
e dark corner, they look empty there
may be enough poison left sticking on
the side and bottom to affect the health
of the household. This work of cleans
ing is often left to the women and bows
of the family. A man had much better
leave his work day, to make a thor
ough examination and publication of
the cellar, than to be unduly anxious
about getting in his crops in extra sea-
son. After all garbage is carried out,
let the ceilings and walls be faithfully
brushed with an old broom and, if
this is done once month, the atmos-
phere will be all the sweeter. Use
plenty of lime, and, in dry weather,
keep the doors and windows open a
part of every day. Old tin and wooden
ware should not be allowed to stand
year after year upon the cellar shelves.
If it is not fit to be used, throw it
away.
Top Dressing.
In top dressing how much manure is
necessary to the acre? asks a CORE
spondent. Our general practice has
been to spread on from 10 to Is OK
loads, it depending somewhat upon the
quantity of manure and the size of the
loads. We are beginning, however, to
entertain the opinion that less guam
tity applied oftener would be more
beneficial, because only a limited
amount of plant-food can be made avail
able each year, and what is beyond the
capacity Of any plant or plants to take
up and assimilate to itself, must to
some extent at least be wasted. This
is more especially true when the np.
plication has been very liberal. The
soil would undoubtedly be enriched,
and if retentIve hold in combination
much fertilizing matter for succeeding
crops; still some portions of it would
be washed away and some carried too
far downward to be of use and the risk
altogether too great. A surer and
safer plan would be to apply less, and