Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-27
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


One acre of land in Southern Cali
fornia can be made to yield as great q
clear profit by semi-tropical nut and fruit
culture as twenty acres in the Eastern
States devoted to ordinary farming.
-Mush and Fried Mush.--Stir corn
meal into boiling water till sufficiently
thick. Add salt; keep stirring it to pre-
vent it being lumpy. 1t should bell near
when cold it makes a wholesome and
good dessert, if sliced and fried. Eat it
with sugar and cream, or butter and mo-
lasses.
Chestnut Cream. twenty five
roasted chestnuts in a mortar with little
milk; then put the paste so made into a
stew-pan with the yolks of two eggs, half
pint of milk, two ounces of butter, and
four ounces of powdered sugar; when it
has boiled little while strain it, put it
into dish or glass for the table, and let
it cool.
Friction of the body is one of the
gentlest and most useful kinds of exercise,
either by the hand, a piece of flannel, a
tolerably coarse towel, or a flesh brush.
Friction, cleans the skin, promotes per-
SEPARATION and increases the warmth and
/
ach perform the operation in circular
direction, as that is most favorable to the
course of the intestines and their natural
action. s@ ~ ~ @ @~S
Snow Pudding.-Pour one pint boil
ing water on half box of gelatine, add
the Juice of one lemon, and two cups of
sugar. When nearly cold, strain, add the
whites of three eggs beaten to frOth,
then beat the whole well together and put
in glass dish. Take the yolks of these
three eggs, one pint of milk, one teaspoon
corn-starch, flavor with VANILLA and cook
as you always do soft custard pour it
round the jellied part, or serve separately,
as you prefer.
TO Color Cotton Red-Take muriate
of tin two-thirds ola teacup add sufficient
water to cover the goods well. Bring to
boiling heat, putting in the goods one
hour and stirring often. Take out the
goods and empty the kettle and put in
clean water with Nicaragua wood, one
pound, sleeping for half an hour at hand
heat; then put in the goods and increase
the heat for one hour, not bringing it to a
boil at all. Air the goods and dip as be-
fore. Wash without soap.
Cure for hilblains.-Bathe the feet
for half an hour in water as hot as can be
borne; add hot water after the feet have
been in few moments, as they will bear
more than at first Let the water be at
least as hot when the feet are removed as
when put in. This draws the inflamma-
ton out and allays the itching which is
so very painful. Dry with cloth; then
battle we'll with hemlock oil (Which can
| be got at any druggists at trif1ing cost;
dry it in by the fire. Repeat the applica-
| ton three or four nights if needed. Care
| should be taken not to chill the feet i'm
mediately.
Save the tea leaves for few days,
then steep them in tin pail or pan for
half an hour, strain through a sieve and
use the tea to wash all vanished paint.
| 1t requires very little "elbow polish" as
the tea acts as strong detergent, cleans
| ing the paint from all impurities, and
making the varnish equal to new 1t
cleans window sashes and oil-cloths in
| deed, any vanished surface is improved by
| its application. 1t washes window panes
and mirrors much better than water, and
! is excellent for cleaning black walnut
picture and looking-glass frames. 1t will
not do to wash unvarnished paint with it.
| Whiting is unequaled for cleaning white
paint. Take small quantity on damp
| flannel, rub lightly over the surface, and
you will be surprised at its effects.
Among all the ways and machines 1
| have tried for washing clothes | find moth
ing equal to barrel and FOUNDER. Bore six
| or seven inch and half or larger holes
into the end of a six or eight inch sap
| ling Il use butternut, it bores easily and
| is handy, two or three inches deep, then
bore a three fourth inch side hole
through to the bottom of the larger ones
| to let out air and water when pounding.
| The FOUNDER should be six or eight inches
| long or high, made a little tapering, and
| hoop-iron band put round it near the
| top. For a handle 1 use a common hoe
handle, such as | can buy at stores for a
dime. use strong oil barrel to pound
in; it is cheap and strong, makes a good
water barrel, or convenient to put dirty
clothes in. Soap your clothes well, and
put into your barrel just warm water
enought to thoroughly wet the clothes. In
washing this way persons generally use
too much water; it then makes hard,
splashing work. If the water gets too
dirty, change it, of course. If great
| double-fsted men, with weak or even
strong and healthy wives and families,
| would provide and use this simple
thing, I think they would bless the day
they first tried it.-Cor. AmerScan Ag1's-
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