Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


painful of ordinary paste.
To destroy cabbage-worms make a
strong solution of soft soap and water
and sprinkle the plants with it. 1t will
destroy the worms and stimulate the
growth of the cabbages.
TO make potato cakes, take mashed
potatoes, flour and little salt; to make
them sweet add a little powdered loaf
sugar; mix with just enough milk to
make the paste stiff enough to roll;
make it the size and thickness of muf-
fin and bake quickly.
TO Cook Eggs a la Bonnie Femme
Slice an onion, fry it in butter to light
brown, add teaspoonful OF vinegar;
butter dish, spread the onion and vim
egar over it, break the eggs into 1t and
then put the dish into the oven; when
the eggs are done strew fried bread
crumbs over them and serve very hot.
TO keep red ants out of cupboards,
ETC., dip few sponges in highly-sweet-
ened water and place them in the way
of the ants. They will soon be full of
the red pests; then dip them in boiling
water, which kills them. Repeat the
process until the whole colony is cap
tured.
TO Stuff Ham.-Parboil and place
the ham on tray; make missions over
1t with sharp knife some two or three
inches deep and stuff these with dress
ing made of crackers cooked to brown
crisp and crumbled fine; add salt, pep
per, egg, butter, parsley and onion
chopped fine, then bake it brown in
moderate heat and serve when cold.
Rice, large pearl sage and tapioca
are best when the pudding is made with
out eggs; sprinkle little of any one of
the above at the bottom of a pudding
dish, add little sugar and fill up with
milk; stir we'll before placing in the
oven; to the sage add small piece of
cinnamon broken up. The rice must
bake quite four hours; the sage and
tapioca about three Skim milk will do
if you cannot spare the new milk.
BY simple process steel may be
made so hard that it will pierce any sub
stance but diamond. Jewellers, lapi-
diaries and miners, who wish to give their
drills this degree of hardness, have but
to subject them to the following treat
ment: The tool is first brought to
white heat, and then pressed into a stick
of sealing-wax, left there for a second,
and then removed and inserted into the
wax in another place. This operation
should be repeated until the instrument
is too cool to enter the wax.
Cream Renversee.-Mix three table
spOOnfuls of flour with gill of cold
milk, and then add gill of scalded
milk. Put in saucepan over the fire
and stir until it begins to thicken, then
take it off and add four ounces of white
sugar and the yolks of four eggs, with
teaspOOnful of lemon extract or any
flavor you like; then beat the whites of
the eggs to stiff froth and stir it in the
mixture; place it in buttered pan or
mold and set it in a kettle of boiling
water to rise. After it has risen bake it
it in a mild oven, and, when cool, turn it
out on dish upside down.-Cult50atOr.
TO make cucumber catsup, take large
green cucumbers just before turning
yellow, wash them, but do not pare them;
cut them open; take out the seeds; CRATE
them on a coarse crater. Then put the
pulp into sieve to drain, and when all
the juice is out put into dish and sea-
son with salt and pepper to suit the
table. Put into bottles or glass cans
with glass covers; then fill full of cold
cider vinegar and seal tight. Do not fill
the bottles or cans to the top with the
pulp, as you will not have room for the
vinegar. Leave three inches. This is
the way l make it, and we think it very
nice.
Here are two methods of making
good homemade vinegar: 1. To one pint
of strained honey add two gallons of soft
water. Let it stand in a moderately
warm place. In three weeks it will be
excellent vinegar 2. Boil pint of corn
till it is little soft put it into jar; add
a pint of molasses and four quarts of
water; mix we'll together and set near
the stove. In two days it will be good
beer, in two or three weeks it will be
first-rate vinegar The same corn will
do for several months. When the vine
gar is made pour it off and add molasses
and water to the corn. We-have not
tested these recipes, but give them as we
find them in the books.
The famous dye called henna, which
has been in use among Oriental nations
from very ancient times, is procured
from the shrub Lawsonia alba, of the
natural order Lythracee. The plant is
often cultivated for the sake of it's flow
ers, which are exceedingly fragrant; but
it is mainly priced for its leaves, which
abound in coloring matter. These last,
being dried, powdered and made into
paste with hot water and catechu, are
employed by the women of the East to
stain the nails and tips Of the fingers of
an orange color The men also use it to
dye their beards-the orange being con-
verified into deep black by indigo-and
the names and hoofs of horses. 1t is
also used to give to skins and leather the
hue of reddish yellow.