The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-23
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

German Potatoes.-Mashed potatoes
we'll seasoned and plenty of cream. Make
in little cakes half an inch thick (made
some hours beforehand they are betterl
beat an egg and dip them in It; brown
nicely on both sides.
Delicate Cake.-One and . half cups
Of sugar, half cup of butter. Rub this
to cream, add half cup of sweet milk,
soda, and two cups of -four in which one
rubbed. Add . little salt. Flavor with
vanilla, lemon or nutmeg. Beat the
whites of four eggs to froth and add last.
The successful effort of q lady to
break up" . sitting hen is thus recorded
in Moore's Rural: "Picking some splin-
tiers from the chip-yard (some four or five
inches longl she bound them firmly to the
hens legs, leaving only the hip joints in
Like the Dutchman's hen, she would have
to sit standing up"
Prevention of Scarlet Fever.-Dr.
Cherbonnier, q graduate of the University
OF Paris, and stated to be one of the most
skillful physicians Of Baltimore, gives the
following recipe as q preventive of scar
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grains cinnamon water, one ounce; aico-
hol, ten drops. Give two or three times
day. Dose, one drop for every year of
the age of the child ten drops will he the
maximum dose.
Pure Air.-That the quantity of pure
air absolutely required by an adult is
about one pint at each Inspiration, or
over fifty hogsheads every twenty -four
hours, in order that the blood and
body may be kept in state of health, is
proof sufficient that the impressible, sensi-
tive nature Of children should also have
through their tender years. But how
many regard these rights as sacred?
The right way to sweep is to incline
the handle little forward, then give a
light drawing stroke, allowing the broom
to scarcely touch the carpet. Not one
half the weight of the broom should be
allowed to press on the carpet as the
dirt is moved forward. Let the dirt be
moved and rolled lightly. If q generous
quantity of a-grounds, small bits of wet
paper, or clean and wet sawdust can be
spread over the carpet before the sweep
ing is commenced, all the fine dirt will
adhere to the wet materials.
"A Scotch Dish.-Cut up fresh goldfish
in pieces four inches square; lay them
on the bottom of the frying-pan; slice
over them very thinly layer Of raw po-
tatoes and some bits of butter; if onions
are liked add some of them, chopped fine,
and a sprinkling Of salt and pepper. Fill
up the frying pan with the layers, and
finish with layer of hard crackers or
sliced stale bread. Fill up with boiling
water, and let it stew for twenty five
minutes to half an hour, or until the
potatoes are thoroughly cooked. Cover
it while stewing with plate Or tin.
Snowflake Cake.-Take q half cup
of butter, two cups of white sugar, four
cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk,
three eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, and one-half of that quantity of
saleratus. Stir butter and sugar together,
add the beaten yOlks of eggs and halt the
-four with the cream of tartar in it; turn in
nearly al the milk, dissolve the saleratus
in what is left and add it. Beat the
whites of the eggs and mix in; stir in
the remainder Of the -four. Bake in
jelly-cake tins. Crate the meat OF two
fresh cocoanuts after pairing off the outer
skin; add to them one cup of sugar and
the beaten whites of two eggs. Spread
between the cakes, which should have
been baked in three pans. Heap the
cocoanut very high on the top of the
uppermost cake and scatter sugared al.
monds among it.