Connecticut western news., 1874-05-15
Farm, Garden and Household.
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MILK SrAINs.-Milk stains on serge dresses may be removed by sleeping the part in warm water. MUFFIN REcrPE.-Two eggs, one quart of flour, pint of sweet milk, two ounces of butter, 8 gill of yeast, tea spoonful of salt.
 COLOGNE WATER.-Ons quart of alco- hol, quarter of an ounce of the oil of lavender, and quarter of an ounce of the oil of rosemary.
 IcrNs.-Into the white of an egg, beaten till very light, stir six table spoon fu1s of powdered sugar, and spread over the cake while warm.
 PLUM OAKn.-Nine pounds of flour, nine eggs, three pounds of sugar, one pint of yeast, one spoonful of rosewater. Spice to your taste wet with milk.
 BATTER PUDDna.- One cup of milk, one cup of -four. one egg. If large proportion. A little salt. Steam or boil. ------- PoR-OvERs.-Four eggs, four cups of flour, four cups of milk, small piece of melted butter and little salt. These should be baked in gem-tins or small cups, which should be previously heated. Bake in hot oven.
 FEATHNn CAKE. = One cup white sugar, one cup sweet milk, two and 8 half cups of flour, one egg, piece of butter size of an egg, one teaspoon cream of tartar, one-haf teaspoon of soda; flavor with lemon, and bake slowly.
 PuDDMa SAUoH.-One-ha1f teacup of butter one and ahalf teacups of sugar, and one pint of strawberries mashed till juicy. Canned berries may be substi- tuted for fresh ones). Beat the butter and sugar to cream, then stir in the berries. r sT fset LEMON JE1LY.-Two cups of sugar ; Yelks of three eggs; juice of two lemons. Cook till thickened by setting in boiling water, and then add the we'll beaten whites of three eggs ; spread between layers of the cake, and trim of the rough edges.
 CURE FOR THE SICK HEADACHE. Two spoonfuls of finely powdered charcoal, drank in half 8 tumbler of water, will in less than fifteen minutes give relief
  in most cases it is, by superabundanee of acid on the stomach.
 SNow PUDDING one-half q box of gelatine in one pint of cold water. After it is thoroughly dissolved add one pint of warm water, two cups of sugar, juice of two lemons. Let it cool, then put in the whites of three eggs we'll beaten. Serve cold with sugar and cream.
 NEW KIND or oFBREAD.-Take one quart of corn meal, pour on sufficient quantity of boiling water to make thick batter, then add one tablespoonful of lard, salt to suit the taste, and three eggs. Then stir up well and drop tablespoonful in separate places on griddle or spider, previously warmed, and let them cook brown. You will find it excellent.
 CEMENT FOR BROKEN CH1NA-Take a very thick solution of gum arabic dis. solved in water, and stir it into plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes 8 viscous paste. Apply it with 8 brush to the fractured edges, and stick them together. In three days the article can- not be broken in the same place. The wilderness of the cement renders it doubly valuable.
 To SOFTEN OLD PUrTY.-In removing old broken panes from a window, it is generally very difficult to get off the hard dry putty that sticks round tho glass and its frame. Dip a small brush in little nitric or muriatic acid ito be obtained at the druggists-and go over the putty with it. Let it rest awhile and it will soon become so soft that you can remove it with ease.
 How te Make Grating Wax,
 Thomas Matteson, Pennsylvania, writes "Take two parts mutton tai low, four parts rosin, three parts beeswax melt the tallow first, and put the beeswax and rosin into it when il 1t is all melted, stir it all up, and pou1 into cold water and work it over il there are Jumps in it mash them witt your thumb and finger the longer yor work 1t the more sticky it grows wher 1t begins to stick to your hands put some tallow on them work it till it i. as sticky as you want it; put in 8 tir pan with cover to it and it will keer for number of years. I think it is al good as sticking-salve to put on any sores. Some people put in more talloV than they put in rosin or beeswax, te make it softer to work in cold weather but If there is too much tallow it vii melt and run out in warm weather. ] have had about forty years experience In grating, and used a number of sorts of grafting wax. Some people put ii Tn hot water, and make moro trouble than there is need of. wet my finger with my tongue, and don't find an, difficulty in putting the wax on. I pu a little wax on the end of the graft. D
 How to Clean Furs.
 Strip the fur articles of their stufins and binding, and lay them as nearl1 flat as possible then brush we'll witi stlf clothes-brush if there be an, moth-eaten parts, cut them out and re place them by bits of fur to match Furs, when old, look much better afte, being stretched, which is done as fol lows Dissolve three ounces of salt ir pint of soft water; with this. suono. the inside of the skin until it become, thoroughly wet be careful not to we the fur; lay it on board with the fur side downward, stretch it as much as i will bear, to the required shape. an6 fasten it with small tacks until dry. il required to dry soon, the skin may h, placed about foot from the stove ol grate. Sable, chinchilla, squirrel, fitch &c., may be cleansed thus: Warm , quantity of bran in a pan, stirring i well so that it may not burn; wher well warmed. rub it thoroughly into tn, fur, against the grain, then shake it ont repeat this process several times, thel shake the fur, and give it good brush ing. Flour, we'll rubbed into thes, furs, will clean them, but not so vel as the warm bran.
 Mural Tablet.
 A tablet has been placed in the east ern wall of the building at Six'l. all,