Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


TO Remove Rust from Cloth. Take
three parts water and one part muriatic
acid; apply to the spots. Press thor
oughly.
The recipe for making a pound of
| butter from a pint of milk is as follows
Take four ounces pulverized alum, one
half ounce pulverized gum arabic, and
| fifty grains of pepsin, placed in bottle
| for use as wanted. A teaspoonful added
to the pint of milk will, upon churning,
make pound of butter. 1t is true that
| the butter will seem to be near relation
| to pot cheese, but call it butter, and that
makes it so. This recipe is selling
through the country at from one to five
dollars.
-"One who has tried it." writes as fol-
lows: eff any farmer wants convenient
| and cheap cushion to ride on, let him
take sheep-skin, as soon as 1t is off the
sheep, and scrape the flesh off, then lay
it on a smooth place. Pulverize one
pound of alum and one of salt, and cover
the flesh side of the skin and let it lie for
week or two, and it will be well tanned.
They make the best seat for the reaper,
raker, cOrn-planter, or to. throw on the
horse to ride from the field to the barn
and if one should be caught in sudden
shower they would answer for protec-
ton"
The Best Way to Roast Beef-Select
| good thick piece, rub salt over it and
pepper it; put in the dripping-pan with
out any water, and cook in slow oven
Three hours or more are required for a
thick piece. When nearly done pour a
little water over it few times Turkeys
can be roasted in this way much nicer
than to boil them first, as many do. The
point of difficulty is to be sure and give
them plenty of time, for little hurrying,
especially in the beginning, spoils it all.
After the meat is taken up, pour in water
and make the gravy in the usual way by
stirring in flour beaten smooth in water.
DIR. Revillod, of Geneva, who has
made special study of the various means
hitherto tried for preventing the develop
ment of smallpox pustules in the face,
discards cOllodion, because it cracks the
skin and causes too much pain; the SUBJ
Innate, because it sometimes produces
eschars; tincture of iodine, because it
does not prevent pustulation. He recon-
mends glycerine, which, through its ex-
osmotic action diminishes the intensity
of the eruption, while he cautions as to
the uses of washes with water or any
other liquid which increases the eruption.
His favorite formula is: Soap, ten parts;
glycerine, four parts; triturate, and add
mercurial ointment twenty parts. This
ointment does not prevent swelling of the
face, causes no pain and prevents pustu-
lation. 1t must be applied before the
putules have been transformed into vesi-
cles.
Cleaning Silk-Silk is such an ele-
CANT but expensive material, that every
lady possessed of economy as well as
taste should study to preserve and reno
vate every breadth as soon as it shows the
first signs of fading and losing it's original
fine luster. The following is an excellent
recipe for restoring that important item
in lady's wardrobe. Use potato water
for all colors and kinds. Crate potatoes
into cold spring water, say cut large
potato to every quart OF water of which
five or six will do for couple of dresses.
II for very light silk, pare the potatoes
if any way dark, merely wash them clean.
The pan of water must noe be stirred in
the least for forty-eight hours, then very
slowly and steadily. Pour off the clear
liquor, but not particle of the sediment,
into an open vessel-a bottle or such like.
Dip the pieces of silk into this liquid up
and down few times, without in the
least creasing them; then wipe them on
flat table with clean towel first on one
side and then the other 1t is as well to
hang each one as dipped upon a line to
allow the drops to drain off little before
wiping. Have damp cloth to cover
them in till they are done; then iron one
way on the soiled side. The result fthis
wash will be most satisfactory.