The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-11
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

STEAM PUDDING.-1 cup chopped raj
sins, 2 cups of sweet milk, l cup chopped
suet, cups of -four, cup of sugar, tea
spoonful of soda. Spice to your taste,
and add a little salt. Steam two hours.
RAISED CAKE.-2 cups of raised dough,
2 eggs, cups of sugar, l cup of butter, l
cup of sweet milk, teaspoonful of soda,
2 cups of flour, cup of fruit, cinnamon,
cloves and nutmeg. To be put into the
oven at once.
ECONOMY IN IcE.-An ingenious house
keeper has discovered that her daily lump
of ice will last nearly twice as long when
wrapped in newspapers and placed in any
kind of covered box, as when trusted sole
ly to refrigerator.
FELoNs.-Elder Evans, the Shaker,
says For the past ten years we have
treated felons with hot water, and with
unerring success. No cutting, no blister
ing, no anything, but immersing the lin
ger, hand, or even the whole arm if neees-
sary in water as hot as can be borne, until
the pain is gone and the core is loosened
and drawn from the bone. When rusty
nails have produced wounds, the same
course has been pursued. If on the hand
or foot, keep it in hot water.
A REMEDY FOR TooTHACHE.-A cor
respondent writes to the Scientific Aa,seTs-
can that the worst toothache or neuralgia
| coming from the teeth, may be speedily
and delightfully."- ended by the application
| of a small bit of clean cotton saturated In
strong solution of ammonia to the de-
| fective tooth. Sometimes the late sufferer
is prompted to momentary nervous laugh
ter by the application, but the pain has
disappeared.
| BAKED APPLE DUMPLNGS.-Rol out
some dough thicker than pie-crust, and
| inclose handful OF sliced ripe apples well
covered with sugar and butter. Bring
| the edges together as in any other
dumplings. When as many are made as
desired, place them side by side in pud-
ding pan, spread butter and sugar over
them, and pour boiling water to about hall
cover the dumplings. Put them in the
stove and cook moderately fast until they
are nicely Drowned. The butter, sugar
and water make a nice sauce, which can
be enriched with more butter, and favored
with nutmeg if desired.
WET BooTs.-The AgricuItuist gives
the following advice to farmers who, next
to fishermen, are apt to get their boots wet
through: "Wnen the boots are taken OF
fill them quite full with dry oats. This
grain has great fondness for damp, ano
will rapidly absorb the last vestige OF il
| from the wet leather. AS it takes up the
moisture it swels and fills the boot with 6
tightly fitting last, keeping its form good
and drying the leather without hardening
it. In the morning, shake out the oats anc
hang them in bag near the fire to dry
] ready for the next wet night, draw on the
boots, and go happily about the next day;
work.
A SIMPLE DIsINFECTANT.-Roast cof
fee, says the Homeopathic World, is one o
the most powerful means, not only fol
rendering animal and vegetable effiuvi;
innocuous, but of actually destroying
them. In proof of this, the statement i:
made that a room in which meat in an adj
vanced degree of decomposition had beer
kept for some time was instantly deprived
of all smell on an open cotfee-roaster being
carried through it containing one pound
of newly-roasted coffee; and in anOthe
room, the effiuvia occasioned by the clear
ing out of a cesspool, so that sulphurettet
hydrogen and ammonia could be clearl!
detected, was entirely removed within hal
a minute on the employment of thre'
ounces of fresh coffee. The best mode i
to dry the raw bean, pound it in mortar
and then roast the powder on moder
ately heated iron plate until 1t assumes
dark brown hue; it is in this state read!
for use.
YEAST AND YEAST CAKEs.-Pare goot
sized potatoes, and put with large hand
full of hops into quart of cold water, ant
boil, being careful in handling the hop
not to lose the lupuline, or fine yellow
powder of the hop, wherein consists it
chief strength. When the potatoes ar
done, take them out, mash fine, and mil
with them half a teacupful of wheat flour
and a little salt. Strain upon this tn
water from the hops, which must be yer.
hot. When the batter is cool enough, tina
is blood warm, add teacupful and a hal
of yeast, and set in warm place to rise
When perfectly light, pour into a ston
jug, cork tightly, and set in the cellar. Fo
yeast cakes, proceed as above till the add
ton of the flour, which omit, substitutin:
Indian meal, stirring it in as you add tn
boiling hop-water, until the mixture
very stiff, When sufficiently cool, add
teacupful of yeast, which it will be neees
sary to work in with the hand, and lie
stand six or eight hours; then make int
long rolls, and cut in slices about an incl
thick :; sprinkle dry meal on plates, board
or tins; lay on the cakes and place wher
they will dry quickly.