The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-02-12
NUMBER Is.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
rc11pp1Nes FROM OUR EXCHANGES. !

HAM TOAsT.-Chop some lean ham. put it
in pan, with little pepper, lump of butter
and two eggs, beaten; when we'll warmed
spread it on hot buttered toast, and serve.
THE Early Rose Potato, according to the
Horticultural, has proved exceedingly produc-
tive in Australia, one pound Of seed having
yielded 105 pounds of potatoes, and in other
instances much larger product.
TEA CAKE.-One cup of white sugar, half
cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one egg, one
half teaspoonful soda, one of cream tartar, and
-four enough to make it like soft gingerbread.
Flavor with the juice of small lemon. This
makes a good-sized loaf.
GINGER CooKIEs.-One cup molasses, one
half cup of sugar, two-thirds cup of butter,
one-half cup of water, one egg, two teaspoon
fuls of saleratus, one-half teaspoonful of alum,
one teaspoonful of ginger, flour enough to roll
out SOFT Bake quick
DANDRUFF- one asks, what will re-
move and prevent dandruff from coming in
lady's head? A friend of mine says she takes
little borax added to pint of rain water,
and washes her head occasionally with it.
often add little borax or cooking soda to the
rain water when wash my hair brushes. 1t
cleanses them nicely.-RUTH in Country Gen.
tlen,an.
| LADIES who find pleasure in window gard
ening may be reconcled to the smoking habits
of their "other half" if they know that they
can utilize the cigar stumps in very desira-
BILE way Put the stumps into the watering
pot, turn on cold water, set it on the stove un-
til it is blood-warm, then thoroughly wet the
earth around the plants with this tobacco tea'
and the bugs which infest the plants, and are
such source of vexation, will leave at once
| A BUsHEL of fresh apples, weighing about
so pounds, will furnish about pounds OF good
dried fruit; or, if the cores are not cut out,
nor the skins removed, there will be nine dried
pounds There is consequently about 81 per
cent of water in the apples, but fruits generaiiy
have about s5 per cent. Tomatoes have a
much larger percentage, so that one bushel Will
dry down to pounds In drying peaches, the
skins and stones being removed, it requires 10
fresh bushels to make one dried bushel.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBER1NG.-For re-
moving grease spots from any fabric use am-
monia nearly pure, then lay white blotting pa
per over the spot, and iron lightly.
In washing lace put about twelve drops in
pint of warm suds.
To clean silver mix two teaspoonfuls of ani-
mona in quart of hot suds. Put in your sill
verware, and wash, using an old nail-brush or
tooth brush for the purpose.
In removing ink spots from delicate colel
when oxalic acid or chloride of lime cannot be
used without injury to the color. concentrat-
ed solution of sodium pyrophosphate is recon-
mended
BAKED ApPLEs-They make delicious
breakfast dish, go charmingly with bread and
milk, and are not to be despised for dessert.
Select those which are undoubtedly sound. for
lit is an awkward thing to cut into worm-hole.
and still more to have its occupant fall out up
on the plate. Wash or wipe clean, take out
the core with corer, and bake ON pie plate,
never on TIM This direction is still more i'm
portant for tart apples, but should be observed
for the sweet ones also. The oven should be
hotter tor sweet than sour apples, but moder-
ate for both. They are often spoiled by too
much baking. Yet they must be cooked tende:'
and there is no absolute "rule" to be given.
VEGETABLE PERFUMEs.-Recent articles
in the Country Gentleman concerning the pres
ence of plants in sleeping chambers remind me
of statement saw not long ago. to the effect
that researches made by an italian savant have
led him to assert that vegetable perfumes ex-
ercise a very healthful influence upon the at
mosphere. and tends to convert its oxygen into
ozone The flowers Of the heliotrepe, migno-
nette hvacinth, narcissus and lilley of the val
lev develop ozone in closed vessels. Flowers
destitute of fragrance do not develop it, and
those that only possess slight perfume develop
Il only in small quantities. Lavender, mint,
cloves, bergamot, fennels, lemons, and Juniper
in essence. produce large quantities Of ozone.
As corollary from these facts, the use Of fra
grant flowers and herbs is recommended in
, marshy places, and in districts infested with
animal emanations, as the powerful oxodlzlng
influence Of ozone may destroy them, and pre-
: vent ualarial diseases.-J IN Country Gent.