Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-16
RECIPES, ETC.

Lemon and Orange Peel-Dry thor
oughly, pound or grind in a hand mill /;
sift bottle and cork. Excellent for TIA
voring
Poverty Cake--Two cups of thin
cream, two cups of stoned and chopped
raisins, two cups of sugar, four cups of
flour, one teaspoonful of soda, salt and
spice.
Delicate Cake.--Two cups of white
sugar, two and three-q quarters of cup of
butter, half a cup of milk, the whites of
eight eggs, half IA teaspoonful Of soda,
one teaspoonful of cream tartar. Flour
to taste.
Steam Pudding.-One cup chopped
raisins, two cups of sweet milk, one cup
Of chopped suet, four cups of flour, one
cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda;
spice to your taste, and add little salt.
Steam two hours.
Squash beetles may be driven off by
sprinkling anything that smells strongly
of ammonia upon the plants Lime or
plaster, ground up with one part of car
bolic acid to a hundred, would answer
the purpose. SCOT is also good remedy.
Apple Pudding Without Pastry
Pare and cut up enough apples to weigh
two pounds Boil them and rub through
a colander Add large spoonful of but
ter while they are hot, and when cold add
half pound of crushed white sugar, six
well-beaten eggs and the grated rind of
IA lemon. Pour the mixture into deep
dish and bake for half an hour
To Destroy Moles.-Make a stiff
dough of corn meal, mixing with it a
small quantity of arsenic. Make hole
with finger in the runways, drop in a
lump of dough about the size of mar
BILE, and then cover over with a lump of
earth to exclude the light. After the
first rain go over the field again and de-
post in all freshly made roads.
If a little lime is dissolved in the
water applied to the soil, nearly every
species of worm that is found will be
killed, and the plants not injured. To-
bacco will also destroy most kinds of
worms but lime is preferable, because it
aids in dissolving the plant-food in the
soil, thereby stimulating growth. Wa.
tering the plants with lime-wate once a
week will be sufficient to kill the worms
in the soil and stimulate growth
delicious Citron Pudding.-Beat I'M
til very thick and light the yolks of six
teen fresh eggs. Stir in gradually, beat
ing all the time, three-quarters of "a pound
of sugar Then mix in three-quarters of
pound of melted butter from which all
the salt has been previously washed
Now line two deep pie-plates with puff
paste. Cut into thin slices some pre-
served citron and lay closely over the
pastry, leaving IA margin, of course,
around the edges Fill with the butter
and bake in an oven whose heat is regu-
lar, but not too great. When drawn from
the oven, sift over them -pulyerized
white sugar. They are good whether
eaten hot or cold, and are considered the
most dainty and delicate of all puddings.
Permanent Lightning-A chemical
eXperimenter in St Petersburg has dis
covered new and beautiful means of
popular illumination Placing a pencil
of charcoal in glass tube not more than
six inches long, exhausting The air from
the tube, and Theoretically sealing the
latter, and then passing IA current of cleo
triCity through the charcoal, he produces
a light at once bri liant and soft, which
will last for an indefinite period. AS the
charcoal is not perceptibly consumed in
the process, and two hundred tubes at
tonNlutfablt ulSldnttS apart can bt htpl
splendidly luminous by a single electrical
machine, the discoverer thinks that he
can light whole city at fabulously small
cost.
Wash for Fences and Out-Buildngs.
Take barrel and slack one bushel of
freshly-burned lime in it by covering the
lime with boiling water. After 1t is
Stacked add cold water enough to bring
it to the consistency of good whitewash,
Then dissolve in water and add one pound
OF white vitriol (Sulphate of zinc) and one
quart Of fine salt To give this wash IA
crcam-color add one.half pound of vel
low ochre lin powder), To giveit a fawn
look, add pound of yellow ochre and
one-fourth of pound of Indian red. To
MAJ ssa he wash handsome gray-stone
cold ibid one-half a pound of French
| blue and one-fourth pound of Indian red
drab will be made by adding one half
| of Il pound of burnt sienna and one
fourth pound Venetian red. For brick
or stone, instead of one bushel of lime,
use half bushel of lime and half a bushel
| of hydraulic cement