Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-16
RECIPES, ETC.

The addition of small quantity OF
boric acid to milk retards the separation
of cream, and the milk does not become
sour for several Gays. Beer also, to which
boric acid has been added, does not so
quickly become hard
Water Cake-Take four cups of
sifted flour, two cups of white sugar, half
a cup of butter, two eggs and one cup of
water Turn the water over the butter
stir the sugar into it. Add the eggs well
beaten. Dissolve small teaspoonful of
saleratus in little boiling water; stir it
in; mix two small teaspoontuls of cream
of tartar with the flour. Nutmeg, lemon
or mace for tlavoring.
Crackers seven cups of sifted flour.
three-quarters of a cup of fresh lard or
butter, one teaspoonful of salt, two tea
spoonfuls of cream Of tartar, half the
quantity Of saleratus, one pint of sweet
milk. Rub butter into the -four; dissolve
the soda in the milk; add cream of tartar
to the flour; mix both; roll very thin;
pound for fifteen minutes with a heavy
roller, Roll thin, cut in round cakes and
prick with fork. Bake quickly. and
put in a warm place for two or three hours,
to cure 1. e., become brittle. Excellent to
eat with coffee, tea or milk.-Daisy Eye
bright,
Keeping Cheese After Being Gut
A cheese, after being cut, keeps best by
placing in "A wooden box with wire screens
placed in the sides and over the top, thus
keeping out all foreign substances, but
not excluding the air. A damp cloth
spread over the surface where it has been
cut will keep the cheese from drying, and
no fears need be entertained about mold
penetrating the interstices. BY all means
do not roll up the cheese in cloths and
keep it from a circulation of air, if you
wish to retain its flavor and have it i'm.
prove with age.
"A correspondent of the Field saws:
Zone day noticed a flock of eleven
pure Creve CGur chickens, very bad with
what is called gapes. | remarked to the
man who had them in charge that he
would not have many chickens out of
that lot. 'Oh, never mind said he, Il
have got cure for them from neigh Dor
ing woman, which is common half
penny tallow candle melted and mixed
into quart OF oatmeal stir about The
remedy was resorted to, ana the Or, We
Cpurs have every one recovered and
grown into tinely-developed chickens. |
have since tried this cure with invariable
success on Brahmas, Dorkings, ETC."
Eggs reached in Balls. Put three
pints OF boiling water into stew-pan;
set 1t on hot stove OF Goals; stir the
water with a stick until it runs rapidly
around; then, having broken an egg into
a cup--taking care not to break the yolk
drop it into the whirling water continue
to stir it until the egg is cooked; then
take into dish with a skinner and set
it over pot ot boiling water; boil one at
time until you have enough. These will
remain soft for long time. Or, put some
hot water in a rying-p pan; break in the
eggs; let ii set over the fire, without boil
ing, until they are done; then serve on
toast
Improved Mucilage ordinary mu-
cilage, made from gum Arabic, does not
nix paper TO wood or pasteboard or to
metallic surfaces. These disadvantages
are overcome by adding a solution of sui
phate OF aluminium, made up in ten times
its quantity of water. Ten grains of
aluminium suphate are sufficient for $50
grains of mucilage. Prepared in this way
it Will not become moldy. Again, ac-
cording to Hirschberg, a few drops of
strong sulphuric acid are added to the
gum solution, and the precipitated sui
phate of lime allowed to settle. Solutions
prepared in this way year and a half
ago have neither become moldy nor lost
their adhesive power.-Bost0n Journal Of
CHEMISTRY.