Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-29
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Rose Vinegar-Fresh rose leaves,
four pounds, white vinegar, two gallons,
rhodium wood, eight ounces. tincture
benzoin, eight ounces. Macerate for two
weeks and distil.-Drusgist.
Fried Curls."-One cup Of sugar, one
cup of cream, one egg, one teaspoonfui OF
soda; roll the dough thin, cut in strips q
half inch wide (or wider, If desired), wind
them round a stick, some larger than .
lead pencil, leaving room for the dough to
spread. When cooked, drop in white
sugar, nicely frosting them.
To Clean Gloves.-Make thick
mucilage by boiling little flaxseed, TO
which add q little dissolved soap, ana
when the mixture cools wipe the gloves
with piece of white flannel, previously
fitting them to the hand. Use only
enough of the cleansing mixture to take
off the dirt without wetting through the
glove.
Tea Biscuits.-Make a good soda or
cream biscuit, mold it, and roll it out halt
the thickness of common biscuit; spread
it over with three or four spoonfuls OF
melted butter; then over this, sprinkle
half coffee-cup of the best sugar; then
begin and roll up compactly, as you would
a roll of jelly cake; slice your roll of into
inch-thick slices; lay these Hat on your
tin and bake as biscuit. They are nice
cold.
Delicious Dressing for Fowls. -
Spread pieces of stale but tender wheaton
bread literally with butter and season
rather highly with salt and pepper, work
| ing them into the butter little: then dip
| the bread in wine, and use it in as large
| pieces as is convenient TO stuff the bird.
| The delicious flavor which the wine gives
is very penetrating, and gives to the fowl
a rich gamy character which is very
pleasant.
! -Bro;ica Swec.brcads.--The best way
to cook sweetbreads is to broil them thus
-Parboil them and then put them on o
clean gridiron for broiling; when deli
cately Drowned, take them Off and roll In
melted butter in plate to prevent their
| being dry and hard. Some cook them on
a griddle, well buttered, turning fire..
quently; and some put narrow strips OF
| fat salt pork on them while cooking
Housekeeper's Manual.
| Queen of Puddings-Take one pint
| of nice bread crumbs, one quart of milk,
one cup of sugar, the yolks of four eggs,
well beaten; the rind of a fresh lemon
grated, piece of butter the size of an
egg; then bake until done. Now beat the
whites Of the four eggs to a stiff froth,
| add a teacup of white sugar into which
has been previously stirred the juice OF
the lemon; spread over the pudding a
large glass of Jelly, then pour over the
pudding the white of the eggs. Place in
the oven until lightly Drowned. Serve
with cold cream.
1t may not have occurred to every
one-at all events it is not noticed in any
| of our treatises on practical pharmacy
| that the easiest way to take out stopper
which has become fixed in the neck OF a
bottle is to reverse the motion given to
| 1t when put in, that is to knock the stop
per from right TO left. In most instances
when stopper is fixed, without the in
| tervention of an adhesive substance, 1t is
| by turning it as one would drive screw.
| The direction is almost invariably from
| left TO right, and thus thread is formed,
which it is easier to follow backward
| than to break. The trouble with which
the removal of shoppers is usually attend.
ed must form en- apology for introducing
a suggestion of so little apparent import
ance.
We stated, says Gdlignani's Messenger,
| short time ago that Belgian peasant
had made the extraordinary discovery
that earth, coal and soda, mixed up to.
gether, would burn as well and better
than any other combustible, and the fact
has since then been proved beyond a
doubt. The way in which he found this
out is curious. He had been scraping the
floor of his cellar in order to bring all the
bits of coal lying about into heap,
which, mixed as it was with earth and
other impurities, he put into the stove.
To his establishment he found that this
accidental compound burnt better instead
of worse than he expected, and emitted
much greater heat. Being an intelligent
| man he endeavored to discover the cause,
and found that great deal of soda, prob
ably the remnant of the last wash, lay
about on the floor Of the cellar, and that
some of it must have got into his heap.
| He then made few experiments and at
length improved his compound sufficient
| ly 10 render IL practical