The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-08
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Lemon Cake.-One cup butter, three
cups sugar, four cups flour, five eggs, one
cup thick milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
the rind and juice of two lemons. Bake in
bread dishes.
Saratoga Potatoes.-Slice raw pota-
toes and throw into cold water. Have
ready lard, boiling hot; season the pota-
toes latter draining) with salt and pepper;
fry u light brown.
How to Take Pill.-Place it under
the tip OF the tongue, and take a drink of
water. The biggest bOlus will go down
almost without your knowing it. The
taste left in the mouth after taking such
hitter medicines rs quinine, aloes, nux
vomica, etc, is instantly neutralized by
Chewing piece of liquorice root.
Grape seeds are recommended as an
excellent substitute for chicory, of which
our coffee is sometimes made nowadays.
The grape seeds when roasted and ground
are said to have an aroma like that of
East India coffee, and the taste of the cot
fee made from them is said to be similar
The only objection to their general use
seems to be that it would be more diff
cult to get enough of them than to send
to the East Indies for coffee.
A mans first obligation in these uu-
comfortable days, is to see that everything
Is done to free his family from all manner
of suffering, and especially his wife from
needless perpiexity. He therefore should
see that abundance of fuel is provided,
that it should be of quality that will
subserve the best purpose, and where it
can be transferred to the house without
exposing the health of those whose life
should be guarded with constant solicit
tude.
-Foraey's Press says that if the money
which our people spend going to Europe
were expended at home, in planting
trees, in improving streets, and in build
ing up manufactures, we would soon have
a country reore worthy of being seen than
Europe, and the Europeans would come
to visit us The Western Rural adds {:
Enough money will be spent in Europe
this year to build manufactures in Illinois
that would increase the value OF corn ten
cents bushel."
"A Simple Group Prcvcntive.-Take a
piece of black silk two or three inches
wide, sew it around the child's neck, let
him wear it constantly, changing it when
it becomes much worn and thin. Our
little one, who was always subject to the
Group, has never been troubled in that
way since we used the silk, although many
night he has gone to his crib SO hOarse
he could hardly speak. Try it, mothers.
1t certainly will do no harm, if it does not
do good. You had better have your little
ones encased in black silk than see them
suffering from that fell destroyer, Group
Exchange.
How to Keep Butter Cool.-Get a
large tlower-pot (number 12}, plug up the
hole with sound cork seal it. Now put
a quarter brick or other square, heavy
body in the bottom, to serve as support
for "A second, but smaller pot (say number
10y, which must be plugged up in the
same manner. Place a dish under the
outer pot, and cover with any cover you
please, provided it be not metallic. Now
ill the space between the inner and outer
pot with water. The butter will keep
firm as a rock, as cool as a cucumber, and
as fresh as the trip across the Atlantic in
balloon.
Take care of your family. How many
wife is fretted beyond endurance almost,
by green wood in the winter, and not
over much of that. How many children
lowering around a poor fire, with the
thermometer below zero on the back side
of the room, fail to see such meaning in
the words ''Sweet Home" as poets have
assumed Of that delectable locality. And
especially is the sin an objectionable one,
when the father, leaving his family in this
tiisagreeable condition, finds comfort per.
Of nj c1 Il1yc
neighbours hearthstone, or at the village
store.
Keep diligent watch over every AMI.
NAL you possess. Somehow a man who
thinks every day as to whether his cattle
are growing poor or holding their own
whether they have comfortable place to
sleep at night or an uncomfortable one
whether the food is of the proper quality,
and in the proper quantities to secure the
most growth or fat; whether in short
every want is intelligensly provided for
generally contrives to winter more stock
on less food and do it better than he who
simply does his chores, without thinking,
and not infrequently does not do them a,
all.
Grain for Poultry-rhere is no other
grain that is relished SO we'll by fowls as
Indian corn. 1t must always continue
to be, as now, the American poulterer's
main reliance, for, although too fattening
to use in certain cases, it possesses more
nutriment for the price than any other
grain, and is always to be obtained. Corn
can be given ground and unground, raw
and cooked. Oats we prefer ground fine,
as otherwise the hulls are too harsh and
bulky. With wheat, bran and m;ddlings
wheat in the kernel, barley and buck.
wheat, there need be no difficulty in
avoiding monotony. Rye, though the
poorest grain of all, may be given occa
sionally, and brewers grains, if conven
lent.
How to Make a Mustard Plaster
How many people are there who really
know how to make a mustard plaster:
Not one in a hundred, and yet physicians
prescribe their application, never telling
any body how to make them, for the sim
pie reason that the doctors themselves dc
not know, as rule. The ordinary way is
to mix the mustard with water. temperine
it with little flour, but such plaster as
that makes is simply abominable. Before
it has half done its work it begins 10 bills
ter the patient, and leaves him finally
with painful, fayed spct, after having
produced far less effect in beneficial
way than was intended. Now mustard
plaster should never make blister at all
When you make mustard plaster, then
use no water whatever, but mix the mus
tard with the white of an egg, and the re-
suit will be a plaster which will "draw''
perfectly, but will not produce blister
even upon the skin of an infant, no mat
ter how long ii is allowed to remain upon