Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-11
Household.

BAKED MINCED MUTToN.-Take the
remains of any joint of cold roast NUT
ton, one or two onions, one bunch of
savory herbs, pepper and salt to taste,
two blades of pounded mace. one tea
cupful of gravy, som mashed potatoes.
Mince an onion rather fine, and fry a
light brown color add the herbs and
mutton, both of which should be finely
minced and we'll mixed season with
pepper and salt, and little pounded
mace, and moisten with the above pro-
portion of gravy. Put a layer of mashed
potatoes at the bottom of a dish, then
the mutton, and then another LAYER of
potatoes, and bake for about half IAN
hour. 81
+ WATER PALS. Wooden water pals,
whether to be used in the kitchen, or
at the stable, should receive two or
three good coats of gum shellac var
nish, dissolved in alcohol, well laid on
both inside and outside. This will
last year or more, before the wood
will begin to soak water. It is much
better than lead paint for the inside of
pals. Lead IS poison and soon peels
off in freezing weather, and then the
pals soak water and get very heavy to
lift; besides which, they rot fast ana
leak through the pores OF the wood.
Shellac can be procured from any
painter, readily mixed, and if corked
tightly, will keep any length of time
~. e. Farmer.
RAPID PICKING OF MEAr.-The fol-
lowing is an English recipe: Roll the
meat In mixture of sixteen ounces of
salt, one-half ounce saltpetre, and one
ounce sugar, SO that all parts be COM
pletely sailed then wrap closely IN a
piece of cotton cloth, previously we'll
scalded and dried, and place in a por-
celain Or other vessel. The cloth is
essential with small pieces, to retain
the brine formed in contact with the
meat. After about sixteen hours, how
ever, some brine will drain off into the
bottom Of the vessel, and it will then
be necessary to turn the meat, still
wrapped up, daily. a piece of six
pc lnds treated in this way for six days,
then unwrapped and boiled, will be
found quite palatable and sufficiently
picked. For larger quantities the
cloth may be dispensed with, since the
qrlne formed will be sufficient to cover
the mass, provided the pieces are close
ly packed, and any unavoidable cavi-
ties filed with stones.
To DESTROY BUGS, ANTS, Erc.-No in
sect which crawls can live under the
application of hot alum water. It
will destroy red and black ants,
cock caches, spiders, chintz bugs. and
all the myriads of crawling pests
which infest our houses during the
heated term. Take two pounds of
alum and dissolve it in three or four
quarts OF boiling water let it stand on
the stove until tina alum is all melted ::
then apply it with brush, while nearly
boiling hot, to every joint and crevice
in our closets, bedsteads, pantry
shelves, and the like. Brush the
crevices in the floor of.the skirting or
mop boards, if you suspect that they
harbor vermin.
If IN whitewashing a ceiling plenty
of alum is added to the lime, it will also
serve to keep insects at distance.
Cockroaches will flee the paint which
has been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed
from ants by drawing a wide chalk
N ark, just around the edge of the top
of them. The mark must lie unbroken,
or they will creep over it, but con-
tlnuous chalk mark, half an inch in