Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Rose Vinegar.-Fresh rose leaves
four pounds, white vinegar, two gallons
| rhodium wood, eight ounces, tincturt
benzoin, eight ounces. Macerate for two
weeks and distil.-Drugssst.
To repair rubber boots. take quits
| percha and dissolve it in chloroform tt
the thickness Of honey. Warm the paste
when ready to use, and apply with 6
| brush. Patches can be put on very neatly
| In this way, and will stand all the ele
ments but heat"
--"Fried Curls. One cup of sugar, one
cup OF cream, one egg, one teaspoonful Of
soda; roll the dough thin, cut in strips q
half inch wide Tor wider, if desired), wind
them round a stick, some larger than a
lead pencil, leaving room for the dough to
spread. When cooked, drop in white
sugar, nicely frosting them.
To Clean Gloves.-Make a thick
mucilage by boiling little fiaxseed to
which add a little dissolved soap, and
when the mixture cools wipe the gloves
with a 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.
-Chapped Hands-The easiest and
simplest remedy for chapped hands is
found in every storeroom. Take common
starch and pulverize with the blade of a
knife until reduced to the smoothest DOW
der. Every time the hands are taken from
the suds or dish-water, wipe them, and
while yet damp, rub portion of the
starch upon them, thoroughly covering
the whole surface. The effect is magi-
CAL
Tea Biscuits.-Make a good soda or
cream "a biscuit, mold it, and roll it out half
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
roll of jelly. cake; slice your roll off into
inch-thick slices; lay these fiat 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
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 rfnd of fresh lemon
grated, piece of butter the size of an
egg; then bake until done. Now beat the
whites of the four eggs to 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 ofjelly, then pour over the
pudding the white of the eggs. Place in
the oven until lightly Drowned. Serve
with cold cream.
We stated, says GGlagnani's Messenger,
short time ago that a Belgian peasant
had made the extraordinary discovery
that earth, coal and soda, mixed up to-
gether, would burn as we'll 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 to render it practical
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
bottle is to reverse the motion given to
it when put in, that is to knock the STOP
per from right to left. In most instances
when a stopper is fixed, without the in
tervention of an adhesive substance, it 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 an apology for introducing
suggestion of SO little apparent import
ance.