The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-01
HONE, FAM AND GARDEN.

To Remove Stains from Mattrasses.-
Make thick paste by wetting starch with
cold water. Spread this over the stain,
first putting the mattress in the sun. hub
this of after an hour or two and if the
ticking is not clean, try the process again.
Lemon Pies.-Grate one lemon; add
one cup of white sugar, q small piece of
butter, yolks of three eggs; dissolve .
this will fiji two pies; bake until done.
Beat the whites Of the eggs to . stiff froth,
pies and brown lightly in oven.
Revere Corn Ca!'Sc.--'ir'nn: THIS is !. delicious
method of preparing corn cake, different
from the usual preparations and both a
novelty and improvement. Three cups
of Indian meal to one teaspoon sugar.
Wet this with boiling water, then beat in
one egg, spread half an inch deep on
buttcred tin sheets and bake brown in q
quick oven.
To Mend China.-Mix together equal
parts of fine glue, white Of eggs, and
white lead, and with it annoint the edges
of the article to be mended, press them
together, and when hard and dry scrape
of as much Of the cement "a sticks about
the joint. The juice of garlic is another
good cement and leaves no mark where it
has been used.
-Buns.-Onc-half cup of lively yeast,
one cup OF white sugar, three cups Of warm
milk, stir them together, add aour enough
to make thin batter, let it rise in warm
place over night; in the morning add
another cup of sugar, one cup of butter,
and more flour if necessary; let it rise
again, then knead it out the same as
biscuit. A few raisins will improve it,
This rule will make fifty or sixty biscuit
Bleaching Discolored Flannel 1t
was found by Prof. Artus that flannel,
which had become yellow by lying for
some time, when treated with a solution
of TX pounds of Marseilles soap in SO
pounds of soft water, with the addition of
One-third of an ounce of ammonia, and
subsequently rinsed, was much improved
in appearance. The bleaching was more
quickly accomplished by soaking the ar.
ticles for an hour in dilute solution of
acid sulphite of soda, then stirring in
dilute hydrochloric acid $50 parts water
to of acid), covering the vessel, and al
lowing it to remain quarter of an hour,
and atterward thoroughly rinsing the ar
ticles.
To Make Soft Soap.-For one barrel
of soap, take thirty pounds of grease free
from salt rinds or bits of lean meat, and
the I've from two barrels of good ashes
Put one quart of lime in the bottom of
each barrel of ashes. Put boiling water
ON to leach with; have ready the soap
barrel where it is to stand. When the I've
begins TO run, melt the grease in a little
lye and pour it in the barrel. Heat the
lyc and fill it full, stirring frequently un-
til cold. Always use the stove kettle,
as that is free from rust, which make
white cloth yellow. Soap made in this
way will be very lght-colored and thick,
and requires but little labor in making.
If the lye is not strong enough to eat the
grease, boil it awhile.
Liquid Manure.-If the stable is in a
basement and protected from freezing
make plank floor with trough to carry
off the liquid to the manure or compost
heap-the trough to have a flat bottom, so
as to he cleaned with shovel. Suitable
dimensions are-twO feet outside or be-
hind this trough for walk; one foot or
more for the gutter-which may be five
or six inches deep; the platform on which
the COW stands four and a half or five feet:
and the manager about two or two and a
half feet wide. But for our long and cold
winters, farmers generally prefer using
plenty of straw litter, which is abundant
on all grain FARMS This will absorb all
the liquid, and is thrown out daily to the
manure heap, which must be allowed
time to rot down thoroughly in the open