Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Recipe for Cream Puffs.-TWo cups
flour. one-half Gun butter, three-fourths
pint hot water. Boil the butter and
water together, and stir in the hour
slowly while boiling. Let it cook few
minutes; add five well-beaten eggs;
drop the mixture on tins and bake in
quick oven For the custard: One pint
of milk, one-half cup Hour, one
| pound sugar, two eggs. Let it cool, and
after the puffs are cold cut them open
and put in the custard, which can be
favored with vanilla or lemon to suit
the taste.
Preserving Cut Flowers.-Cut flowers
in vases will keep much longer If the
vases are filled with white sand and with
water enough barely to cover it, or rather
to keep it thoroughly wet. Water by
itself rots the stems, so that they lose the
power of drawing up moisture; but this
| does not occur so readily where they are
thrust into wet sand. The sand should
be washed by having water poured on it
and drained off before use; otherwise the
salt which all sea-sand contains will
prove injurious. AS wet sand is an I'M
handy thing to put into vases, it is we'll
to have it washed and dry beforehand
| Health Journal.
-Floriculture.-Alll lovers of flowers
must remember that one blossom allowed
| to mature or "go to seed" Injuries the
plant more than dozen new buds. Cut
your flowers then, all of them, before
| they begin to fade. Adorn your room
with them; put them on your tables;
send bouquets to your friends who have
no flowers or exchange favors with
| those who have. You will surely find
that the more you cut off the more you
will have. All roses after they have
| ceased to bloom should be cut back that
the strength of the root may 60 forming
new shoots for next year. On bushes
not seed should be allowed to mature
--Scr6bper's.
Floral Pyramids.-It is so easy to
have beautiful objects about us that it is
pity to be without one. Take a soup
plate or pickle dish, and fill it with
sand Moisten the sand with water, and
heap it to cone, and then thrust into
the wet sand flowers and foliage enough
to cover the whole surface, and you will
have, if you arrange it well, the most
| beautiful floral ornament that can be
imagined. This is an excellent way for
arranging short-stemmed flowers, or
those whose petals are too soft to be tied
without injury among sitter ones. Or
place in the center of your soup-plate a
teacup, child's mug or a ine-glass, in
which insert made bouquet, and then,
filling the plate about it with sand pro-
coed as before. This will give a better
cone than the first method.--Sc5ence Of
| Health.
Tanned Peach fuud1ng.-SOak one
pint of picked and washed tapioca in
three pints of boiling water, letting it
stand three hours, then place in a glass
fruit-can layer of sliced peaches, with
sugar enough to sweeten them, then a
layer of the soaked tapioca, adding alter
nate layers until the can or cans are
filled. Then set in a kettle in two-thirds
the depth of water, heat to the boiling
point, and then boil half an hour; take
out and seal precisely as you would any
canned fruit. These will be very con-
venient in case of any accident happen
ing to your dessert, or of any unexpected
arrival of company too late to cook
dessert, or in case any refreshments are
wanted at an unusual hour, and nothing
is cooked. Serve cold, or put into warm
water and heat to the boiling point