Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

To Remove Rust from Cloth. Take
three parts water and one part muriatic
acid apply to the spots. Press thor
oughly.
--Va-nish for Small Ornaments.--Seal.
ing-wax of all colors easily dissolves in
strong alcohol, and forms an excellent
varnIsh for small ornaments.
Baked Eggs.-Beat up six eggs, one
tablespoonful of -four, six of sweet milk
hot, turn the whole in, well beaten, and
bake in hot oven.
Potato Soup.-Pare two or three good
sized potatoes and slice thin. put in tin
dish, and cover with hot water: boil until
done. Turn out the potatoes and mash
fine; salt them and put them back in the
water with enough butter to season them
well, adding enough water for the re-
quired quantity of soup.
The recipe for making a pound OF
butter from pint of milk is as follows
Take four ounces pulveriZed alum, one
half ounce pulverized gum arabic, and
fifty grains of pepsin, placed in a bottle
for use as wanted. A teaspoonful added
to the pint of milk will, upon churning,
make pound of butter. 1t is true that
the butter will seem to be a near relation
to pot cheese, but call ii butter and that
makes it so. This recipe is selling
through the country at from one to five
dollars.
Some who has tried it," writes as fol-
lows: eff any farmer wants convenient
and cheap cushion to ride on, let him
take sheep-skin, as soon as it is off the
sheep, and scrape the flesh off, then lay
it on a smooth place. PulveriZe one
pound of alum and one Of salt, and cover
the flesh side of the skin and let il lie for
a week or two, and it will be well tanned.
They make the best seat for the reaper,
raker, corn-planter, or TO throw on the
horse to ride from the field TO the barn
and if one should be caught in sudden
shower they would answer for protec-
ton"
The Best Way to Roast Beef.-Select
good thick piece, rub salt over it and
pepper il put in the dripping pan with
out any water, and cook in a slow oven.
Three hours or more are required for a
thick piece. When nearly done pour a
little water over ii few times. Turkeys
can be roasted in this way much nicer
than to boil them first, as many do. The
point of difficulty is to be sure and give
them plenty of time, for a little hurrying,
especially in the beginning, spoils It all.
After the meat is taken up, pour in water
and make the gravy in the usual way by
stirring in flour beaten smooth in water.
DIR. Reyillod, of Geneva, who has
made special study Of the various means
hitherto tried for preventing the develop
meat of small pox pustules in the face,
discards collodion, because il cracks the
skin and causes too much pain; the sub
Innate, because it sometimes produces
eschars; tincture of iodine, because it
does not prevent pustulation. He recon-
mends glycerine, which, through its eX-
osmotic action diminishes the intensity
Of the eruption, while he cautions as to
the uses of washes with wafer or any
other liquid which increases the eruption.
His favorite formula is: Soap, ten parts 4;
glycerine, four parts; triturate, and add
mercurial ointment twenty parts. This
ointment does not prevent swelling Of the
face, causes no pain and prevents pustu-
latiOn. 1t must be applied before the
putules have been transformed into vesi-
Giles.
In the letter from Charles Alden,
which was read before the late horticul-
tural meeting at Rochester, n. Y, he
states that bushel of apples weighs fifty
pounds; that the cost of cutting and pre-
pairing a bushel for drying is about fifty
cents, and that bushel will yield nine
dried pounds, two pounds Of which are
cores and skins, which, when dried find a
ready market at six cents per pound, for
making jelly without sugar or boiling-a
new product One bushel gives seven
pounds of good dried apples, which will
sell regularly at twenty cents per pound,
making after drying, $l.25 per bushel Of
apples, with cores and parings. Tomatoes,
being very watery, yield only three
pounds dried per busheI; but two dried
ounces are found to be equal In substance
10 a one quart can, and will make as much
by adding one quart of water, and stew
ing properly. The evaporated tomatoes
sell for seventy-fye cents per pound.
Peaches yield seven pounds from bushel
one pound of which is skin.
Cleaning Silk.-Silk is such an Gle
CANT but expensive material, that every
lady possessed Of economy as well as
taste should study to preserve and reno
vate every breadth as soon as it shows the
first signs of fading and losing its original
fine luster. The following is an excellent
recipe for restoring that important item
in lady's wardrobe. Use potato water
for all colors and kinds. Crate potatoes
into cold spring water, say cut a large
potato to every quart Of water, of which
five or six will do for couple Of dresses
If for very light silk, pare the potatoes /;
If any way dark, merely wash them clean.
The pan of water must noe be stirred in
the least for forty-eight hours, then very
slowly and steadily Pour off the clear
liquor, but not a particle of the sediment,
into an open vessel--a bottle or such like.
Dip the pieces Of silk into this liquid up
and down few times, without in the
least creasing them; then wipe them on
fiat table with clean towel first on one
side and then the other. 1t is as well 10
hang each one as dipped upon line to
allow the drops TO drain off little before
wiping. Have damp cloth to coTer