The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-25


FoR QuMs1.-Takc common raisins
and eat them slowly, letting the juice run
down the throat II Is . sure cure, AND
also pleasant NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
70 Sror RIKEprxG.-It ID said that the
bleeding from ! wound on man or beast
may be stopped by . mixture OF wheat
lour and common salt in equal parts,
bound on with . cloth. II the bleeding
be profuse use large quantity. say from
one to three pints. Il may be left on Tor
hours, or even days, if necessary.
A Coon CAKE REcIPE-Three cups OF
sugar, one Of butter; beat together, and
the yolks Of seven eggs well beaten; add
one cup of sweet milk. tour and halt
cups of flour, the whites of the seven
eggs bea, to froth; two teaspoonfu's
and half of yeast powder; flavor to
suit the taste. This makes nice large
cakes.
BREAKFAST DIsH.-A very simple and
yet very delicious breakfast dish may
be made by stewing rich grapes until
quite tender in an equal quantity OF
water, sweetening to the taste, and then
dipping halves of batter biscuit into the
hot fruit. Arrange these into deep
dish, pour the remainder of the stewed
fruit over it, and let it stand un,ilthe
biscuit is perfectly tender. If 70 kh
to avoid the seeds run the go ID fruit
through colander befor topping IN
the biscuit. Serve warm Cold.
AGooD CAKE WHEN Fees ARE SCARCE.
One pint of cream, one pint Of sugar,
yolks of three eggs, soda, if cream is
sour, and soda and cream of tartar II
cream is sweet: flavor to taste, -four
enough to form moderately stiff batter
bake in loaf if you want plain cake
or in layers if you want jelly cake OF
cocoanut cake; make sitter and put in
| two cups of fresh, best currants, and you
have nice. plain fruit cake. This cake
recipe should be named hard times
cake" as il is valuable TO g person
whose supply of butter, sugar and egg:
is limited.
| RAISED DoUeHNUTs WITHOUT EGGs.-
One and one-half cups of flour, one-fourtf
of cup of homemade yeast, and warn
milk enough TO make a thin batter; le
| il rise over night in warm place in thu
morning add one cup of sugar, one tea
spoonful of salt, nutmeg, and two-third'
;easpoonful of soda. To this add foul
tablespocnfuls of melted lard, being
careful il is not hot, mix middling sof
and cut round, or they will fry out O
shape; you can use the biscult-cutter Il
cut them out and the pepper-box cove
| to cut out the hole in the center, al
though something little larger would
be better; be sure and have your lard ho
and fry them fast l never had any bu
were very nice, and think this reeip,
| infallible Household.
SYMPATHETIC INks.-1. Sulphate o
copper and sal ammoniac, equal parts
dissolved in water: writes colorless. bu
turns yellow when heated. ?. OnioI
| juice, like the last. 3. A weak infusion
of gals; turns black when moistenel
with weak coppe-as water. 4. A solution
of sulphate of iron; turns blue whel
moistened with weak solution of pruS
slate of potash, and black with infusion
Of gals. j. The diluted solutions of ni,rat
of silver and terchloride of gold darker
when exposed TO the sunlight G
AQuafortis, spirits of salts. oil Of vitrio
common salt or saltpeter dissolved in
large quantity of water; turns yellow o
brown when heated. = Solution o
nitromuriate Of cobalt; turns green wheI
heated, and disappears again on cooling
s. Solution OF acetate of cobalt, TO whicl
a little inter has been added; become
rose-colored when heated, ard disap
pears on cooling.-N. 7. Meas.