Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.


"A double flower is unnatural and
will take every chance to get back into
its single or natural state. 1t is useless
to try and save seeds of double petunias,
bslsams, etc., for they will surely be
single the next year.-Erchdnge.
Rye Biscuit. make dough with one
pint of milk, -four and yeast, and one
tablespoonful of melted butter, and three
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Stir as stiff as
a spoon can make /: with the -four Rise
it over night and drop it into "gem
pans" or biscuit tins the next morning.
Bake for half an hour in hot oven.
Breakfast Dish of Potatoes.--Eight
or ten cold boiled potatoes, one and a
half tablespoonfuls of butter, half pint
of sweet milk, chopped parsley, one tea
spoonful OF flour, yolk of one egg. Cut
the potatoes in slices, beat the yolk of
the egg, smooth the -four in little cold
water, put the butter into a saucepan.
When the butter has melted, add the
flour and water; stir we'll Add milk,
and stir continually. Do not let it scorch.
Add chopped parsley, pepper and salt.
Let all come to a boil, then add the beaten
yolk OF the egg. Stir until this mixture
thickens to very rich cream. Then put in
the potatoes. When they are heated
through put into heated, covered dish
and serve Immediately.
Mock Turtle Soup.-One pint Of
black beans, two onions, two lunches Of
celery, marrow-bone of beef, or cold
roast beef, one tablespoonful of catsGp,
one lemon, two eggs, one bunch of
thyme, one teaspoonful of salt, one
cpnan f,,1 ~ al
teaspoonful of pepper. Soak the beans
over night. In the morning pour off this
water and add four quarts of fresh water
to the beans, the onions and celery cut
up fine, salt, cloves, pepper and thyme.
Put in the beet and boil for several
hours. Then set it aside until the next
day for the fat to rise. Remove the fat,
add the catsup, and let the soup come to
boil. Just before serving add the
lemon, sliced, and the hard-boiled eggs,
also sliced.
There are several rules for measuring
corn in the crib, but the most common is
what is called the twenty eight-inch rule
that is, upon the presumption that a
box one foot square ana twenty-eight
inches deep will hold one bushel when
shelled. This rule applies only to the
dent or gourd seed variety of corn. The
cubical contents in feet are first ascer-
tanned, and this multiplied by three and
divided by seven, which will give the
bushels of shelled corn of fifty-six
pounds. Thus crib that is thirty-two
feet long, eight feet wide and thirteen
feet high in the average will hold ,425
bushels, and two Of them 1850 bushels.
A common wagon box, eleven feet long
and two feet high, would hold twenty
eight bushels of corn in the ear Another
rule for the farmers boy is to reduce the
contents to cubic inches, and divide by
4,032, which will give him the bushels
Toledo Blade.
Les CauSertes Sctenttfques states that
M. Doyen has been investigating the sub
ject of making coffee, and has proposed
the following method, which is simple
and can be easily tried by any housekeep-
err: He uses fifteen grammes iabout half
an ounce avoirdupois) for two cups. The
berries are to be powdered just before
they are used Three-fourths of the pow
der is thrown into cold water, which is
made to boil and kept boiling for ten
minutes; then the remaining fourth of
| the powder is cast in, the pot is removed
| from the fire, covered up and allowed TO
remain five minutes. The liquid is now
ready, but may, if desired, be passed
through linen. So prepared it is brown
ish, not black, and slightly turbid from
the fatty matter, of which coffee contains
| ~ per cent. When coffee has TO be car
ried on journey, as by an army on the
march, M. Doyen has the roasted berries
ground into an impalpable powder,
which is then slightly moistened, com
5ined with twice its weight of sugar, and
pressed into tablets like chocolate. These
are dried and wrapped in tinfeil, and the
coffee ration thus prepared may be used
very speedily, for if cast into boiling
water the coffee is ready. Precious time
and the necessity of having cofee-mllls
are thus saved.