Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

WA "S>' 10y ." SiopS pay oo.-
ter return for the labor and capital
invested, and none leave the ground
in better shape for garden crops.
Household Recipes.
TO EXTRACT PAINT.-To extract
paint from cotton, silk and wooden
goods, saturate the spot with spirits
of turpentine, and let it remain sew
eral hours, then rub it between the
hands. 1t will crumble away, with
out injlring either the color or text
ure of the article.
In CASE OF PoIsoNs.-Makc your
patient vomit by giving tumbler Of
warm water, with a teaspoonful of
mustard i'll it, and then send for the
doctor. If it be necessary to act
without the doctor, and the poison is
arsenic, give large quantities Of milk
and raw eggs, or flour and water
If the poison is an acid, give magnc-
sia and water, or chalk and water,
and plenty of warm water besides
If it is an alkali, like potash, give
vinegar and water, lemon juice, or
some other safe acid. Always re-
member the emetic first. If it be
laudanum, strong coffee is a good
thing to give until the doctor comes
But be sure and keep the patient
awake.
To PREVENT GLASS CRACKING BY
HEAT.-If the chimney-glass of 4
lamp be cut with a diamond OH the
convex side, it will never crack, as
the incision affords room for expan-
SION produced by the heat, and the
glass, after it is cool, returns to its
original shape, with only 4 scratch
visible to show where the cut was
made.
CREAM CRUsT.-This is the most
healthy pic-crust that is made. Take
cream, sour or sweet; add salt, and
stir in flour to make it stiff; if the
cream is sour, add salcratus in pro-
portion of one teaspoontul to Il pint;
if the cream is sweet, use very little
saleratus.
CocoANUr CAKE.-One-half cup of
butter, two cups Of sugar, three eggs
preserving whites for trosting), one
half teaspoon soda, one of cream tar
tar, five cups of flour Bake in jelly
pans, as for jelly-cake. Prepare the
trosting, and spread each layer, and
then cover with dessicated cocoanut,
which has previously been soaked in
milk; make the cakes thin, and spread
about one inch thick.
PAIRING PoTAToEs.-Many persons,
i'll preparing potatoes for cooking,
pare off a thick slice from the surface
instead of digging out the eyes
Prof. Blot, in his lectures on the po-
tato, says this skinning process is all
wrong, as the strength of the vegeta-
BILE lies near it's surfaoe-the starch
growing less abundant rs the center
is Appropriated. The starch, near
the surface, contains the nutriment-
which is not more than seven or
eight per cent.-the balance being
mainly water.
TO TAKE OUT MILDEw.-To take
mildew out Of linen, rub it well with
soap; then scrape some fine chalk
and rub it also on the linen. Lay
it on the grass. AS it dries, wet it
Il little, and it will come out in twice
doing.
WINDSOR AND CASTLE SoAp.-To
make the celebrated Windsor soap,
nothing more is necessary than to
slice the best white soap rs thin as
possible, and melt it over Il slow fire.
Take it from the fire when melted,
and when it is just lukewarm, add
enough of the oil Of caraway to scent
it. If any other fragrant oil is liked
better, it may be substituted. Turn
it into moulds, and let it remain in a
dry situation for five or six days. TO
make CASTLE soap, boil common soft
soap in lamp-oil three hours and y
half.
BARLEY SoUp.-Take two pounds
of shin Of beef, quarter pound of
pearl barley, two onions sliced, two
carrots chopped, salt and pepper to
taste; place in gallon pot, fill up
with cold water, boil very gently for
five hours. Celery tops improve its
flavor.
CEMENT FOR lRoNWARE--Bcat the
whites Of eggs to Il troth, then stir
into them enough luicklimc to make
Il consistent paste, then add iron file
dust to make thick paste. The
quicklime SHOULD be reduced to yne
powder before mixing it with the
eggs. Fill the cracks in ironware
with this cement, and let them re-
main severa, weeks before using
them.
QUEEN OF PUDDINGs.-Onc pint
of nice fine bread crumbs, one quart
of milk, one cup Of sugar, the yelks
Of four eggs beaten, the grated rind
of u lemon, piece Of butter the size
of an egg. Bake until done, but not
watcry. Whip the whites of the
eggs stiff; beat in a teacupful OF SUI
gar, in which has been strained the
juice of the lemon; spread over the
pudding Il layer Of jelly; pour the
whites of the eggs over this; replace
i'll the oven; bake lightly. To be
eaten cold, with cream, if preferred.
Decidedly the best Of all puddings-