Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-09
RECEIPTS, Etc

Fish Fritters.-'rake fish, bread
crumsand mashed potato, equal parts;
and egg; half teacup of milk; pep
per and a little sauce for fish; cut in
to small cakes and fry brown.
To Rcnovatc Velvet Wipe the
dust from the velvet, wiring clean
towel in cold waler and pin tightly
around 4 hot iron; then pass the
wrong side of the velvet across the
face of the iron.-Eireside Fttcorite.
Coffee Cakc.-Five cups flour, one
cup sugar, one cup coffee, prepared
as for the table, one cup molasses,
one cup butter, one cup raisins, two
teaspoontuls soda, two eggs spice
with cinnamon and cloves bake in
loavcs. 1t will keep six months.
Salt Fish Chowder.-This is made
the same as the pork soup with the
addition of the fish; cut in small
(nch) pieces enough fish to make
lbout Il pint; freshen an hour and add
to the soup when you do your pork.
Onions may be omitted lin either if
one does not like them.
Economical Tea-Cakes. TO two
quarts OF flour, two teaspoontuls of
butter or lard, two even teaspoonfuls
soda, the same OF cream oftartar, one
pound and i quarter of sugar disolv-
ed in two and Il half cupiuls of sour
or sweet milk; if the last use double
portion of cream tartar. Bake in
small molds after seasoning to your
taste. One large nutmeg has been
found sufficient to impart an agree
able flavor.
About Coilee.-Being powerful
absorbent as well rs disntectant,
roasted coffee should always be
Drowned over in order to throw off
the grocery faint, that it has acquired
by exposure to the foul air. The
heating, which should make it II
shade darker, will also develop
strength. 1t should be kept in q
tiyht-colkcd bottle or jar, or, what is
better, brown rs you want to use,
thus having it good and strong and
better favored.
Frozen Eggs.--It often happens
that eggs get frozen SO as to crack
the shells in severe cold weather;
but if they are kept frozen until need
ed for use and then brought into u
warm room and boiling water pour
ed over them, then left till cool, they
will be uninjured and will beat as
nicely rs il they had not been chilled,
and be just as good for any use.
After being once thawed they sho Id
be used Immediately.
TO Bleach F'lannel.-Fiannel that
have become yellow with use may be
bleached by putting it for some days
in solution Of hard soap to which
strong ammonia has been added.
The right proportions are one and q
half pounds OF hard soap, fifty pounds
of soft water and two-thirds pound
of strong ammonia solution. The
same object may be attained in a
shorter time by placing the flannel
tor quarter of an hour III 4 weak
solution Of bisulphitc of sodium, to
which a little hydrochlcrlc acid has
been added.-Pac;tc Rurat Press.
The Hanging Of an Ax.-The
Western Rural gives the following
directions: Get your blacksmith to
make an iron wedge to fasten the
handle in with. It will cost but tif-
teen or twenty cents. 1t should be
about two and half inches long,
and about two in width, and the head
OF the wedge should be large enough
to cover the eye ofan AK. 1t is much
better than the wooden one generally
used for such purposes, AS it can be
easily knocked out with cold chisel
and hammer. The usual method of
burning out 4 helve after it has been
broken sottens the steel OF the AK.
Another advantage is, that sometimes
an AK is broken, while the handle re-
mains good, and the iron wedge can
be knocked out and is ready to put i'll
another AK.