The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hints.

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cold water.
To TAKE GREASE FROM WALL PAPER.
Lay several folds of blotting paper on
the spot, and hold hot iron near it
till the grease is absorbed.
FRENCH POLISHING. .-Naphtha, one
quart Hhellac, six ounces :. sandarac,
two ounces. Powder the gums, and
mix the same rs with spirits of wine. To
be used in the ordinary way, and cleared
Off with pure naphtha.
YEAST AND HOMEMADE BREAD.-Bo
one pound of good flour, quarter of
pound of moist sugar, and half an ounce
of salt, in two gallons of water, for an
hour. When nearly cold, bottle and
cork it closely. 1t will be tit for use in
twenty-four hours, and ono pint will
make eighteen pounds of bread.
STARCH.-Take one tablespoonful of
starch, and put with it teaspoonful of
clear prepared gum, add lump of loaf
sugar and q pinch of salt. Mix with
coel water, stir till smooth, add sufficient
boiling water to make it clear, and of
the proper consistency, and stir wax
candle round it once or twice.
WASHING WOODEN OR FLANNEL AR.
T1chEs. Gut up somo white soap, put
1t into soft water, boil it up and skim :;
when no more scum rises leave it to
cool. Puta very small quantity of spirits
OF wine into it, and wash the things as
quickly as possible ; rinse in lukewarm
clear soft water, into which small
quantity of spirits of wine has also been
stirred.
To WASH WHITE STRIPED STOCKINGS.
Make jelly, the night before it is want.
ed, of the best yellow soap; wash the
stockings i'll warm water with a little
salt in it, using the jelly instead of soap;
rinse i'll clear water, also with little salt
in it; wiring as dry as possible, and dry
quickly.
SALAD DRESSING THAT WILL KEEH.-
Mix the yelks of two raw eggs in n
basin with one teaspoonful of salt.
whlsk them well, then add one teaspoon
full of made mustard, three tablespoon
fuls OF vinegar, one of tarragon and one
of chill vinegar, add little sugar and
cayenne, and bottle tight for use.
EASY Mosaic WoRK.-An ingenious
method of making inlaid or mosaic work
inwood has lately been introduced. Two
contrasting kinds of veneer are laid. one
on the other, and confined between the
corners of white wood or something
similar. The desired design is then cut
through the whole by fine jig-saw, not
much larger than horse hair. The
veneer is then set into the place of the
corresponding part i'll the black veneer.
and oicc rersa, and glued firmly upon
the article to be ornamented in the
usual manner of veneering.
BRUISES. best application for n
bruise, be it large or small, is moist
warmth: therefore warm bread and
water poultice in hot moist flannels
should be put on, as they supple the
skin. If the bruise be very severe. and
in the neighborhood of Joint. it will
be well to apply ten or a dozen leeches
over the whole bruised part, and after
ward poultice. But leeches should not
be put on young children. If the
bruised part be in the knee or ankle.
walking should not be ATTEMPTED till It
can be performed without pain. Inat-
tentlon to this point often laws the foun-
dation for serious mischief in these
,olnts, especially in the case of scrofu-
lous persons.
Preparing Apples for the Table.
In making apple sauce use n little
quantity of water and sweeten sufficient
ly when first put on the stove, and do not
cook longer than just to have them done.
10 make very nice sauce, pare and
quarter them and lay in sugar for twen
ty four hours, using about quarter of a
pound of sugar to pound of fruit
This will harden them so if cooked slow
Iy they will retain their shape perfectly.
Cored apples are excellent boiled,
Put III stew-pan with sufficient water
to cover and boil slowly with sugar and
cinnamon in the cavities. After the ap-
pies are done they can be skinned out
and richer syrup made by adding sugar
and cooking longer.
For puddings, pies and tarts, apples
are better if grated. Use large crater
such as is used for grating horseradish.
This grated apple mixed with milk.
cream, or melted butter and eggs, flavor
ed with nutmeg and cinnamon, sweeten
ed and baked with one crust, makes
toothsome pie.
An excellent apple pudding is made
by putting half-dozen cored apples in
pudding dish and pouring over them
smooth, rich batter made with flour,
eggs and milk eat with any sauce you
choose.
Another good pudding is made by
putting alternate layers of sliced apples
and bread crumbs in pudding dish and
filling up with a mixture of milk, eggs.
sugar and cinnamon with the layers and
pour in sufficient milk or water to moist
EN- the crumbs. Then serve hot or cold
with cream.
Exhaustion of gIauure
How long manure lasts in the soil, is a
question which it is impossible to an
swer positively, as circumstances of eli
mate and the methods of cultivation
adopted must ever prevent any fixed
rule to guide us in this direction, but in
England, where large portion of the
land IS worked by tenant farmers, much
thought has naturally been given to the
subject, and the following conclusions
have been accepted by common consent:
Lime is held to benefit the soil for a pc
Rod OF ten years, but not equally during
the whole time, as ten times as much is
exhausted the first as in the last year.
Common stable manure, guano, bones,
and some other substances are exhaust
ed in four or five years, and the more
highly nltrogenous the fertilizer the
sooner it is exhausted. Manure is used
up by the growing crops much faster in
a wet than in a dry season, and also in
hot, than in a cold one, as decomposi-
tion proceeds much more rapidly in
warm than in cold weather. Farmers