Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-05
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

To make pop-overs, take one cupful
of milk. one egg, one cupful of flour and
little salt. Beat well, and put table
Snoonful of the batter in very small pans.
Rake quickly, and eat Immediately.
To make buttermilk biscuits, take
three cupfuls of buttermilk, add one of
bnt,er. one teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
half teaspoonful of soda, dessertspoon-
nl of salt and flour enough to make the
donch lust stiff enough to admit of being
rolled out into biscuits. The measure has
not been accurately ascertained, but calcu-
late upon needing about two quarts of
hour in making by the above highlyrec-
commended recipe.
To make French mustard, take quarter
Of a pound of best yellow mustard, pour
over it a half pint each of water and
vinegar. Add pinch Of salt and piece
Of cale.nus root the size of pea. Put it
on the fire, and while it boils add table
snoontul of flour. Let it boil twenty min
MES. stirring it constantly. Just before
taking it off stir in teaspoonful of sugar
or honey. When cool, put it into bottles
and cork tightly. -Ha,per's Bazar.
To get rid of the little red ants, use
carbolic acid, diluted with water, and APP
nly with small bunch of feathers wher-
ever the ants are If they do not leave the
first time you apply the acid apply it
again and stronger. Another good recipe
10 get rid Of ants or any other vermin is to
amply hot alum water with whitewash
brush: Two pounds of alum to two quarts
Of water. boil until the alum is all melted
This will Danish any of the pests house
keepers are bothered with-Cincinnat
Times.
Many persons are suffering pain from
weakness of the eyes. This sometimes
proceeds from local Inflammation, some
times from other causes. Several persons
who have thus been afflicted inform us
that they have derived almost immediate,
and in some cases permanent, relief from
the application of salt water as a bath !;
and when the pain has been aggravated,
from a compress saturated with salt water
laid on the eyes and renewed at frequent
intervals. Opening the eyes and submerg-
ing them in clean salt water has been
found beneficial to those whose eyesight
begins to fail.-Rural Neao Yorker.
Those who have occasion to use Paris
green, a costly article when bought at
the drug stores in its finished state, may
find it profitable to adopt the practice of
an Iowa Prairie Farmer correspondent.
He says: 81 have had quite as good sue
cess in using the ingredients from which
the green is made as from the finished arti
Gle, bought in paint and drug shops at
fifty cents pound, especially when the
local demand is so great that it cannot be
bought at all. The following directions
for making it are taken from Brande's
Chemistry: Dissolve two pounds OF sui
phate of copper, blue vitriol Costing TWEEN
y cents per pound, or forty cents) in a
gallon of hot water keeping it in a stone
jar. Dissolve in another large jar one
pound of white arsenic Costing ten cents
and two pounds of saleratus or pearlash,
cost twenty cents, in forty-tour pounds of
hot water, stirring well till thoroughly
dissolved, These articles, costing seventy
cents, will make about five pounds of
Paris green, costing $3.50 usually keep
them in solution and mix in the proper
proportions, enc part of the first to five of
the latter, as they are needed. The green
Immediately begins to precipitate in fine
powder, and is much more convenient
for use, in solution, than the dry articles
sold in the shops.'