Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-03-18
RECIPES. ETC.

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Fish Friters.-Take fish, bread
crumbs and mashed potato, equal parts;
one egg; half teaCup of milk; pepper
ana little sauce for fish cut into small
cakes and fry brown.
To Renovate Velvet.-Wipe the dust
from the velvet, wiring clean towel in
cold water and pin tightly around hot
iron; then pass the wrong side of the
velvet across the face OF the iron.-Fire-
side Fdrorate
Coffee Cake Five cups flour, one
cup sugar, one cup coffee, prepared as
for the table, one cup molasses, one cup
butter, one cup raisins, two teaspoonfuls
soda, two eggs, spice with cinnamon and
cloves, bake in leaves. 1t will keep six
months.
Salt Fish Chowder-This is made
the same as the pork soup with the addi-
tion of the fish; cut in small (inch) pieces
enough fish to make about u pint; fresh
en- an hour and add to the soup when
you do your pork. Onions may be
omitted in either if one does not like
them.
Economical Tea Cakes.-Two quarts
OF flour, two tablespoonful of butter or
lard, two even teaspoontuls of soda, the
same of cream of tartar, one pound and
a quarter Of sugar dissolved in two and a
half cupfuls of sour or sweet milk; if
the last, use double portion of cream
OF tartar. Bake in small molds after
seasoning to your taste. One large nut
meg has been found sufficient to impart
an agreeable flavor.
About Coffee.-Being powerful alb
sorbent rs well as disintectant, roasted
coffee should always be Drowned over in
order to throw OFT the grocery faint that
it has acquired by exposure to the foul
air The heating, which should make it
shade darker, will also develop
strength. 1t should be kept in well
corked bottle o. jar, or, what is better
| brown as you want to use, thus having it
fresh 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 needed for use and then
| brought into warm room and boiling
water poured over them, then left till
| cool, they will be uninjured and will beat
as nicely as if they had not been chilled,
! and be just as good for any use. After
being once thawed they should be used
Immediately.
To Bleach Flannel Flannel which
has become yellow with use may be
bleached by putting it for some days in
a solution Of hard soap to which strong
ammonia has been added. The right pro
portions are one and a half pounds of
hard curd soap, fifty pounds of soft water
and twothirds pound of strong ammo
| MIA solution. The same object may be
attained in Il shorter time by placing the
| flannel for quarter of an hour in a
weak solution of bisulphite of sodium,
TO which little hydrochloric acid has
been added-Pdctfc RuroI Press.
The Hanging of an Ax--The Western
| RuraL gives the following directions:
Get your blacksmith to make an iron
| wedge to fastcn the handle in with 1t
will cost but fifteen or twenty cents. 1t
should be about two and a half inches
long, and about two in width, and the
| head of the wedge should be large
enough to cover the eye of the ak. 1t is
much better than the wooden one gen
| orally used for such purposes, as it can
| be easily knocked out with a cold chisel
| and hammer. The usual method of
burning out a helye after it has been
broken softens the steel of the AK.
| Another advantage is that sometimes an
az is broken, while the handle remains
| good, and the iron wedge can be knocked
out and is ready to put in another ak.