Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-24
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


-Sweet-Scented Flowers Sweet Vio-
let Hyacinths, Sweet Candytuft, Hello
trope, Pinks, Woodbine, Sweet Brier,
Tea Rose, White Lily, Sweet Alyssum,
Carnation, Sweet Pea, Mignonette, Sweet
william, and some varieties OF Perpetu
al Roses.
king Cakes.-The following is taken
from cook book over 200 years old, and
is sent to an exchange by Massachusetts,
subscriber: "Take pound of flour,
three.auarters of pound Of butter, half
pound of sugar, and half pound OF
currants well cleaned rub your butter
well into your flour, and put in as many
yelks of eggs as will 1.-the them, then put
in your sugar, currants, and shred in as
much mace as will give them taste; so
make them up in little round cakes, and
butter the papers you lay them on
Window Ornamentation.- Glass may
be made extremely ornamental in several
ways, a few Of which will now describe,
as perhaps some of our readers may not
have heard of them: First, cut out va
rious figures from thin white muslin,
Swiss tarletan, or even tissue paper, stars,
circles, rings, diamonds and squares Of
different sizes, are among the best. Make
some nice mucilage OF gum arabic and
paste them on the panes, making narrow
lines, connecting them with strips OF the
material Arrange all in tasteful designs,
and over this give coat of clear demar
.arnish.-Erchange.
A correspondent OF the Western Rural
gives the following as an excellent remedy
for burns: Take newly-slaked lime, or,
II 11,ly that 1.rI, ah hne ~
been exposed to the air, as from the cen
ter of the box which contains it; sift
through muslin or something very fine.
Mix one ounce of lime with four or five
of fresh lard or butter, sweet oil and NUT
ton tallow, melted together equal parts J
spread on cloth and apply, renewing as
the oil substance becomes absorbed. This
will give perfect ease in a few minutes,
whether the skin is off or not, and soon
cures if the skin is off keep the cloth on
until we'll. Sufferers try this.
Ham and Chicken Pie.-Cut up neatly
and parboil young chicken. Line a
deep dish with good pie-crust. Cut thin
slices of nice cold boiled ham. and spread
layer on the crust at the bottom. Then
put the pieces Of chicken on that. Cover
this with slices of hard boiled egg, but
tered and peppered; then more slices of
ham, another layer of chicken and egg,
ETC., etc Proceed in this way till all the
material is used up, then pour in chicken
or veal broth tn prevent dryness. The
chicken should have been boiled in very
little water, and then the chicken broth
is the best. Cover with good pastry
crust, and bake an hour and a quarter
Christian Union.
w. II. Noble gives, in the Gardener's
Monthly, an account of garden lover
who planted on good, level soil an aspar-
agus bed of some 12x20 feet. When its
growth became strong, he year by year
covered it with ssme two or three inches
of good rich mold. Up through this shot
the stalks and crept the roots. The
method was followed up every season,
with the result of larger growth and prod
uct, till the bed became an oblong mound
of some two or three feet in height, and a
perfect wonder in the quality and guam
tity of asparagus furnished for the table.
That yearly blanket of soil was, my
friend thinks, the only culture or enrich
ment given The bed was never dug
with fork or spade.