Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-01
.CRJCULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

In digging potatoes it is important
% have them dried before going to
cellar or pit But for this purpose they
should be exposed to the sun or light as
limited time, as possible. A days
snn greatly Injuries them. Nor should
they he exposed to the light for any
length of time. A dark place for po-
tatoes always. -IoaCa Register.
Raspberry Trihe. Lay in deep
rlass dish, slices of sponge or any other
nelicate cake. Pour over cream or any
clear Juice from preserves, then spread
on a layer of raspberry jam half an
inch thick. Pour over this pint of
boiled n,,stard, made of the yelks of
three eggs, and frost the top with the
whites, beaten to a froth and sweet
ened. and Drowned in an oven.
-Pot-Pie Crust.-One quart Of flour,
three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
stirred through the flour, one teaspoon
full of salt, two tablespoonfuls of lard,
one egg, milk enough to mix more stiff
than biscuit cook your meat until ten
der, then roll out the crust, cut it and
Law over the top Of the meat, put in a
lump of butter the size of an egg; boil
slowly half an hour without raising
the cover of the kettle.
Simple Cure for Rheumatism.
Boil a small potful of potatoes and
battle the part affected with the water
in which the potatoes were boiled, as
hot as can be applied, Immediately be-
fore going to bed. The pains will be
removed, or at least alleviated, by the
next morning. Some of the most OBJ
stinate rheumatic pains have lately
been cured by one application of this
novel and simple remedy. Rural Neao
Yorker.
Prison Cake.-White part: One
cup butter, five cups white sugar, five
cups -four two cups of sweet milk,
one teaspoonful soda, two cream of
tartar whites of eight eggs. Dark
part; One cup butter, two cups Of
brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one
cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of
soda, tour cups of flour, yelks of eight
eggs, fruit to taste. Divide each part
into three cakes and bake in long or
square tins. When done place one
above another alternately, three cakes
in a tier.
For plain fritterS take one pint of
milk, three eggs, one spoonful melted
butter, one teaSpoonful cream tartar,
half teaspoonful Of soda, flour to
make a stiff batter. To be fried,
dipped by the spoonful into boiling
lard. BY adding coarsely-chopped tart
apples to the above in even quantity,
nice apple-fritter is made, or by par
ing and slioing pine-apples, or bananas,
and dipping in the batter, and fry
ing, delicious fritter for an entree is
made.
For Floating Island, take three
eggs, three teacups of sweet milk,
three tablespoofuls of sugar; separate
the whites of the eggs from the yelks;
beat the yelks, add the milk, then the
sugar; put on the stove to cook. STIR
ring it constantly until it begins to
thicken (do not let it boil or it will
curdle); beat the whites to a stiff
froth, and just before taking it off the
stove slip the whites on the custard,
and dip it up through to cook; flavor
with lemon.
The Country Gentleman gives the
following recipe for ring-bone: Mix
well one and one-half drachms binio-
dine of mercury with one ounce of
lard. Rub this ointment well in the
skin daily over the Jumps, shaving off
the hair. Two hours after each appli-
cation, part the blisters with soft
BRUSH with tincture of arnica one
ounce, to water twelve ounces. Do
this daily for week, then once a
week, then repeat This will general
~ cure recent cases so they will show
no lameness, but the lump will re-
main. The colt should be kept tied,
50 that he cannot bite the blisters. No
remedy will remove the Jumps.