Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-04-06
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Goldfish is improved by changing IT.
once in while, back and forth, from the
garnet to the cellar.
Snow Cake.-One cup of butter, two
of sugar, whites Of eight eggs, one cup OF
sweet milk, one teaspoonful Of soda, and
two of cream of tartar. Flavor with
lemon.
Cold feet are the precursors Of con-
sumption. To escape them, warm your
feet well in the morning. and, covering
the sole with piece of common paper,
carefully draw on the sock, and then the
boot or shoe.
-Mush Biscuit-One quart of milk
twater will doh piece of lard size of an
egg; tablespoonful of salt put on the fire;
when boiling, add sufficient corn-meal to
make rather stiff mush. When this is
milk warm, add one cup Of yeast and
sufficient flour to make into dough.
Work we'll; in the morning make up into
cakes; let it rise about fifteen or twenty
minutes, and then bake.
Chicken Pudding .-Take two chick
ems, stew them in little water, season
with salt and pepper. Take six eggs,
well-beaten, one teacup of sitted flour, six
large roasting-ears, grated, one teacupful
of sweet milk, or enough to make the bat
ter OF proper consistency; a spoonful OF
butter. Pour the batter into buttered
dish, and drop the pieces OF chicken into
the batter, bake quickly, and serve with
drawn butter.
Boiled Mutton. --Takea leg of mutton
and put it into enough boiling water TO
cover it. Skim while ii is boiling up, and
keep just on the boil, not galloping, for
about swo hours if it weighs ten pounds;
less time If smaller. An hour before 1t
is done throw in small carrots and pars-
nips cut in halves, and turnips in slices.
When the latter are tender, skim them
out and mash with butter, milk andA
little salt and pepper. Serve the carrots
and parsnips around the platter which
holds the mutton when it is dished.
Oyster Short Cake.-One quart -four,
three teaspoonfuls baking powder, one
tablespoonful butter, pinch of salt, and
enough sweet milk To moisten well Roll
about an inch thick and bake on tin pie
plates quickly. While it is baking, take
one quart of oysters and half cup Of
water and put on the stove; then take half
cup OF milk and the same of butter,
mixed with a tablespoonful of -four, and a
little salt and pepper; add all together,
and boil up once. When the cakes are
done, split them open and spread the
oysters between them, some on the top.
Put the oysters that are lett in a gravy
dish, and replenish when needed
Even on the farm it will pay to have
small hot-bed TO start plants for the
garden Tomatoes, certainly, should be
M, aarlxy 10, Of
them. The materials are at hand on
every farm, and, for small bed, the fol-
lowing plan is simple one: Take n
dry goods box the size of window-sash,
which you have on hand, fill il nearly
full OF manure that is heating we'll and
place the sash upon the top, having pre-
viously nailed some pieces on the sides of
the box TO keep the sash in place. In a
day or two put in few inches of good
earth, and SOW your seeds. BY little
care in keeping the temperature uniform,
which is regulated by letting in or taking
off the air, nice bed of plants may be
obtained with little labor.
The simplest and surest plan to pre-
vent smut in wheat is to make a solution
by using one pound of blue vitriol-sul-
phate OF copper-to every two gallons o..
water Make a sufficient quality SO II
may stand above the wheat. Stir the
whole to allow the light material to rise.
Skim. and at the end of an h@nr spread
the wheat on a dry floor, and sprinkle
with quick lime, previously so slaked
with chamber lye as to leave the lime in
powder So continue until you have all
the wheat treated. In this state it may be
heaped and remain several days before
sowing, if the wheat be occasionally
turned. If the wheat remains damp, il
must be still further dried before sowing,
if it is to be drilled, SO it will pass easily
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