Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-03-16
HOVE, FARN AND GARDEN.


Charcoal powder will be found very
good thing to give knives frst-rate
polish.
A Danish Dish.-one pint of currant
juice; one pint of water; half pint Of sage !;
two cups of sugar. Boil all together until
the sage is soft. Pour into molds, and set
on ice
flow to Paste Labels on Tin.-Cse
uncalendered paper for the labels. First
Process-Put the tin over unslacked
lime, and allow 10 stand for twenty -four
hours. Second Process-Pass sponge
saturated with muiiatic acid over the tin ;
then use in both cases ordinary tragacanth
paste Pharmacist.
TO prepare veal for breakfast, take q
round earthen dish and put in ii layer
of bread crumbs. ever these put spots of
butter. Then layer Of minced cold veal,
with salt and pepper; then more crumbs,
butter, veal, salt and pepper When the
dish is full, with layer of crumbs for the
top, pour over ii an egg, beaten well, and
mixed in halt a cup of milk. If you have
gravy ii is better than milk. Bake until
brown.
To make simple butexcellent pastry
put one pound OF -four in dish. make a
hole in the center, drop in the yolk Of one
egg. Then make paste by pouring cold
water into the hole, and stirring until all
the flour is made into paste; then roll
| out Have ready one pound of butter,
lay it on the paste; fold the dough over
| the butter and roll ont. Repeat this
| folding the dough over and rolling out
eight or ten times, with quick, light
stroke. Then put the paste on the ice
| for an hour or so; then roll it out again
| several times before covering your pie
plates or cutting the pastry into puffs.-
Christian Union.
House plants do best in rather cool
rooms, or a temperature not so high as
sixty degrees; this is the reason that we
often see finer plants in the cottages of the
mechanic and laboring man than in the
warm, furnace.heated mansions of the
rich. In the latter, however, much i'm
provement may be made by keeping the
! air chamber Of the furnace abundantly
and constantly supplied with evaporating
| water-at least eight or ten gallons daily
| for medium-sized furnace; and if the
! plants still appear to suffer from dry air,
| hang wet napkins over them. II this at
tention cannot he given, the plants should
| be selected from such sorts as grow nat
urally in dry climates, such as the cactus,
| sedum, etc. House plants are often in.
jured by the accumulation of dust in
| sweeping, which may be partly remedied
| by Swinging, but more easily by placing
large funneles of tissue paper inverted
over the plants till the dust settles. Tissue
paper is best, on account of its little weight
on the plants.-N. Y. Times.
--how often do we hear the complaint:
81 don't know why my plants do not
| bloom in winter: they all seem to be
thriving, but produce no flowers" The
reason that such complaints are so COM
mon is simply this: They grow their
| plants in pots that are too large for them,
| end when the time comes that they should
bloom we find the substance that should
go the formation of buds and flowers
taken up in the luXurisnt growth of foil
age with which the plant is clothed. But
| this, although important, is not the only
advantage gained by the use of small
pots. They are so much handler in trans
terring from one place 10 another, occupy
so little room, and are in every wav so
much more desirable than the large ones
that we would give them the preference
| even if they did not enhance the bloom
ing qualities of the plants which were
grown in them. OF course small pots are
not TO be recommended tor all kinds of
plants, for there are certain plants that
will do no good unless the roots have an
abundance Of room in which to expand
and receive nourishment But for such
plants as fuchias, geraniums, ADDITIONS,
cupnes, and others upon which we depend
for flowers in winter, they will prove ex-
tremely valuable. Foliage plants, and
others of which we do not expect flowers,
but want luxuriant growth of leaves
should be grown in large pots.--FIoraE
Cabinet.