Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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DIR. Revillont, in paper presented
to the French Academy of Medicine, as
serts that lemon Juice is one of the most
efficacious medicines that can be applied
in diphtheria, and relates that when he
was dresser in the hospital his own life
| was saved by this timely application. He
got quantity of lemons and gargled his
| throat with the juice, swallowing little
at time in order to act on the more deep
seated parts. Dr. r. has noted eleven
cases of complete success obtained by this
method of treatment.
"A delicious pickle can be made after
the following manner: One large white
cabbage, chopped fine in chopping tray,
two quarts of cider vinegar take one
teaspoonful of ground cloves; the same of
cinnamon, allspice and mace; tie these in
a piece of cloth and put them into the
vinegar, with one tablespoonful of salt
and one-half ounce of whole cloves; place
the vinegar in kettle or pan with the
spice and cabbage, and boil five minutes :;
put away in a jar to cool, and you have a
pickle fit for king.
-Honeycomb Pudding--One-half cup
-four, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup
milk, two ounces butter, four eggs, one
cup New Orleans molasses, one-half tea
| spoonful salt, lone dessert spoonful of soda
| dissolved in water Beat the yolks of the
| eggs very light and mix with sugar, salt,
molasses and milk and the butter melted.
| Add the flour, then the whites of the
eggs, and lastly the soda. Bake in q but
| tered dish three quarters of an hour, not
too quickly, and serve with hot sauce
This is quite rich and delicious
A correspondent of the Inter- Ocean
says to destroy rats set Indian meal on a
plate for three nights; the fourth night
| sprinkle strychnine over the meal 1t
may be placed under the floors or boxes
putting blocks under the sides of the
boxes, that the rats may have access to the
meal remove the plate and the poison in
the morning. If the poison is set the
first night only one or two will get it, and
others will take the alarm and leave. If
the meal is set without the poison for
several nights great many will become
accustomed to using it.
Boiled bullock's head is good dish
for a large family. Place the head in
salt water for six hours to cleanse it; then
wash and remove the palates, and place
them again in salt and water; put the
head in saucepan, with sufficient water
to cover; boil for five hours, adding two
carrots, two turnips and two onions, cut
small; when done remove the head from
the soup, and remove the bone from the
meat; serve soup and meat in tureen; the
palates, when white, boiled until tender,
then pressed until cold, make delicious
relish for lunch or supper.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are.
worse than wasted in the use of lard made
TO yNtn- met M I,ac
white, flaky crust looks nice and tastes
better, but it lays the foundation for dys-
pepsia, rheumatism, govt and palsy.
For years | have been experimenting to
find out how to make palatable pie
crust without lard, and this is the way
Take good, rich buttermilk, soda and
little SALT and mix just as soft as can be
mixed and hold together; have plenty of
flour on the molding- board and rolling
pin; roll very thin; then make and bake
as other pies, or rather in a slower oven,
and when the pie is taken from the oven
do not cover up.-Country Gentleman.
AT this season the Gala will be grow
ing vigorously, and will need water more
abundantlv A saucer of water under the
Gala is relished by this plant 1t is sub
aquatic in its nature. Other plants have
water from dripping on the floor, but the
water should not be allowed TO stand in
them. The Gala flower is liable to the
attacks of green fly, as indeed are many
plants which grow in windows. There
are many remedies which gardeners use
in green-h houses inapplicable in rooms.
The best thing for the room gardener is
| to take the pots to a back kitchen, or, if
not frosty, to the open air, lay the pots
on their sides and syringe with warm
soap suds.-Garde1aer's Monthly.
AS hens, turkeys, geese and ducks
are not provided with incisor, canine nor
molar teeth, it is folly to feed bones to
reduced to small fragments. Fresh bones
are valuable feed for poultry of any Sort
provided the fragments are so small that
the birds can swallow them Once in the
crop of fowl, bits of bone will soon be
changed into soft and palatable food
Our own practice is to have a dish in the
kitchen specially to receive the bones that
are purchased with the beefsteak, mutton
and other meat. Then every day these
| pieces are taken to chopping block, and
with an old ak, having a sharp, cutting
edge, they are crushed with the head of
| the ak and cut into pieces not larger than
| kernels of Indian corn. The fowls de-
YOUR them with ravenous appetite.
Bones are worth more to feed fowls than
| the same number of pounds of prime
grain. For chopping block, small log
about two feet long, with square ends, is
placed on one end, as the end of log is
far better for such purpose than the side
of log. Bones are usually cast out of
the back door or in a garbage barrel to
feed worthless dogs. But if preferred for
fowls as suggested, every pound is worth
two or three cents, which will be returned
generously in the form of luscious eggs
and juicy meat for the table.-NeaO York
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