The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-20
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

The cause of streaked butter is the
imperfect working of the butter after it Is
sailed. Salt in butter sets the color, or
deepens and brightens it; so if the salt is
worked into the butter and not so fully
worked as to salt every part, then the fresh
butter retains the color it had when it
came from the churn. and the sailed butter
grows 50 much darker that it is, decidedly
streaked. The remedy is to work the
streaked butter more thoroughly Chica-
go Inter OCEAN. 80, . -
Dried Biscuit One pound of butter,
three pounds of -four; one quart of boiling
milk, one teaspoonful of salt, one yeast.
cake, and eight eggs. Put one and one.
half pounds of the flour, with the butter
and salt, in a large bowl, stir in the milk,
beat the eggs very light, and when the
batter has cooled little put them in, and
then add the yeast, then stir in the rest of
the flour, cover and put in warm place
to rise. When light roll out into biscuits
and lay them in buttered pans TO rise
again; when light, prick and bake
After baking they must be separated and
thoroughly dried in rather a cool oven.
They will keep for months.
The over-ingenious man has passion
for machinery, and it has fascination for
some boys, who think that what is done
by a machine is so much labor saved. Just
now boy, not thousand miles from
here, was called on by his mother for a
new handle to her stove-lid litter. He
readily obeyed. and, as he had turning
lathe attached to the horse power at the
barn, he meant to make a nice one. So
he proceeded to find and chip out a piece
of hard -maple, and hitched the pony to
the horsepower, and turned a handle
worth seeing. In the meantime another
boy had sawed off the end Of an old rake
stale, which made a good handle for the
litter, and the whole thing was done in
less than fifteen minutes.-Detroit Tribune
Chocolate Pudding. Three quarters
of cuptul of chocolate grated to one quart
OF milk which has not been SKINNED.
Let it boil; then set to cool. Beat until
| very light and thick the yelks of four
eggs, reserving the same number of
whites with which to make a meringue.
Swecten with half a pound of white
sugar and flavor dclicately with vanilla.
The chocolate being cool, gradually stir in
the sweetened eggs, put 1t into baking.
dish and let it bake slowly, but not till
ovcrdonc. To make the meringue, beat up
the whites until they will stand alone; add
by degrees four tablespoonfuls of siftcd
pulverized sugar and flavor with little
vanilla or lemon juice. When the choco-
late portion is again cool heap up the me-
ringue upon it and brown slightly by
holding over it the rcd hot lid of an oven,
or something of the sort This quantity
of pudding suffices for about six persons.
|-Harper's Bazur.
"A writer in the Journal Of Health Of
fers the following suggestions concerning
the economical combustion of coal: A
very common mistake is made and much
fuel wasted In the manner of replenishing
coal fires, both in furnaces and CRATES.
They should be fed with little coal at a
time, and often; but servants, to save
time and trouble, put on a great deal at
once, the first result being that almost all
the heat is absorbed by the newly put-on
coal, which does not give out heat until
it has itself become red hot. Hence, for
a while, the room is cold, but when it be-
comes fairly aglow the heat is insufera-
bic. The time to replenish coal fire is
as soon as the Goals begins to show ashes
on their surface; then put on merely
enough to show layer of black coal GOV.
ering the red. This will soon kindle and
as there is not much of it, an excess OF
heat will not be given out. Many almost
put out the fire by stirring the CRATE as
soon as fresh coal is put on, thus leaving
all the heat in the ashes when it should
be sent to the new supply of coal. The
time to stir the fire is just when the new
coal laid on is pretty we'll kindled. This
method of managing a coal fire is trouble.
some, but it saves fuel, gives more uni
form heat and prevents the discomfort OF
alterations of heat land cold above re.
| ferred to,