The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-02-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

If any family will, for season, keep
an account of the value OF the products
used from their garden, at the price at
which they are furnished at the nearest
grocery, they will certainly be astonished
at the amount they have saved, aside from
their increased freshness and quality
Roots Garden Manual.
MINUTE SPONGE CAKE.-Three eggs,
one and half cups white sugar, beat
eggs two minutes and add sugar Beat
two minutes. One cup of -four, one tea
spoon cream tartar; beat one minute; one
half cup cold water, one-half teaspoon
soda. Beat one minute. Add teaspoon
lemon and cup of -four. Beat one min
ute.
How TO MAKE THE TEA Go FURTHER.
"A method has been discovered for max
ing more than the usual quantity of tea
from any given quantity of the leaf. The
whole secret consists in steaming the leaf
before sleeping. By this process, it IS
said, fourteen pints of good quality may
be brewed from one ounce of tea.
Two-HoUR PUDDING.-One-half cup
butter, one half cup sugar, one-half cup
(smalD molasses, one cup milk, two cups
flour, one and quarter cups raisins; hard
sauce; grease the tin well with butter and
let it boil two hours. Put this mixture in
one of those little empty tin lard-palls,
then into pot partly filled with water.
everybody likes this pud ding.
WHAT fountain of blessing is COW
She is the mother of beef, the source OF
butter, the original cause of cheese, to
say nothing of shoe horns, hair-combs
and upper leather. A gentle, amiable,
overwhelming creature, who has no joy IN
her family affairs which she does not
share with man. We rob her of her chill
dren that we may rob her of her milk, and
we only care for her that the robbing may
be perpetuated. -H0usehold Words.
THE comparative solitude of home in
new and sparsely-settled country de-
presses the spirits of those fond of society.
The contracted house, the scant supply OF
fruit, the raging of the winds, make the
first years in Il new home at the West far
from desirable, and those who cannot
bear these ills had best not venture out.
1t takes sturdy and determined wills to
carry pioneers through the trials and Ia
bors incident to that manner of life
Western Rura!.
AN excellent furniture polish is thus
made: Take of olive oil one pound, OF
rectified oil of amber one pound, spirits
of turpentine one pound, oil Of lavender
one ounce, tincture of alkanet root one
half ounce. Saturate a piece of cotton
batting with this polish, apply it to the
wood, then, with soft and dry cotton rags,
rub well and wipe off dry. This will
make old furniture in private dwellings,
or that which has been shopworn in
warerooms, look as well as when first fin
ished. The articles should be put into a
jar or jug well mixed, and afterward kept
tightly corked. This is a valuable recipe
Western Rural.
DRY EARTH treatment for ulcers has
been found very successful. Large,
sloughy ulcers, after being washed, were
covered with a thick layer of earth, over
which piece of wet paper was placed as
support, the whole being neatly band
aged. In few days the ulcers began to
clear, and when the surfaces looked
healthy and granulating, dressing made
as follows was used: A piece of muslin
the size of the ulcer was immersed in car
bolic oil lin the proportion Of one part
acid to ten parts cOcoanut oiD: with this
the sore was covered, and over that dry
earth was placed, and then moistened
earth and a bandagc. In short time the
healing process manifested itself satistac-
torily, while all odor was entirely removed
Scientific american.