Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-05
THE FARM AND HOME.

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ham flour, one and half pints of white
flour, one-half pint Of molasses, little
salt, one cupful Of yeast. Mix rather
wet with a spoon.
ONE WAY TO Do 1.-THE lady who
wishes to gain strength and reduce stout
ness, must eat meat and beef-tea, no
homlny, greats, or cream She can
drink claret, but not ale or beer, and if
she can take exercise enough to digest
her food, she may hope to gain strength
and reduce the flesh.
For SPONGE CAKE. eggs, one
pound granulated sugar, half the weight
of the eggs in -four one lemon. Two
persons must make this cake-one beats
the whites of the eggs, while another
beats the yolks with the sugar, the flour
must be sifted and warmed, the pans
buttered before beginning to beat, and
the lemon juice squeezed in cup, and
the rind grated; never stop until it is in
the oven, but only stir in the flour after
all the rest is beaten. .t d
FRENCH CREAM CAKE. - Boil scant
pint milk ); take two eggs and two small
teaspOonfuls corn starch beaten with q
little milk when the milk boils stir
this in slowlywith scant cup of sugar,
one tablespoonful of butter, two tea
spoonfuls lemon essence make cake
of three eggs, one cupful sugar. one and
q half cupfuls flour, teaspoonful baking
powder, two table spoonfuls milk; bake
in three layers, and While warm spread
with cream.
To ROAST COFFEE.-If you desire to
have extra fine favored coffee, buy the
green cofee-pure Java Pick it over,
wash it well, drain it and spread it out
on pie pans roast it in a moderate
oven, or on top of the range stir it
often to keep it from burning, and roast
ituntil it is good brown then drop a
small piece of butter in each pan, and
mix it up just enough to make it shine;
grind it fresh every morning. The
flavor will then excel the Vienna cof-
I fee
CURE FOR DYsENTERY.-Th following
simple remedy, long known in family
practice, was recently tried in the camp
of the New York Twenty-second Regi-
ment, where there were from eighty to
one hundred cases daily; and with
rapid cures in every case. Recipe In
a tea-cup half full of vinegar, dissolve
as much salt as it will take up, leaving
little excess of salt at the bottom Of
the cup. Pour boiling water upon the
solution till the cup is two-thirds or
three-quarters full. A scum will rise
to the surface, which must be removed
and the solution allowed to cool. Dose:
Tablespoonful three times day till re-
lieved The rationale Of the operation
of this simple medicine will readily
occur to the pathologist, and, in many
hundred trials, it has never been known
to fail in dysentery and protracted diar-
rhOea.
A CHAT WITH THE HOUSEKEEPER.-
! One of the great causes for dyspepsia
at the present day consists in the hob
bles which SO many people ride IN re-
gard to food One person gets the i'm
preston that one article of diet is the
cure-all, and another that something
else will prevent all the evils that flesh
is heir to, and they make a hobby of
this one thing, and not only ride them
selves to death on it, but insist that all
the persons whom they know, or over
whom they have any influence, shall
ride it, too. Oatmeal is good in its way,
and grits, and graham bread, and many
other things, but they will create dyspep-
STA if they are not properly cooked, or
used too continually, and to the exclu-
sion of other varieties of food. Dyspep-
STA is more often cured by absolute M eat
and fruit diet than by 4 vegetarian diet,
and the reason why good effects Q ften
| follow the first trials of vegetarianism
is because the subjects have been in
the habit of eating heartily of meet, and
the change BELTS them. On the same
principal, it is beneficial for those who
have been in the habit of making their
breakfast of oatmeal, hominy, and the
| like, to occasionally takeia new depart
ure, and make breakfast of meat Or
fish, and fruit
| Clover can be made to answer a three
| fold purpose, for pasture, for hay, and
as fertilizer.
SWELLED LEG IN A HORSE. a
cut or bruise in horses leg is healed
too quickly, and before the inflammation
has disappeared from the wounded
parts, the limb will often swell and be-
come hard. This may be caused by
absorption of the suppurated matter,
which ought to have been discharged
from the wound The remedy is to
give purgatives- the best, probably, be-
ing one-ounce doses of hyposulphite Of
soda, with alternate doses of half an
ounce of nitrate Of potash. Cold astrin-
gent lotions and bandage on the limb
may be useful or blistering may be
needed If the horse is valuable, it
would have been wise in the first place
to have employeda veterinary surgeon.
Hot tar should not have been used on
it,
LIVE AND DEAD WEIGHT OF TURKEYS =
Farmers frequently have occasion to sell
turkeys by live weight, and wish to know
what is the, fair relative price between
live and dead weight. In turkeys dress
ed for the New York market where the
blood and feathers only are removed
the loss is very small. For the Eastern
markets the heads are taken off and the
entrails are taken out. This makes q
loss of nearly one-tenth in the weight.
A large gobbler was recently killed,
WEIGHING 81 II nOundS After BLEEDING