Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-07-31
Valuable Recipes.

BOILED IUDDlNG.-ODe cup mOl0SSeS,
one cup Of suet chopped fine, one cup
sour milk in which a teaspoonfull OF
soda is we'll mixed, one cup of raisins
or currants, and four cups of -four; mix
and put IN pudding bag and steam
for four or five hours, and serve with
sauce. t
Cocoa SHELLs.-Put two tablespoons
full cocoa shells into little cold water
add to them pint of boiling water, and
boil for an hour; strain, and add pint
of rich milk; let it come to boil and
serve. This makes delicious drink,
and very acceptable when coffee and
tea are found to be injurious.
APPLE SNow.-Put twelve very tart
apples in cold water over slow fire.
When soft remove the skin and core
and mix in pint Of fine sugar; beat
the whites Of twelve eggs to stiff froth
and add to the apples and sugar; cool
in glasses, with piece of red currant
jelly to ornament the top Of each.
FLAX SEED LEMoNADE.-Poura quart
Of boiling water on half a cupful Of
whole flax seed, add dozen of raSins.
the juice of two lemons and little
liquorice root shredded fine. Sweeten
to taste, let all come to boil, then set
away in covered pitcher for couple
of hours. This is an excellent remedy
for colds. and very palatable as well.
APPLE JOHN. Pare, quarter and core
enough apples to fill three or four
quart crock. Make a batter a little
thicker than for pancakes; put layer
Of apples on the bottom Of the crock,
then pour over some Of the batter; then
another layer Of apples, then batter,
and so on, until all is used then put a
thick soda crust on the top, and bake
for three hours. TO be eaten with
sweet sauce. Very nice.
Hor YEAsr.-Take eight potatoes, a
small handful of hops, boil them to-
gether until the potatoes are done, then
take out the hops and smash the pota-
toes; then add two cups of flour, one
cup Of sugar, and half cup of salt.
Stir them as you would for paste; then
pour the mixture boiling hot and stir
well; add cup Of yeast to make It rise;
the above will made one gallon of good
hop yeast.
DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS If the fol-
lowing recipe for the destruction Of
insects be one half as efficacious as it
is claimed to be, it will prove invaluable:
Hot alum water is recent suggestion
as an inseticiJe. 1t will destroy red and
black ants, cockroaches, chinch bugs,
and all the crawling pests which infest
our houses. Take two pounds of alum
and dissolve it in three or four quarts
of boiling water, let it stand on the fire
till the alum disappears; then apply it
with brush, while nearly boiling hot, to
every joint and crevice in your closets,
beadsteads. pantry, shelves and the like.
Brush crevices in the floor OF the skirt
ing or mop boards, if you expect they
harbor vermin.
MOSQUITOES AND RATs.-A cotempoary
says: If mosquitoes or other blood
suckers infest our sleeping-rooms at
night, if we uncork bottle of the oil et
pennyroyal these insects leave in great
haste. nor will they return so long as
the room is loaded with fumes of that
aromantic herb. If rats enter the Gel
lar, little potash thrown in their holes
or mixed with meal and scattered in
their runaways. never fails to drive them
away. Cayenne pepper will keep the
buttery and store-room from ants and
reaches. If mouse makes an en-
trance into any part Of yoIr dwelling,
saturate rag with cayenne, in solution,
and stuff it into the hole, which can
then be repaired with either wood or
mortar. No rat or mou will eat that
rag for the purpose ofopening commu-
with depot of supplies.
Workingmen.