Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-05
FARM AND HOME.

TART PAsTE-Rub half q pound OF
fresh butter into a pound Of flour; add
the yelk of an egg, a little lump sugar
and enough milk to mix it properly.
TO CLEAN CoLoRED SILK.-Wash in
warm soap-suds, rinse in clear, warm
water, dry quickly, and iron the wrong
side while yet rather damp. If there
are grease spots on the silk, press with
a tolerable warm iron under brown
paper.
BAKERS GRAHAM BREAD.-Make
sponge as for white bread with wheat
flour, say one square of compressed
yeast to two quarts of water; when
light, make up the dough with Graham
flour and one-half teacupful molasses;
let stand to rise again; then make up
the loaves with the hands, and when
light bake.
ORANGE JELLY CAKE.-Juice and rind
of two oranges, thickened with pow
dered sugar; stir in one packet of desic-
Gated cocoa-nut, leaving enough to
sprinkle on top layer; four eggs, half a
cup of butter, two cups sugar, one cup
OF water, and flour enough to make the
batter, bake as for jelly cake, spread
ing the dry cocoanut on top layer.
BLEEDING AT THE NosE.-Two small
arteries branching up from the main ar
teries on each side Of the neck, and
passing over the outside of the jaw
bone, supply the face with blood If the
nose bleeds from the right nostril, for
example, pass the finger along the edge
of the right jaw till the beating of the
artery is felt. Press hard upon it five
minutes and the bleeding will cease
STEwED BEEFsTEAK. Peel and chop
two onions, cut into small parts four
picked walnuts, and put them at the
bottom Of the stewpan. See that the
rump steak be cut off a proper thick
ness, about three quarters of an inch,
and beat it flat with a rolling-pin. Place
the meat on top of the onions; let it
stew for an hour and half, turning it
over every twenty minutes. Ten min
utes before serving up throw in 1t dozen
oysters, with their liquor strained
through fine seive.
Snow FLAKE PUDDING.-Half a box OF
gelatine, the whites of three eggs sugar
and vanilla to the taste. Soak the gel
atine in enough cold water to cover it
for an hour; then add a teacupful OF
boiling water. After it is dissolved, add
enough cold water to make pint of it
altogether. Strain this on platter, put
the whites Of three eggs in it, and beat
it until it is a stiff foam. When half
beaten, sweeten with white sugar, add
the vanilla to this, and finish beating;
then put it in cups. When moulded in
the cups, turn them out and eat with
cream.
THE destruction of weeds should be
constantly attended to, for, like insect
pests, they multiply enormously. A
weed plucked before it goes to seed will
prevent the growth of hundreds the
following year, or here the old adage is
uncommonly true, that zone years
seeding causes fifteen years wedding
The Cow-If civilized people were
ever to lapse into the worship OF animals,
the COW would certainly be their CHIEF
goddess. 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 gen.
tie, amiable, ever yielding creature, who
has no JOY in her family affairs which
she does not share with man. We rot
her of her milk, and we only Gaze fol
her that the robbery may be perpetu
, ated.-Household Words
EARLY MADE CHEESE. american
Dairynaaa says: "The early-made skim
med cheeses that have appeared on the
market this spring, are not meeting
with the most cordial greeting; while
full creams are sought after and com
mand top figures. Fine old cheese finds
a ready sale, often at fraction over quo
tations; but thai which is inferior, or in
any way impoverished by the use O.
the skinner, drags heavily, and has
to make concessions to the buyers
These are among the indications which
factory men had better heed, Throw
away the skinner before it throws you
away. 1t has no legitimate business II
the cheese factory"
LARGE POTATOES FOR SEED.-In the
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soci
ETY. of New South Wales, is the follow
ing experiment relating to the differ
ence in yield from the sets of large anC
small potatoes planted: In the month
of September, a relative of mine who
was at the time commanding one of the
regular traders to this port gave me 9
small quantity of a very fine potato
which he had brought from England.
selected two of the finest, which weigh
ed one pound two ounces, and these
were cut up SO as to make thirteen sets
In a row next to them I planted SINH
lar number. cut from the same weight
Of these potatoes, but all small in size
in fact, such as are usually used as seed
potatoes. On January [ dug up the
crop, and found that two large potatoes
produced nine pounds twelve ounces
while the product Of the smaller seeo
was only six pounds. But the most re
markable part of the experiment was
that amongst the produce of the large
seed there was hardly small potato
while the produce of the smaller con
sisted of a great many small tubers, anC
scarcely any large. If q calculation bt
made on this basis, it will be seen tina
one cwt. Of large potatoes would pro