The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-30
FARM ANb HOUSEHOLD.

FARM ANb HOUSEHOLD.
Homemade Yeass:-fotaf large po-
tatoes, four tablespososhfuls Of flour, two
of sugar, one quart Of lukeWarm water ;
soak one yeast-cake in a cup of water
while you are mixing up the rest; put
it in a. warm place. twelve hours then
it is ready for use one cupfdI makes
five loaves; keep it in a cool place.
Domestic Monthly. i5'i@'';1
A. German journal, Der 1echniker,
Says that an excellent dry: coating for
basement walls is made of fifty pounds
pitch, thirty pounds resin, six pounds
English red and twelve pounds brick
dust. Boil these Ingredients and mix
them thoroughly then add about one
fourth, the volume Of oil OF turpentine,
or enough to flow easily, SO that thin
coating MAY be laid on with q white
wash or paint brush. Walls thus coated
are proof against dainpness.
Cinnamon Cake.-Whites of five
eggs, one and half cups of white
sugar, three-quarters OF cup of butter,
one cup of sweet cream, once teaspoon
full of essence Of cinnamon; three tea
spoonfuls of baking-powder, enough
flour to make it the consistency of jelly
cake. Bake in two loaves, in square
bread pans. Bake thirty minutes, and
then turn out on table. Grease the
top with butter. Then siftl powdered
cinnamon over them, and then white
sugar ~
This is the way a tomato salad is
prepared: Take off the skins with a
sharp knife, cut into thin slices, and lay
in a ad-bowl, Make a dressing by
working a teaspoonful each of salt and
made mustard, half teaspoonful of
pepper, the yelks Of two hard-boiled
eggs, with two tablespoonful of melted
butter then whip in with a fork five
tablespoonful of good vinegar. Pour
over the tomatoes, and set on ice or
where it is cool for an hour before serv-
ing.-Rural Neso Yorker.
1t is not good luck that makes good
crops, but it is good work. Some farm
ers always have good crops, good stock,
and get good prices. It is because
whatever they put their hands to they
do well. They have clean fields, good
fences, and do good blowing, cultivat-
ing and seeding. They farm with
brains as well as hands. If other farm
ers would initiate their example they
would have better crops. Success does
not depend SO much upon good luck as
it does upon good Colensa's's
Rural World.
The Detroit Free Press says that
/" in order to properly wash colored silk
lukewarm water, in which a little bit of
carbonate of ammonia has been dis
solved, rub the handkerchiefs lightly in
the hands till all the spots have disap-
peared. Then rinse them in lilkewarm
water, and squeeze them as dry as pos
sible. Take hold of the two corners
and shake and snap each one for few
minutes. Roll in soft towel, lightly,
laying the handkerchief flat on the
towel at first, squeeze tightly, and iron
at once.''
dressing the farmers at fair in Oneida
County, N. Y, the other day, said:
:" I am not much of farmer, and have
little right to stand before you as such,
but brought over here for exhibition
some potatoes that certainly exceed
my speech. In reference to the de-
preston of the times let me recall to
you an ancient fable. There was once
a giant SO powerful that he could not
be overcome. But he derived his
strength from his mother earth, for no
matter how exhausted he might be-
come, he regained his powers the mo-
ment that he came into contact with
the soil. The way in which he was
finally overpowered was by coming
into contest with an opponent so strong
that he could lift him from the ground
and hold him suspended in the air until
he was strangled to death. Now there
is lesson in this for us. So long as
this people of ours can seek its support
from mother earth, so long it cannot be
overcome. There never yet was a
President of the United States who,
when he left his Office, did not seek the
country and retire to his farm. Wash
ington did this, so did Adams and JEFF
ferson. Our greatest statesmen have
sought for rest, health and peace in re-
tirement to their farms witness Web
ster and Clay" 2 ~ = =,