The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-26
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HONE, FARH AND GARDEN.
IF hens have warm house and
enough to eat, and of the right kind,
they will lay in winter a. well as sum-
mer.
To KEEP your knives and forks from
rusting. make flannel bag, and stitch
from top to bottom, an inch and half
apart. dozen times, making . recep-
tacle for each. Boil. and keep in q dry
place. 80
FLAT WARTS on the inside of horses
leg may be removed by scraping off the
top and applying muriatic acid with a
small stick or camels hair brush. They
may be cut from cows udder and
killed in the same way.
ACCORDING to best authorities pota-
toes contain about double the nutritive
properties ofthe rutabaga turnip. Some
sgriculturists place them even. higher
in the scale. hut to be on the safe side we
may consider one bushel of Irish pota-
toes equal to two bushels of rutabagas
for feeding to stock.
YEAsr.-Boil handful of hops, tied
in thin cloth. in a gallon of water for
half an hour: then take them out and
add to the water in which they were
boiled four grated potatoes, two large
spoonfuls of salt and the same quantity
of sugar stirred together in about pint
of cold water. Boil ten or fifteen min
utes, or until the potatoes are done.
When partly cold add some yeast to
start it.
SPONGE CAKE. Take five fresh
eggs, their weight in pulverized sugar;
the weight of three in flour. Beat yelks
and sugar to creamy paste, whip
whites to a stiff froth, and add to yelks
and sugar. Sift in the flour gradually;
add teaspoonful of flavoring extract,
and stir only just enough to mix well;
pour Immediately into pans lined with
buttered paper. Sprinkle over little
pulverized sugar, and bake in quick
oven for twenty-five or thirty minutes.
Hot FoRCEMEAT.-Soak q cupful of
stale bread in cold water for five min
utes; and then squeeze it as dry as pos
sible in q clean cloth; while the bread
is soaking chop fine a tablespoonful of
parsley or any green savory herb, or
half that quantity of any dried herb;
chop also teaspoonful of onion; put
these ingredients with the bread into ..
frying-pan containing a tablespoonful
Of melted drippings or butter, season
them highly with salt and pepper, and
stir them over the fire until they are
scalding hot, when the forcemeat is
ready for use.
OYSTER SoUP.-Separate the oysters
from the liquor; rinse the oysters well,
in order to free them from any bits of
shell that may adhere to them. Strain
the liquor, and to each quart of it add
q pint of milk or water. Boil it, and
thicken with a little flour, and water
mixed smoothly together. Season with
pepper, and put in the oysters, letting
them remain just long enough to get
scalded through, otherwise they will be
hard and unfit to eat. Add salt after
taking up the soup; if added before it
will shrink the oysters. Serve with
crackers.
To CURE A SHEEPsKIN.-A sheep
skin may be cured by first soaking it in
water to cleanse it, then scraping the
flesh side, afterward sprinkling it iber-
ally while wet with equal parts of pow
dered alum and salt, then folding itand
leaving it for q week; shake it out and
repeat the dressing, when it may be
stretched on frame and rubbed until
it IS dry with lump of chalk and a
piece of pumice-stone. 1t may be
colored before it is dry-finished by Dip
ping it in any liquid dye; indigo for
blue, madden for red, quercitron bark
or Persian berries for yellow. Potato
tops. cut when in bloom and. bruised
and pressed to extract the juice, gives
q good yellow color to wool--N. r
Times.
APPLE SPONGE PUDDING.-O half
pound each of butter, moist sugar and
fine breadcrumbs, eight apples, six
eggs, one lemon, tablespoonful orange
water. three wine glasses water. Place
the butter in large basin with the
sugar, and mix them well together until
they present smooth appearance, then
add the bteadcrumbs, grated lemon
peel and apples chopped line, then the
eggs, which should be well beaten.
Mix all thoroughly together, put it into
. mold. and boil or steam it for one
hour and a quarter. For sauce make q
thick sirup with the Juice of lemon,
water and six ounces of loaf sugar.
Boil altogether, stir in cup of mar
malade, and pour the sauce over the
pudding.
That HOrrid Hat.
A YOUNG wife recently went shop.
ping, and among other things she
bought new hat-a Derby, the. first
of the kind she had ever worn, She
stood at the counter with the hat on,
when her sister came in, booked at it
very hard, and said to q friend. How
much that LADY looks like nv sister!