The Iola register., 1880-11-12
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Sort WATER should always be used in
making soups.
WATER slightly acidifed with nitric
acid is recommended for soaking seeds;
very little ammonia added to the
water greatly accelerates termination.
OYSTERS FRIED IN BATTER.
one cup of sweet milk, one egg, pinch
of salt and -four enough to make stiff
batter; dip the oysters in the batter and
fry one at q time, each one having q
little batter on it.
of butter, two of flour, two of grated
cheese, little cayenne and salt, make
it in thin paste and roll out very thin.
then cut in pieces four inches long and
one inch broad, bake very light brown
and serve as hot as possible.
LINsEED TEA.-Boil gently for two
hours two ounces of Gnseed in pint
and half of water, with little lemon
peel shred finely and an ounce of barley
sugar. Strain and add enough lemon
juice to make it agreeable. This is
useful for cough and should be taken
warm. Spanish liquOrice may, if liked,
be boiled with the inseed.
CIDER made very late in the season
and stored in a cold place will keep
sweet, because active fermentation is
prevented. If it Is rich and sweet when
it comes from the press, and care is ex-
ercised in making it from good, sound
apples, it will not become sour if kept
in moderately cool cellar in a tight
cask or in bottles.
A DELICIOUS breakfast cake may be
made by taking enough bread sponge to
make, when risen and baked, a cake
about two inches thick; knead into it
piece of butter about the size of half
an egg; after it is in the tin put on the
top little Jumps of butter and then cover
it with fine white sugar and ground
cinnamon; when baked there will be a
sort of crust over the cake. This is
very nice with coffee.
A WRITER in the Rural Nev Yorker
reports his method for causing apple
trees to bear every year. The trees
were bearing every other year, SO he
took a long pole on the bearing year
and gave them beating on one side,
just as the fruit was about the size of
hickory nuts, knocking all the apples
off one e-half of the tree. The next year
the alternate side took its turn. and he
had plenty of apples for annual use.
His trees stood in rich soil that was
cultivated, no grass being allowed to
grow.
DANGEROUS L1QU1Ds.-Ammonia,
especially the stronger kinds, is very
dangerous, few drops being enough
to injure, q person. When used for
cleansing purposes it should be handled
with great care, that the gas. which is
given off freely in warm room, be not
breathed in large quantities, and do in
jury to the delicate lining of the nose
and mouth. Benzine is liquid, in the
handling of which much caution should
be exercised. 1t is very volatile, and
its vapor, as well as the liquid itself, in
fammable. When employed for re-
moving grease or other stains, from
clothing, gloves, etc., it should never
be used at night, nor at any other time
near q fire. Ether is another danger
Gus liquid, and in other than the ply
sician's hands it had best not be en-
ployed in the household. Alcohol must
also be used with great care, especially
at night.
WITH regard to the quality of coffee,
the best is the cheapest. Burn it at
home, in small quantities, taking care
in using q close roaster. never to fill it
more than half. Turn the roaster, slow
ly at first, more rapidly as the process
advances, keeping up lively fire.
Burn it until of light chestnut color.
Keep it in close canisters or bottles.
Grind it as wanted. Boil it in a vessel
only half full, to prevent boiling over,
in proportion of one and a half ounces
to q pint of water. Put in a few harts-
horn shavings or isinglasss, if you will;
but If the coffee is taken off the fire
while boiling, and set on again, alter
nately, until nothing remains on the top
but clear bubble. and then some
poured out to clear the pipe and poured
back again, it will be as fine as if
cleared arti6cially. Long boiling does
not make coffee stronger, but destroys
its color and makes it turbid. In max
ing coffee the broader the bottom and
the smaller the top the better it will
prove.