Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-10

pour over it nine bowls Of boiling rain
water; let it stand until milk warm, put
in two quarts of clover blossoms, and
two cupfuls of bakers yeast; let it stand
two weeks, and strain through q towel.
Nothing will mold in it.
ROAST FLOWERS.
Pluck and draw the birds; season with
pepper and salt; arrange them in drip
ping pan, with a little hot water in the
bottom of the pan to keep them from
burning; haste often with the hot water
and with melted butter. Let them cook
about twenty minutes. Serve on hot
buttered toast.
APPLE JELLY.
Take e-havored, tart, juicy apples,
pare or not, core, cut in thin slices,
place in kettle, pour in water to just
cover, and boil gently without stirring
until tender; strain carefully without
squeezing, In small quantity at time,
and proceed exactly as in peach jelly
the same amount of sugar. A good
plan is to defer making apple jelly until
winter, and then use the speckled ap-
pies.
QUICK VINEGAR.
Fill jug with cider, and turn into
each gallon of cider, pint of molases
and a cup full of lively yeast. Have the
jug full of the liquid; let it stand I'M
cOrked back of the cook-stove where it
will keep warm. It will commence fer
menting in twenty-four hours, and will
not take over week to make good
sharp vinegar. It must be drawn off
into another jug, leaving the dregs, and
kept in a tight corked jug or bottles,
where it will not freeze.
AUTUMN LEAVES.
To preserve the brilliant colors of au-
tumn leaves, their stems should be
dipped in melted yellow beeswax. The
leaves should be well dried. By pierre
ing the leaf near the stem with thread
wire they can be woven on coarser wire,
or on large cord, into any description OF
garland or design. 1t is of the first i'm
portance to select the most beautiful
and brightly-tinted leaves. Those with
odd bright spots and unnatural marks
are considered the choicest. Those
leaves, too, which are touched with
ripeness and delicately shaded in color
from the upper and broader part to the
point, are very desirable to intersperse
with the gaudier ones. Being well
dryed and pressed, they can be per-
fectly prepared for adjoining a room by
quickly ironing each leaf with moder-
ately heated smoothing iron drawn
quickly over piece of beeswax. Ferns
are best gathered in September and Oc-
! tober.
USE FOR CORNERS.
| A fashion which is coming much In
vogue III country or small city houses is
to utilize the odd corners in the drawing
or sitting room, for bookcases. Cor
ners are always hard to furnish unless
one has many cabinets or pansy tables,
and books always look well in a room.
There can never be too many of them,
A carpenter can put three shelves in the
desired corner, placed about sixteen
inches apart. They should be of black
walnut or plain oak, coated with copa
varnish. Little curtains of some dainty
Indian gauze, in coloring to correspond
with the furniture, may be used with ad
vantage, or an applique fringe of scar
let on brown ground, in design o.
ivy leaves, will look more artistic. The
top of this little bookcase may be orna
mented by statuette, and few pieces
of china or bric-a. brae. 4 duplex mir
ror in a plush or velvet frame would
look we'll placed at the bottom of tht
bookcase, to fill up the spare space be
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