Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19
frequently prevails to considerable
extent during epidemics of cholera
N. Y. Ledger.

extent during epidemics OF cholera
N. Y. Ledger.
WATERPROOF CELLARs-A cellar can
be so constructed as to be waterproof
if the bottom, or the floor, is first COW
cred with cement, the walls built
thereon laid in cement and the exterior
of the walls covered with cement.
This makes practically water-tight
basin. The cement used must be the
best Portland cement one part; clean,
sharp sand, one part. After cellar
is built it is not so easy to make it
waterproof. Still it can be done.
Cover the exterior of the wall with the
above cement, ditto the bottom, and
work the cement in under the bottom
of the wall. If these directions are
followed you will succeed. But II
cheap materials are used and the work
badly done, you will be sure to fail. A
drain put around the outside of the
wall, or even inside, below the cellar
floor, may be efficient in carrying off
the water if you can give it good
delivery. National Builder.
TEST FOR OLEo. Most people can
easily distinguish between genuine
butter and it's various limitations by
the flavor. But there is an immense
amount of very poorly favored butter
which is no better than oleomargarine.
A test that will always distinguish
genuine butter from it's counterfeits
has been discovered by DR.. Henry
Lehman of Philadelphia. A spoonful
or two of the sample is put in mar
row cup and quickly heated to the
boiling point. If it is true butter it
will boil quietly and foam up in mass
of fine bubbles, often overlooking over
the side of the cup. If it is butterine
or oleomargarine the sample when
heated will foam up but little, but will
crackle and sputter as it boils. After
one or two trials. any one can decide
with certainty what the sample offered
consists of. No fraud can escape the
test.-American Cultivation.
BITTER CREAM-The reason for bitter
cream is that it is the result of keeping
it too long, or in other words, of hav-
ing old cream. Cream kept from thirty
six to forty-eight hours is very likely
to be bitter. 1t is produced by fer
mentation, which takes place at low
temperature rather than high when
the change is sufficient to produce bit
terness. While there are other causes
for bitter cream, as for instance, bit
ter weeds which the cows may feed on
1,n, aCfr unf hn &c
old cream. Cream should be churned
within thirty-six hours of the time of
Swimming, and taken off the milk in
side of twenty-four hours.-Amerlcan
Farmer.
TEA.-Put into tea-steeper q very
little boiling water, and into the water
teaspoonful of tea for each person.
Pour over the tea boiling water until
the sleeper is about half full; cover
tightly and set aside to draw, but do
not let it boil. After not to exceed ten
minutes pour into the tea urn, adding
boiling water in the proportion of a
teacupful of water to each teaspoon
full of tea that was put into the sleeper,
and serve. A pot of boiling water
should be kept at hand on the table to
weaken the tea should any person so
desire.
COFFEE. The quality of coffee to be
used must be governed by individual
taste, but as general rule one table
spoonful to each cup of coffee will
give satisfactory results. Pour on
the water boiling hot, adding the
white of one egg and crushed shell;
stir well together; set aside for a
moment and throw in a little cold
water to drive the grounds to the bot
tom. In five minutes it will be clear.
Coffee should not be allowed to boil
else the aroma will be lost.
QUEEN PUDDING. Beat well together
the yelks of four eggs and one teacup-
full of sugar; add one quart of milk and
one pint of bread crumbs with piece
of butter as large as an egg. When
baked spread with jelly, and on this a
frosting made of the whites of the
eggs whipped to froth with five tea
spoonfuls of sugar, and the grated
rind of a lemon for flavoring. Put
into the oven and brown.
BROAD STRIPED FLEA BEETLE-It is a
small jumping insect, striped some
what like the squash and cucumber
vine beetle, but is very much smaller
and more active. The pestis supposed
to breed in the ground, and is not
usually abundant enough to cause
serious injury. busting the plants at
tackled with Paris green mixed with
-four, and applying kerosene emulsion
are the remedies.
SPINACH ON TOAST Wash well,
cooking in sailed, boiling water. Drain
and chop fine. Put tablespoonful of
butter into sauce pan with seasoning.
Stir in the spinach and beat smooth.
When hot add teaspoonful of cream,
or two of milk. Pour upon buttered
toast.
BREAD PUDDING.-Cut into dice half
dozen slices of buttered bread and
put into baking dish. Pour over it a
custard made of quart of milk, a tea
cupful of molasses, half teacupful of
currants and little nutmeg. Bake
brown. Use with it any sauce desired.
CHOCOLATE. dissolve three table
spoonfuls of scraped chocolate. or
equal parts of chocolate and cocoa, in
a pint of boiling water and boil for