The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

HOUSEHOLD ECON OMY. FROTH FOR CREAM, CUSTARD, OR TRlFLE.—Sweeten half-a-pouud of pulp of damsons, or any other sort of scalded fruit ; put it to the whites of four eggs, and beat the pulp with them until it will stand up high. Being put on the cream with a spoon, it will take any form ; it should be . rough, to imitate a rock. A GOOD RICH CAKE.—HaIf-a-pound of flour, one pound and a quarter of currants, one glass of brandy, four ounces of citron, two ounces of almonds, six eggs, six ounces of butter, six ounces of pounded loaf sugar, two ounces of treacle. Turn the butter back wards, and add the other ingredients by degrees. Bake three hours ; rather a quick oven at first, then slow. FORCEMEAT BALLS FOR SOUPS AND HASHES.— Three-quarters-of-a-pound of bread crumbs, half-a pound of suet, chopped fine, a little lemon-peel, lemon thyme, parsley, marjorum, and savory, chopped fine; a little nutmeg, mace, salt, white pepper, and cayenne ; mix with two well-beaten eggs, divide into small balls, and fry or boil them in lard till they are a light brown, then dry them immediately before the fire. They will keep good for two or three days. BROWN PAPER IN RHEUMATISM AND DEAFNESS.— Rheumatic pains in the body have been cured by wearing a brown paper jacket next to the skin. Wear ing a nightcap of the same under a flannel one, has cured many of deafness, who have been subject to it for years. Also wearing it to breathe has been of great service in weakness of the lungs, and round the neck for a sore throat, and in many other complaints, when flannel has proved of little use. It is best to rub it smooth with a black glass bottle. GRAVY SOUP.—Wash and soak a leg of beef ; break the bone, and set it on the fire, with a gallon of water, a large bunch of sweet herbs, two large onions, sliced, and fried a fine brown, but not burnt ; two blades of mace, three cloves, twenty allspice berries, and forty black peppers. Stew till your soup is as rich as you choose ; then take out the meat, with a little of the gravy. Next day take off the fat, which will serve for common pie -crust, or for basting. Have ready such vegetables as you prefer; cut carrots, turnips, and celery small, and simmer till tender. Boil vermicelli a quarter-of-an-hour, and add to it a large spoonful of soy, and one of mushroom catsup. A French roll should be made hot, put into the soup till moist through, and served in the tureen. The soup must he strained after the meat is removed. APPLES AS AN ARTICLE OF HUMAN FOOD. The importance of apples as food has not hitherto been sufficiently estimated nor understood. Besides con tributing a large proportion of sugar, mucilage, and other nutritive matter, in the form of food, they con tain guch a fine combination of vegetable acids, ex tractive substances, and aromatic principles, with the nutritive matter, as to act powerfully in the capacity of refrigerents, tonics, and antiseptics; and when freely used at the season of ripeness, by rural labourers and others, they prevent debility, strengthen digestion, correct the putrefactive tendencies of nitrogenous food, avert scurvy, and probably maintain and strengthen the powers-of productive labour. The miners of Corn wall consider ripe apples nearly as nourishing as bread, and more so .. than potatoes. In the year 1801, a year of scarcity, ,apples, instead of being converted into cider, were sold to the poor ; and the labourers asserted that they could stand their work on baked apples with out meat ; whereas a potato , diet required either meat or fish. The ",French and Germans use apples exten sively ; indeed, it is rare that they sit down, in the rural districts, without them in some shape or other, • even at the best tables. The labourers and mechanics depend on them, to a very great extent, as an article of food, and frequently dine on sliced apples and bread. Stewed with rice, red cabbage, carrots, or by them selves, with a little sugar and milk, they make both a pleasant and nutritious dish. HORTICULTURE. FLOWER GARDEN.—What with falling leaves and the tiresome diligence of the worms, much labour is necessary to keep lawns, &c., clean and neat at this season. There is, however, no help for it but a dili gent use of the broom and roller. Continue to mow as frequently as may be necessary to keep the grass short, for much time is lost in clearing up leaves when the grass is allowed to get long ; also keep the sur- SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD face hard and smooth by frequent rollings with a heavy roller. This is a capital season for laying down turf, and where levelling may be necessary, or any other alterations involving taking up and relaying any breadth of turf, this should be attended to as soon as possible, for besides that there will be no trouble with turf laid now in the event of dry weather setting in early next spring, such work can be done more econo mically now and with much more comfort to the work man than after cold winterly weather sets in. No thing adds more to the comfort of a garden in win ter than hard dry walks, and where these incline to be soft and greasy, a thin sprinkling of clean rather rough gravel, put on when the walks are wet and well rolled in, will be found to greatly improve them, and this at a very trifling cost. Keep the surface hard by frequent rollings, which will cause the water to run off to the edges, instead of draining through the gravel, as is the case where the surface is allowed to become soft and spongy. Continue to clear the beds of their summer occupants, as these become shabby, and re plant them with spring-flowering things. But where the soil wants renewing this should be done before putting in the spring-flowering things, for it is generally a busy season when these are removed, and nothing should be left to be done then which can be done now. Plants which it may be desirable to lift and winter for use next season again, cannot be safely left out any longer, except where they can be covered in the event of a sharp frost occurring suddenly. And specimen fuchias, geraniums, &c., should be got into safe quarters immediately frost is apprehended, FRlllT.—Examine the stock of fruit in the fruit room as frequently as circumstances will allow, and remove any infected with decay at once, and keep the room cool and dry. Where it is intended to plant any quantity of fruit trees this season the preparation of the ground, &c., should be proceeded with as expedi tiously as possible while it is in goodworkingorder. And too much attention can hardly be bestowed on the preparation of ground intended to be planted with fruit trees. Be particularly careful to secure perfect drainage, for a well-drained soil is essential to fruit fulness in all kinds of fruit trees, and it is worth while to secure this even at a considerable expense. Where the natural soil is not of a good quality for the kind of trees to be planted, this should be partly removed, replacing it with some good fresh turfy loam. Avoid the use of rich stimulating manures, which do more harm than good. KITCHEN GdEDEN.—Carrots, parsnips, beet, &c., should be lifted when the ground is in good order, and stored for winter use in a dry, cool place ; stack them in sand to preserve them from shrivelling, &c. Spring broccoli that may be growing very rank should be laid down with the heads to the north, which will check the over-luxuriant growth, and afford a better chance of its standing a severe winter. In the event of sharp weather being apprehended, a quantity of the most forward lettuce should be placed under glass, and cau liflowers that are heading should also be removed to where they can be protected from frost.—Gardeners' Chronicle. only) been manufactured a nd inr oa rbee' made from cotton seed, which has (ill 9 rt s e 7 country by a gentleman of the name e. e a the at Poulton Hall, in Cheshire. reee:l cake with the information that be I I ja 9 10 1 ; sufficient to try its feeding effe cs ,faidha of cattle, which by its means wer e — be . 1 ' mically brought to a fit state for better O a thought that I could do no way for a t i o 0 4 to forward it to Professor same time requestinc , his opiniou,,as„creeil.j.t.) comparison with oilcake. You will result is highly in favour of the ne w : „; that it may be the means of red rice, ' 1 the now, to the farmer, unprofitgbf rto 0 4 ' (I cake, which it would be very ace d thousands of tons might be States of America alone; and I ar l ;f 7 , o , stand that Mr. Barber believes tha',,;:to to the farmer at (at least) from than linseed-cake. I would beo' t° o trny of compliment to Mr. Barber, a;thefitit,,,, valuable an article of food for cattle , d in 1 ;10 called " Barber ' s Cake," coth-dths' which qdri, be a convenient distinction between es) commonly known under the name ' 9 '„:o ( 0, 1 , 5 Barber has already been spirited eVe:'lol machinery in America for the mao l ' t eo e ,,Vp d elieve that his great desire is ~,l et ov„y; uction of as much benefit as p05 9 4 ',1i ,5 4 1' The paper alluded to by Professor prod*, ,rico en ita in the Journal of the Royal Ag ii .'; ;.; / Vol. X., part 11.---T. G. A. FASHIOY S. 0° 1, I --- u st 01 " SEVERAL novelties in cloaks hare,J,. t he y pearance in Paris, in preparation I °. ` pie f i I ter. We may here briefly describe 561,d admired. One, of the burnous forty ` - "Tbe i d , is made of cloth o f a new d es criptiell. o f tiqi under surface s o f thi s c l o th being . tt hec'l colours, a lining, either for the bodY:' Ili e the hood, is not necessarily recillis lie. ,ioy edged round by a triple row of trill /0 0 0 of a net-work of passementerie ifi' e , cel i ,, 0 black velvet. A tassel droops fro"' t tli cl 9 6,' hood, and a cord and tassels fasten tl„ i tie , u o i Another cloak is of black moire an c `; e lo g broidered and trimmed with chenille ' ;vl r: 44 : l , debourgs. This cloak is rather 1 011 g:dri ' ll' little below the knees, and has wid e t r ib .d l it 'of, A cloak of smaller demensions th 9 : l ',o l il t ° ' scribed is of a brown cloth, and the t' . ' hi' .;it of black chenille fringe surmounte d c r figured velvet. pt 4 c r i i' Among the bonnets which have beci%4 4 Al the last week there are several cTAII2I"„F or of velvet and satin interinia4.77, t o,' ii` may be mentioned one having tfi e rh - orf" - boe: edged with puce-colour satill. : ' -le of tP ' ft a ,, , last-named material, and the br' l l wet - f n trs trimmed with a double row of b 1 0„. the 1 1 " 1 0 the edge and set on in slight fulo e 'ff i co 6111 ,00 1 lot vandykes being turned upwards. „l a ced ° , - 10 4 feathers, black- and puce-colour, ar e it r velv e :yi Tulle and poppies in lilac and blac'a.reen " inside trimming. A bonnet of the',,ea sai'lecie vet is trimmed with a torsade 01 o ne s l oe, intermingled with black lace. tiler. IV bonnet there is also an ostrich fel' p t 0;1 trimming consists . of a torsade of veil - bead 4 passes along the upper part of the if a A,' . with bouillonnes ...of tulle at the siu e otilif feather, which forms an elegant 0 1 :_u a : t ofsq has been eMployed to trim a b''r n . - - of PI/ satin, the inside trimming consistini' 5 00 ji' ruches of tulle. A bonnet of browl 0 013' trimmed with a profusion of black ' a o ver'A,i the edge. A circular piece of lace c o t/ i of the crown, and a barbe of lace, bow of satin, is placed on one side. nipc 4 , 4 l: f ming is formed of small rosettes of blee' l ep, there fixed in ruches of blonde. The ' e tsl f now much in favour for trimming beOpor scarlet hue contrasts well .with darlc'e° or satin.—The Lady's Newspaper. . 4 . 1 ", fAVERPOOL : , , brj.,,,' Printed and Published.every Tuesday MorllS'imrel Il n "'F ROBERT PEARSON THACKER, of NoAffiedier' STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING:', OC''' GEORGE 9 S.CRESGENT, Liverpoo4 —Tuesday' illq,, e /4 AGRICULTURE. VALUE OF SHEEP.-Mr. Druce, of Ensham, has given the results of his experiments on various breeds of sheep in a letter which appears in the Royal Agri cultural Society's Journal. He considers it proved that the same quantity of food that will suffice for 100 Cotswolds will suffice for 105 Leicesters, 115 Hamp shire Downs, 120 pure-bred or Sussex Downs, or 115 cross-bred or Down Coltswolds. On this supposition the results in money, supposing each lamb or teg to be sold as mutton at the year's end, would be as follows : Cotswolds, lls. 4d. per fleece, 38s. 4d. carcase, 495. Bd. single teg, and £248 6s. Bd. entire flock. Leicesters, fleece 9s. 10d., carcase 325. 7d., single teg 425. 5d., entire flock £222 12s. 9d. ; Sussex Downs, proportions 6s. 11-1-d., 335. 9d., 40s. 811, and £204 2s. 6d.; Hamp shire Downs, 95., 365.10 d., 455.10 d., and 2263105. 10d.; Cross-bred, 9s. 41s. 2d., 51s. lid., and £292105. The term " entire flock" is supposed to imply the num ber of sheep that could be kept on what would suffice for 100 Cotswolds, the proportions being given as above. OILCAKE FROM COTTON SEED.—Thinking that it may possibly be of some use to the agricultural public, I beg to 'inclose you the analysis of a piece of oilcake 50, OcTol3' 1' 160 ~:i~ tile_ ~ Nja 11N. i k ..y; 1 11 iJ Lt4'