Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-08-24
PRACTICAL ECONOMY.

| PRACTICAL ECONOMY.
There is much said of late, and oppor-
timely SO, in favour Of retrenchment 10
domestic expenditure and adopting habits
more economical.
/ II disposition exists to have CORES.
pondent practice, favourable opening to
commence, DOW presents in the article Of
Coffee, for which a good substitute is
found, and one within the means Of every
condition in society to procure.
| II may be requisite however to admon-
ish against suffering prejudice to rise up,
la barrier to improvement, when il is told
that this substitute is 10 other than our
common Rye. But will it be rejected
because it is common, or condemned With
out trial? Give ii full and fair trial
by six months use, when we doubt moi
it will be found, that the taste is as agree
able, the feelings produced as comfortable,
and the effect on the constitution more
salutary than were afforded by the coffee.
Now is there any other article of con.
sumption amongst us, distilled spirituous
liquors excepted, by disuse of which we
could SO readily, and with so small de.
gree Of Inconvenience, procure as much
|of that iuestimable commodity 10 domestic
concerns, Practical Economy And tc
the patriotic mind it must be no inconsid.
cradle pleasure 10 reflect that the change.
while it would save millions Of dollars au-
nually in the United States, would SUBJ
stantially aid in the maintenance Of our
independence.
The best mode of preparing the grain
known to the writer, is to boil it in water
for half an hour at least, then drain and
dry ii in the sun or a warm room, and
afterwards 10 the oven until entirely hard,
then brown it well over fire, adding dur
ing this part of the process, lump Of
sweet butter of the size of hens egg to
every two quarts Of the grain, and rather
more of the filming ingredient than ordiua-
~. The boiling bolbs5kes off the un-
Epleasing favour Of The gram, and effects
a chymical change, and the butter sup.
plies its native deficiency in oil.
As this excellent substitute, when pre-
pared for the table is entitled to an appro.
PIRATE distinguishabIe name, it is with
Difference proposed that derivation from
the scientific name of the grain be adopt
| ed. "SEcADUs."
The American Farmer, published al
Baltimore, says that potatoes may be kept
good the whole year, by dipping them in
hot water, as the Scots preserve eggs, by
killing the living principle; and as the
germ is SO near the skin, it would not
hurt the potatoe. One or two minutes, at
most, would be sufficient; in an open
worked basket, ton might be cured in
an hour or two. This would be useful 10
providing ship stores, the trial is easily
made.
Recipe for curing the DySentery or sum
mcr complaint, in its mildest or Vorst
stages.
Take two glasses sweet oil, two glasses
W. I. molasses. and two glasses w. I.
rum-simmer them we'll together over a
fire until it becomes the thickness OF
honey, so that the oil may not separate
from the rest. While on the fire keep il
we'll stirred, and when taken off continue
the same until it is cool. Then the patient,
| if grown person, should take spoonful
once an hour till he finds the disease
abating-then once in two hours, or as the
Judgment may suggest, until cured. Chill
dren TO take it in like manner 10 proportion
to their ages. The person who hands
this for publication, is moved by none
other than humane motive. He has ex-
perienced cures 10 bis own family, and
knows many others Of the most desperate
kind. 1t is simple medicine aud not the
least injurious to the most delicate cons,i-
tuition. Let those who are afflicted, try
the experimental will do no harm-and
will certainly save life. Let those who
may read this, cut 1t out of the paper and
carefully preserve it.-BaH. Pat.
# cure for Corns Without pain.-Split
prickly pear garden yegetable) flat and
about as large as small tea saucer cut
out piece large enough to cover the corn
and pick from its outside the thorns, and
lay the in or mucus side, next the corn
bind ii on with cloth, change every
night until the excrescence or corn i:
entirely extinct, which will take place il
week or less. The same process will
cure warts. Experience has placed this
remedy beyond doubt.