Arkansas intelligencer., 1848-03-18
Valuable ReeiDrS


Valuable Recipes
To MAKE WHITE WAX OF COMMON TALLow.-
lake Ito pounds common tallow, 4 pounds mutton
suet; melt them IN a copper kettle. with ! pound
OF grease; soon as they are melted, mix 8
ounces brandy, do. salts tar, do. cream tartar
l do sal. amoniac, and two ounces dry potash
throw the mixture into the kettle, and let the in
gradients boil quarter of an hour, then let the
whole COOL The next day tho tallow will be
found upon the surface of the water in pure
cake. Put it on and expose it to tho nc.
ton OF the air and dew of the evening, and it will
become white and almost as ha rd as wax. Then
cast your mould candles; they will have much the
appearance Of wax, and one Of six TO the pound
Will burn II hours and never run.
IMITATION OF WHITE WAX CAvDLEs.-Throw
quick lime into melted mutton suet. the lime will
descend TO the bottom and carry along with it all
the filth Of the suet, TO leave il as pure and
hne as wax itself; If you mix with il n little wax
you make it so like it that the difference cannot
be known. not even in casting figures or ornaments.
10 CURE HANs.-Pack yoar hams in tub TO
4 gallons water put pounds salt, boil and skim
well, when cold add onnces satpetre, / pint
molasses, IL pounds brown sugar; boil and skim
It, when cold pour i the meat, which must
be entirely covered with it. and remain so ten or
twelve days.
To KEEP HAMS IN SUMNER, OR RECLAIM TAiNrEp
MEAT.-Roll each ham in cloth, or wrap faith.
fully in swingle tow, and lay it down in a barrel,
packed with charcoal broken pretty small, or
common house ashes: let them be completely COW
cred with the charcoal. Sweet hams will keep
So and tainted meat will reclaim.
To CURE BdrTEK.-Take two parts OF The best
common salt, one part of sugar, and one part OF
satpetre; beat them together. Take one ounce of
this composition for each pound of butter; work it
well into the mass, and close il up for use. But.
ter cured in this way, appears of rich marrowy
consistence and fine color, and never acquires
brittle harshness, nor tastes salt. 1t will keep
good three years; it must stand three or four
weeks before it is used.
Again: Reduce scpa paraiely to fine powder. 9
pounds whitest salt. / pound satpetrc l pound
lump sugar; sft these ingredients one above an
other, on piece of paper, and then mix them
well together. Preserve this for use in a covered
jar; one ounce 10 every pound Of butter. .. .
A BRILLIANT WHITE WAsH.-AIany have heard
OF the brilliant succo whito wash on the ca ST end
of the Presidents House at Washineton Tho
following Is the recipe for making it, with some
additional improvements learned by experience.
Take half bushel nice unslacked lime, slack il
with boiling water, covering II during the process
10 keep IN the steam. Strain the LIQUID through
tine seIve or strainer, and add to it peck Of
clean salt, previously well dissolved in warm wa
teri three pounds of ground rice, boiled to thin
paste, and stirred in boiling hot; half pound
powdered Spanish whiting, and u pound OF clean
glue, which has been previously dissolved by first
soaking /: we'll, and then hanging it over slow
lire, In a small kettle, within n large one filled
with wafer. Add five gallons of hot water 10
the whole mixture; stir il well, and lei il stand
few days covered from the dirt. Ii should be put
on quite hot; for this purpose, it can be kept in a
kettle on portable furnace. Ii is said that about
one pint Of this mixture will cover square yard
upon the outside OF house If properly applied.
Brushes more or less small may be used, ancording
TO the neatness of the job required. 1t answers
as well as all paint, for wood, brick or stone, and
is cheaper. Ii retains its brilliancy for many,
years. There is nothing OF the kind that will
compare with it, either for inside or outside walls
CoIorng matter may bo put in and made of every
shade you like; Iump-black in moderate quaint
ties makes slate color-Spanisb brown stirred
in will make red, or pink, more or less deep;
yellow ochre stirred in makes a yellow color
but chrome further, and makes q color generally
esteemed pre,lier.
GA Willinm Brohdy has been arrested in ST.
Louis on the charge of piracy, committed several
years ago, on board of vessel called the Black
Rambler The only grounds of suspicion arc his
own disclosures, but he is such notorious liar
that it is supposed the testimony will be discrc
ted in court. t1.-ot- -e--.
HARD CAsE.-A lawyer in England trans
ported three years ago for fogcry, has been found
to be innocent, and sen. for. When convicted
he had practice worth 900 yeor.