The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-09-01
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From tie Southern Cultirator.
Valuable Recipes.

MEssRs. EDroRs.-Below send YOU
several Recipes which know to be vaiua-
bic, from long experience. am quite
tired of the labor of writing them off for
my acquaintance, and send them to you
for publication, hoping thus to benefit the
public generally.
Yours, very respectfully,
MECKLENBuRcH,
Of Tmnea.
Pamela County, Miss, July 22, 1852.
To rREsERvR BEEF IN JUNE, July OR
ACGUsr.-Kill your Beef late in the even
ing, cut up in five or six pound pieces,
take the bones out of the quarters, salt,
spread, and let it remain for the night, to
let the bloody water escape. Next morn
ing, pack in barrels, the feshy pieces and
ribs in one barrel, and the back bone,
surloin and rump in another.
Have a strong pickle boiled the even
ing you kill the beef sufficiently strong to
swim an egg; add one pound of saltpeter
and four pounds Of brown sugar to the
one thousand pounds of meat, and mix
it with the pickle. Pour the cold brine on
the beet in the morning, first having put
weight on the beef, mutton or vension, to
keep it down, and cover the meat with
brine. As soon rs q white foam rises on
the top of the brine, skim it off, boil the
brine over, let it stand until cold, and pour
1T on your meat again. If salt is plenty,
/ prefer a new pickle. l have eat beef
preserved by this process, at may table in
the heat Of summer, perfectly sound,
three weeks in pickle; and those who will
follow the above directions, may expect to
do the same.
Tocure ChiHs and Fcrers.-Havinp a
quarter on the bank of the Mississippi,
where chills and fevers are very common,
| Use Stoughton's Bitters in doses of from
one to two table spoons full, three times
per day, for two or three weeks, first Civ
ing blue mass pill, and stopping one
paroxysm with quinine. This preparation
Of tonic btters consider superior to any
other have seen; it break up the consti-
tional predisposition in the system to chills
and fevers, give tone to the stomach, and
rcnovate the system. have used it for
many years with uninterrupted success,
and make twenty gallons at time for
the use Of my quarter on the Mississippi
river, where physician has not visited for
eighteen months, nor death for two
years:
Take "a ounces of Gcntian Root,
2 %" Of Crnclla Alba (white bark, J
8 of Lignum Quassia,
8 of Coriander Seed,
IL of Orange Peel.
" of Red Sanders (to color,)
5 gallons good Whiskey.
Chip up the ingredients with knife, and
it will be ready for use in fourteen days.
To dye Yarn a deep Hue.-Take one
quarter pound of alum, dissolve it in one
gallon Of water, put in three pounds of
yarn, boil two hours and dry. Have a
dye prepared of one and half bushels
ofpurslain Qarge field pursley) in kettle
of water, boil until done, and the water re-
duced to three gallons; strain and throw
away the purslain.
At the same time, have another pot Of
dye, prepared, Of half pound of Clipped
or ground logwood, and two gallons Of
water; boil down to half gallon, strain
and put the logwood dye in the purslain
dye; boil the same logwood three consec,l-
tive times in the same way, strain and
empty in the purslain dye, so as to extract
the logwood. Then add half an ounce of
blue stone dissolved in water, to the dye;
put the yarn IN the dye, boil two hours;
ring out the dye, and dry. After it is dry,
wash the yarn in soap and water. Wool
may be dyed by the same process, and
mixed cloth or stockings may be manufac-
tured of mixed shade.
To prevent Horses from having Me
Grubs.-Keep the nits off of your horses
and mules in the fall; if you do, and your
horses are taken sick, your time and med
icine will be lost to doctor them for grubs
there will be none there.
To take array Warts.-Rub the juice of
the Salmon Radish on the Warts, twice
day, until the wart is taken up by the ab-
sorbent vessels.
To stop Hiccough.-Eat a lump Of
brown sugar the size of partridge egg or
larger, and they will cease in few mo-
ments.
To drive Lice from Cdbboge.-The first
week in July sprinkled lime on Cabbage
infested with lice, and they left in few
days. The remedy deserves further trial.