Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-12-13

NO. 30.
RECIPE FOR CURING MEAT.-Those who
will carefully adopt our method Of curing
pork and beef, will be enabled to enjoy as
fine hams, tongues, 'sdried beef" and rounds,
as the Emperor of all the Russias can COM
mand, always providing that the meat cur
ed is of the best quality. It is this:-To
one gallon of water take i lbs. of salt, J
lb. of sugar, J or. of saltpetre, o. of pot
ash. In this ratio the pickle to be increas-
ed to any qauntity desired Let these be
boiled together until the dirt from the sugar
(Which will not be little, rises to the top
and is skinned off. Then throw it into a
tub to cool, and when cold, pour it over your
beef or pork, to remain the usual time, say
four or five weeks. The meat must be we'll
covered with pickle, and should not be put
down for at least two days after killing which
time it should be slightly srrinkled with
powdered saltpetre.
Several of our friends have omitted the
boiling Of the pickle, and found it to answer
equally as well. 1t will not, however, an
swer quite so we'll By boiling the pickle,
it is purifed-for the amount of dirt which
is thrown off by the operation, from the salt
and sugar would surprise one not acquainted
with the fact.-Gcrmantoun Telegraph.
Curing BACON WITHOUT SMOKE. To
smoke the best bacon fat your hogs early,
and fat them well. BY fattening early YOU
make great saving in food, and we'll fat
tened pork Then kill as early as the wes-
ther will allow, and salt as soon as the ami
NAL heat is gone, with plenty Of the purest
salt, and about half an ounce of saltpetre to
one hundred pounds of pork
As soon as the meat is salted to your taste
which will generally be in about five weeks;
take it out, and if any of it has been cover
/ ed with brine, let it drain a little. Then
take black pepper, finely ground, and dust
on the hook end as much as will stick then
hang it up in good, clean, dry, airy place.
If all this is done as it should be, Git ought
to be done now,) you will have no further
trouble with it, for by fly time in tie
spring your bacon is so well cured on the
outside that flies or bugs will not disturb
it.
Curing bacon is like the Irishmans mode
Of making punch. He said Put in the
sugar, then fill it up with whisky, and eve
ry drop of water you put in after that spoils
the punch" Just so with curing bacon;
after following the directions given above
every DROP of smoke you put about it
spoils the bacon.-Portage Democrat.
WINTER1NG PorAroEs s-On the 18th day
of October, 1854, [ dug about half bush
el Of sweet potatoes-packed them in two
boxes-used dry plaster Of paris for pack
! ing, and placed them in warm dry room.
On the 18th day Of April, 1855, I planted
them. Every one was sound and also as
good as in the fall. They came up and grew
as we'll as any ever raised CT saw in North
Carolina. But fear shall fail in obtain
ing good potatoes. [ write the above be-
lieving that sweet potatoes packed in dry
plaster of paris and placed in dry warm
room, will keep perfectly sound twelve
months I have kept punkins and winter
squashes in warm dry room, and showed
them at our annual fair as sound as when
severed from the vines, Asa Hubbard, Mid
dletown, Ct.-Con1ty Gentleman.
To CURE SHEEP SKINS WITH THE Woon
oN.-Take one teaspoonful of alum and two
OF saltpetre ; pulverize and mix we'll togeth-
er, then sprinkle the powder on the flesh
side of the skin, and lay the flesh sides to-
gether, leaving the wool outside. Then
fold up the skins as tightly as you can and
put them in a dry place. In two or three
days as soon as they are dry, scrape them
with a blunt knife till clean and supple
This completes the process, and makes
most excellent saddle cover. Other skins
may be treated in the same manner.
MANuRE.-1f land is too sandy, the best
manure is clay and leached ashes. These
will puddle it, and make it tenacious of wa
ter. If it is heavy clay, it requires sand to
render it porus. Ifit is muck, it requires
lime to neutralize the acid, and destroy the
antiseptic or resinous quality of the soil
Southern Cult.
"Now Girls, said Mrs. Partington, the
other day to her nieces. You must get
husbands as soon as possible, or they'll be-
murdered"
"Why so, aunt - inquired one.
'Why, [ see by the paper that we've got
almost fifteen thousand Post Offices, and
nearly all on 'em dispatches mail every
day-the Lord have mercy on us poor WI
dows"
A pedler, calling on an old lady to dis
pose of some goods, inquired of her if she
could tell him of any road that no pedler
had ever travelled. Yes" said she, II
know of one and only one, which no pedler
has ever travelled, 0he pedler's countenance
Frightened, } and that's the road to heaven"
a wag in Detroit has been taking iber-
ties with the reputation of the Pontiac Rail-
road He was asked whether he knew of