Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-08-01
VALUABLE lRECIPES.

IAuunDul th1V1l1Hs
MossEs, lichens, and insects, which are
preiudicial to fruit trees, may be destroyed
by simple solution of quick.lime, any time
between the fall and opening Of the leaf, ap-
piled with wateriug-pot, or gardeners
syringe 1t does its office, and withal pro.
notes the growth of the tree.
DRESSING WoUNDs.--Nine times out of
ten, a wound will heal quicker if done up
in its own blood, than any other way. AS
for burn, whatever will exclude the air the
quickest, is best. Cotton will do this 30
will oiled silk, if stuck down at the edge by
any kind Of sticking. .salve. Put nothing on
a burn to heal it. Nature will soon do that
when the air is excluded, and the pain will
almost Immediately cease. =.
SRors made by black writing ink, on the
pages of book, may be removed by wash.
ing them with a solution of oxalic acid in
water. The spots must be afterwards washed
with clear water.
To MAKE Coop CoRN.BREAD.-Take Z
pints corn-meal, 8 pints wheat -four, and
mix them we'll together; then 6 eggs, well
broken, 2 cups melted butter, and little
salt and sugar to suit the taste. Put this
mass together, ard mix with milk to make
batter about the consistency or stiffness Of
paste prepared for drop.cake. Then dissolve
three teaspoons.full of cream of tartar, and
the same of soda; pour it upon. the mass,
stir it in thoroughly, and dip it-at once into
pans, and bake in hot oven. :.
ANOTHER GOOD RECIPE FOR MAKING
Corn BREAD.-Take quart Of milk, 8
eggs, beaten, butter half the size Of an egg,
cream tartar, teaspoonfnll--salt and sweet.
en- to your taste. TO this add corn.meal to
make paste about the consistency'of grid.
dle-cakes; put in pan Immediately, and bake
in hot oven.
Black Ink Improued.-To pint Of COM
mon black ink add one drachm of impure
carbonate of potassa, and in q few minutes
it will be jet black. Be careful that the
ink does not run over, during the eferve.
scence caused by the potassa.
Jumbzes. Take -four. II pound; sugar,
l pound; butter, : pound; four yolks and
two whites of eggs; rose-water, one wine
glassful. Roll thin with fine powdered su.
gar, and bake on tins.
Fly in Sheep.-Make strong decoction
from the leaves of tobacco, or from chewing
tobacco, and apply with small squirt, or
syringe, repeated several times during the
fall months.
Grubs in Horses.-Take pint strong
vinegar, 2 ounce chalk in powder, stir it
well and drench the animal.
Gapes in Chickens.-May be easily cured
by giving them small crums of dough i'm.
pregnated with little soft soap; once or
twice is sufficient.
To acrite ON Silrer Nth Black which
wM neuer go oG.-Take burnt lead and pull
verize it. Incorporate it next with sulphur
and vinegar, to the consistency Of a paint
ing colour, and write with it on any silver
plate. Let it dry, then present it to the fire
so as to heat the work little, and it is fin.
ished.
Ginger beer.-One pint of molsssess and
two spoonsful of ginger put into pail to be
half filled with boiling water; when well
stirred together, fill the pail with cold water,
leaving room for one pint of yeast, which
must not be put in until lukewarm. Place it
on warm hearth for the night, and bottle it
it in the morning.
Simple Receipt for Preserving Eggs.
Pack them during the summer and fall
for winter. Take astone crock or firkin,
and put in layer Of salt, half an inch deep
insert your eggs on the small end, and
cover each layer of eggs with layer Of
salt. If the eggs are fresh when packed,
and put into cool, dry place, they will
Keep perfectly good until the following
summer.
Whoopmg Cough.--A tea.spoonful Of
the mixture to be given whenever the cough
is troublesome. 1t will afford relief at once,
and in few days it effects cure. The
same remedy relieves the Group, however
violent the attack.
To preserve Animal Food withoM Sailing.
Take meat, and cut it into slices of from
four to eight ounces each, then immerse
them for five minutes in a vessel Of boiling
water, and dry them on network, at regu.
lar temperature of from 1909 to 1859 Fahr.
Next evaporate the soup formed by washing
the meat, to the consistence of thick var
nish, adding little spice to favour it; into
this fluid immerse perfectly dry pieces of
flesh, and again expose them to the proper
drying temperature. Repeat the operation
of dipping and drying second, and even a
third time.
For use, the meat must be cooked in the
usual way by boiling, &c.
In this manner, meat may be preserved
without salt, for fifteen to twenty months. =.
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