The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-04-28
Useful Eeceipts,

NE OINIb METHOD! W." increase NJ
bread with potatoes is us well known to
bakers AS to housekecpcrs.
. First place ID pounds Of flour near the
fire to warm.
/ Take pounds Of good potatoes, those
OF meay kind being preferable; peel
aud boil them as if for the table mash
them, and then mix with them AS much
cold water as will allow all except small
Jumps to pass through n coarse sieve into
the flour, which will be low ready to re.
ceiVe them. Add yeast, IL C, anG mix for
bread in the usual way.
COVERING FOR Milk PAxs.-J haya 4
new plan for covering mill; pans in sum.
mer, TO keep out dust flies, &c. tako
piece Of common brown shccting, aad
cut 1t aOou, three inches larger than the
top Of the pan, and make a wide hem,
say an inch, around it. then ;akc large
wire aud bend ii in a circle the same size
as the cloth, and run it into the hem, and
fasten it there. When laid over The pan,
the wire falls over the edge Of the nan,
to the eticctual exclulion of dust or aay
other substance CouNiyy GCnNcmua.
YEAST FOR BREAD OR CAKEs.-in a
quar-! ot boiling water, stir sufficient whca.
NOur TO make smooth, thick batter -
while, stir in il ( ounces OF white suyar
aud Il teaspoontul Of salt. When cold,
put IN sufficient yeast (say near teacup
tuI) TO cause the mass to terment. Lay
1t 10y in covered Jar for use. Half
tcacupiul is enough TO make two large
loavcS. 10 renew the yeast when used
up, reserve teacupluI. This receipt my
wife considers her own invention, as she
never seen it. Ii is simple and efficient
for raising huckwheat cakes and bread
very light and very white if the -four
Is good. - Correspondent Of Couuay
Gentleman.
A GOOD WmITEwAsu.-Take haIfa
bushel of fresh burned white lime. and
slack 1t either with hot or cOd water in
tub or barrel. When thoroughly slack
ed, dissolve in the water required to hin
the lime two quarts of common salt, stir
it thoroughly, add one quart of sweet
milk, and it is ready for use 10 put IN
with brush.
This wash is for the outside of build.
ings fences. & c., and is very durable
some put glue in whitewasI, and others
flour and rice paste; but these render it
liable to scale off in very dry wealth
er.
The above wash may be made cream
color by the addition Of cchre.
The above whitewash is all that can be
desired for the interior of houses, excep
ting the salt, it must bc omitted as il
tends to imblbe moisture. French white
is superior to lime washes for the ceilings
of rooms, as it is not so liable to turn
yeilowish in color, but il rubs off so
easily that it Cannot be used for sile
wall.
4 SALT on 'AsrAnAGUs--E,cry agricul-
tural paper, and every gardener, will tell
you to put liberal dressing of salt on as
paragus beds and ifyou ask why, win
answer that asparagus is marine plant.
So it is. | have myself seen it growing
at the sea below high Watersheds about
as tender andIgood to eat rs an oak sap,
ling, Salt will do no harm to such as
paragus as is raised for city markets. On
4 the contrary, it viii! kill the weeds, and
will save tie roots from exhaustion by too
rapid growth. Ninetecuths Of the mar.
ket asparagus in New York and elsewhere
is little better than bundles of hemp cor
dage. The growers probably understand
tue matter, but SO long as their customers
don't, the stuff sells. Bat the man
( whose vegetables grow in his OWE gaiden.
and who wishes to have his asparagus
served on his table such rs can be eaten
--ail eaten perfectly tender and sweet
and eqoally so the whole length Of the
stalk, let him use no salt. Asparagps
should not be allowed to grow mere,tban
ten inches above the surface Of the he'd,
and should he cut jas! at ,he surface, so
that the sun aud air may dry the stump
and prevent waste by bleeding. The
stalk below the surface IS utterly WORTH
I less. The asparagus bed should be GOV
= cred IN the fall from six TO ten inches
deep with good stable manure and the
remains Of ibis dressing, should the next
!, fall be removed 10 some other part Of the
garden, where il win still be valuable Il
not saturated with salt Erehange.
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