The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-01-05
9sBlano o., farmer,
USEFUL RECEIPTS.

WASHINGTON CAKE.-Beat together one
quart of milk and one ounce of butter; when
about luke-warm pour into them two pounds
of -four, adding a cents worth of yeast, three
eggs, and a tablespoonful of salt. Place the
batter in pans, let it stand over night, and the
next morning bake in a quick oven three quar-
tiers of an hour.
LOAF CAKE.-Three tablespoonful of light
dough, one teacupful of butter, one teacupful
OF sugar, two eggs, one teaspoonful of pearl-ash,
and two or three large tablespoonful of milk
add also a. half pound of raisins. After it is
thoroughly worked together, put the dough
into pans, and raise till it becomes light
Bake over a slow oven.
ESSENCE OF LEMoN.-Cut off very thin
rinds of any number of lemons; put the pieces
its of wine. After a day or two this will have
taken up all the lemon Feelings, and become
far better in quality than that usually sold.
To REMOVE DANDRUFF.-Take a thimble-
full of powdered refined borax-can be had at
any drugstore or country store-let it dissolve
in teacupful ofwater; first brush the head we'll,
then wet a brush and apply it to the mixture,
and apply to the head. Do this every day for
a week, and twice a week after for a few times,
and you will effectually remove the dandruff.
AndOW hOOI hUDDtNG." very IftCS."
Three tablespoonful of arrow root, mix in a
little cold water, free it from humps, put it into
a quart Of boiling milk, stirring in constantly;
when cool, beat into it two eggs, to be served
with sweetsauce. Bake it for half an hour.
SCENTED OILs.-Some of these are sold by
perfnmers at a very high profit; they can all
be prepared at d very small expense. Take a
quart of common olive oil, and heat it in a stone
ware vessel up To 212 degrees, then add half an
ounce of sal soda, and stir all for fifteen min
utes. Allow the oil to cool, and a sediment
will fall to the bottom; pour off the clear, and
scent it with any of the essential oils, such as
rosemary, bergamot, and lavender. One-fourth
of an ounce of the essential oil will scent a
quart of the prepared oil, which is very excel
lent for the hair, and equal to Rowland's eel
ebrated Maccassar oil, sold at such extravagant
prices.
LUcIFER MATCH CoMPosITIoN.-Take one
ounce and a half of glue, one ounce of phos-
phorus, two and a half ounces of inter, one
ounce and a quarter of red ocher, and half an
ounce of smalt. Having carefully weighed out
the ingredients, manipulate as follows: First
reduce the glue to a smooth jelly in warm
water, the temperature of which is net to be
above las degrees Fahrenheit; now add the
phosphorus and stir the mixture till the latter
is perfectly divided into minute particles then
add the remaining materials, and mix them
till the whole is one uniform paste. The com
position must be kept warm, but never warmer
than the thermometer heat above mentioned.
Finally, the matches are to have their ends
rubbed over a hot iron plate, and then dipped
into the paste and left to dry in an airy situa-
ton. Some manufacturers use all smalt in
stead of the ocher; others use red led in lieu
of either. Private individuals can not, of
course, make matches, but every one should
know the natue of common things.