The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-06-17
From the ffome Weekly.
Brief Notes of Things.
RASPBERRY VINEGAR.

| RASPBERRY VINEGAR.
! Take ripe raspberries, put them in pan, and
mash them with large wooden spoon or mash
er Strain the juice through a jelly bag, and to
each pint of juice add one pound of loaf sugar
and one quart of vinegar When the sugar has
dissolved place the whole over the fire in a
preserving kettle and let it boil minute OF two
and skim it. When cold bottle it, cork it well,
and it will be fit for use.
BLOODY MILK.
Giving your COW that produces bloody milk q
| good mess Of bran containing an ounce OF salt
| petre and handful of common salt, and wash
| ing her udder thoroughly with strong soap suds,
as hot as the land can bear it, will, it is said,
cure his animal disease.
CARBUNCLEs.
A French paper says that one of the best
| remedies for curing carbunces is Burgundy
pitch or linen cloth, applied to the sore.
CHIMNEY AFIRE.
If the SCOT in your chimney takes fire and is
dangerous, throw II handful of -four of sulphur
(brimstone) in the fire Oil your hearth, and shut
up your fireplace tightly with sheet or blanket
dipped in cold water, and the fire will soon be
| out.
CORNs, HOW TO CURE.
Enclose your toe having corn in piece of
lemon pulp, SO that it cannot get loose, and keep
it for several nights days and the corn will
soon become SO soft to be easily pulled out or
removed with knife.
HORSE RADIsH FOR WINTER.
Good horse radish roots, grated fine into bot
ties, and covered with strong vinegar and tight
ly corkcd up, will keep nicely for winter use.
INSECTS.
A small quantity of vinegar swallowed will
destroy insects that may find their way into
your stomach and II little oil poured into your
ear will kill or expel any insect that may have
entered the ear.
If your wick-yarn is dipped in strong hot
vinegar and dried, it will smell less disagreea-
bly, when burning in your lamp
POPPING CORN.
Heat a fourth of q teacupful of lard, or half
that quantity if lard is scarce, in skillet until
it begins to smoke. and then pour in your In
dian corn grains and stir them around until they
begin to pop and then cover your skillet with
thick cloth, aud have it stand until the popping
has ceased, you will have rich, crisp and
snowy corns, resembling large snow fakes''-
And if you will afterwards boil cupful of syrup
| to u candy-lke huid and stir your popcorn into
| it, while hot you can then work it up into nice
cplu-calluy DallS.
SICK ROOMS.
| 1t is our duty to visit the sick, and help them
| if we can. But we should, at the same time
! take proper care Of oar own health. And to do
| this never enter sick room in state of persp-
ration, rs the moment you begin to cool, your
pores absorb. Do not approach contagious
diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between
the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts
the thin vapor
VINEGAR-MAKING..
Three quarts of molasses put into eight gal
Ions of water in a cask, with two or three spoon
fuls Of good yeast, well shaken together, and
put out OF doors in q warm place, or kept near
the fire in winter, where it viii keep warm, will
soon make good vinegar, it is said, especially if
sheet OF brown paper dipped in molasses and
tori, into strips is added to the liquid about ten
OF fifteen days afterwards, as this brown paper
is sure to make the mother" Oh life Of the
vinegar
| YEAST MAKING AND KEEPING.
Boil the usual quantity of hops alone-also a
suthciency of barley or rye meal alone, until it
can he strained through cloth-and when the
juices OF your hops and barley or rye malt arc
cool, mix them together with a little fine -four,
and stir them well, and after letting the mixture
stand awhile, add as much moasses as you may
/
yeast away in II stone jug or jar for future. If
you want to use this yeast for making beer, put
in little salt of tarter and as many grains of
Paradise as will lie on the point of your knife.
CATTLE WOUNDS AND SORES.
Wounds and sores of cattle are quickly cured
by washing them several times day with a
mixture of spirits of turpentine and the yolk OF
eggs. So the nstks of working oxen, CALLED
into soreness by their yoke, will soon heal up,
it is said, if sheet lead is wrapped around that
part of the yoke that chales and rests upon the
sores, and so dsposes them to heal
| OINTMLNT.
Plantain and house-leek leaves boiled in
cream and strained make very soothing Or t.
ment for sores. The plantain leaf alone, bruist
and applied to wound, has a cooling and heal.
ing influence, such as the bites OF spiders ami
poisonous snakes.
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