Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-11-10
HOUSEHOLD COLUMN.

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hams /; after your hams are we'll smoked,
place them in the bags ]; then get the
best kind of sweet, we'll made hay, cut it
with a knife, and with your hands press
it.well around the hams in the bags; tie
the bags with good strings, put on a card
Of the year to show their age, and hang
them in a garret or some dry room, and
they will hang five years and will be bet
ter for boiling than the day you hung
them up. This method costs but little,
and tho bags will last forty years. No
flies or bugs will trouble the hams if the
hay is we'll pressed around them the
sweating of the hams will be taken up by
the hay, and the bay will impart a fine
flavor to the hams. The hams should be
treated in this way before hot weather
sets in.
How TO CLEANSE A C1srERN.-A simple
thing I have ac%cidently learned, and if
not generally known, ought 10 be, relat-
Many persons know how annoying this
sometimes becomes. After frequent
cleansing, and other experiments, all to
no permanent utility, l was advised to
put say two pounds caustic in the water,
and it purified it in a few hours. Since
then, when l tried what is called concen-
trated I've, l had quite as good as a re-
suit. One or both these articles can be
obtained at any druggists.
VICTORIA SANDWICHES. Take four eggs,
half a pound of pounded lump sugar, half
a pound of fresh butter, aud half a pound
of flour. Beat the butter to cream, dust
in the -four, and add the eggs, we'll whisk-
ed +; then beat with a fork for quarter of
an hour. Butter a tin, pour in half the
mixture, and bake from q quarter of an
hour to twenty minutes. Remove it from
the tin, butter again, and add the other
half of the mixture. Bake as before. when
cool, spread jam thickly over one portion
Of the cake, place the other part, oven it,
and cut into whatever shape you please.
To MAKE HARD SoAp.--To two pals of
strong lye, fourteen pounds of grease ;
cleanse the grease before using. Boil
these two together it'll it becomes thick !;
then put in FIVE quarts of salt, and boil
slow half an hour, or a little longer then
pour in a pail Of cold soft water. Set it
away to cool ; when cold, cut into chunks.
Put into a kettle two pals of weak lye,
boil until it mixes together. then pour in
three quarts of salt boil the same length
of time as before, and set it off to cool !;
then cut it in the shape you like.
APPLES AS FooD.-The Importance of
apples as food, has not hitherto been suf-
6ciently estimated or understood. Be-
sides contributing a large proportion Of
sugar, mucilage, and other nutritive com-
pounds in the form of food, they contain
such a fire combination of vegetable acids,
extractive substances, and aromatic priD-
ciples, with the nutritive matter, as to
act powerfully in the capacity of refrig,
Grants, tonics and antiseptics, and when
freely used, at the season of %ripeness, by
rural laborers and others, they prevent
debility, strengthen digestion, correct
the ~putrifactive tendencies of heterogeneous
food, avert scurvy, and probably main-
tain and strengthen the power Of pro-
ductive labor.
DRINK FOR Mich Cows.-Cows that
give milk in winter will add much to their
profit by giving them a bucket full of
water twice a day, with a little meal, or
even the Stops Of the family with it. Ev-
cry one has noticed how an extremely
cold day will affect their milk, or when
they have become wet in summer A lit
tie salt with meal floating on the surface
of such drink, will soon teach any COW
how to drink it. They will drink at the
pump all the better for a little salt.
Corrox SEED AS FooD FOR Hoes.-Any
Information that will be of benefit, in this
time of need, should be given to the pub.
lie. Mr.. Reuben Hodges, an old respect
ed citizen and peaceful planter, has used
cotton seed as food for hogs q number of
years, without the least danger, and with
great success. The cotton seed intended to
be given to the hogs should be thrown in
water the night before, care being taken
that the seed are thoroughly covered, so
as to fully wet the lint, and the hogs can
be turned upon them the next morning.
Brood lows should not not be allowed to
eat the cotton seed. Hogs thus fed are
not liable to the numerous diseases that
abound. Hogs can be fed in this manner
on new cotton seed, and three weeks feed.