Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-12-11
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.
YEAST To one cup grated potato pour
one quart boiling water. Add one halt
cup sugar and one-balf cup salt. Also,
when cooled till little more than milk
warm, one cup Of yeast. Keep in a jug in
the cellar.
CIDER CAKg-Half a cup of butter,
one and half Of brown sugar, one cup
of cider, (not hard, one egg, one teaspoon
tril of soda, one of cinnamon, one of all
spice, a little nutmeg, and three cups Of
flour.
CEMENT FOR IRoN.-Holes in the bot
toms of iron kettles, or in stoves, may be
stopped by using compound made of six
parts well pulverized, dry clay, and one
part iron filings; make into paste with
boiled linseed OIL
BREAD.--To q quart of warm milk or
water stir in -four to make thick batter,
and add one teacupful Of yeast Put in
warm place to rise. When risen stir in
flour sufficient to knead and make in
loaves Set them by the stove, and bake
soon after they begin to rise
DRIED APPLE FRUIT CAKE.-One and
one-half cup of molases; one.half cup
| brown sugars three cups of -four; one
cup sour milk one teaspoonful of salera.
tus; one and one-half cups of sweet ap-
| pie, soaked and chopped, put into the mo-
lasses and boiled; spice to suit the taste.
HoNEY-Honey may be clarified byput-
ting the jar containing it in a sauce pan
OF boiler of water, which should be placed
on the fire and boiled until the honey be-
comes perfectly clear, all impurities being
removed by skimming as they arise Store
it in air-tight jars, and keep it in cool
place.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the american
Farmers Magazine helped to build corn
crib in Vermont fifty. five years ago, which
is still in good order, and in which no rat
or mouse was ever known to be. It is set
on stone pillars, two feet high, each cap
| ped by broad fiat stone, smooth on the
under side.
/ GLYCoRD is a substance recently in
troduced for healing wounds, covering
them with kind of varnish, which pro-
tects them from the air, and is made by
adding five parts of glycerine to four of
! yolk of egg. The mixture has the con-
sistence of honey, and has a salve-like
feeling, and is unaltered by exposure to
air.
A HEIFER or COW will make beef earlier
than steer. An old COW, or an old sheep,
will not fatten nearly as well with hay as
with grass. The longer the straw of
any kind, the worse as fodder; short
straw is said to be, invariably, the most
nutritious. Cattle always prefer that
which is fresh threshed, day even MAX
ing difference.
BIRD NEsT PUDDING---Take any num-
Der of good, fair sized cooking apples, pare
them and remove the cores without cut.
ting the apple. Place in the cavity of the
cores some raisins or currants. Place
them in a suitable baking dish; make a
custard in the usual manner, flavoring it
with lemon, orange, or nutmeg, and a very
little salt. Bake half an hour.
THE Farmers Union mentions two in
stances of good results from obtaining
seed wheat from distance. Two Mime
sofa farmers obtained some seed wheat,
one from Iowa and one from Canada.
With the same cultivation and on the
same kind of land the yield from the i'm
ported seed was, in one case twice, and in
the other more than twice that from the
home raised seed.
! PRESERVATION OF EGGs.-A French
paper recommends the following method
for the preservation of eggs: Dissolve
four ounces of beeswax in eight ounces OF
!
finger and anoint the egg all around. The
oil will be Immediately absorbed by the
shell, and the pores filed up with wax.
If kept in a cool place, the eggs after two
years will be as IL fresh laid.
Iris stated in the american EntomOlOSist
that there are seven different insects, three
of which are known TO devour the Larvae
of the curculio, and four are strongly sus-
pected of doing so. The editor says that
"But for the benefcent operations of these
little insignificant creatures, there can be
but little doubt that not single bushel of
peaches would have been grown in South
ern Illinois for the past FIVE years"
A KENTUCKY farmer recommends that
wool -raisers pasture their sheep with cat
tie as an ettectual preventive of ravages
by dogs, He has followed this practice
for many years, and has never lost a single
member OF his flocks by dogs OF wolves,
while his neighbors have been constant
sufferers. The sheep, when attacked by
dogs, run directly to the cattle for proteo.
tion, and the latter soon rid the field OF
their canine prosecutors. .-A.
PROF. DUssANcE says that beets mus'
come back in the rotation only once every
three or four years, so as not to exhaus
the soil. The nature of the manures ha!
much influence on the quality or the crop
Manures containing notable proportions
of salts of potash or soda must be avoided
as beets absorb those salts, and their pres
ence in the juices prevents crystalization
Z and increases the quantity of molasses,
: MANURING FRUIT TREEs-Horticultu
, lists in Switzerland and Germany Lake
= practice of boring into the ground amoni
= the roots of fruit trees, with an instrumen
. made for the purpose, and pouring il
liquid manure, 10 stimulate the growtl
and prOductiveness Of the trees, and ais
10 enable them to resist drought A crow
bar driven down among the roots vii
make hole large enough to receive an
: distribute several gallons Of liquid ma
nure
n MEAT BsOUIT--This is made froT
!. boiled beef free from grease, the liquor {
|. which Is evaporated 20 the consistency {
. syrup, and this is mixed with wheste
! flour so IS TO form solid paste. Thi
i paste Is then spread out by rolling piI
. Il pierced with a number of little holes,
n cut 10 the dimensions Of sea biscuit and
q then baked and properly dried The bii
v cult Is eaten dry; or may he broken an
!. boiled in twenty or thirty times Its weigh
4 ofwater, from twenty 10 thirty minutes.