Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-10-12
USEFUL RECIPES.

quenC use OF this WhltenS clotleS very
much.
BREAD CAKE.--Two pounds bread
dough after it is raised, pound sugar,
one-half pound butter, four eggs,
cup raisins stoned, one t~easpoonful soda,
a little cinnamon; bake as soon as mixed.
WASH FOR SORE IYEs.-Five cents
worth of white vitr1ol and five cents
worth of sweet inter, added to n pint
of rain water, is the best wash for sore
or infiamed eyes that has been tried in
the West. 1t can be used with perfect
safety. Should be used on going to bed.
BAKED F1sH.-The common cod fish
or other kinds, prepared the same as for
boiling with the exception of cutting-up
and then baked for nearly an hour, will
be found especially rich and wholesome
retaining the rich juices. Stuffing may
be added if something nice is wanted.
FRYING is Objectionable, if the digestion
is not good. while the baking is favorable
in every particular.
THE CHICKEN CHoLERA.-Mr. Spofford
writes to the Rock River Farmer that
one-half teaspoonful of the following
mixture, repeated a few times if neces-
sary, will r. in almost every instance +:
One ounce tincture acetate of opium,
one ounce tincture of camphor, one ounce
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cayenne pepper. 1t is simple, readily
obtained and worthy of trial.
To KEEP GLUE FROM SoUR1NG.-If a
little muriatic acid be put into glue when
it is dissolved, ready for use, it will re-
tain the glue in h same condition for a
long time. 1t will neither dry up nor
ferment. The use of a small portion of
sugar of lead will also prevent termenta-
ton.
HOLLOW HORN REMEDY.-The fol-
lowing remedy can be relied upon:
sFirst put a little turpentine between
and back of the horns; then take two
teacups half full of salt and water, and
pour one in each ear-both at the same
- a day for three successive
days. This cures the hollow horn every
time.''
CHOPPED PICKLEs.-One gallon green
tomatoes chopped fine, four green pep
pers, three onions, handful of salt
sprinkled over them j; let them stand six
hours, drain off the liquid and add n
tablespoonful ground pepper, n of al
spice one of mustard, one half pint of
mustard seed, three pints of vinegar.
LONG WICKs.-Cram all the wick you
can into the lamp, fill up the interstices
with sponge, and saturat h whole with
kerosene. The supply is sufficient for
the longest winters night; as long as
any oil remains in the wick the lamp
keeps burning. This has been fairly
tested. AS the wick burns away keep
filling up with sponge, and you have the
| nearest approach to a safety lamp.
CENTER HARBoR BIsCUTT.-Melt one
half cup of butter in one pint of new
milk, when it is lukewarm add n egg,
well beaten, and one-half pint good sweet
| yeast and 1our enough to make a thick
batter, let them rise two or three hours,
if very light, then knead well and let
them rise again, and when light roll out,
cut them like other biscuit when light
bake half an hour.
JENNA BRowN's BREAD.-Two cups
SOU milk, M cur sweet milk, two cups
Indian meal, n cup flour one-half cup
molasses, one and a half t~easpoonsful of
soda. Mix the meal and flour well to-
gether, then add the milk, then the mo-
1asses, and stir them well; dissolve the
soda and add last thing. Steam in a two
quart basin two hours, end bake twenty
minutes. Serve warm with butter.
PEACH JAM.-Take the fruit ripe. Peel
and stone. Put the peaches in a pan
and mash them on the fire till they be-
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each pound of pulp add a pound of white
sugar and half an of bitter al
monds blanched and pounded. Put them
over the fire, boil ten OF fifteen minutes,
and skim well. -.
When color ON a fabric has been acct
dentally or otherwise destroyed by acid,
ammonia is applied to neutralize the
same, after which an application of chic
reform will in almost all cases restore
the original color. The application of
ammonia is common, but that of chloro-
form is but little known. Chloreform
will also remove paint from a garment or
elsewhere, when benZole or bisulphide
or carbon fails.
SoUP.-An soups are better to'be made
with fresh uncooked meat, as that which
has been cooked once has lost much of
its flavor and nearly all OF its juices. 1t
is therefore better economy to hash or
slice your cold meat, and buy fresh for
soup. Soup should not boil very hard, as
that has a tendency to tougher the meat.
Fat meat is no so proper nor healthy for
soup as the leaner parts of the finest
meat. The fat does not impart much
flavor, and is not palatable. Soup may
be kept till the next day; before it is
heated over again skim off the cake of
fat which congeals on the top.
CHARLOTTE RUssE.-Place a pan con-
tanning one cup of boiling water ON the
fire and dissolve it in one ounce of ism
glass or gelatin; let it simmer until it
is reduced to one-half; sweeten and flavor
with vanilla one and a half cups of sweet
milk, and add it to the above; let it
boil slowly Is minutes; add the beaten
yolks of four eggs, and let it thicken;
lastly, add one quart of sweet cream
beaten up with the whites of four eggs;
let it cool; line the bottom and sides of
a deep glass dish with sponge cake, and
pour the russo over it. Make at 6
O'Clock a. NJ, if wanted for tea.
For RED ANTs.-John H. Ferguson,
of Rensselaer, Co., N. Y, writes, that he
has thoroughly cleared an old house of
this pest twice, within the past Is years,
thus "Grease a plate with hogs lard,
and setit where the ants are troublesome;
they will desert the sugar bowl for the
lard. Place a few sticks around the plate
for the m to climb up on. Occasionally
turn the plate bottom up over a fire,
where there is no smoke, and the ants
will drop off into the fire. Reset the
plate, and in q few repetitions you will
catch all the ants. They trouble nothing
while lard is accessible"
CURE FOR NFRvo HEADAcHE.-A
well known Kentuck minister, subject
to severe spells of ervous headache,
was in our office the other da says an
exchange, during one of those attacks.