The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08
DOMESTIC.
VaIuahls Recipes

E6SlDUUUcHl vi IHt ihh &c l. d-hNA-
gives us soae hints on the uses of
watermelon Juice for domestic i
purpose: Il endeavor, every
year. TO raise u good watermelon |
patch. phey are Il healthy and (
delightful fruit, | think. cl.lti-
vate the icing variety; plant early
in April, and again towards the
end OF. the month, so that they
may come ir succession, when
they commences ripening, we com |
mence cutting, and use them free |
~ during the hot weather. When !
the weather became cool in Sep
tember, we haul a quantity fthem
to- the house. split them open with
a spoon, scrape out the palps in
Il culleDder, and strain the water
into vessel. We boil it in an
iron vessels, then put in apples or
peaches, like making apple butter,
ang boil slowly until the fruit is
we'll cooked, then spice to taste,
and you have something that
most people will prefer to apple
butter, or any kind of preserves.
Orthe syrup may be boiled with
out fruit, down TO molasses, which
will be fonnd to be as fine as any
sngar-house molasseS. We have
made in a fall as much as ten
gallons of the apple-butter, if [
may so call it; and molasSeS which
has kept in fine condition until
May.
Sort SOAP WITH PoTAsH.-To
twenty pounds of clear grease
take seventeen pounds of pure
white potash. Il prefer this to
the concentrated I'VE put up in tin
boxes.1 Buy the potash in as fine
Jumps as it can be procured. and
place it in the bottom of the soap
barrel, which must he waier-ught
and strongly hoped. Boil the
grease and pour it boiling hot
upon. the potash; then add two
Shaker pallfuIs of scalding hot
water; dissolve one pound of boraX
in two quarts of boiling water.
and stir altogether thoroughly
Next morning add two pals Of
cold water, and stir for half an
hour; continue this process unit
a barrel containing thirty-six gal
lois is filed up. In a week, OF
even, less it will be fit for use
The borax can be turned into tn,
grease while boiling, and also on,
pound of resin. Soap made il
this manner always comes, and il
a fist rate article, and will las
twice as long as that bought "a
the soap chambers. The greas
mast be fried out free from scraps
ham rinds, bones or any ,sIlch de
bris; then the soap will be thiel
asjeny, aud almost as clear.
RECIPE FOR A CHEAP PAINT
Take eleven pouhds of unsIacke'
lime and one gallon of boiling
water, and stir into a thick pud
ding; then add to it two gallons G
boiled linseed oil and one-quarte
ofsapouid of white potash dissol,
ed in one pint of boiling water
Mix thoroughly, and if. the o
aud potash do not unite, add
little more potash WATER ther
must be enough TO cut the oil pc
fectly, but noimore. 1t will loo
tMckerthan common paint, bu
will spread easily with commo
paint brush. and will wear exec
lentiy we'll, and has all the appea
Ola superior paint, while its eos
is less than half as much. For
pailit for barns, ont houses; fence
ETC., il is unequaled. s. Oh.
How TO DRY FIGs.-In repl
to yourarticle in last issue, "Abo,
Figs i herewith furnish We
with process for drying fig
equal to the imported articl
and which will keep any numb,
of years.
]. Assert as follows: Figs n,
quite ripe, figs barely ripe, au
figs fully ripe. Keep each kind b
themselves.
2. Sc;ild in a week I've Of sale
atus, to take the roughness off
the skin.
3. Boil in strip (made with fou
teen pounds of "a" sugar to OF
gallon of water) five to ten mi
utes; take out and dry on a clol
spread over suitable frame.
4. When dry, roll in pulverizt
sugar place in a drying furnac
or a stove gently heated, al
when fully baked or dry, pack
tight boxes or cans, using a lit
pRlTeTised sugar, Favored with e
tract. Vanilla, between the layer
plantation.