Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-10-03

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and boil until they can be reduced to a
mash. Then for each pound of pared
apples, pound of sifted sugar is added,
sprinkled over the boiling mixture.
Boil and stir it until reduced to q jam.
Then put it into pots. The above is
the most simple way of making it; but
to have itof the best possible clearness,
make thick syrup with three pounds
ofsugar to each pint of water, and clar-
ify it with an egg. Then add one pint
of this syrup for every three pounds OF
apples, and boil the jam to a proper
thickness.
To PEAL PEACHES gives
the following method for peeling
peaches and tomatoes: ''To remove the
skin from peaches. Every one knows
there is a great loss of pulp in pairing
peaches with knife, to obviate which
the following has been suggested for
treating them: Make lye as strong as
possible of wood ashes and soft water.
Fill kettle with the lye, and when
boiling rapidly drop in twelve or fif-
teen peaches, and take out Immediate
ly and immerse them in pail of cold
water. Take one in your hand and the
rind viii slip off entirely, leaving a
round, beautiful yellow ball; throw it
Immediately into another pail of wa
ter, and so proceed until all are done.
This process win not injuro the flavor
of the finest peach, and, once tried, the
old fashioned way of peeling with a
knife win not be again adopted. If the
lye is not strong enough, put into the
Kettle two dippers full of clean wood
ashes. This is a good way OF Kidding
small onions of their jackets preparato-
ry to picking them; also for peeling
tomatoes"
8REAKFAsT PUFFs.-Take two eggs
well beaten and stif into a pint of milk
a little salt, piece of butter and a pint
and half of -four. Beat the eggs and
stir the milk. Add the salt, melt the
butter, and stir in. Then pour all into
the -four, so as not to have it lumpy.
Stir up thoroughly, and grease the cups
into which the batter is poured, filling
them two-thirds full. Eat with sauce.
To DRIVE Away ANTs.-We were
much troubled this season by having
large black ants find their way to our
sugar box wherever we could place it.
Remembering to have read somewhere
that the common elder would keep ants
away from anything about which it
is placed, I gathered an armful of the
young sprouts and put them around the
box. We have not since been troubled
in the least by them.
CHow-CHow.-Take quarter of. a
peck of green tomatoes, the same guam
tity each of picking beans and white
onions;x one dozen each of cucumbers
and green peppers, one head ofcabbage.
Season to the taste with mustards cell
cry seed and salt. Pour over these the
best cider vinegar, sufficient to cover.
Boil slowly for two hours, continually
stirring, and add while hot, two table
spoons of the finest salad oil.
To REMOVE STAINs.-If you have
been picking or handling any acid
fruit, and have stained your hands,
wash them in clear water, wipe them
highly, and while they ere yet moist
strike a match and smut Jour hands
around it so as to catch the smoke, and
the stain will disappear. If you have
stained your muslin or gingham dress.
or white pants, with berries, before
wetting the cloth with anything else,
pour boiling water through the stains,
and they will disappear.
Wheels go best when they are thor
oughly tired.
: Query-does a dumb man always
keep his words.
!. What grows bigger the mo-5 you
contract it?-debt.
3 Some men are worth nothing and
Others are worth less.
When autumn is married to winter,
the wedding-cake is always frosted.
A. T. Stewart says the election of
Greeley would be a national calamity
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