The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-26
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CIDER VINEGAR.IThe most speedy
method of making cider into vinegar Is
not to fill the casks more than half full
with the bung left out, which will ex-
pose the largest surface to the air, and
consequently will become vinegar
much sooner than if the barrel be filed
full.
APPLE PICKLE.-Eight pounds of
sweet apples pared and trsmmed, three
pounds of sugar, three pints of cider
vinegar, three pints of water. Boil
sugar, water and vinegar together and
skim. Cook the apples in the liquid,
put-them in a jar and pour the liquid
over them while hot.
Picked OYsTERs-TO a twO-quart
can of oysters add about one pint OF
water, cook same as for the table, salt
to the taste, then pour off one half of
the liquid and add one half pint of
vinegar, few blades of mace, few
whole pepper corn, a few corns of all
spice. Boil all together few minutes
and pour over the oysters.-S0dd IN
Ohio Farmer.
OUNCE JAM.-Peel the ounces and
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one pint of ounce add three fourths of
a pound of sugar; boil it half hour, put
in small jars, and cover the same as
other preserves. Squeeze the cores in
yours hands so IS to get out all the
juice. This is very nice preserve,
and makes delicious filling for WASH
ington pie.
MOTHS IN CARPETS. destroy
in carpets, wiring q coarse towel out of
clean water; spread it smoothly on the
carpet; iron it dry with a good hot iron;
repeat the operation on all parts of the
carpet suspected Of being infested with
moths. No need to press hard, and
neither the pile nor the color of the car
pet will be injured, and the moths will
te destroyed by the heat and steam.
FRUIT CAKE.-One pound of sugar,
one pound of butter, ten eggs, one
pound of raisins, one of citroD, one of
currants; chop and rub the fruit into
apound,of flour, one cup molassess, tea
spoon soda foamed in the mOlasses,
one nutmeg, half a cup of cloves and
cinnamon; put the fruit and flour in
last. These Ingredients will make tn o
good sized loaves, and will keep year.
LIGHT TENDER ROLLS.-Rub piece
of shortening the size of a hickory nut
into one quart of flour, add little salt,
and enough fresh yeast to make it rise.
Warm the water slightly, and make
the dough up firm. Let it stand over
night, and in the morning add little
soda, knead well, and cut out with bis
cult cutter, make it little thicker than
biscuit. Let them stand in a warm
place TO rise, and put them in the oven
to bake.
CHICKEN PATTIEs. Chop very fine
all the dry, poorest bits left from baked
chicken; season carefully with pepper,
salt, and little celery cut in small bits;
make light puff paste, roll quarter
of an inch thick, cut with neatly
shaped paste cutter; lay narrow strip
of the paste all around, then put some
of the mince on the paste; cut another
piece of the same size and lay over
Boil fifteen minutes. This makes n
neat dish and is good.
REMEEY FOR DIPTHERIA.- Th
New York Tribune publishes the fol-
lowing remedy for diphtheria, which,
according to the testimony of a num-
Der of prominent physicians, is almost
certain cure: Swab the back of the
mouth and throat thoroughly with a
wash made of table salt, two drachms;
black pepper, golden seal, nitrate of
potash, alum, one drachm each. Mix
and pulverize, put into q teacup,
which half filed up with boiling water,
stir well and then fill up with vinegar
Use every half hour, and, two and four
hour recovery progresses. The pa
tent may swallow a little each time.
Apply an ounce each of spirits of tur-
pentine, sweet oil and aqua ammonia;
mixed, to the whole of the throat and
to the breast bone, every four hours,
keeping flannel to the part
POWDER FOR CHAPPED HANDS,
This preparation universally applied for
| drying the skin, after washing, especi-
ally at the joints, which, If left even
damp at certain seasons, produces chaps
and chatting, often followed, if neglect
ed, by Inflammation. Violet powder is
best prepared 10y mixing three parts of
the best wheat starch with one of fine
ly ground orris root; the latter adds
to the drying powder of the starch, and
imparts at the same time an agreeable
odor, like that of the violet; hence the
name of the mixture. 1t is also pre-.
pared 10y pertaining starch with essen
tial oils without the addition of orris
root; but though the scent of the pow
der is stronger, and more tempting TO
use, il IL far LEES beneficial in its appli-
cation The scent acting as stimu-
liant to the skin, increases rather than
abates the tendency to redness. On
perfumed powder is therefore best to
Use; busted over the part with little
swans down, commonly called puff.
Sweet POtOtO Plants.
AS the sweet potato plant season has
arrived, | thought would say some
thing as to the quality of plants that
are being sold through the country.
There are great many plants sent out
on order that have been advertised at
q low price, and bedded out to grow i'm
rotten manure or rotten saw dust, that
have made quick and tender growth,
and when set out will most generally
all die, even under favorable circum-
stances. Now don't want to be I'm
stood that l charge all plant growers
OF this. But / am sorry to say that too
many grow their plants in that way,
TO advance in culture more extensively.
There great many that bed out their
pOteASVSo HI cOiit 40 tiity Slt'ulu D6, Oh
course. There has to be artificial heat,
that may grow in season for setting
out, and when plants have been grown
in soil are transplanted, they will live,
if set in wet or dry weather, Il prefer
the latter if properly set. And anoth-
er great mistake is, even with some
good plant growers, that they don't
pack their plants properly. I see fire.
quenuy where plants are drawn out at
thu, bed, handouts ut the time; they
count them over without taking out
the feeble ones, and pack i'm box, with
(leaves and roots mixed togetber) saw
dust or moss, without even bedding the
roots. Then they wafer the tops, and
stark them on their journey. If out As
hours, half of them are rotten. To
draw plants requires great care and ex-
perience. When plants are from four
to six inches high, and well rooted,
they should be drawn out, Qeaving the
small ones stand Count, ard put one
loo in each bunch, and care should be
taken TO gel them straight and haveno
leaves mixed with the roots. Then
puddle the roots, then roll the roots i'm
dry soil, and plaza them in the box
with little dirt between each Tier.
The tops should be kept dry. They
may he watered by leaving cracks or
bearing holes near the bottom of the
box, and set in water long enough to
soak the roots, then set it out to drain.
| Plants handled in this Way can be kent