The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-01

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themselves.
2. Scald in a week I've of saler-
atns, to take the roughness off of
The skin.
3. Boil in strip (made with four
teen pounds of "a" sugar to one
gallon of water five to ten min
utes; take out aud dry on cloth
spread over a suitable frame.
4. When dry, roll in pulverized
sugar place in a drying furnace,
or stove gently heated, and
when fully baked or dry, pack in
tight boxes or cans, using little
pulyerized sugar, favored with ex-
tract Vanilla, between the layers.
plantation.
RECIPE FOR A CHEAP PAINT
Take eleven pounds Of unSlacked
lime and one gallon of boiling
water, and stir into a thick pud-
ding: then add to it two gallons of
boiled linseed oil and one quarter
of II pound of white potash dissolv-
ed III one pint of boiling water.
Mix thoroughly, and if the oil
aud potash do not unite, add a
little more potash water; there
must be enough TO cut the oil per
fectly, but no more. 1t will look
thicker than common paint. but
will spread easily with common
paint brush. and will wear excel
lently well, and has all the appear
of a superior paint, while its cost
is less than half as much. For
paint for barns, out houses, fences,
etc, it is unequaled. SOIL
SoFT-SoAP WITH PoTAsH.-To
twenty pounds of clear grease
take seventeen pounds of pure
white potash. q prefer this to
the concentrated I've put up in tin
boxeS.l Buy the potash in as fine
Jumps as itcan be procured. and
place itin the bottom of the soap
barrel, which must he water-tight
and strongly hoped. Boil the
grease and pour it boiling hot
upon the potash; then add two
Shaker pallfuls 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 until
a barrel containing thirty-six gal
Ions is filed up. In a week, or
even, less it will be fit for use.
The boraX can be turned into the
grease while boiling, and also one
pound of resin. Soap made in
this manner always comes, and is
a first rate article, and will last
twice as long as that bought at
the soap chambers. The grease
must he fried out free from scraps,
ham rinds, bones or any such de-
bris; then the soap will be thick
as jelly, and almost as clear.
WATERMELON JUICE.-A cor
respondent of the Prairie Farmer.
gives us some hints on the uses of
watermelon juice for domestic
purpose: IL endeavor, every
year, to raise good watermelon
patch. They are healthy and
delightful fruit, L think. Guilt
vate the icing variety; plant early
in April, and again towards the
end or the month, so that they
may come in succession, when
they commence ripening, we com
mence cutting, and use them free
~ during the lIot weather. When
the weather became cool in Sep
TENDER, we haul quantity of them
to the house, split them open with
a spoon, scrape out the puIps in
a cullender, 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
well cooked, then spice to taste.
and you have something that
most people win prefer to apple
butter, or any kind of preserves.
Or the syrup may be boiled with
out fruit, down to molasses, which
will be found to be as fine as any
sugar-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
bas kept in fine condition until
May. 4 Q & IS zszSfN YTyb1
Nafins.-One quart of flour, a
pint of warm milk, little yeast,
two eggs, little salt, two spoon
fnis OF butter melted; let it set to
rise: when light put in rings.
Barley Cofee.-Take common
barley, or the skinless if it can be
obtained, roast as Won wouId