The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-06

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atuS. 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 and dry on cloth
spread over a suitable frame.
4. When dry, roll in pulverized
sugar place in a drying furnace,
or IA stove gently heated, and
when fully baked or dry, pack in
tight boxes or cans, using little
puIveriZed sugar, Favored with eX
tract Vanilla, between the layers. /
Plantation.
RECIPE FOR 4 CHEAP PANT
/ 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 Il pound of white potash diSsolv-
eel il one pint of boiling water.
Mix thoroughly, and il the oil
aud potash do not unite, add Il
little more potash water; there
must be cnOugh to cut the oil per
! frcliy, bat no more. 1t viii look
thicker than common paint, but
| will spread easily with common
paint brush. and will wear excel
lentIy well. and has all the appear
Of a superior paint. while its cost
is less than half aS much. For u
paint tog barns. out houses; fences,
exc, it is unequaled. ). o. J.
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
boXe&.) Buy the potash in as fine
lamps aS it can be procured. ana
pace it in the bottom of the soap
barrel, which must he water tight
and strongly huoped. Boil the
grease and pour it boiling hot
. upon the potash; then add two
Shaker paIlfuiS of sca!ding 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 i filled NJ. In week, or
, even, less it will be lit Eor use
The bOraX can be turned into the
grease while boiling, and also one
pound OF resin. Soap made i'll
I tbs manner always comes, and is
ii first rate article. and will last
twice as long as that bought at
! the soap chambers. The grease
i must he fried out free from scraps.
II ham FindS, bones or any such de
J. briS; then the soap will be thick
u as Jelly, and almost as clear.
/. WATERMELON JUICE.-A cor
respondent of the Prairie Farmer
gives us some hints on the uses 81
L watermelon juice for dOmesti,
+. purpose: Il endeavor, every
$ year. TO raise II good watermelon
/. patch They are healthy anC
u delightful fruit, | think. icUlli
II vate the icing variety; plant early
:, in April, and again towards tn,
u end or the mouth, So that they
5, may come in succession, wheI
: they commence ripening, we com
y mence cutting, and use them free
~ during the hot weather. WheI
~ the weather became cool in Sep
.e TENDER, we haul aquantity Of then
II to the house, split them open Will
p a spoon, scrape out the pulps il
~ "a culleDder, and strain the waite
,r into vessel. We boil it in al
a. iron vessels, then put i'll apples o
- peaches, like making apple butter
p ang boil slowly until the fruit
,f well cooked, then spice to taste
lS and you have something tina
10 most people will prefer to appl,
r. butter, or any kind of preserves
nr Or the syrup may be boiled Will
N out fruit, down to molaSses, whic
: will be found to be as fine as an
: sugar-houSe mOlasses. We hav
or made in a fall as much as te
gallons of the apple-butter, if
may so call it; and molasSeS whic
ne haS kept in fine condition unit
in May.
Is. MgtiRS.-One quart Of fioHr,
:; pint of warm milk, IA little yeas
- two eggs, a little salt, two SpoO
~ fulS OF butter melted; let it set
- rise: when light put in rings.
u &c Barley Co6ee.-Take commC
III barley, or the skinless if it can
y. obtained, roast as you won