Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Excellent Drop Cakes.-Two cups
sugar; one cup sour milk; three teaspoons
soda two eggs one teaspoon cloves; one
teaspoon cinnamon. Stir very thick and
drop on buttered tins.
Rye Drop Cakes.--One cup of sour
cream, three cups of sour milk or butter
milk, one-half cup of sugar or molasses,
two teaspoonfuls of saleratus. Mix stiff
enough for the spoon to stand erect. A
little salt helps it,
Plum Preserves.--Plums are equally
good done in molasses as sugar. If sugar
is used, take an equal quantity of fruit
and sugar. Make clear syrup and boil
the plums gently forty minutes. They
will require heating over once if to be kept.
Beech plums are very excellent prepared
in this way, as well as for pies.
Imitation Coral Baskets Bend bon
net wire into the shape of o scolloped
basket; and two wires, crossed at equal
distances, for the handle; and then sew on
few raisin stems, short and long ones
Melt some beeswax, coloring it with
Chinese vermilion or red aniline; if the
aniline Is used, it must be dissolved in n
little warm water and poured into the
beeswax. Apply this while hot, pouring
1t on with a teaspoon, being careful to
just cover the frame.
"A correspondent of the Rural Nep
Yorker gives the following as a sure cure
for scratches and collar-gall and good for
man and beast; One quart linseed oil
one quart spirits turpentine; two fluid
ounces sulphuric acid. Put oil and tur-
pentine together in common stone jug
add the acid slowly, (keeping it uncorked)
and keep it in motion until cool To cure
scratches use no wash but the oil, and
after two days application rub the affect
ed part with a cob and apply oil every
day.
--Carbolic Acid.-That great disinfect-
ant, carbolic acid, should be on hand in
every household, and if bought by the
gallon or quart it is cheap; if bought in
walls it isdear. An objection hitherto has
been its unpleasant odor, but this was on
account of its strength. Solutions will
kill the eggs of all kinds of vermin, will
destroy ants in the hill, and annihilate the
germs of disease and plaques in stables
and outhouses, but general cleaning out
Is required in connection. All drains
sinks, and pipes conveying water should
have a sprinkling
How to Make Tomato Figs-POul
| boiling water over the tomatoes in order
to remove the skins; then weigh them
and place them in stone jar, with as
much sugar as you have tomatoes, and
let them stand two days; then pour of
the syrup and boil and skim it until nc
scum rises. Then pour it over the toma
! toes, and let them stand two days, as be
! fore, then boil and skim again. After
third time they are fit to dry, if thu
weather is good; if not, let them stand il
the syrup until drying weather. TheI
! place on large eathen plates or dishes
and put them in the sun to dry, which
will take about a week, after which pacl
them down in small wooden boxes, will
fine white sugar between each layer
Tomatoes prepared in this manner will
keep for years.
Saving the Shingles.-The lScientif
american says: Take potash kettle o
large tub, and put into it one barrel o
wood ashes lye, five pounds of whit
vitriol, five pounds of alum, and as mucl
salt as will dissolve in the mixture
Make the liquor quite warm, and put a
many shingles in it as can be convenient
wetted at once. Stir them up with fork
and when we'll soaked take them out an
put in more, renewing the liquor as nece,
sary. Then lay the shingles in the usua
manner. After they are laid take tn
liquor that is left, put enough lime into
to make whitewash, and if any coloring
desirable, add ocher, Spanish brow
lampblack, etc, and apply to the roc
with brush or an old broom. This was
may be renewed from time to time Sa
and lye are excellent preservatives {
wood. 1t is well known that leach tub
troughs, and other articles used in IL
manufacture of potash, never rot. The
become saturated with the alkali, tur
yellowish inside, and remain imperviot
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