Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


ATTEND to your surface drainage before
the ground freezes.
HoRsEs turned out TO pasture should
have access to shelter.
PARsNIPs may be left in the ground all
winter without injury.
SAwDUsT from the nearest mill makes
good bedding and manure.
SOME farmers spread straw on the ex-
posed parts of their wheat fields.
PETROLEUM preserves wood and pre-
vents iron from rusting. Wash with 1t
the implements and machines you do not
want to use until spring, and store them
away.
SwEETMEAT PUDDINa.-Five eggs, the
whites and yolks beaten separately; one
cup of white powdered sugar, one cup of
peach jam or other nice preserve, a half
cup of melted butter, half nutmeg But
ter baking dish and bake quickly.
THE Scientific american recommends as
a cure for nose. bleeding, to extend the
arm perpendicularly against wall or
post, or any convenient object for a sup.
port The arm on the side from whicn
the blood proceeds is the one to elevate
The following process is said to be a
sure way to prevent oil lamps from smok-
ing: Take any quantity of onions, bruise
them, put all into retort and distil; pour
a little of this liquor into the bottom of
the lamp, and it will give no smoke.
CLEANING CANE SEATs.-Turn up the
chair bottom, and with hot water and a
sponge wash the cane work so that it may
be thoroughly soaked. Should it be dirty
use little soap. Let it dry in the air,
and il will be as tight and firm as when
new, provided the cane is not broken.
IRON Mold IN LINEN.-Wash the spots
in a strong solution of cream of tartar and
water. Repeat if necessary, and dry in
the sun. Another method Rub the spots
with little powdered oxalic acid or salts
of lemon and warm water Let 1t remain
a few minutes. and then rinse well in clean
water.
BosToN RTcE-C -CAKEs.-Boil n cup of
rice, and while hot put into it a large tea
spoonful of butter. Beat the whites and
yolks of three eggs separately and stir
them into the rice. Thicker with four ta-
blespoontuls of -four, and bake either in
mutfin-rings or upon a delicately- creased
griddle. Salt put in, of course, to the
taste.
CANNED PEARs.-Prepare a sirup-a
pint of water and quarter of pound of
sugar to quart of fruit. While this is
heating, peel the pears, dropping each as
1t is pared into clear water, lest the color
change by exposure TO the air When the
sirup has come to boil, put in the pears
and boil until they can be easily pierced
by fork. Fill the cans while hot, and
seal
GINGER CAKEs.-Half a pound of but
ter, half pound of sugar, one ounce of
soda dissolved in gill of milk, one pint
of molasses, two and half pounds of
| flour and ginger TO taste. Mix together,
knead well, and then roll out and bake.
generally draw out into round rolls, and
curl in my oven in the shape of a letter 5.
M O. W, in Mobile Register.
BUTTERAnLK CAKE.-One pound OF
| flour, one pound of sugar half pound OF
butter, five eggs, half pint of buttermilk.
Beat the eggs well add by degrees and
alternately the flour, sugar, milk and but
! ter. The last must be washed and cream
ed. The buttermilk should be just fresh
from the churn; if decidedly sour, a pinch
OF soda will be found needful.
APPLE FRITTERs. Sour milk, one pint
saleratus, one teaspoon; flour, to make a
batter not very stiff; six apples pared and
cored; three eggs. Dissolve the saleratus
In the milk, beat the eggs and put in, then
the flour to make soft batter, chop the
apples to about the size of small peas, and
mix them well with the batter. Fry in
lard as you would doughnuts. Eaten
with butter and sugar.
To PREPARE WOODEN PAILs.-If a com
mon wooden pail receives three coats OF
common copal varnish on the inside be
fore being used, it will never become
water-soaked, nor will it give any dis
agreeable flavor to water that may be al
| lowed to stand in ii for any length OF
time. Thus its usefulness and durability
are greatly ncreased.-Hed5th and Home
THE BACHELORS LoAF.-Sift a hall
pint of corn meal and add to it a dessert
spoonful of butter and a heaping teaspoon
ful of salt. Let one quart of new milk be
put on the fire in a stew-pan and allowed
just to come to boil. Stir it gradually
into the meal over the fire, and then sci
mixture aside to cool. Beat up separately
meanwhile the whites and yokes of foul
eggs; mix them together, and then add tC
the scalded meal and bake in a shallow
dish and regularly heated oven. Corn
bread is the easiest of all breads to burn
in baking.
To Cook PoULTRY-All kinds of poul
try and meat can be cooked quicker by
adding to the water in which they are
boiled, a little vinegar or piece Of lem
on. By the use of an acid there will be q
considerable saving of fuel, as well as
shortening of time. lis action is bene.
fetal on old, tough meats, rendering them
quite tender and easy of digestion. Taint.
ed meats and fowl will lose their bad
taste and odor if cooked in this way, and
if not used too freely no taste of it will be
acquired.
How TO REPAIR LEAKY ROOFs.-Melt
together in an iron pot, two parts by
weight, of common pitch and one part OF
gutta-percha. This forms homogeneous
fluid much more manageable than gutta
percha alone. To repair cutters, roofs OF
outer surfaces, carefully clean out of the
cracks all earthly matters, slightly warm
the edges with plumbers soldering iron
then pour the cement in fluid state upon
the crack while hot finishing up by go
ing over the cement with a moderately
hot iron, so as to make good connection
and smooth joint. The above will re
pair zinc, lead, or iron, and is good
cement for aquariums.
JIMMY was his name. He was a New
York rough, but now his bones are bleach
upon the arid plains of southern Colorado
| Jimmy eaNU rno1 to forf,,po IIa