Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1873-11-06
Farm, Garden and Household,
Housekeeping Department.

First wash the stains In strong salt
water, and then in ammonia.
BRRAKFAsr CAKEs.-One quart of
-four, one pint of milk, two eggs, butter
the size of an egg, one teaspoon of
soda, two teaspoons of cream of tartar !;
bake in quick oven and heated pans.
PERFUME FOR LMEN.-Dried rose
leaves, one pound; cloves, caraway
seed and allspice, each one pound !;
pulverize or grind them together, and
add of dried salt one-fourth pound.
Put In small bags among your linen.
CooK1Es.-Two cups of sugar, one
cup of butter, four eggs, one teaspoon
full OF soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream
of tartar, and flour to roll. Caraway
seeds or spice to taste. If put in q
stone jar they will last for long while.
CHINA Pm.-Make crust short, roll
out thin, and put in deep pie plate.
Put in layer of thin sliced apples, a
layer of sugar and spice, SO on until
full put on the top layer sugar, spices
and little Jumps of butter. No top
crust. Bake from three-fourths of an
hour to an hour.
CorTAaE CHEEsR.-Boil two chickens
till tender, take out all the bones, and
chop the meat fine, season to your taste
with salt, peper and butter, pour in
enough of the liquid they were boiled
in to make it moist; put into whatever
mold you wish, and when cold turn out
and cut into slices. 1t is excellent.
To RENovATE CARPETS. teaspoon
full of liquid ammonia in one gallon of
warm water will often restore the coler
of carpets, even if produced by acid or
alkali. If ceiling has been white
washed with carpet down, and few
drops are visible, this will remove it.
Or, after the carpet is well beaten and
brushed, scour with ox-gall, which will
not only extract grease but freshen the
colors. One pint of gall in three gal
Ions warm water will do large carpet.
Table foor-cloths may be thus washed.
The suds left from q wash, where am
monia is used, even if almost cold,
cleanses these new foor-cloths very
well.
RoLLs.-Nice rolls aremade with two
quarts of flour, one cup of yeast, two
eggs, one-half cup of lard, and made up
with cold water. OF course they are
better made with sweet milk aud butter
instead of lard and water, but these are
not always easy to get. In making
rolls divide the dough at the second
working into small long wedges, and
cover the bottom of the Dutch oven
with these set on end, pressing them
together until all the dough is in. They
will rise to the top of the oven, and
when done can be broken off in fakes.
It is sin to put knife into loaf of
hot rolls.
CRACKED WHEAT.-Lizzie r. Bronson
says, in the Herald of Health: For q
pint of the cracked grain have two
quarts of water boiling in a smooth
iron pot, over quick fire; stir in the
wheat slowly; boil fast, and stir con-
stantly for the first half hour of cook
ing, or until it begins to thicken and
'pop up" then lift from the quick
fire. and place the pot where the wheat
will cook slowly for an hour longer.
Keep it covered closely, stir now and
then, and be careful not to let it burn
at the bottom. Wheat cooked thus is
much sweeter and richer than when left
to soak and simmer for hours as many
think necessary. White wheat cooks
the easiest. When ready to dish out,
have your moulds moistened with cold
water, cover lightly, and set in cool
place. A handful of raisins added with
the wheat is nice. Eat warm or cold,
with milk and sugar.
TOMATO SAUcE.-The following recipe
comes all the way from Australia:
Take forty pounds tomatoes, wipe clean,
and boil or bake till soft; then squeeze
through sieve that will retain the
seeds and skins. Boil for an hour in
order to get rid of some of the watery
portion, and then add halfa gallon of best
brown vinegar, one and q half pounds
salt, two ounces cloves, three ounces
allspice, two ounces cayenne pepper,
three pounds white sugar, four ounces
garlic, and two ounces black pepper.
Boil sufficient time two hours will
usually suffice, but the sauce will not
be boiled enough until it has become
tolerably thick, and all the watery ap-
pearance has gone. Bottle without
straining in perfectly dry bottles, and
cork them securely when cold. The
garlic must be peeled, bruised, and
tied up in bag; all the spice must be
ground thequantities may be increased
or diminished according to taste. We
have kept sauce made from this receipt
three years.
Building n Dairy.
In arranging for dairy in which
water is to be pumped from a we'll into
the cooling tank we would not permit
the waste water to escape back into the
we'll. Neither would we use tarred
paper to cover the boarding, for the
reason that the milk and butter will un.
dsubtedly receive some taint; paper
free from tar can be procured, which is
equally serviceable. In fact, we would
not use coal-tar about any part of the
building. Coal-tar will not disgust rats
unless it is made into cement through
which they cannot penetrate. Rats are
only disgusted with impossibilities, and
a cement Of hydraulic lime and coarse
cinders or broken clinkers or finely
broken stone, on which their claws and
teeth can make no impression, will
alone disgust them.
Roup In Chickens.
The disease known as roup in chick
ems, and which appears in a discharge