Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-08
Farm, Garden and Household.
Housekeeping Department,

SODA CAkE.-rOur eggs, one pint
sugar, one tea-cup butter, one cup
sweet milk, one quart -four, one tea
spoonful soda, two cream tartar.
OUNCE PUDD1Na.-Stew and strain
eight ounces. Add half pound sugar,
six eggs, a pint of milk or cream.
Season or not, as may be preferred.
Bake in dish lined and ornamented
with pastry.
KEEPING HoSEY.-To keep honey all
the year round, let it run through a
sieve to separate it from particles of
wax, then boil it gently in an earthen
vessel, skim off the foam which gathers
on top and cool it in jars. After cool
ing these lightly set them away in
cool cellar.
TREATMENT OF CAL1coEs.- Calicoes
often fade simply because they are i'm
properly washed. To insure their not
fading, infuse three gills of salt into
four quarts of water put the calico in
while it is hot, and let it remain there
until cold. By this means the colors Of
the goods are made permanent, and will
not fade by subsequent washings.
To MEND CH1NA.-Take very thick
solution of gum arabic in water, and
stir into it plaster of Paris, until the
mixture is of proper consistency.
Apply it with brush to the fractured
edges of the china, and stick them to-
gether. In three days the articles can
not be broken in the same place. The
whiteness of the cement renders it
doubly valuable.
To JAPAN OLD TEA TRAYs.- First
clean them thoroughly with soap and
water, and a little rottenstone then
dry them by wiping and exposure at
the fire. Now get some good copal
varnish, mix it with some bronze pow
der, and apply with brush to the de-
nuded parts. After which set the tray
in an oven at heat of 212 or 300 de.
grees until the varnish is dry. Two
coats will make it equal to new.
BAKED PoTAToEs.-Have them nearly
of size, or so carefully graduated that
all shall require about the same length
of time for cooking. Bake quickly,
and yet without burning. Toward the
last, watch them very closely, and try
them by feeling them through towel !;
and as fast as they are done, squeeze
them until the skin breaks and let's out
the steam then lay them in hot dish,
cover with folded towel, and serve as
soon as possible.
PRESERVING EGGs.-J. G. Higgins,
Delhi Mills, Mich, writes Dip them
in boiling hot water, taking out i'm
mediately, then lay them in fresh salt,
separate from each other, small end
down. To my certain knowledge, eggs
that were packed after this plan last
summer were as fresh apparently when
usd in April last as when laid. I know
one woman who sold hundred dozen
at one time, during the winter, when
they were high, that were put down du-
ing the summer in this way they were
all good"
Mice I'm Orchards.
The Germantown Telegraph COM
mends the following way of preventing
the ravages of mice among young trees
in the orchard:
"There was n great deal said last
spring of the injury done to young ap-
ple-trees during last winter by mice,
and the only remedy that we have yet
seen suggested is to stamp the snow
firmly around the trees. This is, how
ever, not believed to be remedy at all
and we doubt if it is of much advan-
tage. But our method is remedy, and
we have tried to impress the fact upon
our contemporaries for the past twenty
years, but we should say, judging from
their ignorance in answering imploring
correspondents what they must do to
save their trees, that it has received
but little attention from many quar-
tiers.
at is simply TO bandage up the
stems of the tree with any cotton or
woolen cloths, if of old muslin with two
or three wrappings, letting the bandage
so into the ground an inch or two, and
six or eight inches above ground, and
tie up. This should be renewed every
autumn if necessary, until the trees are
large enough not to be injured. Those
who are in earnest for q remedy will try
this and save their trees; but it will be
too much trouble for others to devote a
couple of hours to this labor annually,
and they will rather run the risk with
the mice.
"This method will keep out the
borer also, as we have stated on several
occasions. Rabbits..can gnaw, when the
stems are small enough, two feet from
the ground, and would require the
bandage to be much higher. Tarring g
would help as protection, but we have
known in many cases the simple BAN
dage to be all-sufficient."
Washing Butter.
A very large majority of butter
makers wash the butter a minority do
not, and claim washing is not only un-
necessary, bus injurious. Good butter
is made by some of each way of think
ing-and poor also when washed or un-
washed. At recent meeting of Chau-
tauqua County, n. Y, butter-makers,
the President decided the sentiment OF
the meeting to be. in favor of careful
washing with the best water to be had.
Several speakers thought but little water
should be used. One man is reported
to have made the extraordinary state.
ment that applying salt freely would
answer the purpose of washing, and
that butter would dissolve no more salt
than it needs Western Farmer.
Packing for Ice-House.
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