Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-20
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


CABBAGE and turnips, cooked in the
same room with milk or butter, would
impart disagreeabe taste to them.
For fattening animals, three fourths
to one pound of meal per day to each 100
pounds of live weight Is said to be about
the proper quantity.
APPLE SAUoE.-Two quarts of water,
pint of molasses, a root of ginger, and
boil all together twenty minutes; put in
while boiling peck of pared, cored and
quartered apples. Stew till tender.
LONDON SYLLABUB.-A pint and half
of sherry; two ounces of sugar; grated
nutmeg two quarts of milk. Sweeten a
pint and half of sherry with the loaf
sugar in bowl, and add nutmeg. Milk
into it from the COW about two quarts of
milk.
FROSTED FEET REMEDY.-It is recon.
mended TO paint the feet few nights with
tincture of iodine. Another remedy, said
to be sure, is: Take mutton suet and
resin, equal parts; stew together and
anolnt the feet before going to bed.
GOLDEN SALvB REc1PEs.-Two quarts
raw linseed oil, three pounds beeswax.
Melt thoroughly together and turn into
tin boxes This is the best salve known
for burns, scalds, flesh wounds old sores,
piles, etc. To make small quantities the
same proportion as above is required
FRIED SwEET-PoTAToEs- evening
before they are wanted peel and slice
them, lay them in a stew. pan and sprinkle
sugar between the layers ofpotatoes pour
on water enough to cover them, and set
the stew.pan on the stove. In the morn
ing, by the time you are ready to fry
them, they will be cooked Just enough
fry in hot lard to a light brown on both
sides.
REMEDY FOR BEE ST1Nas, ETc.-The
tincture of iodine is almost sovereign
remedy for the sting of bees, wasps,
hornets, the bites of spiders any external
| poisoning, as the crushing of caterpillars,
hop or corn worms on the flesh. Apply
the tincture as soon as possible in any
way convenient. 1t may be had Mt al.
most any drug store or of any practicing
physician. Cor Rural Neo Yorker
FRGAR's OMELET-Boil eight or nine
large apples to pulp, stir in two ounces
of butter, and add pounded sugar to taste
When cold, add an egg well beaten up
Then butter the bottom of deep baking
dish, and the sides also. Thickly streW
crumbs Of bread, so as to stick all ovel
the bottom and sides. Put in the mix
ture, and strew bread crumbs plentifully
over the top. Put it into a moderate oven
and when baked turn it out, and put DOW
dered sugar over.
BOILED AsPARAGUs.-To each half
gallon of water allow one heaped table
spoonful OF salt. Asparagus should bt
dressed as soon as possible after it is cut
although it may be kept for day or two
by putting the stalks into cold water: We
to be good, like every other vegetable, /
cannot be cooked too fresh. Scrape tn,
white part of the stems, beginning from
the head, and throw them into cold water
then tie them into bundles of about twent,
each, keeping the heads all one way, ant
cut the stalks evenly, that they may all b.
the same length; put them into boiling
water, with salt in the above proportion
Keep them boiling quickly until tender
with the saucepan uncovered. When thu
asparagus is DONE dish it upon toast
which should be dipped in the water i
was cooked in, and leave the white end
outward each way, with the points meet
ing in the middle. Serve with a tureel
of melted butter.
A FARMERS wife writes a letter TO tn
/ sRurdt Neoo Yorker which she wants tn
'men-folks" to read. 1t is plea for NOR
sleep. Have you a wife, she says, VIII
goes about in listless, spiritless fashion
as though she could but just drag hersel
about? Or is she cross and fretful, an
do you wonder how she came to have sue
a temper? Ten TO one, all she needs t
make her bright and happy is rest, slee
and loving words. Hire efficient hell
that the wife who has passed sleeples
night may take advantage of baby morn
ing nap and have one of her own, or,
she choose, lie down in the afternoon an
make up the lost sleep. You can affor
it If you will. Do you begrudge hur
dred dollars year for your wife's con
fort and health? Why, no breeding mar
would be worked as some men work the
wivesl Give women their home rights
help them to bear their burdens; Civ
! them few kind, loving words every da,
and you will have healthier and happi(
/. wives children and homes