Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-20

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ID. ground black pes9
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for two Or three weeks each day: ~ 1feQ
| pared to cook do not boil but steam it
| Make a pen of sticks in bottom of boiler.
| put beef ON them aud let it steam for s
hours, filling under sticks with boiling
water as fast as it evaporates, but never
| letting the water cover the sticks. Shave
| off the black outside skin and keep care
| fully wrapped in cloth and it will keep
| three months after it is steamed''
| And this one 'sTake a piece of beef
weighing ten pounds; take l pint salt, a
| teaspoonful of molasses or brown sugar, l
tablespoonful of ground cloves, allspice and
pepper, and two tablespoonful of pulver-
lied saltpetre place the beef in deep pan;
turn and rub each side twice day for
week ; then wash off the spices, put it in
pot of boiling water and as often as it boils
hard turn in cup of cold water. It must
simmer hours on the back part of the
stove When cold press under heavy
weights. Your pickle will do for another
ten pounds of beef, first rubbing in hand
full of salt.
Uses OF WASTE PAPER.-Few house.
keepers are aware of the many uses to
which waste paper may be put. After
stove has been blackened it can be kept
looking well for a long time by rubbing it
with paper every morning Rubbing with
paper is much nicer way of keeping the
outside of tea-kettle, coffee-pot or tea
pot bright and clean than the old way of
washing it's with suds. Rubbing them
with paper is also the best way of polish
ing knives and tin-ware after securing
them. If a little soap be held on paper in
rubbing tin-ware and spoons, they shine
like new silver. For polishing mirrors,
windows, lamp-chimneys, etc., paper is bet
ter than cloth. Preserves and pickles keep
much better if brown paner instead of cloth
is tied over the jar. Canned fruit is not
apt to mould if piece of writing paper,
cut to fit each can, is laid directly upon the
fruit. Paper is much better to put under
a carpet than straw. 1t is thinner, warm
er, and makes less noise when one walks
over it. Two thicknesses of paper placed
between the other coverings on bed are
rs warm as a quilt. If it is necessary to
step upon chair, always lay paper upon
it and thus save the paint and woodwork
from damage.
HONEY VINEGAR.-Th best of Vine
oar can be easily and quickly made from
honey. To twenty gallons of rain-water
i'd five pounds of honey and two gallons
Of cider vinegar. If the weather is warm.
OF it be kept in a warm room OF cellar, it
will be fit for use in a few weeks More
vinegar added would hasten the process
Every family that keeps bees should be
able to have good vinegar all the time
After a barrel is once made, honey and
water may be added as the vinegar is used,
so as to always keep it nearly full The
barrel should never be entirely full.
POTATO SoUP.-Take large, mealy pota-
toes, peel and cut in small slices, with an
onion; boil i'll three pints of water till
tender, andpulp through a colander. Add
a small piece of butter, q little cayenne
pepper and salt land just before the soup is
served two spoonsful of cream Do not
let it boil after the cream is added.
BLACK CAKE.-One pound each oftiour,
sugar and butter, ten eggs, three pounds
currants, two pounds raisins, one table
spoon each of ginger, cloves, mace and nut
meg, one pound of citron, one of blanched
almonds, a glass of brandy and one of wine.
This quantity requires four hours to
bake.
CoCoANUT CAKE,-One cup of butter,
two cups of sugar, four eggs, one teaspoon
full of soda, dissolved ina cup of milk, two
teaspoonfuls of cream Of tartar, one grated
coceanut which should be mixed with -four
Beat the whites of the eggs to froth. Add
flour enough to make it about as stiff as
pound cake.
POTATOES grown on land occupied by
this crop several years in succession are
generally of poor quality. To be good for
the table they should be grown in a regu-
lar rotation with other crops. If planted
on broken land, long straw is an excellent
manure to plough under.
. RICE CAKEs.-Boil half pound of rice
dry; when nearly cold sift into it about
one quart of flour, and add full table,
spoonful of shortening. Then stir in one
quart of milk; beat up five eggs light, and
stir in the natter. Add little salt and
small cup of yeast.
PRUNING, except upon large limbs, may
be done now. Young orchards, if looked
after every year, will seldom require any
large limbs to be cut off, besides, all the
necessary pruning can be done at time
when other work is not pressing.
SAUSAGE MEAT.-To ten and a half
pounds of sausage meat put six tablespoon
tuls of sage, five tablespoonful of salt and
three of pepper. You may also add four
tablespoonfuls of sweet marjorum and two
of thyme,
BEEF PATTIEs.-Chop fine rare roast
beef, season with pepper, salt and a little
onion. Make a.plain paste, cut into shape
like an apple puff, fill with the mince and