Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-04-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
GINGER SNAPs.-One cup boiling molas-
ses, pour into your flour; four tablespoon
fuls butter, one tablespoonful of soda and
one of ginger.
To MAKE CooBIEs.-One egg, one cup
sugar, one cup sour cream, two.tbirds cup
butter, teaspoon soda, mix soft, roll thin,
and sift sugar on them before baking.
ToADs are capital helpers in taking
care of vine patches. Lay boards be
tween the rows to shelter them in the day
time, and they will make carnival of
the bugs at night.
CUP CAKE.-Five cups of flour, mixed
with three tablespoonfuls of baking pow
der, one cup and a half of milk, three
eggs, nutmeg or lemon juice. Add cur
rants, If you wish.
BRonED STEAK.-To have tender
broiled steak is very difficult thing. The
longer 1t is kept hung up, without taint,
the better. Ten or fifteen minutes is suf
fcient time for cooking steak. Butter,
salt and pepper after it is done. Good,
fat, stall-fed beef makes the best steak.
FRUIT CAKE.-Ten eggs, one and one
half pounds sugar, one and one-ha'f
pounds butter, one and one-half pounds
flour, { ne pound raisins, stoned and
halved, two pounds currants,, one tea
spoonful of soda, citron cut small, one
tablespoonful Of cinnamon, teaspoonful
Of cloves, one nutmeg. Bake slow.
To CLEANSE TAPESTRY CARPETs.-Beat
and sweep them thoroughly, remove all
grease spots with ox-gall mixed with
water, put on with a scrubbing- brush,
then wipe the whole carpet with a mop or
cloth wrung from weak solution of OK
gall in warm water. This removes the
dnst and brightens the colors.
A REFRESHING drink in fevers is thus
prepared: Boil an ounce and a half of
tamarinds, three ounces of cranberries and
two ounces of stoned raisins in three
pints of water till the water is reduced
to two pints. Strain, and add a bit of
lemon peel, which must be removed in
an hour, as 1t imparts bitter taste if left
too long.
CAROLINA ACAKE.-Whites of eight eggs,
two cups of sugar, two-thirds cup butter,
one-half cup milk, two and one-half cups
flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar,
one teaspoonful of soda. Beat the sugar
and butter to cream, add the milk, beat
the whites to stiff froth, add little OF
the flour and whites, beat well, add more
-four and eggs, and so on till all is mixed.
Bake well; flavor to taste.
FARMERS FRUIT. .CAKE.-Soak three
cups of dried apples over night in warm
water; chop slightly in the morning, and
then simmer two hours in two cups oI
molasses. Add two well.beaten eggs, one
cupful of sugar, one cupful of sweet milk
a quarter of a pound of butter, one des
sert-spoonful of bi-carbonate of soda and
flour enough to make rather stiff batter
Put in spice or other 1avoring to sui
your taste, and bake in quick oven.
A LADY correspondent of Hearth anc
Home gives the following directions fol
making a wedding cake: One pounC
brown sugar, one pound butter, one pounC
-four, twelve eggs, one cup molasses, si1
pounds Valentia raisins, three pound
currants, two pounds citron, one ounc,
cinnamon, one ounce mace, one ounc,
cloves, one gill brandy-or you can use
if you prefer, one gill whisky and on
gill lemonjuice, and the grated rind o
two lemons-two nutmegs add sufficien
flour to dust the fruit.
CORAL CAKE.-Make a batter precisel,
like that used for starch cake. Then +
three tablespoonfuls of the batter placed il
al separate dish add one teaspOonful @
the following coloring preparation di:
solved in Tablespoonful of boiling water
One drachm cochineal, one drachm alum
one drachm soda, pulverized and wei
mixed together. Any druggist will pre-
pare it for five cents, and there will
sufficient for several large cakes. w
frequently use it to color a part of ou
E frosting, as it has very pretty effect whe
placed on white.-Flrmers' Union.
PEACH JELLY.-For table ornamen
f nothing is more elegant. Dissolve i
= sufficient water one ounce of isinglass
) strain it; halve one dozen large peaches
4 and pare them; make sirup of on
4 pound of fruit sugar and half pint {
: water. Into this put the peaches and ke
Y nels; boil gently fifteen minutes, whe
f place the fruit on plate, and cook tn
:, sirup ten minutes longer; add to it tn
4 juice of three lemons and the isinglas
s A pyramid mold is very pretty for thi
Y Fill part full of jelly, and when set, put i
e one-quarter of the peaches. Place on ic
e and let it harden; add more jelly, harder
|. ETC., until full. Let the base of the mol
n be jelly.
d CHINESE VARNIsH-The Chinese al
S said to make a varnish, by beatin
# together fresh blood with quick-lim
:, which is extensively used as a coating f
|. wooden articles, which they wish to mai
IS completely water,tight. Won Scherze
IT who first introduced this substanC
s to the notice of Europeans, says he hi
" seen in Pekin wooden chests that ha
h; been vanished with it which, att
e journey over Siberia to st. Petersbul
e and back, were still sound and perfect
o water-tight. Even baskets of straw, use
9. for the transportation of oil, are made
h for the purpose by means of this varnis
h Pasteboard coated with it becomes, bo
d in appearance and f1rmness, like WOO
r Articles requiring to be absolutely impC
" vious are vanished twice or at the mo
1t three times by the Chinese. The prep
u ration has been tested in various wa
o both in Europe and Australia; and,
d though it gives to vessels covered with
e rough, ugly, red appearance, its use
Is recommended as sure means of makil
r. wood impervious to water.