Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESIlNEs
BENzINE and common clay will clean
marble.
CASTOR OIL is an excellent thing to
soften leather.
THE juice of ripe tomatoes will remove
the stain of walnuts from the hands with
out injury to the skin.
SILVER CAKE. Take the whites of four
eggs, one and half cups of sugar, half
cup of butter, half cup of milk, one and
half cups flour, one teaspoonful cream
tartar, one of soda.
WAFFLEs. quart of flour, one
pint of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
four eggs piece of butter the size of a
large egg and little salt Bake in waf-
fie-irons. Sour cream and less butter i'm
proves them.
HoUsEKEEPERs should know that
small piece of paper or linen moistened
with spirits of turpentine and put into a
bureau or wardrobe for a single day, two
or three times year, Is q sufficient
preservation against moths.
PARsNIP CAKEs-Grate raw parsnip
mix with it an equal quantity of bread
crumbs; add two or three eggs, seasoning
to taste; add milk to make the ingredi.
ents into cakes and fry them in butter
light brown over slow fire.
AMERICAN RAISED WAFFLEs. One pint
of sweet milk, one heaping teaspoonful
OF butter, three eggs, teaspoonful of
thick brewers yeast, one quart of flour,
and another teaspoonful of sweet milk in
which Is dissolved aquarter of teaspoon
ful of soda. Let IL rise until light, then
bake as other wafiles. Serve with butter
and sugar.
FRENCH CAKE.-Three eggs, one and a
half cups of sugar, one teaspoonful of
baking powder, two tablespoonfuls of
cold water; bake in two pie-pans, split,
while hot and spread between the follow.
ing custard: One-third pint sweet milk,
one tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved
in bit of the milk, one egg we'll beaten
when it comes to boil add half cup of
sugar, one-fourth cup of butter. Lemon
to suit the taste.
BE SURE that the water you use for do
mestic purposes is pure. Impure water
is more injurious than impure air. Never
drink water that has been kept in a room
for several hours, whether it be warm or
not. Water has the faculty of condensing
and thereby absorbing nearly all the gases,
which it does without increasing its own
bulk. The colder the water is the greater
its capacity to contain these gases. At an
ordinary temperature pint of water will
contain pint of carbonic acid gas and
several pints of ammonia. This capacity
is nearly doubled by reducing the tenn
perature to that of ice.
To MAKE EvERToN TAFFY.-Into a
brass kettle put quarter of a pound of
fresh butter; as coon as it is just melted
add pound of brown sugar; keep these
stirred very gently over clear fire till a
little of the mixture, dropped into cold
water, breaks between the teeth without
sticking to them. When it has boiled TO
this point, it must be poured out immedi-
ately, or it will burn. The grated rind OF
lemon added when the taffy is half done
improves it; or use teaspoonful of pow
dered ginger, moistened with little OF
the other ingredients, so soon as the sugar
is dissolved, and then stirred to the whole
II dropped upon buttered dish, the
tally can, when cold, be raised from il
easily.
To OBTAIN light instantly without the
use of matches and without the danger o.
setting things on fire, take an oblong phial
of the whitest and clearest glass; put into
it piece of phosphorus about the size OF
pea, upon which pour some olive oil
heated to the boiling point, filling the
phial about one-third full, and then sea-
the phial Theoretically. To use it, re-
move the cork and allow the air to enter
the phial, and then recork it. The whole
empty space in the bottle will then be
come luminous, and the light obtained
will be equal to that of lamp. AS soor
as the light grows weak its power can bt
increased by opening the phial and allow
ing fresh supply of air to enter. Ii
winter it is sometimes necessary to hea
the phial between the hands to increas,
the tluidity of the oil. Thus prepared
the phial may be used for six months
This contrivance is now used by tn,
watchmen of Paris in all magazine
where explosive Or inflammable material
are stored.
MELTON VEAL-This is a standard disl
at the Melton races in England, and i
composed of alternate slices of veal ant
ham. Butter good.siZed bowl, ant
slice as thin as possible six hard .boileC
eggs; then line the bowl with the slices
Place in the bottom layer of raw yea
steak in thin slices, and sprinkle over
a small quantity of salt, pepper and grate'
lemon peel; proceed in the same wa,
with thin slices of raw ham, but leav
out the salt. Cover il with thick past
of flour and water, so stiff as TO be rolleC
out. Tie double cotton cloth all owe
the top and boil three hours, putting
into the boiling water at the first an
keeping the water just below the level Q
the bowl. When cooked, take off tn
cloth and paste; let the veal stand unit
the following day. then turn it on pla
ter, and cut very thin after it comes to III
table; garnish with sliced lemon an
parsley. 1t is "a dainty dish to set b,
fore king" 1t is also a side dish fC
dinner, and excellent for breakfast
american Farmer.