The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1875-09-25
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

AbB uitCS'Aouo IOE pICbcINluS grape JuiCCi
SO as to make what is sometimes called
unfermented wine," we ird in the
Journal of Applied Chemistry:
The grapes should be allowed to thor.
oughly ripen. They are then picked,
and the stems and all green and rotten
grapes removed. The grspes are then
crushed and pressed in the usual man.
ner. The juice may be put directly
into bottles, or it may be first concen
trated somewhat by boiling and ther
bottled in either case the bottles are
put in hot water and brought to the
boiling point, where they are maintained
for half an hour. At the end of this
time remove them from the fire and
cork them tightly, while still hot, wiring
in the corks. Then replace them and
continue the boiling another hour.
Glass bottles are better for this purpose
than tin cans, though the latter may be
used. An analysis of a specimen pre-
pared in New jersey, gave the follow.
ing result, Alcohol, none sugar and
extract, $500; ash, 40; water, rs 90.
This had, probably, been concentrated
somewhat before bottling. The flavor
was fine.
DUTCH CHEESE The Tribune gives
the following as the process for making
German Hand Cheese, more generally
known as "Dutch Cheese" or spot
Cheese:
Set the vessel containing the sour
milk on the stove, over kettle of water,
and let it heat up slowly till the milk
thickens and the whey is partly separated
AS soon as the curd becomes firm
enough to handle, before it becomes
hard and the whey all separately it is
removed and suspended IN a cloth, or
perforated tin, long enough to drain off
the whey and cool. If for domestic
use, it is broken up, and about half as
much sweet cream added as originally
belonged to the milk, and sailed and
otherwise seasoned to taste with some
aromatic, if desired, and either made
into hand cakes or packed away in a
vessel for use. If for market, the curd
is drained and broken up, and sailed and
seasoned with little pepper or caraway
seed, and little butter added, SO that
the PARTICLES of curd will adhere, and
then moulded by hand into four-ounce
cakes OF. cheeses, and placed at once
upon the market, where ready sale is
usually found ct remunerative prices.
ORANGE W1NE.-To every gallon of
water put two and half pounds of
moist sugar, four oranges, one lemon,
and one and half ounces of ginger
boil the sugar, water, ginger, and peel
for half an hour then pour it on your
juice, and when nearly cold, add little
yeast. Let it lay two days, stirring it
two or three times day, then put It in
the barrel, and when it has done kissing.
put in some isinglass. Stop it up, and
bottle In five weeks. The editor OF the
Florida Agriculturist, who doubtless
knows whereof he afirms, ssys this q
good recipe.
ONIONS WITH SUGAR" Wyncoop,"
in the New York Tribune, says that the
majority of people like onions az food,
and, only for the perfume, many would
eat them who now do not. That they
are antiscorbutic as we'll as antiseptic is
also admitted, and this is the way pre-
pare them. A few moments before they
are to be eaten they should he sliced
quite thin and sprinkled plentifully with |
sugar, the juice of the onion will dis
solve the sugar, and you have a palata-
BILE relish which will not rise on the |
stomach or produce q heartburn. A |
trial will afford proof.
BAKED TOMATOES thoroughly
ripened fruit, cut them in halves
sprinkle over the cut half with bread
crumbs, sugar, salt, pepper and butter.
Place them in baking pan, cut side
upward, and bake in an oven for two
hours. Serve on platter garnished
with curled parsley.
KEROSENE FOR Ivy Po1soN1Na.-A
writer in the Florida Agricalturist says
that Kerosene will relieve the irritation
occasioned by poison from ivy in forty
and eradicate the poison en-.
tirely In as many hours. With the point
OF the finger, or soft brush, rub
small portion OF the oil over the places
where the eruption appears, repeating
bhe application three or four times q
day. Relief from the itching will be
almost immediate, and the cure certain
and speedy. Other cutaneous diseases,
ne adds, such as ring worm, itch, and
5he lighter type of letter, can be cured
oy the same treatment, and the minutest
irop of kerosene will kill bed-bucs
quicker than lightning.
PUMPKIN AS A PoULTIoE.-A CORES. Z
oondent of the New York farmers Club
yives an instance in which a womsn's q
Irm was swelled to an enormous size {
md painfully imfamed. A poultice '
vas made of stewed pumpkins, which i
vas renewed every fifteen minutes, and t
. short time produced perfect cure. L
he fever drawn out by the poultice O
aade them extremely offensive. as they | Il
Iere taken Of. a
TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEyER-Dr. 9
ieorge Johnson. in the London Prac. :,
ltioner, takes the ground that in the !.
reatment of typhoid fever careful =
ursing and feeding are of primary i'm =
ortance, while, as rule, no medicines I,
any kind are required, and when not =
squired they are often worse than use r
'ss. Diarrhma is less FREQUENT !.
ymptom than before this plan was -
dopted, and when it does occur it ia far = =
lore tractable, while tympanitic disten. :,
on OF the abdomen is rare event. =
ALLIGATOR LEATHER. - The Boston q.
ulletin gives some interesting skatist;ca ~