Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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Brown Bread. Three cups Of sweet
milk, one cup of sour milk, two cups Of
Indian meal, two cups Of rye meal, half
cup of good molasses, one teaspoon Of
soda or saleratus. Boil three hours hard
in pail or tin pudding dish q .l .it
The question whether farming pays
is a question as to whether labors pay
which are intrinsically healthful to the in
dividual and useful to society, and whose
sure reward is independence and compe-
tence. To this there can be but one
answer.
--Suet Pudding. One cup of suet
chopped fine; one cup of brown sugar;
one cup of molasses; one egg; one tea
spoon of saleratus; one cup of sweet or
sour milk; three cups of flour; CHINA.
mon, cloves and raisins, steam two
hours. 81 ia ui nIi
Puff Cake. Two cupfuls of white
sugar, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful
of butter, three eggs one cupful of milk,
one teaspoonful Of soda, two teaspoon
fuls of cream tartar; dissolve soda in
part of the milk. .a
Barley has recently gained in repu-
tation as good and substantial food for
the horse. 1t must be conceded by all
that it contains in a high degree the prin-
ciples for forming fat and flesh. 1t
largely abounds in albumen, gluten,
sugar, gum and phosphate of lime.
"A Wholesome Dinner.-A piece of
nicely roasted mutton (no made gravy,
some roasted or wellboiled potatoes, a
dish of ripe tomatoes, sliced, and, with
the addition of q baked corn starch or
batter pudding, you will have a strength
ening meal for yourself and children.
Peach Jam.-Take ripe peaches, peel
and stone them, put them in pan over
the fire, and mash them till hot, then rub
them through sieve and to each pound
of fruit allow pound of white sugar and
half an ounce of bitter almonds blanched
and pounded; let it boil fifteen minutes,
stir and skim it well.
-Jumbles.- One and a. half cups sugar,
half cup butter, two eggs, half tea
spoon soda, one of cream of tartar (dis-
solved in little sweet milk, flour
enough to make like pie-crust Bake in
wafiie-irons. Fill the little holes with
light and dark jelly, alternately.
-Fricaseed Oysters.-One hundred
oysters, one-quarter pound butter; brown
the butter, then put In the oysters and
let all simmer for fifteen minutes; braid
one tablespoonful of -four and butter well
together, add one spoonful chopped pars'
ley, some salt and pepper; when ready to
serve, add the yelks of three eggs well
beaten; serve on toast.
Don't allow your carriage to rattle
like threshing machine. Washers OF
sole leather on the spindles of axle-trees
will stop the clatter caused by too much
"play." A piece of rubber put in be.
tween the thill iron and clip will silence
matters; and little coal-oil ON the circle
or fifth wheel viii stop squeaking.
-Spiced Beet Baked.-One ounce OF
saltpeter, pounded fine; rub it well on a
piece of beef; three hours after rub on
one-half pound of brown sugar, and a
little salt now and then; let the meal lie
in this pickle over two days; then take
one-half ounce of mace, few pounded
cloves; cover with suet and bake in an
oven. The spices must be rubbed in
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Breakfast Cakes.-Onc egg beaten
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cup of wheat flour, little salt, sweet
milk enough to thin them like griddle
cakes. To be baked in irons heated ho
before putting them in. This will make
just one dozen. You must be particular
and beat the eggs very light. They are
to be baked in breakfast irons, so you
can eat them hot.
-Spiced Tomatoes. bushel o.
ripe tomatoes, skin and boil them well
then add ateapcup of salt, two table
spoonfuls of black pepper, one table
spoonful of cayenne pepper, an ounce
each of ground mace, clover, allspice anC
cinnamon if agreeable to the taste, mi,
we'll. Put the tomatoes in jars, anC
when cold run mutton suet over then
and tie strong paper over the tops; o.
better, put in alright jars of glass.
1t is very common for people t
pride themselves upon the small amoun
of sleep they can get along with. 1t i!
nothing worth Dragging about. Some
persons, to be sure, can get along with
far less than others, but there should bt
no stint put upon the system. The MAJ
or woman who sleeps well and take!
plenty of it can do the most during wake
full hours. The system requires ample
rest for recuperatIon, and quiet, undis
turbed sleep is the best means of repair