Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-02-04
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

OYSTER POTATO BALLS. Beard dozen
small, plump oysters, cover them snugly
with plain mashed potato paste roll
them with flour or beaten up egg aud
bread crumbs into balls and fry them in
butter or dripping. Put Into each ball
when you make 1t up a teaspoonfil of the
oyster liquor.
PIcKLED MUTTON HAMs.--Three gal
Ions soft water, one pound of coarse sugar,
two ounces saltpetre, three pounds com
mon salt. Boil and remove the scum,
and when cold pour over the meat. In
two or three weeks the ham will be excel
lent for baking or boiling. II may be
smoked if preferred.
A Coon PAsTE.--Get ten cents worth of
gum tragacanth at drug store put few
pieces of it into small tumbler; cover
1t with four times rs much water, and let
! II stand over night This will make an
excellent paste for sgrap.bUok, which
will Keep as long as II is wanted, adding
more gum or more water as needed.
THE planting of fruit or nut-b bearing
trees in place of merely shade trees, upon
grounds of limited extent, is to be com
mended. A fruit tree by careful pruning
can be made very ornamental object. 1t
is surprising what grace and beauty can
be impaired to the top of an apple, cherry
or plum tree, by one who daily and Judi
ciously looks after his trees No shoot is
allowed to grow which is not needed.
| Nut bearing trees may be used instead of
| fruit trees, il desired. But it does seem
that either fruit or nuts should berequired
as well as shade. -LeloiSt0h (He.) Journal.
CONFEDERATE PUDDING.-Rub thor
oughly into four tea -cupfuls of sifted flour
one tea-cupful of suet, shredded and
chopped fine, one tea-cupful of raisins,
seeded and chopped, the same quantity of
currants, washed and dried the day previ-
Gus, and one tea.spoonful OF cinnamon !;
stir into this one tea-cupful of molaSses,
and the same quantity of sweet milk,
Pour into pudding bag, well tlourtd, or,
better still, pudding mold, and steam for
two hours. Eat hot, with sauce. If there
is any left, 1t may be heated well through,
and will be found just as good as when
! fresh.
ALMOND NGE-CAKE.-Pound in a
white mo !ar until very fine one ounce OF
bitter almonds take out, and put into a
bowl, pouring over themSfour tablespoon
fuls of boiling water, and letthem simmer
three or four minutes. To the yolks of
twelve eggs, well beaten, add slowly one
pound of sand sugar, and beat light
then, after wiping the almonds dry, add
them. Beat until very stiff the whites OF
the eggs, and add TO the yolks and sugar,
alternating with the flour; stir well, but
very lightly, together. as beating destroys
the lightness Of sponge-cake. Bake in
tins with upright sides, and in moderate
oven.
SURE CURE FOR GAPEs.-An expe
rienced chicken raiser says as soon as {
manifestation of gap;s in his fowls ap
pears, he confines his chickens in box
one at a time, sufficiently large to contain
the bird, and places a coarse cotton o.
linen cloth over the top. Upon this hC
places air-slaked lime, and taps the clotl
sufficiently to cause the lime to fal
through. This lime dust the fowl inhale:
and is made to sneeze, and in a short tint
the cause of the gapes is thrown out il
the form of Shiny mass of worms tina
had accumulated in the windpipe anC
smaller air vessels. This remedy he con
sders superior to any he has ever tried
and he seldom fails TO effect cure Yer
mont Union.