Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-19
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

CHOCOLATE PuDDINe.-One quart of
milk three tablespoons of grated choco.
late; two of cOTn-starch; sugar and salt
to taste; sweeten the milk, and let IL come
to boil, then stir in the chocolate and
corn-starch, mixed with q little water I;
boil about five minutes. Make a sauce of
cream and sugar and vanilla, or sugar and
butter, stirred to cream, with lemon or
vanilla.-OoT. Chicago Tribune.
DANDELIoN GREENs.-when the leaves
of young dandelions are three or four
inches long, cut up the roots, lust below
their junction with the leaves. This is
the way they are gathered for the New
York market. In dressing them take off
all the decayed, imperfect leaves, and cut
the root close, leaving just enough to hold
the leaves. Then put into a kettle, with
about an equal quantity of water, and
boil briskly an hour or more. When ten
der, let them drain in colander ten min
utes, and serve warm. If a seasoning is
desired, stew one-fourth the quantity of
rhubarb stems IN as little water as pos
siblc, chop up the cooked green's, and
mix with the stewed rhubarb intimately
--ECchdnge.
SPICE CAKE.-Take a teacup of butter,
two pounds of brown sugar, and three
eggs, beat all well together; then add a
half cup sour milk, with a teaspoonful of
soda in; then two teaspoonfuls of each,
ground cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and
one nutmeg; then two and two.thirds
cups flour; last of all two cups chopped
Iaisins Bake in slow oven, and you
will have an excellent cake, and one mat
will last through hot weather. And here
allow me to tell you, if raisins are put in
a cake the last thing, and stirred only Just
enough to mix, your raisins will not fall
to the bottom Of the cake. Use the above
recipe-omitting the milk-dissolve soda
in little hot water, and you will have
very nice cookies.
COUNTRY CRULLERs.-One and one-half
pounds of sugar, four eggs, one pint of
milk, one large teaspoonful of saleratus
made very fine, one-half pound of butter,
flour sufficient to roll Roll out in small
rings and join well with hands, not max
ing them very large, as they become larger
by cooking. Have half pound of lard
very hot, and try small pieces of dough to
see if it browns quickly; then turn it, and
when both sides are brown take it out
Care must be taken to keep the lard hot
but it must not burn, rs it would spoil the
crullers. Bake in small iron pot, five or
six at time; turn with fork; take out
with skinner, and lay on plate to drain;
then place on large plate to cool; when
sufficiently cOOlplace in a stone pot. Add
more lard to cook in when necessary, and
keep hot This recipe will make large
potiul, and they will keep in cool place
week or two weeks. Some warm them
a little by placing in oven few minutes
before eating.
DIRECTIONS FOR CALCDIINING.- Buy
the best bleached glue If the walls are 10
be white or some light tint (it dark 1t is
immaterial so the glue is clean), and use
it in the proportion of a quarter of
pound to eight pounds of whiting. Soak
the glue over night; in the morning pour
of the water, as it simply swells while
soaking. Add fresh water aud put it in
pail, and set that in a kettle of bOili ng
water. When dissolved, stir it into the
whiting, adding enough water to make it,
after mixing, of the same consistency as
common whitewash. 1t may be tinted
any color, and applied with a whitewash
brush. If the color is rubbed smooth in
a little water and then mixed with the wash
it will be mOIc even. If the walls have
been previously VIII: :tewashed, scrape away
all that will come Off, and wash with so.
luton of white vitriol-two ounces in a
pail of water. The vitriol will be discom-
posed, forming zinc white, and plaster of
Paris, to which calcimining easily ad-
heres. 1t is important to dissolve the
glue in a hot water bath, for, if scorched
by too great heat, Its tenacity is
impaired or destroyed. Whiting is
simply chalk freed from impurities,
and reduced to fine powder,
and is also known under the name of
Paris and Spanish white, though the lat
ter is really white earth found in Spain.
There is great difference in whitewash
brushes, and the beauty of the work, as
well as the ease of performing it, depends
very much on good brush, making it
well worth while to pay the difference be-
tween that and a cheap one. For the in
experienced it is more difficult to lay on
tints evenly than pure white.-Chicago
Inter- Ocean.