Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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Gather few barrels of road dust be-
fore the fall rains set in to dust cattle
and fowls with during the winter, to rid
them OF vermin. Road dust is also an
excellent disinfectant.
J Chocolate Cream.--To three pints of
new milk add half bar of prepared co.
Goa; mix in enough cold water to dissolve
1t with; when the milk has come to boil
stir in the chocolates; let IL thicken like
custard; stir all the time. -.t...
Fine Icing.--0ne and half cups of
sugar, two. thirds cup warm water, boil
to thick sirup, then stir in the whites
of two eggs, stir well all the time,
add a teaspoonful of citric acid. After
the icing gets solid stir in the vanilla.
The keeping quality of onions, ac-
cording to California farmer, depends
much more on the soil in which they are
raised than on the time when the bulbs
which produce the seed are planted. A
dry, sandy loan will produce better on
ions for keeping than low, heavy land
Much also depends on how onions are
cured and treated during the winter. A
has ripened will in itself spoil the onion
for long keeping. .r
Rice Cakes.--Beat three eggs very
lightly; then add to them half pound
of cold boiled rice, mashed up well with
lump of butter twice the size of hens
egg Put in a cupful of sour milk, with
q teaspoonful of saleratus, and finally,
after, of course, putting in little salt,
sift in flour enough to made a soft batter
for gridirOn cakes, or little more, so
that you can bake in muffin rings. Use
milk also in forming the batter. These
cakes are delicious.
"A horse, no matter how vicious and
obstinate he may be when attempts are
made to shoe him, can be rendered quiet
and manageable by making him inspire
during the operation few grains of the
ethereal oil of parsley dropped on q
handkerchief, A large number of trials
of this substance have been made with
the most troublesome and violent ami.
mails, and in every case with perfect
uccess.-SuisSe R0mdnde.
To Remove Ink Stains from Linen,
Etc.-If one can procure little new
milk Immediately after the ink is spilled,
and wash out quickly, there is no diff
Guilty in taking out the stain. If this
cannot be done, rub wet salt on the spots,
and expose to the sun; wash out after a
few hours, and if the stain is only par
TALLY obliterated repeat the process. BIZ
carbonate of soda mixed with water is
also often efficacious.
Farmers Honey Cake. Take pint of
pure strained honey, and mix into it four
ounces of butter and four of lard; then
add five well-beaten eggs, and season
with the juice of good-sized lemon or
nearly the whole of nutmeg. A cupful
Of sour milk should also be used in mix
ing it to dough- with light teaspoonful
of saleratus. The amount of -four neces-
sary will be nearly two quarts. Do not
work it very much after the flour is
mixed, but roll the dough out and cut
into shapes for baking in tin pans. This
is simple but palatable little cake. No
sugar is needed at all.
Baltimore Apple Bread.--Prepare a
dough exactly as if for rusks. When it
is very light, roll out cake about half
an inch thick. Spread stewed apples
over it, and over that place another cake
of dough like the first. Put it in a pan
to tighten for short time. Bake it.
Have some thin slices of apples stewed
very tender, and when the bread is
baked lay these slices of apples all over
the top, sprinkle them well with sugar,
some small bits of butter, and either nut
meg or cinnamon, whichever you like.
Put it back in the oven long enough for
the sugar to form a coating on the top.
Take it out, and, when cold, slice it nice
ly for tea
The age of an apple tree varies
greatly according to the con stitution of
the tree, the nurture, climate, etc. On
deep and favorable soils, where the eli
mate is not too severe, apple orchards
have been known to bear fair crops at
eighty, ninety and even one hundred
years of age. As arule, however, apple
orchards fail in forty and fifty years.
Severe cold, which blackens all the
wood, is common cause of the prema-
ture failure of orchards. Starvation, in
consequence of exhaustion of the soil, is
a still more frequent cause. Pear trees,
under favorable circumstances, live
forty and fifty years, the plum averages
from twenty to thirty years, the cherry
lasts about the same length of time, and
peach trees usually fail to be profitable
at twelve to thirteen years of age.
Apple Slump.-Despite its uninvit-
ing title, this is a good recipe. One
quart of sifted -four, two teaspoonfuls of
cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda.
Then sift again all three together. Do
not fail to sift as directed above; it is
important, and should be done twice.
Mix into dough with milk or water;
milk is preferred. If water is used, add
one teaspoonful of lard. Make into
quite soft dough, with spoon instead
of the hands. Take two quarts of APP
Piles cut into quarters (aPples to measure
two quarts after being cut. Now pre-
pare one cupful of sugar and half
cupful of molasses with two cupfuls of
water, and seasoning of nutmeg or Gin
namon, and pinch of salt. Place the
apples and the ingredients in an iron
kettle, and as soon as the mixture boils
put the dumplings on top and boil brisk
ly twenty minutes At the end of fif-
teen minutes put in more water if neces-
sary, to prevent burning. When sent to
table, little cream should be poured
into each plate, or milk be served in