Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Chickens for broiling should be
dipped in olivesoil before being put on
the gridiron.
--Fritters. Take four eggs, pint of
milk, little salt, grated rind of one
lemon, flour to make light batter.
Have ready some hot lard, drop in by
spoonfuls and fry light brown.
When tools are clean and bright,
they may be kept so by wiping, before
putting them away, with cloth dipped
in melted paraffine. II they are rustcd
they may be cleaned by soaking in kero-
senc oil, and then rubbing with an oily
rag dipped in fine emery powder.
Baked Beets.-The roots must be
clean, large, and very fresh, or unwilted.
The oven should be slow. Some place
them inside Of a jar or closely-covored
tin pan or an old saucepan. Cook from
three to FIVE hours. When tender to the
fingers, pare, slice, and serve warm or
cold.
Hens eggs hatch in from 10 to 81
days; turkeys in from 26 to 30 days;
ducks in % days; guinea fowls in from
25 to % days; pea.fowl's in from % to
30 days; geese's in from 30 to 81 days.
Fresh eggs will hatch one or two days
sooner than those two or three weeks
old.
-Stewed Potatoes. Peel and cut in
slices some cold boiled potatoes, put in a
saucepan with water (nearly enough to
cover) an ounce of butter, salt, pepper
and nutmeg; cover and boil till the liq-
uid is reduced to the desired consistency;
add three ounces of butter in small bits,
Mingle well by tossing the saucepan, and
serve in deep dish.
The following recipe is for moder.
ately plain cake that Twill keep six
months: Four eggs, five cups of flour,
one pound of seeded raisins, two cups of
sugar, one cup of molasscs, one and q
half of butter, one of milk, and one tea
spoonful of soda, one small teaspoonful
each of cloves, mace, allspice and Gin
namon-half a nutmeg.
Apple Pudding Take six grated
apples, half pound of sugar, quarter of
pound of butter rubbed to cream,
the rind of two lemons, the juice of one;
stir all this together. Then add two
cups of cream or milk, and five eggs.
Line the pudding dish with paste, and
bake one hour. 1t may be made with or
without an upper crust.
Pudding Sauce.-One egg, one heap
ing tcaspoonful corn starch, pinch of
salt, butter the size of an egg; put in a
tin pail and stir persistently until very
light. Set the pail on the range and pour
in one pint of boiling hot water, stirring
all the time. Let the sauce como to a
boiling point, then remove and flavor to
taste.
"A successful breeder of poultry says
that he feeds Indian meal to his young
chicks five times day and has not had
a case of gapcs for the last six years He
thinks that impure water is the principal
cause of that disease. Corn meal damp.
ened with water, or corn cracked as if
for hominy, and fed dry, is excellent
! food for chickens.
For ridding lawns of unsightly
weeds, such as plantain and dandelions,
the following plan is recommended by
an experienced gardener: To the end ol
light wooden rod attach a small sponge
or, better, wind a few thicknesses OF
cloth around it; dip the sponge in oil OF
vitriol, and with it touch the heart OF
the weed. The oil of vitriol may be car
ried in wide. mouthed bottle at the end
of another rod.
-Grafting-wax, used in grating, i:
made of wax three parts, rosin three
parts, and tallow two parts. These arc
to be melted together in an iron vessel
kept for the purpose, at as low temper
ature as will serve. 1t may be applied
with a brush to wounds. When used il
grating it is more convenient on cloth
old cotton, calico or other fabric, thai
will tear readily, is torn into strips, made
into rolls, soaked in the hot wax unit
thoroughly penetrated, drained of the
excess of wax, and when cool is ready
for use.