Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,

Bread Pie.-TwO biscuits soaked in
one cupful water, one lemon, one cupful
sugar, nutmeg to your taste.
Tea Cakes.-One quart flour, one
pint milk, two eggs, half cupful sugar,
two spoonfuls cream tartar, ono soda,
piece of butter size of an egg.
Ginger Snaps.-One cupful sugar,
one cupful molasses, one teaspconful
soda, one tablespoonful vinegar, salt,
ginger, flour to make it stiff; roll thin.
Mold on Catsup-To keep mold
from rising on catsup or pickles, add a
tablespoonful of ground horseradish to
every quart.
Corn Cake.-One and one-half cup
fuls Indian meal, one cupful flour, one
and one-half cupfuls milk, one cupful
molasses, one egg, one teaspoonful soda,
salt.
Liquid Blueing.-Pulverized Prus-
sian blue, one ounce; oxalic acid, one
ounce; water, two ounces; mix. Shake
up occasionally, and when dissolved add
from pint to quart more of water,
according to the depth of blue desired.
Poor Mans Cake.-One cupful mo-
lasses, one of water, tablespoonful butter,
tablespoonful ginger, one heaping tea
spoonful saleratus, a little salt, flour
enough for soft batter, put in square
pan; bake quickly.
Asparagus Omelet.-Boil the fresh
asparagus in very little water, or, bet
ter still, steam it till tender; chop it
quite fine, mix it we'll with the yelks of
five eggs, and the whites of three, and
two spoonfuls milk or cream. Fry as an
ordinary omeles and serve very hot.
War Cake.-One cupful molasses,
one egg, one cupful brown sugar, two
thirds cupful butter, one cupful dried
apples immersed in the molasscs and
sugar two hours, one cupful sour milk,
four cupfuls flour, spice of all kinds, two
tcaspoOnfuls of soda.
-Currant Cake. One cupful butter,
two of sugar, rubbed we'll together; four
eggs well bcatea; three cupfuls -four
with three teaspoOnfuls of baking powder
siftcd in; at the last, one-half pound of
! 3urrants we'll washed, dried and pow
! dered in flour; bake in slow oven.
Lemon Jelly.-Grate one whole
lemon, taking out the seeds; add one
egg, one cupful white sugar, four table
spoonfuls cold water; mix well together
and cook over steam until it is clear; put
in cups and set in cool, dry place; it
will keep four or five weeks.
For Shampooing ng.-Dissolve one tea
spoonful of bOraX in cup of hot water;
apply the liquid to the scalp until good
lather is produced; then rinse well with
warm water, until the hair feels soft and
natural; if desired, a cold.water rinse
may be taken at the last; wipe the hail
dry, and let it hang loosely about the
shoulders to get the air through.
The Fruit Record says: 1--WE cannot
grow peaches with success except we
prune trees every year; leave but sin.
gle tree unpruned and its leaves are @
light, sickly green, it bears one or two
peaches, and that is the last of the tree
Where trees are pruned every year, cut
ting back more than half the growth Of
the season, peach trees bear from fifteeI
to twenty years, and some even more.
American Frying Batter.-To three
quarters. pound of flour add two ounces
melted butter, one teaspoonful salt two
yelks of eggs, Mix with a wooden spoon
stirring in gradually little over half ,
pint of tepid water or milk, according
as it is desired to be plain or rich. Bea
it well, then set it aside, and just before
using add three whites of eggs, bcateI
to stiff froth.
"A correspondent of the Rural Su'
advises that sweet-potato hills be mulcheC
with old straw, sorghO cane stalks, leaves
shavings, sawdust, old spent tan-bark
or anything that will hold moisture, fill
ing up between the ridges to the top
the mulch keeps down the weeds anC
grass, and keeps the vines from taking
root between the ridges, and keeps tn,
ground moist and warm, two very neces
sarY conditions to the rapid growth o
the tubers. Last season the vines 81
mulched produced far more and bette
potatoes than the unmulched portion
The mulch is applied about the time tn,
vines begin to form runners strongly.