Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-11-09
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

Cream Sponge Cake Beat two eggs
in q coffee cup until light and then al
the cup with sweet .cream; add one cup
of sugar; one.half teaspoonful of soda;
one Of cream OF tartar and one and one
half cups of flour. Should sour cream be
used, omit the cream of tartar. r o..
To utilize feathers of ducks, chick
ems, and turkeys, generally thrown aside
stump, inclose them in a tight bag, rub
the whole as if washing clothes, and you
will secure perfectly uniform and light
down, excellent for quilting coverlets
and not few other purposes.
The COW eats 276 plants, and re.
iects 21S; the goat, less fastidious, eats
449, and rejects 1875; the sheep feeds on
3S7 plants, and refuses BAL; the diet of
the horse is more restricted, since he
feeds on 262, and rejects 212, while the
hog will only eat 70 plants, and rejects
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Beef Balls.-Mince very fine piece
of tender beef, the fat and lean together
Mince an onion with some parsley; add
grated bread crumbs, and season all with
pepper, salt, nutmeg and lemon peel mix
oil together, and moisten it with beaten
egg Roll into balls with the hands;
flour and fry in hot drippings. ..'
Sauce Piquant.-To two ounces of
melted butter add small onion, chopped
fine; stir, and when nearly fried add a
spoonful of flour, and when Drowned add
half pint of broth, salt, pepper, picked
cucumber chopped, four stalks chopped
parsley, and mustard. Boil gently about
ten minutes, add one teaspoonful vine
gar, give one boil and serve. e....
Egg Plant Fried Cut in half-inch
slices, salt, and place one over the other,
with an inverted plate and heavy iron on
top. The salt and weight draw out the
strong water. 1t should be prepared at
night if wanted for breakfast, or in the
morning if for dinner. Dredge with
flour and fry thoroughly in beef drip
pings, lard, or butter. .... .... .......
In selecting crops to plant it should
be borne in mind that the growth of
some crops impoverishes the soil more
than that of others, and also that some
make richer manure than others. A
crop of red clover, for instance, does not
impoverish the soil as much as one of
timothy grass, while a ton of clover hay
will make manure worth about half as
much again as that made from an equal
weight of timothy hay. The manure
from given weight of peas and beans,
also, it has been calculated, is worth
twice as much as that from an equal
weight of oats, barley, rye or Indian
corn.
Lemon Pie.-One cup of sugar, half
a cup sweet cream, two small lemons,
two eggs; if you have no cream use milk;
in that case add one tablespoonful of
melted butter. Beat the yelks of the
eggs very light, add sugar and beat again,
then the juice of both the lemons and the
grated yellow rind of one. Line your
pie tin with crust, add the cream to the
mixture just before putting in the oven.
Bake until the custard is firm; draw to
the front of the oven and spread evenly
over the top meringue of the whites of
the two eggs beaten stiff with two table
spoonfuls of pulverized sugar; return to
the oven until it sets. To be eaten cold.
Use no corn starch, and no more milk
than directed. Try it once, and you
will never make lemon pie any other
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