Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

The following recipe, It is said, fur
nishes a mixture which kills potato bugs
and their eggs: Steep tobacco stems or
refuse TOBACCO, and TO the decoction add
lye from wood ashes or potash, and
sprinkle the liquid upon the vines with
a common sprinkler.
Should your wheat be too rank and
In danger of lodging, you may go over it
with a long roller before it shoots into
head, 1t will check the growth; the
wheat will rise again. 1t has been known
to save crop.-Farmers' AdUOeate.
Potatoes Ia Murreg. g.-Twelve
boiled potatoes, three boiled onions;
mash together and add three ounces but
ter, tablespoonful chopped parsley, one
half pint cream, salt and pepper to
taste; use small vegetable dishes and
add piece of lemon peel to each dish;
bake fifteen minutes.
Peach Cobbler.-Make rich biscuit
crust; put it rolled thick around the dish;
put in layer of peaches, then butter
and sugar, and a very little flour, then
peaches, and SO on till the dish is full;
cover with thick crust, cut a slit in the
center, and pour in boiling water till FULL
bake in moderate oven.
Lemon Pie.-One lemon, one egg,
one cup of sugar, one cup water, one
large spoon -four; mix for each pie
separately. Beat the flour and egg to-
gether, then add the lemon, after having
pared 1t nicely; slice it thin and take out
the seeds. Add the sugar and water,
then bake between two crusts. Do not
use the rind.
Frosted Rice Pudding g.-One cup of
rice boiled in one pint of water until
dry, and add one pint of milk and boil
again. Add the juice and grated rind
of one lemon, the yelks of four eggs,
and one-half cup of sugar. Stir well
together, and bake slowly for one hour
Beat the four whites of the eggs to a
stiff froth and add one cup of powdered
sugar; spread on the pudding and brown
slightly.
"A correspondent of the Nep En-
gland Farmer gives the following as a
cure for poisoning by ivy: Boil wood
ashes enough to make strong lye; wash
the poisoned parts in this; let it remain a
few minutes and wash off in soft luke.
warm water; when dry anoint with fresh
grease. Repeat this process as the poison
develops itself, and lone or two applica
tions will cure the most obstinate cases
1t acts like magic.
Pineapple Dumpling.-Butter pud
ding dish and line the bottom and side'
with slices of stale cake (sponge cake il
BEST; pare and slice thin large pine
apple; place in the dish first layer o
pineapple, then strew with sugar, ther
more pineapple, and so on till all is used
pour over small teacupful of water, anC
: cover with slices of cake which havt
been dipped in cold water. Cover th'
whole with a buttered plate and bak'
slowly for two hours.
; Green Gooseberry Tarts.-Pick OF
the stems and blossom ends and weigl
the fruit. To each pound allow on
pound of white sugar. Put them on tn
fire, in bell-metal preserving kettle
I with water enough to make sirup an,
prevent burning Cover closely, AM
I stew for fifteen minutes over brisk fire
| Remove from the fire as soon as tn
fruit is tender and clear, not allowing
: it time to become broken and mashe,
up. They should look green and trans
\ parent. No pie is so generally relishe,
4 in the early spring.
strawberry Shortcake.--It is as i'm
possible to have too many recipes fo
|. making strawberry shortcake as to hav
4 too much of the article itself. This
e one way of preparing it, Into one quar-
: of flour put one teaspoonful baking pow
{ der and one of SALT sift all together, O
n use prepared flour; add two-thirds of
I teacupful of butter, and cut it throug
/: the flour with knife; wet this with sui
:. ficient cream that has been on ice, if yo
|. have it, or else ice-cold milk; mold tc
= gether, handling as little as possible, an
a roll out in cakes not quite half an inc
r thick; bake in jelly.pans, or cut wit
o biscuit-cutter; when done, split, butter
( ing and placing quite fresh and rip
!. berries on them, well sugared; afte
b placing on the top layer you may pou
0 cream over all, or it may be put on th
e strawberries, or not used at ALL