Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-31
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

TO prevent door hinges creaking,
rub them with soap.
"A good black paint may be made by
mixing together lampblack and common
carriage rubbing varnish.
Cup Cake.--One cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, three cups of -four, four
eggs, spice and fruit to your liking, one
half cup milk, three-quarters teaspoon
full of baking powder.
To Perfume Linen.-Rose leaves
dried in the shade, or at about four feet
from the stove, one pound; cloves, CARA
way seeds and allspicc, of each one
ounce, pound in a mortar, or grind in a
mill. Mix all these together, and put
the compound into little bags.
TO prevent trees from splitting, the
Toronto Globe says: "Select small limb
from each fork and clear them of leaves
and branches. Then bring the split up
together, twine the two small limbs to-
gether and secure them. The limbs will
grow together in time and keep the split
from opening"
Mushroom Sauce.-Stew one teacup-
full mushrooms in just enough water to
cover them; drain them, using sieve,
then add one teacup milk, three table
spoonfuls butter, with little nutmeg,
mace, salt and pepper; stew over good
fire until it begins to thicken, then wet
teaspoonful flour with cold milk, and
stir 1t in until it comes to boil; serve
in sauce-boat or pour over boiled
chickens or rabbits.
"A Cucumber Dish.--Peel cucumbers,
cut them lengthwise in half, scrape out
the seed If preferred, boil them in water
well salted until tender, which takes
usually about half an hour; toast nicely
few pieces of light stale bread; lay the
cucumbers upon them, and pour over
the whole sauce such as is used for as
paragus, which should, of course, be
prepared while the cucumbers are cook
ing.
Watermelon Cake.-Take for the
white part-two cupfuls white sugar,
half cupful of butter, half cupful of
sour milk, one teaspoOnful soda, two of
cream tartar, the whites of eight eggs,
and three cupfuls flour. Red part-half
apound brown sugar, half cupful butter,
half cupful sweet milk, one teaspoon
full soda, two of cream tartar, the whites
of six eggs, and two cupfuls -four. Put
red, with few currants sprinkled in to
have the appearance of seed, then place
the remaining white part on top.
Dry Hop Yeast.-Pare and boil six
good.sized potatoes; while bo ling tie
handful of hops in cloth and put in
with the potatoes; when the potatoes are
we'll done, skim out and mash smooth;
add about one-half as much -four as you
have mashed potatoes; pour the boiling
water on and stir thoroughly; when cool
add two cakes of dry yeast, or two thirds
of cup of yeast, and when sufficiently
raised mix in corn-meal enough to roll
out in little cakes and dry thoroughly.
If kept in dry place this will keep a
year or more, or until all gone.
Apple Meringue Pie.-To quart of
nice apple sauce (strained through a col
ander) put cup of white sugar, table
spoonful of butter, teaspoonful of Gin
namon, pinch of salt and little es-
sence of lemon; beat the yelks of four
eggs light and add to the apple sauce.
Fill the crust and bake light brown
no upper crust-then cover with meringue
of the four whites beaten with four ta-
blespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Sift
little powdered sugar over the top and
brown lightly. Peach pies made in the
same way are delicious.-Frdirie Farmer.
Ordinarily, cows of small breeds
yield more butter than those of larger
breeds, and the smaller individuals of
particular breed give richer milk
than the larger specimens of the same
breed. The larger animals and breeds,
however, produce more cheese. A COM
paratively dry and warm climate is favor
able to the production of butter, and
cool, moist region to cheese. The even
ing's milk of cows at pasture is pref
cradle for cheese; the mornings milk
for butter, particularly if the animal is
stabbed or kept in the yard.-American
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