Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Nearly every farm is now leaking.
1t is in the shape of implements lying
around the fields rotting in the winds
and rains of heaven.
Ham Pie.-Pick the ham into
small fine pieces, boil cup of rice, beat
up two eggs and stir in with the ham
and rice, season with pepper, salt, and
onions; put it into deep pan, and
bake.
Biscuit. To one quart of flour,
butter size of an egg, rubbed thorough
ly in the flour; two tablespoonfuls of
cream tartar, mixed in the flour; water
or milk enough to mix, with one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in it; roll
out, bake.
Potato Soup.--Pare and chop fine
six good-sized potatoes; put them in q
kettle with about three pints of water;
season with butter, pepper and salt;
boil until just tender, not soft. just
before serving break into il three or
four raw eggs, stirring briskly to break
the eggs before they cook.
-Sachet Powder. Take any powder
you prefer, half an ounce; the spirit of
cloves and mace, each one drachm,
frankincense, quarter of an ounce;
mix them together and lay in papers.
When hard press into sachets and lay
in bags between gloves and ribbons.
They will take the scent in twenty-four
hours and hardly ever lose it.
Snowflake Cake.-Three eggs, one
and half cups of sugar, half cup but
ter, half cup of sweet milk, half tea
spoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream
tartar, two cups flour. Frosting-
Whites of two eggs beaten to stiff
froth, add sugar; spread on each layer
of cake (Which should be baked in jelly
cake tins), and sprinkle over with one
grated cocoanut.
Every indication and condition of
the period points TO the necessity of
concentrating the energies and means
of the average farmer on a smaller
area Of land, and given to that most
thorough culture and all the manure
possible. The profit of farming-if a
profit is to be had-must come from
crops of larger yield and improved
quality.
Light Tea Cake.-Beat the whites
and yelks of two eggs separately; take
two-thirds of a cup of thick, sweet
| CIcdul, Il cup VI sugar, nan u OSdopOOu-
full of salt; put in the yelks, and whip
these ingredients briskly; then sift in a
rounded-up cup of flour, in which has
been stirred teaspoonful of baking
powder; add the whites of the eggs,
and flavor to suit the taste.
Bread Pudding. the bread
in cold water, then squeeze it very dry,
take out the Jumps, and add boiling
milk, about half a pint to one pound of
soaked bread, beat up two eggs,
sweeten, add little nutmeg, and bake
the pudding slowly until firm. If de-
sired, few raisins may be added to
the pudding. This is a very cheap
pudding, and general favorite in the
nursery.
No housekeeper has any valid
claim to neatness, cleanliness, and tidi.
ness, who makes her beds as soon as
they are vacated; or if she has such q
claim it is based on the condition Of
ignorance. To demonstrate this, let il
be remembered that of all food anC
drink taken, about three-fifths pass out
of the system through the outlets o.
the skin-the pores, about 1000, 900 in
number. This waste and effete putriC
matter is dead and poisonous, passing
off more rapidly by night, and becom
ing more or less entangled in the bed
ding and on the surface of the body
Hence the necessity of bathing anC
brushing, with still greater necessity
for airing and purifying the bedding
This is done most effectually by eX,
posure in the light of the sun, and il
morning air. Indeed. the sun is thu
greater purifier, and nothing is hiC
) from the heat thereof" And here i
} may be remembered that the bedding
of the sick, so soon saturated by tht
filth of acute diseases, by being changed
at least once in six hours, and being ex
posed to the free sunlight for the sam,
time, will be safe with half the wash
ing otherwise needed. Such clothe
cannot be kept too clean, while ther'
is no danger of too much care in thes
respects, as one of the means of con
trolling such acute diseases as fever
r and inhamations. The Dutch method
of placing all of the movable clothes o
the bed on two chairs, near the win
dow, allowing them to remain til
} afternoon might well be copied b,
Yankee housekeepers.