Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Sponge Cake.-Take four eggs to
one teacup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, one teacup of flour, one
teaspoonful of lemon extract. Bake in
q quick oven.
Graham Mullins. "A penny's worth
ofyeast, three pints warm water, salt, hall
a cupful molasses, and Graham flour
enough to make thick batter; set it in
warm place TO rise; have your muffin
pan hot, and bake in a hot oven.
-Crumpets.-Three cupfuls raised
dough, work into it one-half cupful
softened butter, three eggs, and mix
sufficient to make a stiff batter; turn
into buttered pans and let it remain fif-
teen minutes before baking; bake one
half hour.
-Millet can be sowed any time in the
spring after the ground gets warm and
dry, though the preferable time is from
about the goth Of May until the 20th OF
June. About three pecks to the acre
is enough seed on good soil. The
ground should be smooth and mellow
and the seed very lightly covered.
Brown bettys make good dish for
the breakfast table. Take one cupful
Indian meal, two cupfuls rye meal, one
egg, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one
half teaspoonful soda, one large table,
spoonful molasses; mix with cold milk
about as thick as pound cake; drop in
hot lard and fry.
Spanish Cream. One ounce of gel
atine, three pints of milk, six eggs, eight
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Soak the gel
atine one hour in the milk, then let ii
come to boil, beat the yelks of the
eggs with the sugar, and stir in; let il
simmer, take off the fire, and pour over
it the whites of the eggs beaten to a
froth; flavor with lemon or vanilla ex-
tract. - Godey'S Lady'S Book.
Potato Soup. a tablespoonful
of butter Cor fat from stock, and add
one small onion; when colored, add
eight cut potatoes and stir them well
about; put into q stock-kettle, and add
two quarts of water (or milk and water,
if conveniently, also tablespoonful OF
chopped parsley and sprig of thyme
boil for an hour very slowly, pass
through sieve and return to the ket-
tie; then add very carefully two well.
beaten eggs, pepper and salt.
Gen. Washington Breakfast Cake,
Two pounds flour, one quart milk
one ounce butter, one teacupful thin
yeast, three eggs, one teaspoOnful salt
warm the milk and butter together, and
pour it lukewarm into the flour and ado
the other ingredients; mix this at night
and put in a pan three inches deep; ir
the morning bake in quick oven three
quarters of an hour. This cake was al
ways on Gen. Washington breakfas
table the last few years of his life.
To Color Cotton Dark Brown
For five pounds of goods one pounC
catechu, two ounces blue vitriol, two
ounces alum, three ounces bichromatt
of potash. Dissolve the catechu, blu,
vitriol and alum in water enough tC
cover the goods. Wet the goods il
soapsuds, then put in the dye for on,
hour. Wiring out the goods and all
| them; put in the bichromate of potash
Put in the goods again, leave them fol
| fifteen or twenty minutes, then ring ou
and dry.
If one has a neglected orchard HI
should not let this spring go by with
out an attempt to renovate it. Ole
trunks covered with loose scales of barl
and coated with lichens and MOSES
should have IN the first place thorough
scraping, and this should extend along
the larger limbs so far as is necessary
After this scraping they should receive
a strong alkaline wash. There is moth
ing so good for this purpose as gooC
homemade soft-soap, made from lel
(potash) and grease.-BostOn Globe.
DIR. J. G. Weston, of Bangor, say
in the Country Gentleman that after ;
trial of twenty years he finds the follow
ing method of raising peas in small
gardens the most profitable and salts
factory: A warm sheltered situation il
selected, and trenches are dug foo
and a half wide and three feet apart
the bottom is filled with old manure
which is covered with loan. The sol
being light, he then sows the peas, an,
covers them six inches deep with soil
After the first hoeing the sticks are in
serted for their support. The manur
imparts great vigor to the plants, an
the depth of covering prevents the et
fects of drought and furnishes peas TO
nearly mouth.