Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


-scald your bedsteads in the hottest
soapsuds you can apply. If there are
traces of bugs apply kerosene with
small paint brush.
Jelly CakeAOne cup sugar, three
eggs, three tablespoons of sweet cream,
two teaspoons of cream tartar, one tea
spoon of soda, one cup of tea.
Delicious Cake.-Two cups sugar,
one cup butter, one cup sweet milk,
three eggs, three cups flour, half tea
spoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar,
flavor with nutmeg.
Sponge Cake.-Ten eggs, their
weight (n their shells) of sugar, half
their weight in flour, beat the eggs and
sugar well together, and add the flour;
flavor with lemon.
Vegetable Soup.-One turnip, one
potato, one onion. Let them be sliced
and boiled in one quart of water for an
hour. Add as much salt us agreeable
and small bit of butter. Pour the
whole upon slice dry, and toast.
A Very Excellent Soup for Summer.
Eight potatoes, boiled soft, piece of
butter size of two eggs. Boil one quart
of milk and one quart of water together,
and pour boiling hot on the soft pota-
toes, strain, and then boil half an hour
in the milk and water.
Coffee Bread.-Set q sponge of
milk, butter and flour, little salt with
some good yeast to raise it; let it rise,
then work it little, putting in cur
rants or raisins and little sugar. Let
it rise again very light, then mold it
into loaf. Again let it rise, and bake.
1t must be kept warm from the start or
it will not be good.
-Camphor Ice.-Good lard, twelve
ounces; white wax, ten ounces; sper-
maceti, five ounces; camphor, three
ounces. Melt the spermaceti and wax
by water bath, then add the lard and
camphor, and when they are all dis
solved pour the mixture into suitable
molds, if desired to form cakes; per-
fume as liked, stirring in perfume well
just as mixture begins to thicken.
Plain New England Cookies. One
cup and half of sugar, mixed with
one-half cup of butter and half nut
meg, or less if you like; dissolve a tea
spoonful of saleratus in a spoonful of
water; stir into the mixed sugar and
butter; a cup of milk; sour milk is the
best; add flour enough to make stiff
batter; then add the saleratus water,
which should be strained, and enough
more flour to enable you to roll the
dough out easily; if very stiff they will
not be good; flour the board and roller;
have the dough about half an inch
thick; cut it into small cakes, and
stamp them if you like; bake them on
buttered tins, in hot oven. These
are very nice and light, if this recipe is
followed.
To destroy bugs on squashes and
cucumber vines, dissolve a tablespoon
full of saltpetre in pailful of water,
put a pint of this around each hill,
shaping the earth so that it will not
spread much, and the thing is done.
The more saltpetre, if you can afford it
it is good for the vegetable but death
to animal life. The bugs burrow in the
earth at night and fail to rise in the
morning. 1t is also good to kill grub
in peach trees-only use twice as much,
say a quart to each tree. There was
not yellow or blistered leaf on twelve
or fifteen trees to which it was applied
last season. No danger of killing any
vegetable with it-a concentrated solu-
ton applied to beans makes them grow
wonderfully.