Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

TO Remove Lime from Tca-kettle. |
Put teacup of molasses in the tea
kettle, fill up with soft water and boil
half an hour, or longer if necessary, the
lime will become soft and can be easily
scraped off,
-Ants.-Being acids themselves,
alkalies are obnoxious; hence chalk,
lime or soda are useful, but kerosene
oil is infallible when it crosses I" their
line of march," A dish of hickory nuts
will attract the large black ones, and
they can be destroyed.
Mead. gallon of water, one
pound of loaf sugar, one-half ounce of
race ginger, one lemon, sliced (take
out the seed), one teaspoonful of yeast;
let it stand over night to ferment, then
pour off without stirring; add to each
bottle one raisin; cork tight.
Home and Farm Apple Pie.-Stew
apples and run them through fine
seive, add one egg, bess.s -, PIC, aeg. and
sugar togetheri -sweeten to taste: flavor
with lemon; make crust as for tart;
bake, and when the pie is cold beat the
white of one egg with sugar as for
frosting, cover the pie and put in oven
to brown, frosting slightly; eat cold.
Many mother grows old, faded
and feeble long before her time, because
her boys and girls are not thoughtfully
considerate and helpful. When they
become old enough to be of service in
a household, mother has become so
used to doing all herself, to taking upon
her shoulders all the care, that she for
gets to lay off the burden little by little,
on hoe rh,Nn .~,ll Ill
it. 1t is partly her own fault, to be
sure, but fault committed out of love
and mistaken kindness for her children.
-Borax.-For washing purposes it
saves both soap and labor. 1t will ex-
tract the dirt from articles of delicate
texture without rubbing, it being only
necessary to put the articles in soak
with a solution of borax over night, and
will need only to be rinsed in the morn
ing. Two tablespoons of pulverized
borax dissolved in quart of water, to
which water enough is added to cover
pair of blankets, will cleanse them
beautifully. 1t also saves great labor
in washing paint. 'Tis said to drive
away ants and reaches if sprinkled on
the shelves of safes and pantries. .-EE.
-Hasty pudding.-Boil water,
quart, three pints, or two quarts, ac-
cording to size of family; sift your meal,
stir five or six spoonfuls of it thorough
ly into bowl of water; when the water
in the kettle boils pour into it the con-
tents of the bowl; stir it well and let it
boil up thick; put in salt to suit your
taste, then stand over the kettle and
sprinkle in meal, handful after hand
full, stirring in very thoroughly all the
time, and letting it boil between whiles.
When it is so thick that you stir it with
difficulty it is about right. 1t takes
about half an hours cooking. Eat
with milk or molasses. Either Indian
meal or rye meal may be used.
Remedy for Gapes.-The tobacco
smoke has saved all the chickens sick
with gapes so far-the one almost dead
when the remedy was first applied
seems to be cured. They have been
smoked SIX times. A few live Goals
are put in an old iron pot, and a pinch
of tobacco placed on them. As soon as
the smoke begins to rise, the chickens
which have been previously placed in a
basket, are put over the vessel and
covered with a cloth. They, or any
one thus affected, are made to inhale
the smoke until they tumble over par
TALLY insensible, when they are re-
moved from the basket. They soon
revive and the spasms have lessened.-
Rural NeIO Yorker.
Preserved Figs.-The weight of
ripe figs in sugar, the peel of one lem
on and juice of two to five or six pounds
of figs, Let the figs soak in cold water
twelve hours, then simmer in water un-
til tender, take them out and drain. To
each pound of sugar add a teacup of
cold water; boil and skim until clear.
Put in the figs and simmer ten minutes.
Take out the figs and spread them in
the sun for a short time, while you add
the juice and peel of the lemons and a
small teaspoonful of ginger to the sirup,
and boil until thick, then put in the
fruit and boil fifteen minutes more.
Fill your jars about three-fourths with
the fruit and fill up with hot sirup.
Our Southern sisters can enjoy these
delicious preserves; but we can rarely
get fresh figs as far North as this. Any
kind of fruit is good, cooked until clear
and tender in thick sirup, laid in the
sun until dry, then packed in boxes,
busted with sugar, and white paper
between each layer.