Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Sponge Cake.--Beat two eggs in q
cup, fill up with sweet cream, one cup
sugar, one and one-half cups of sifted
flour, two teaspoons baking powder, q
little lemon ilavoring.
-Cocoanut Jumbles. One pound of
grated cocoanut, three-quarters pound
of pulverized sugar, six ounces butter,
six ounces flour, five eggs; drop with
tablespoon on tins. Excellent.
The following is said to be a sure
prescription for the curculio: Mix
some tar with soap, and boil it up in an
old kettle; dissolve that in water and
use the liquid, if you please, with gar
den syringe upon your tree.
The results of some experiments
conducted under the auspices of the
German Government indicate that the
practice of spaying cows has very little
to recommend it. The cows operated
upon neither gave more milk nor put
on more flesh.
Hair Restorative. Castor eight
ounces; tincture cantharides, two ounces;
blood-root, one ounce; lemon-oil, one
fourth ounce; rosemary, one-fOurth
ounce; bergamot, one-fourth ounce;
lavender, one-fourth ounce; alcohol,
one-half gallon; color with alkanat.
Chocolate Caramels. Two cups of
sugar, one cup of molasses, half cup
of milk, three-quarters cup of grated
chocolate, piece of butter size of a
hickory nut, extract of vanilla. Boil
in buttered pans, and mark off in
squares.
Tea Biscuit. the morning boil
one quart of milk; when boiled, put in
one cup of lard and half cup of but
ter Let cool little and add flour to
make sponge and two large table
spoonfuls of yeast with a little salt
Leave in a warm place until light, then
add quickly enough flour, and let it rise
again. Roll, cut into biscuits, and leave
to rise for q short time. Bake in a
quick oven.-LddieS' Floral Cabinet.
Lemon Pudding. Two ounces of
butter, two eggs, two ounces of sifted
white sugar, two ounces of siftcd flour,
grated rind and juice Of two lemons,
puff paste to line one pie pan. Beat
the sugar and butter to a cream; add
the flour and lemon-iuice and rind.
Beat the eggs till light; add to the
mixture. Cover the pie-dish with puff
paste, leaving rind; fill with the MKT
ure and bake. Sift sugar over the top;
serve hot. Godegs LadyS Book.
Oats are one of the most exhilarat-
ing and muscle-developing of grains
They should be sown early, and in nc
case should grass-seed be sown with
hn ~
same quality that grass feeds upon, and
in most cases they will starve and
smother the young grasses to death
Harvest the oats and Immediately plow
in the stubble and seed to grass. Lime
or ashes, or even a coating of manure
well mixed with the soil, will not injurC
the grass.-BOSton Globe.
-Gateau de Riz.-Eight ounces o
rice, one quart milk, yelks of five eggs
peel of one large lemon, four ounces o
butter, four ounces sugar, bread crumbs
wash the rice well and put it into ;
farina kettle with the milk and thC
lemon-peel, grated; let it cook slowly
till the rice is very tender and all tht
milk absorbed; if it becomes too dry
add little more milk; when quit,
cooked add the butter, sugar and yelk
of eggs; stir for one minute, remove i
from the fire, and let stand five min
utes. Butter plain mold or pan
thickly strew over the sides and bottom
a thick layer of bread crumbs made b,
drying bread in the oven and thel
pounding it in n mortar; pour the ric
into it, and bake in moderate ovel
one-half hour; then turn it CAREFUL
out upon fiat dish; lay around it an
kind of preserved fruit, and serve
with boiled-eustard sauce.