Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-15
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

"A fat calf is 623 per cent. water
and 37.7 Of dry substance.
We never knew a farmer who kept
out of debt going into bankruptcy or
complaining of hard times. --DeS MoineS
Register.
Two tablespoonfuls of brown sugar,
one teaspoonful of powdered saltpeter,
and one teaspoonful of alum, pounded
and well mixed together, are recon-
mended as very soothing to q cough, by
a good nurse.
Frozen plants will often recover If
taken to room where the temperature
is just above freezing and kept from
the light, allowing them TO thaw very
gradually. The change to a warm room
would be injurious.
Most farmers families burn more
or less wood, and this should be got out
abundantly and in season. 1t will be
all the better if two or three years sup
ply is cut, as well-seasoned fuel is more
economical and better every way than
that which is green.
Black Cake. One pint of molasses,
one of brown sugar, one of butter, one
of sour milk, three eggs, two teaspoon
fuls of soda, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon,
raisins; make it very stiff and bake in
slow oven. This will make two large
cakes.
Corn Muffins.-One quart wheat
flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder;
add to it one cupful yellow meal;
cream together one cupful butter, one
cupful sugar, three eggs; add one
pint milk; stir we'll; then add flour
and meal. Bake in muffin-rings; hot
oven.
Rice Cup-Cakes. Take half
pound of the best rice; cook until thor
oughly done; turn into cups; when cold,
place on q dish, and serve with milk, a
little granulated sugar, some grated nut
meg and a tablespoonful of any kind of
jelly or preserved fruits, such as black
berries.
Jelly Roll-Take three eggs well
beaten, one tablespoonful of water, one
of sugar; mix with flour, but not very
thick, as this causes it to break in roll
ing. Spread paper in your dripping
pan, and bake quickly, after which
spread with tart jelly and roll up.
Ointment for Chapped Hands and
Chilblains.- one pint; Venice
turpentine, three ounces; hogs lard,
half a pound; beeswax, three ounces.
Put all into a pipkin, over a slow fire,
and stir it with wooden spoon till the
beeswax is all melted and the ingredi-
ents simmer. 1t is fit for use as soon as
cold, but the longer it is kept the better
it will be. For chaps or cracks rub on
the hands when you go to bed.
-Beefsteak Pudding. Take two
pounds of rump-steak and cut in small
pieces, and cut into shreds two or three
onions; paste the pudding dish with
good crust; then put in the meat, with
salt and pepper, and a dozen oysters;
add thickening composed of catsup,
flour and water and mustard; simmer
for an hour and half, and serve in the
dish. 1t may be turned out if the gravy
in the pudding can be retained. Nut
ton, veal and ham, fowl and game may
be served in similar way.
To Sugar-Cure Hams.-To each 100
pounds of meat take eight pounds of
salt, two and one-half pounds of brown
sugar, two ounces of saltpeter, two
ounces of common baking soda and two
ounces of black pepper or one ounce of
cayenne pepper. Dissolve, boil and
skim the salt, sugar, saltpeter and soda,
and then put in the pepper and set
away to cool. When cold pour it over
the meat. Enough water must be used
to cover the meat. Some like to put
few ground cloves in the pickle with
the pepper. In six weeks the meat will
be ready to smoke.
The best remedy for frozen combs
in poultry consists in repeated applica-
tions of glycerine. When a supply of
this material may not be at hand an
effectual substitute may be improvised
in the following manner: A piece of
raw bacon is to be held in the flame of
pine chips, containing plenty of resin,
in such a manner that the fat and the
resin, as they melt, may both fall upon
bit of ice held beneath the flame,
while the mixture, rubbed into salve
with the finger, should be applied at
once to the frozen combs. The sooner
the application is made the better. -
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