Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-25
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Stuffed Onions.-Parboil some |
good-sized onions. Take out the mid |
dies and fill with forcemeat. Put them
side by side in casserole, with butter. |
Sprinkle little salt and little sugar
on them. Cover the onions with thin |
slices of bacon. Cook thoroughly and |
serve with their own sauce.
Lemon Pie.-One lemon, one table,
spoonful of corn-starch dissolved in |
cold water, one cup of sugar, one egg,
piece of butter size of an egg, one cup
full of hot water; boil few minutes.
Make merringue of the whites of two
eggs, and two tablespoonfuls of pulver-
lied sugar. Bake shell first SO as to
have the crust dry.
To Take Grease Out of Silks or
Stuffs.-Take lump of magnesia,
and rub it, wet, over the spot; let it
dry; then brush the powder off, and
the spot will disappear. Or: Take a
visiting or other card; separate it, and
rub the spot with the soft internal part,
and it will disappear without taking
the gloss off the silk.
Veal Soup.-A three-pound Joint of
veal, we'll broken in four quarts of
water, and set over the fire to boil; pre-
pare quarter pound of macarOni by
boiling it by itself with water enough
to cover; add little butter to the mac
aroni when it is tender; strain the soup
and season with salt and pepper, then
add the macaroni and water in which
it was boiled. A pint of rich milk or
cream and celery flavor is relished by
many If added.
The Green Cabbage Worm.
a strong tea of dog fennel as follows;
A fifteen gallon kettle well filed with
the stalks, leaves and blossoms of dog
fennel, fill up with water, steep three
hours over moderate fire and pour
off the tea. You will have ten gallons;
give time to cool. Sprinkle this over
the cabbage with brush or old broom
some clear morning after the dew goes
off. You will have enough for eighty
heads, one pint to the head less will
do if your cabbage has not commenced
heading. Should the worms reappear,
repeat
Potato Soup.-Boil shank of beef
two days before you want your soup,
strain into crock and let it stand until
you need it. The fat will rise to the
top. This you must take off before you
begin to make your soup. Now take
your soup pot, and in about two table,
spoons of the fat taken off fry four large
sliced onions, put in half your stock,
have some nicely mashed potatoes, stir
them into the soup until the consistency
of thick cream. Season with pepper
and salt. The remaining stock for
gravies, etc., or Scotch broth, instead
of mutton.
Hen Lice.-The warm weather will
hatch out these pests in swarms, par
ticularly if the winter quarters have
not been very clean. Take day and
attend thoroughly to your hen house.
If you are too busy to attend to it your
self hire it done. 1t will pay. White
wash every board, roost and nest thor
oughly. 1t need not be done by scien-
tific kalsominer. A boy of twelve, with
an old whitewash brush, can do the
work well enough if he has plenty of
lime to throw around. Put carbolic
acid in the Stacked lime, brush the
perches with kerosene, sprinkle plenty
of sulphur over the clean straw that
you have put in the nests and you will
lose fewer fowls with "cholera" dur
ing the hot weather.
Coal Ashes for Borers.-The New
York Herald says: All who have been
troubled in any way with this pest of
the orchard will hail with joy any effec-
tual remedy. In conversation with
Hon. Albert Day, of Brooklyn, upon
the subject of the ravages of the borer,
he stated that he had tried various
remedies with no effect until he hit
upon the one which he has since adopt
ed, which is sure cure, and consists
in the use of whale oil soap applied to
the body of the tree three or four times
during the season. George B. Fuller,
of Columbia, has made use of hard
coal ashes to apply about the roots of
peach trees, and besides, as he believes,
preventing the borer, causes remark
ably healthy growth of the trees. These
points are worth noticing, and if there
is efficiency in the use of coal ashes
they should be saved for us, rather
than thrown into the street as many are
inclined to do.