Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-28
FARM AND HousEHoLn.

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-Beets, carrots aid patbnlps may be
preserved as crisp and fresh through
the winter as when taken from the
ground, by packing them in fresh saw
dust. Take box of sufficient size, put
in layer of sawdust, then layer of
roots and alternate them until the box
is full.
10 Soften Hard Water. two
pounds of washing soda and one pound
of common lin and boil in five gal
Ions of water for two or three hours;
then stand away to settle and dip off
tho clear water from the top, and put
into Jug. Can be used for washing
dishes or cleaning, and one teacupful
in a boiler Of clothes, put in after the
water Is hot, will whiten the clothes
and soften the water, without injury to
the hands OF clothes.
"A plant grower of considerable ex-
perience says that a strong solution of
copperas in soap suds water is very in
Vigbrating to ornamental shrubs and
pear trees. 1t will also destroy the
small grubs that infest the roots of pot
plants. Ammonia water of the strength
of one teaspoonful spirits of ammonia
to two quarts of water, is also a good
remedy for the white grubs in pot
plants, while it is invigorating to the
growth of the plants.
Value of Turnips. "A Connecticut
farmer estimates the value of turnips
(the fiat English turnips in his case) as
food for milch COWS, at twenty-five
cents per bushel. He arrived at these
figures by noting the diminished yield
consequent upon leaving off the feed of
turnips; the roots did not save hay, as
quite as much was consumed with as
without them, but the turnips, as also
shown by European experiments, were
an aid to the digestion of the hay and
similar fodder.
Potato Cakes.-The following is an
Irish recipe, and makes a nice break
fast dish; Two potatoes, little salt, q
breakfast cup of flour, one ounce of
butter. Boil the potatoes, peel and
bruise them and work them into a
paste, then add little salt and mix it
in q large breakfast cup full of flour.
Roll out the cake and cut it into six or
eight pieces. Bake it slowly in a metal
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about one ounce of butter. The cakes
should be a light color, and require
constant attention while baking.
French Pancakes. Two eggs, one
half pint milk, two ounces granulated
sugar, two ounces butter, -four and
jelly. Beat the butter and sugar to a
cream; beat the eggs separately, the
yelks to cream, and the whites to a
froth, and add the yelks to the butter
and sugar; stir the milk into these in
gradients; butter six tin pie-plates; sift
two ounces of flour with a teaspoonful
of baking powder, and stir it quickly
into the above-named mixture, with
the whites of the eggs; put the batter
quickly upon the buttered plates, and
bake the pancakes brown in a quick
oven; dust them with powdered sugar,
lay them one over the other, with lit
tie jelly between; dust the top with
sugar, and serve them hot.
To Boil Onions.-Some years ago l
read in an English journal contribu-
ton of Mr.. Frank Buckland, where he
stated that after mental fatigue and oc-
casional sleeplessness he was greatly
benefited by eating onions at his dim
ner. How soporitic or sleep-inducing
the onion, the much despised vegetable,
is, am not prepared to state, but l
know that many persons who are
troubled with sleeplessness use them.
If properly boiled, so as to get the
twang out of them, the onion is a most
delicate vegetable. To every quart of
onions quart of cold water, with a
half tablespoonful of salt. Boil not too
fast for two hours. Drain in colander
thoroughly and allow to get cold. Make
a sauce with tablespoonful of butter,
the same of flour, and one-half pint of
milk; rub butter and flour perfectly to
gether, with pinch of black pepper.
Boil milk, which pour over flour and
butter, and stir all the time to keep
Put onions in sauce and let
them heat until the same boils. Ought
to be served rather dry.-COr. N. Y.
Times.