Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,

Nice Little Sugar Cakes.-Six cup
fuls of flour, three cupfuls of sugar,
three-quarters of pound of butter and
any favoring you like. Nutmeg and
cinnamon are commonly used. Roll
out thin, sprinkle with sugar, and bake
quickly.
Poor Mans Pudding. Take two
quarts of rich milk; one teaspoonful of
salt; one teaspoonful CT allspice; three
tablespoonfuls of sugar; three tab ble-
spoonfuls of molasses; two thirds of
cupful of rice. Bake one and one
fourth hours, or longer if the fire is
slow.
Two boarding house keepers are
comparing notes. "It pears to me,
Mrs. Miggles, that your chicken salad
is never found out-leastways, l never
hears none of the boarders complain"
"Wen, you see,'' explained Mrs. Mig
giles, 6" allus chaps up few feathers
with the veal.'
Rock Cakes.-One pound of flour,
half pound of sugar, half pound of
butter, half pound of currants or cher
ries, four eggs, leaving out two of the
whites. A small quantity of candied
lemon peel improves the flavor greatly.
Cut the cakes into shapes with little
tin cutters, and bake in steadily
heated oven.
The poultry house, if closely exam
ined. may be found to swarm with lice.
A gray mealy powder may be seen on
the roost, in crevices, and in the corners
and joints of the building. Take a COM
mon squirt can filed with kerosene oil
and inject the oil into every crevice
about the house. Repeat this process
if it is found necessary, and very soon
the fowls will be free from these insect
pests.
Rain water, though very pure as it
falls from the clouds, takes with it more
or less impurity from the roof upon
which it is caught and the pipes
through which it passes to the cistern.
There is constant inlet for impurities,
.. but no outlet, and these falling to the
bottom accumulate to such an extent
| that the water in time becomes tainted,
and sometimes decidedly unhealthful.
When the water is low, a cistern should
be cleaned, and this, at least, as often
as once year.
The roller is both good and bad
implement; good when rightly used,
but very bad otherwise. One good use
of it is, to run it over meadows early in
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in stones and tufts, mole-runs, and
other Irregularities. Grain fields are
also benefited by rolling, which crushes
any Jumps left after the winter, presses
in roots that may have been thrown
out, and covers grass seed. Light rollers
are the best, if heavy one is needed,
| it is always easy to load light one,
but one cannot make heavy roller
light.
| -Corns ON Horses Feet.-Corns are
rarely absent from flat-footed hoofs.
They are caused, in the majority of
cases, by stones lodging in the space
unwisely left by blacksm1ths between
the inner edge ofthe shoe and the sole of
thefoot. This causes bruise, which soon
becomes inf1amed, and the horn being
unyielding the products of the inf1am-
nation cannot escape, and remain as a
constant source of tenderness and pain.
The remedy is to keep the space stuffed
with tow soaked in glycerine, or other
wise to lay leather sole under the
shoe to protect the sole of the foot. \
German Pancakes. = Sift three ia.
blespoonfuls of flour, add a salt spoon
of salt and teaspoonful of pulverized
sugar, mix dry; break four eggs and
beat up whites and yelks, and pour
flour, salt and sugar into them, stir
thoroughly, then last add a quart, Of
milk; take a clean, thin frying-pan, and
use only the best butter, about a table
spoonful will suffice, when the butter is
Kissing hot. but not brown, pour in the
batter; they ought to cook through
from the lower side; roll up before
serving, and powder with pulverized
sugar; serve as hot as possible and cal
with lemon juice. If you want to stripe
them heat skewer, and having added
sugar outside, apply the hot iron in
streaks.
"A heavy garment, like an overcoat,
if hung by the loop at the back of the
collar, will soon stretch out of shape
by its own weight. To avoid this, va
rious devices have been made, some OF
wire, and others of wood. A piece OF
hardwood, long enough to reach from
the outside of one sleeve to that of the
other, will answer the purpose; it should
have hole bored through the center,
or loop of strong cord to hang it by
upon the nail or hook. Under-coats
and vests may be hung in the same
way. For the g best SUITS this little
matter is of considerable Importance to
all who desire their coats to not be full
in the back of the neck, and therefore,
out of shape.
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