Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-24
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
The best place to keep eggs intend
ed for Matching is to wrap them in paper
and put them down in the cellar in
covered box or basket.
-Cocoanut Pie-Take one cocoanut,
and CRATE; add the milk and two eggs,
till the mixture is as thick as custard pie.
One nut makes two pies.
-Barn-yard manures are considered
more hrIrtful than useful for grape-vines.
Potash should form part of the grape
manures and nitrate of potash is the
most valuable.
Paint the inside walls of corn house
with coal tar and it will drive weevils
from the corn. Itcosts but few dollars
barrel, and a barrel will last several
years in hen houses and corn houses.
Grease on carpet, if not of long
standing, can be readily disposed of by
washing the spot with hot soap-suds and
borax-half an ounce of borax to gallon
of water. Use clean cloth to wash it
with, rinse in warm water, and wipe dry.
Spots on furniture, from anything
hot, or from alcohol, can be removed by
rubbing hard with sweet-oil and turpen-
tine. When the spots disappear, wash
in milk-warm soap-suds, dry quickly and
polish by rubbing briskly with chamois
skin.
Paint, pitch or tar can be removed
from cloth or wood by rubbing it with
turpentine. If the paint has become dry,
put few drops of the turpentine on the
spot, and let it stand short time; then
rub the spot, and if all the paint is not
removed, repeat the work. When en-
tirely gone, rub off with alcohol.
Bread Pudding.-To one quart of
boiling sweet milk add the same quanti-
ty of cold bread crumbs, light bread or
biscuit; mix and beat three eggs and one
cup of sugar together; then one cup of
cold milk and one-half cup of butter.
Pour this into the boiling milk, season
with nutmeg and set in the oven to
brown. Serve warm, with cream.
If you want your chickens to grow
fast feed them on oatmeal scalded with
sweet or sour milk. Don't make the
feed wet or sloppy, nor give more at
once than will be eaten up clean. Only
prepare as much at once as will be all
eaten before any fermentation takes
place in it. Where oatmeal can not be
had, fine cornmeal or cracked wheat
similarly treated and administered will
answer very good purpose.
| Boston Cream Cakes.-Half pound
butter, three-fourths pound of flour,
eight egg, one pint of water; stir the
butter into the water, which should be
warm; set it on the fire in a pan and let
it boil, stirring it often; when it boils,
stir in the flour; let it boil one minute,
take it off and let it cool; beat the eggs
light and stir into this cooled paste; bake
in small buttered pans ten minutes,
filing them half full.
In washing colored cotton goods
there are a great number of ways by
which the color may be preserved. Fol
bluffs OF gray linen a tablespoonful oi
black pepper to a pailful of water will
ssset'' the color and not harden the water
at all. Let the articles to be washed soak
in this water a half hour or SO and ther
wash as usual. 1t is excellent for blacl
or colored cambrics or muslins, and witt
ordinary good washing these articles car
be kept looking new long time. Tht
suds should be made with the water il
which the black pepper was put and ir
which they were soaked. Bluffs and gre,
are not easily spotted after having beer
washed in the pepper water. 1t not onl!
prevents fading but keeps the color from
g running"
Chocolate Cake.-Two cups of gran
ulated sugar; one cup of butter; white
of eight eggs beaten to a froth; one cu]
of sweet milk, three full cups of siftet
flour, and three teaspoonful of baking
powder. Beat the sugar and butter to
cream, add the milk, then the fou
(baking powder in it), and the whites
When well mixed, divide and into one
half CRATE cake of sweet chocolate
Bake in layers and put together witt
custard as follows: Bring one pint O
milk to the boiling point, stir in first tw
teaspoonsful of corn-starch dissolved il
!. little milk, and then two beaten egg
and teacupof sugar. Flavor with va
nilla. This is very excellent cake.
Before putting down carpets,
moths are feared, procure some pulvel
lied salt and alum, or hot alum water
Put this down the cracks next the base
boards, and paste strips of cotton clot
over the other cracks, then, even
moths are plenty, they will be unable t
come up and do mischief. If there al
moths eggs in the carpet, they can b
} destroyed by wringing a crash towel ou
of cold water, spreading it down on tn
carpet, and then going over it with
very hot iron. Go all over the carpet i
this way, and the steam will destro
both eggs and insects. This takes tim
but is the most effectual method for tn
annihilation of these pests.