Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-07
HOME AND FARM.


GROUND once we'll plowed is better
than three times poorly.
GRAPE WIVES require careful cultiva-
ton the first three years after planting.
THE rotted manure from the bottoms
of hot beds is admirable for bringing
forward peas and early beans.
GRATING on the California wild
grapes to prevent phylloxera has been
tried, and prospects of success are good.
BoUNTIFUL crops are more profitable
than poor ones. Make the soil rich,
pulverize it well and keep it clean, and
1t will generally be profitable.
EVERY mother, whether rich or poor,
high or low, should consider it her duty
to sec that her daughter is instructed in
and taught the rudiments Of housekeep-
ing.
To REMOVE greese from silk, take a
lump of magnesia and rub it well over
the spot; let it dry, then brush the pow
der off, and the spot will disappear.
CoCoANUT PrE.-One grated cocoa
nut, one quart of milk, five eggs beaten
separately, one tablespoonful of fine
bread-crumbs sugar and flavoring to
the taste. The above makes two pies.
No top crust.
CREAM-TARTAR CAKE.-One teacup
of butter, two and half cups of sugar,
two of milk, three teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, two of soda, one egg, nutmeg,
fruit if you please. This makes two
loaves and is extremely good.
ONLY manure in q soluble condition
1hAttl1 hn ttgnG rnNiIlxr nrrif, ~
plants like tobacco and early vegetables.
Even grass and all sowed crops will
grow much faster when the manure is
we'll rotted. Fertilizers are never ben
efcial TO any crop until they are decom-
posed.
SALAD DREssING.-Foure eggs well
beaten, one-half cup vinegar, stirred
over the fire until as thick as custard.
When cool add one-half teacup of sweet
oil, one teaspoonful of mixed mustard,
one teaspoonful of sugar Gf likeD, the
juice of one lemon and cayenne pepper
to the taste. This is enough for chicken
salad for ten persons.
BAKED BEANs.-One quart of beans
soaked over night; in the morning set
them on the stove, and let them parboil
about half an hour; drain off the water,
put the beans into crock, put in a
piece of pork, and piece of soda as
large as bean, and two tablespoonful
of sugar; fill the crock with boiling
water, cover tight, and set in the oven /;
keep covered with water all the time I;
have slow oven in the afternoon.
BROWN BREAD.-Two cupfuls of yel-
low corn meal, one cupful of wheai
flour, two and one-quarter cupfuls OF
sour milk, onehalf cupful of mOlasses,
one and one half teaspoonfuls of soda,
one teaspoonful of salt. Butter round
tin, in which pour the above. Set the
pan in Il steamer over a pot of boiling
water (must boil all of the time), cover
he steamer with cloth, then tin
cover. After it has steamed sufficiently
place in the oven for about twenty min
ute3. Serve hot or cold as you wish.
Steam it all day if you wish it extra
nice.
CREAM PUFFs. s.-Melt one-half cup
butter in one cup of hot water, and,
while boiling, beat in one cup of flour
hen take from the fire and cool. When
quite cold stir in three eggs, one at a
time, without beating them. Drop OIL
tins in small spoontuls, and bake in q
moderate oven. Custard for fillirg tn
,bove-One and one-half cups of milk
two eggs, four tablespoonful of -four
sugar to the taste, flavor with vanilla
and boil the same as custard. When
cold open the puffs and fill with The
cream. Bake the puffs thirty-five min
dtas.
WHEELBARRow AND SLoP-BARREL
"A writer gives the following plan of !
one-wheel slop or garden-barrow: The
frame is the same as for good-sizeo
wheelbarrow, with two good legs and
wo cross Stats; tighten the Stats in tht
mortises, to fit the barrel, and get tht
blacksmith to make strong hoop witt
guGgeon on each side to put on th
lower half of the barrel and to ham
loose OH the frame. The barrel must b
in proportion to the wheel in front
The felloes of the wheel ought to b,
wide for garden work. This barrow car
be made very useful for other work by
removing the barrel and having boz
on the frame.
ABOUT CHURNING.-There is Away.
'DlhO lOSS III Clllll lLllh III udoi
churnS, which is occasioned by the ad
hesion of some of the cream to tn,
cover of the churn. The churn shouli
be opened occasionally and this cream
scraped down into it. This trouble i
avoided in the dashless churn, which
consists of a rectangular box hung upor
gudgeons fixed to two opposite corners
When this is revolved the cream i
dashed from side to side and from cor
ner to corner in wild and violent man
ner, 50 as to become churned in a yer,
short time, comparatively. The butte
made in dash churn need not be in
| jured in quality by any unchurned cream
left in the churn, as this will be all re
moved if the butter is properly washed
but it is lost, as a matter of course, b,
this.
A CORRESPONDENT gives the follow
! ing directions for keeping hams saf
from insects after smoking: Make bag
of double paper (newpaper, or use sin
| ely the heavy brown paper flour sacks)
making them large and loose for tn
| ham; tie them, little above the meat
very securely and tightly around tn
strings or hooks by which they are sus
pended. Instead of strings, if practi
cable, have hooks like old fashioned pot
hooks, eight inches long or thereabouts
made of small round iron, or very heav
wire. These are always ready, and
carefully cared for may last a hundre,
years. For this way OF keeping smoke,
meat, dry place, free from rats ant
mice, is requisite. In a damp place
mold will gather; and in hot attic
while the meat will keep perfectly sweet
it is apt to get too hard for convenienc
of cutting. Double paper win keep ou
insects if no holes are allowed. Simila
bags are excellent for dried fruit.