Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
HOME AND PARM.

Cool rain water and soda will take
machine oil out Of washable goods.
RIPE TOMATO PiCKLEs.-Do not
scald, pare with sharp knife. Put into
jar and pour over hot, spiced vine
gar. Cover over with paper dipped in
flour paste.
RosE WATER. R.--Procure a glasa bottle
with wide mouth and ground glass stop
per, fill two-thirds full with deodorized
alcohol, and add rose leaves until no
more can be forced into the bottle. Let
stand several months, keeping air tight,
strain when the virtue has left the
leaves. White roses are best.
THE best way 10 fry fish is TO first fry
some slices Of salt pork, then roll the
pieces of fish in fine Indian meal and
fry in the pork gravy. About three
slices of pork for a medium sized fish.
Whitefish needs less fat than almost any
ether.
THE meaning of the word "soiling,"
as understood among cattle feeders, is
the practice of confning animals TO the
stake or small lots, and feeding them on
green clover, corn, grass, etc, cut as
needed, and not allowing the stock TO
Craze on the ground where the food
grows.
BAKED EGG PLANT.-Boil a large egg
plant in plenty Of water until it is per-
fectly tender, trying it with a straw; let
| it stand in the colander TO drain until
cold then peel, cut open, and take out
the seed mash carefully with a gill of
milk, two eggs, a dessertspoonful of
salt, a saltspoOnful Of white pepper, half
a grated nutmeg, a heaping tablespoon
full of butter, and two tablespoonfuls of
very fine bread-crumbs Bake half an
hour in a quick oven; slow oven
spoils it.
COCOANUT CUsTARD.-To one pound
of grated cocoanut allow one pint of
milk and six ounces of sugar; beat well
the yelks of six eggs, and stir them al
ternately in the milk with the cocoanut
and sugar. Put into a pail or pitcher
set it into boiling water and stir all the
time till very smooth and thick; as soon
as it comes to hard boil take it off and
serve in cups and tumblers.
FOURTEEN years ago j. M. Sterling,
of Monroe, Mich, placed two gate.
posts of white oak in front of his resi-.
dence. When they were set, he bored
into the top of each, with an inch and a
half auger, a hole three inches deep,
filled it with common salt, tightly plug.
ged it, and capped the posts. A recent
examination of the posts proved that
they were as sound from top to bottom
as when they were placed in position.
LITTLE Plum CAKES TO KEEP LONG
Dry one pound of flour, and mix will
six ounces of finely powdered sugar
beat six ounces of butter to a cream
and add to it three eggs well beaten
half u pound of currants, washed anC
nicely dried, and the flour and sugar
beat all for some time, then dredge foul
on tin plates, and drop the batter OF
them the size of walnut. If properly
mixed, it will be stiff paste. Bake il
brisk oven.
PREVENTING SHoULDER-GALLs.-OnC
of the best preventives of this is t
keep the collar on the horse, after bring
ing him into the stable, till the sweat il
perfectly dried off. Look to it also once
a week, TO see if no sticky Jumps are OF
its inside, and if there are any wasl
them off with hot soap-suds, then rut
the collar with at's-foot oil. 1t is es
sential to look to this at least once {
week, aud always keep it clean and soft
1t is better to keep all the harness on {
horse, if quite sweaty when brought in
to his stable, till his hair is perfectly
dried. Horses when first taken out t,
work in the spring, not having had tn
collar on them much during the winter
ought not TO be used over two hours tn
first day or three hours the second, theil
work being gradually increased as thu
skin and flesh hardens on the shoulders
The flesh of the body also becomes sof
after lying still some time, and require
gradual seasoning, or what is technical
ly called bringing into condition" l
is thus that trotting and race horses ar
trained to perform their great feats witt
rare injury to them. Rural Ne1g Yorker