Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-08
HOME AND FARM.

THE best way 10 move OLD StraW-
berry plants Is to wait till after q heavy
rain when the ground is soaking wet,
and take up clumps of them with the
ground attached and carry them where
you want them. 'e
MILITARY PUDDINGs. - Chop very
finely one-half pound of suet, mix with it
one half pound of bread crumbs, and
the same quantity of moist sugar;
mince the rind of lemon, and strain
the juice; mix these ingredients well,
and put the mixture into small buttered
cups, and bake for rather more than
half an hour turn them out on q dish,
and serve with lemon sauce. The above
ingredients may be made into small
balls, and boiled for about half an hour.
They should be served with the same
sauce as when baked.
BAKED HAM.-Make a thick paste of
flour and water (not boiled), and cover
the entire ham with it, bone and all
put in pan, on a spider, or two muffin
rings, or any thing that will keep it an
inch from the bottom, and bake in q hot
oven; il a small ham, fifteen minutes for
each pound; il large, twenty minutes;
the oven should be hot when put in.
The paste forms hard crust around the
ham, and the skin comes off with 1t.
Try this, and you will never cook ham
in any other way.
In one quarter of q minute dahlia
that is all purple can be changed, so
that every petal shall be tipped yellow.
This is simply done by burning some
birthstone, and holding the flowers a
few seconds in the fumes. The change
is instantaneous and where there was
no fancy-tipped dahlia, it astonished
every body who did not know it and saw
the metamorphosis. Other flowers are
subject to change by the fumes of brim-
stone, which discharges the color wher-
ever it reaches The experiment is
easily tried by lighting n few lucifer
Matches american CaHirator.
FINE GERMAN PUDDNG.-Pour half
half pint of boiling milk upon one
pound bread crumbs; beat up one
quarter pound fresh butter to a cream;
add to it the yelks of ten eggs, well
beaten; drain the milk from the bread,
and add the bread, with One-quarter
pound pounded sugar and the grated
peel of lemons whip the whites of the
| ten eggs into solid froth, and add them
the last thing; butter cloth, and put
the pudding in, tying it loose, as it will
swell out a good deal; plunge it into
boiling water; boil one hour. Some
persons add one quarter pound jar raj
sins, slit and stoned.
CORN loses one-ffth by drying and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that 1t is more profita-
BILE for farmers to sell unshelled corn in
! the fall at 15 cents bushel than at 81
bushel in the following summer, and
the wheat at S1.25 in December is equal
to 80 in the succeeding June. In the
case of potatoes--taking those that rot
and are otherwise lost, together with the
shrinkage, there is but little doubt that
between October and June the loss to
the owner who holds them is not less
than 38 per cent.
A PRACTICAL Vermonter tells the
Americnn CultiCator how to 'burn a
chimney out" He chose rainy day.
There had so much SCOT accumulated
that it made. a very hot fire, but by Civ
ing only little draught the burning was
safely performed. Although the day
was still the fire roared like an engine.
and red-hot cinders fell Kissing upon
the wet roof, showing the terrible result
that would have followed had the chin
ney taken fire on dry and windy day.
To KEEP GRAPEs.-Select nice fresh
clusters, and cut the end of the stem
smooth, and dip into melted sealing
wax; then put it in cotton batting; pack
them away in wooden boxes; keep them
in dry, cool place. In this way they
will keep fresh all winter. Another
way-Take full punches, ripe and per.
feet; seal the end that is cut from the
vine so that no air can get in, or the
juice of the stem run out, and let them
stand one day after sealing, so as to be
sure they are perfectly sealed Gf moi
they will shrivel up); then pack ir
boxes of dry sawdust, and keep in &
cool place; they will keep nicely al
winter without losing their flavor; il
packing, do not crowd the punches
Sprinkle the sawdust over the bottom o.
the box, then lay the grapes carefully, {
bunch at a time, all over the box, ther
sawdust and grapes, alternately, unit
the box is full.