Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-11-04
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--Clabbered milk is better than watcr
for freshening salt fish. t
I, Soda or baking-powder biscuits
must be handled rs little and made as
rapidly rs possible. .tt n, .t..... r.
"a little lard or butter Improves
bread or cake made Of Graham or In
dian meal-lit makes them more light
and tender.
Farmers are too apt to be stingy
of both milk and cream in their own
families; and it has come to be tamil
lar saying that the poorest place in the
world TO get either milk, cream or good
cheese is at the table of regular dairy
farmer. Utica Herald. ~
1t is common error that the roots
Of trees extend only as far from the
trunk as the length of the branches;
the truth is that they are usually longer
on each side than the entire height of
the tree. A tree thirty feet high forms
a circle of roots more than sixty feet in
diameter. Il Country Gentleman.
Soft Soap.--Cut two-tbirds Of a
four-pound bar common soap in small
pieces, put in large kettle with half
wood pail cold water and one pound
washing soda; let stand and simmer
several hours until dissolved, stirring
occasionally; pour into large stone pot
and add half-pail cold water, stirring
thoroughly.
How to Make Meat Tender. Gut
the steaks the day before into slices
about two inches thick, rub them over
with small quantity of soda; wash off
next morning, cut into suitable thick
ness and cook as you choose. The
same process will answer for fowls,
legs of mutton, etc. Try, all who love
delicious, tender dishes of meat.
An attractive and economical tea
cake, and one which might appropri-
ately he called children's delight"
is made by taking enough white bread
dough to make q small loaf; knead into
it tablespoonful OF butter or lard, two
tablespoonfuls of English currants; let
it rise until it is very light, then bake
in q moderately hot oven. II you have
any of the tin cans in which tomatoes
are put up, use one of them for baking
tin, and bake this cake in it. You will
have q pretty, round loaf. and the size
and appearance of the slices is also
pleasing. Graham bread seems actual
ly to taste better if baked in one of
these tins.
Saving Seed Corn.-A writer in
the Prairie Farmer picks his seed corn
and hangs it up in the smoke house
and smokes it just as he does his meat.
He builds good smoke every day un-
til both corn and cob are perfectly dry.
He is not afraid of getting it too dry, be
says. 1t must be kept in a dry place
,,pfI ,NIantipnr and ,s,ha al ;e
plenty of air. He is careful not to let
it heat in the shock before getting it
hung up. When the weather is warm,
corn will heat in heap so as to injure
the germ. He has saved his seed CO n
in this way for the past twenty years,
and it never fails to grow.
-Cocoanut cake made from this
recipe is as nice cake as one need wish
to make: Take the white OF five eggs,
one small cup of sweet milk, one cup
and two thirds of another Of granulated
sugar, two-thirds of cup of butter,
one teaspoonful and half of baking
powder, about three cups of sifted flour,
flavor with almond extract, bake in
layers. Beat the whites of two or three
eggs to a frost, add pulverized sugar
enough to make rather thin frostine
and put between the layers; on this
scatter cocoanut; put on enough to
make nice layer; for the top and sides
of the cake the frosting sholld be lit
tie thicker. / think the best way to
get the cocoanut ON the sides is to pu,
it on with your hand; you can press il
gently upon the frosting and make il
stick TO it.
Sweet Potato Pie. Take Q
half pound of sweet potatoes, wash
them, and put them into a pot with
very little water, barely enough to keer
them from burning. Let them simmer
slowly about half an hour. They must
be only parboiled, otherwise they will be
soft and may m Ike the pie heavy
When they are half done, take them
out, peel them, and when cold CRATE
them. Stir together to cream one
quarter of pound of butter and 81,
ounces of sugar; add grated nutmeg
large teaspoonful of cinnamon, anC
half tea spoonful of beaten mace; also
the juice aud grated peel of lemon, {
wine-glass of rOsewater. Stir these in
gradients well together. Beat eigh
eggs very light, and stir them into the
mixture, in turn with the sweet pota
toes, little of each at time. Having
stirred the whole very hard at the last
put it in your pie-plates, which you have
lined with puff-paste. Bake in rather
slow oven. To be eaten cold. Car
rot and white potatoe pie may be mad,
in the same manner.