Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-08-12
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Rice water. barley water, oat meal
water, with lemon and sugar, should be
ready in every house where children
are. These drinks are surely better
than cold tea, which Is often given, or
doubtful milk. However, milk is bet
ter than anything, when 1t is sweet and
pure. ..i f,irt.. ,..f..iini,-bo. D.. 4
Cold Slaw Drcssing.---Scald five
tablespoonfuls of milk, and while hot,
stir in one well-beaten egg; add o piece
of butter the size of small egg; stir it
constantly till it thickens; add vinegar
and salt to your taste, and pear over
the cabbage or salad. Let IL get cold
before eating. H e
-Chicken-and-Ham Rolls. = Take
nalf the crumb from the hearts OF
French or light homemade rolls; but.
ter the cavity and ill with mixture OF
minced chicken and ham. Stop the
hole in tho side with wad of crumb
or bit of crust. These are very nice.
Chicken Sandwiches. Cut the flesh
from the bones of cold roast fowls, and
dispose in close neat strips between
buttered slices of bread, or halves OF
biscuit. Sprinkle with pepper and salt.
If YOU like, you may chop the fowl fine,
and spread almost half-an-inch thick on
the buttered bread.
Soap for Removing Grease Spots. =
Dissolve in half pint OF water half
pound OF washing soda, put in two
pounds of good hard soap, cut in slices,
and boil until q mass is formed. Then
add q half ounce each of alcohol, cam
phor, ether and liquid ammonia, and
mold into cakes. l
DO not put clothes into the blueing-
water until they have been well shaken;
if tossed in while folded as they come
through the wringer they are almost
certain to be streaked with blueing,
and, although after repeated washings
these streaks will come out, every one
knows how aggravating it is to use
napkins or handkerchiefs that show
traces OF careless washing.
-Flaked Fish. Make sauce by
dredging some flour into two ounces of
hot water in stewpan; add half a
pound of cold fish, nicely faxed, one
ounce of cold butter, dessert-spoon-
full each of anchovy sauce and mixed
mustard, one teacupful of cream, some
pepper, salt, and few bread crumbs.
Make hot and serve as it is, or you may
pour it into buttered dish, with the
addition of Il few bread crumbs, and
brown the top in the oven. i.
Mixed Chow-chow Take radish
pods, green peppers, long and round,
green grapes, nasturtiums, peaches,
cherries, string beans, caulitiower,
button onions, pour over them hot
brine that will bear an egg, and let
them stand four days. Then make a
pickle veey warm with spices. and
after it has been boiled, and the in
gradients well dried from the brine,
pour it over them boiling hot; mustard
seed may be added, and then it must
be covered close from the air. This
will keep, if well prepared, two years.
-Mrs. l.. q. AbeH. ...I .t..l
-Sassafras Mead. Two quarts OF
boiling water; three and half pounds
of sugar; pint and half OF molasses;
one-fourth pound of tartaric acid; quar-
ter of ounce essence of sassafras. Stir
these all gradually together; be sure
to have the water boiling; when cool
strain into large jug or pan, and add
the essence of sassafras. Put it in
bottles, cork tightly and keep in a COO
place. To prepare glass for drinking
pour a little of the mead in a glass, fill
three quarters full of cold water, ther
stir in little carbonate of soda, and il
will foam to ill the glass. A pleasant
drink for warm weather.
The cheapest, best, easiest put ur
and strongest lightning conductor i:
copper wire, says writer in the New
York Tribune. Get at metal store {
coil of the length required, and as large
40 or. laruer than. common falpora nj
wire. Fasten one end over your chin
!, ney-top, run along the ridge and dowr
the end of your house, fasten
ing with common blind-staples driver
into the wood. Be sure to have tn,
lower end terminate in permanent,
moist earth or in well, not cementet
cistern. Use no glass insulators, paten
, tips or other humbug nonsense, and yo'
will have the cheapest and most perfec
+, lightning conductor that can be made