Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-07-15
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

HUME, fAttM AND GAHDENs
Grained wood should be washed
with cold tea.
Cut hot bread or cake with hot
knife, and IL will not be clammy.
In dropping medicine place the
handle of the spoon between the leaves
of n book.
Meat can be prevented from scorch-
ing, during the roasting process, by
simply placing basin or cup of water
in the oven. The steam generated not
only prevents scorching, but makes the
meat cook nicer.
"A good way to cook liver is TO fry
IL in butter with an onion cut in small
pieces scattered over it, Cook slowly;
when done add lump of butter and
little -four; stir well, and turn over the
liver. Serve with Saratoga potatoes.
For general purposes on the farm,
castor.oil, with little kerosene added,
is the best lubricator and prcserver.
For saws, mowers, buggies, etc, it fur
nishes more body, with less gum, than
most oil. The amount of kerosene, II
any. to be added, must be governed by
the purpose for which it is designed.
Drying Umbrellas. Most people
dry their umbrellas handle upward.
This concentrates the moisture at the
tip, where it is close, rusts the wires
which secure the stretchers, and rots
the silk. After the umbrella is drained,
1t is better to invert handle down, and
dry 1t in that position, or, better still,
not to spread it open, as nothing so
quickly spoils its shape.
Cherries intended to be dried must
be first stoned, spread on Hat dishes
and dry them in the sun or warm oven;
pour whatever juice may run from them
over them, little at q time; stir them
about that they may dry evenly. When
perfectly dry line boxes or jars with
white paper and pack close in layers;
strew little brown sugar and fold the
top of the paper over them and keep in
a dry, sweet place.
Apple Cheese Cakes. Take one
pound of apples. boiled and pulped
through sieve, one pound powdered
white sugar, the juice and grated rinds
of three large fresh lemons, and -four
eggs well beaten. Mix these ingredi.
ents carefully, and put them into
saucepan in which you have quarter
of q pound of fresh butter melted. Stir
it constantly over n slow fire for half an
hour, and let it cool. Line pie dishes
with fine puff paste, pour in the apple
mixture, and bake. without upper crust,
in quick oven. Sprinkle with pow
iered sugar. and serve when perfectly
cold.
Very Fine Currant Jelly.-Au
equal quantity of white and red cur
rants free from stems, leaves and dirt.
Put into white porcelain kettle
with very little water, just
enough to keep the fruit from burn.
ing at first. Boil twenty minutes.
Do not crush the fruit. Pour into
clean jelly-bag. Hang where the juice
can run through, but do not touch Oh
squeeze the bag. TO each pint of this
clear liquor add n pound of loaf sugar
and boil in the cleansed porcelain kettle
twenty-five minutes. Pass through an.
other. jelly-bag and pour into glasses.
The bags can be well pressed out after.
ward and the juice -therefrom made into
an inferior jelly.
-Crystallizing Grasses. s.-Dissolve in
quart of soft water all the alum you can
by heating and stirring-it may be a
pound, it may be twenty ounces. Have
the grasses divided into small lunches
tied. When the solution begins too
cool dip in the grasses, holding them
there five minutes, three minntes, two
minutes or one minute, according to
size of crystals you wish. The cooler
the solution the quicker the crystals
form. When too cold reheat. | have
used glass jar to dissolve the alum in,
heating it in a kettle of water with an
old plate at the bottom TO prevent the
jar breaking. One can see through glass
the or, stalls forming and so know when
to take the grass out. DO not let the
grass touch the sides of the jar.
An ant bed on the lawn may be de.
stroyed with hot water; stir up the bed
and pour on boiling water; by pouri az
on strong brine thev may be driven
away, but as they might take up quar-
ters as Objectionable, it issalways best
to destroy them. When the bed is far
enough from the house, and in posi-
ton to admit of it, they may be de-
stroyed by building fire around them,
and when hot enough, with a hoe dig
the bed up and thus burn them; when
the bed is well dug out fill the no oe
with GOALS; in this way we have de-
stroyed large beds; but near dwelling
hot water is the best, though it may re-
quire several gallons to make a sure
thing of it. The small red ants nest is
easily destroyed in this way, but large
ones, being at a considerable distance
below the surface, must be so dug up
as to let the hot water to the bottom
before it cools. Massachusetts Pough-
man.
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