Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-10-31
THE H0UsRKEEPER,

OREEN ORAPE MAkMALADb-'4u ~i-
malade of green grapes may be made
in this way: Put green grapes IN q pre-
serving kettle with water enoughto Gov
'er them. Place them on the fire and
boil until they are soft enough to mash.
Pass the. puly through a sieve fine
enough to prevent the seeds from going
through. To each pound Of pulp add
two pounds of sugar, and boil to the
consistency of jelly. !
How TO Choose A, WATERMELON
The advice as to the choosing OF
watermelon given by the old colored
woman to her son is sound. She said:
"When you hit de million and he say
'punk' he am good ripe, but if he say
spank,' jes' huff him alone; he amt
wuf de pickin'." Cut out a square
piece from the blossom end Of the mel.
OIL and pour in half tumbler of good
sherry wine. Replace the piece and
stand the melon in the ice for six hours
at least before serving.
OLD VIRGINIA PIcKLE.-Put all the
articles desired for the pickle in a jar
tiny cucumbers, onions, caulifowers
cut in pieces, ears Of young corn about
an inch or two long, etc. Cover with
boiling salt and water, allowing them
to remain in it for forty eight hours.
Then take out of the water, place in
thick cloth and expose to the sun to dry,
turning them over occasionally. When
thoroughly dry place them in a jar, COW
cred with cold vinegar, to which has
been added a small quantity Of tumeric,
to color them, let them stand in this
for two weeks to drain out the water and
plump them; then pour off this vinegar
and add fresh. In three months they
will be fit for use.
POWDERED CRAB AS A MEDICINE
A Russian paper says: "During the
last fifteen years the inhabitants OF a
malarial locality in Kharkoo Govern.
ment, in Russia, have used the crab
powders with great success against the
fevers. The powder is prepared in the
following way: Live crabs are poured
over with the ordinary whiskey until
they get asleep, then they are put on a
bread pan in a hot oven, thoroughly |
dried, and then pulverize, and the pow
der passed through fine sieve. one
dose, teaspoonful, is generally suffic- |
lent to cure the intermittent fever; in
very obstinate cases, second dose is
required. Each dose is invariably pre-
ceeded by glass of aloe brandy, as a
purgative. The powder is used in that
locality in preference to quinine."
A NEW WAY OF KEEPING Fruit
1t is stated that experiments have been
made in keeping fruit in jars covered
only with cotton batting, and at the end
of two years the fruit was sound. The
following directions are given for the
process: Use crooks, stone butter. jars
or any other convenient dishes. Pre-
pare and cook the fruit precisely as for
canning in glass jars; fill your dishes
with the fruit while it is yet hot, and
Immediately cover with cotton batting,
securely tied on. Remember that all
putrefaction is caused by the invisible
creatures in the air. Cooking the fruit
expels all these, and as they cannot
pass through the cotton batting, the
fruit thus protected will keep an inde6-
mite period. 1t will be remembered
that Tyndall has proved that the atmos-
pheric germs cannot pass through a
layer of cotton.
How TO PRESERVE FINE FRUITS
Boil raspberries six minutes; eight
ounces of sugar to the quart.
Boil plums ten minutes; eight ounces
Of sugar to quart is needed.
Boil blackberries six minutes; with
six ounces Of sugar to the quart.
Boil ripe currants six minutes; amount
Of sugar to tn e quart, eight ounces.
Boil cherries FIVE minutes; the amount
Of sugar to the quart is six ounces.
Boil peaches, whole, fifteen minutes,