Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-01-08
EARN AND HOUSEHOLD.
wet : ", boots .s can be dried led, out by tllli

wet boots can be dried out by fill.
ing them with oats ovor night. 'A
When your coal fire Is getting low,
tablespoonful Of salt thrown over "A
will help is TO come up.--Brchaags.
Iron rust on delicate garments on
which you are afraid TO try oxalic acid
may be removed by squeeze Of lemon
juice and little salt; then hold over
tho steaming spout OF the teakettls,--'
Boston Budget.
The best stock water is that of Nv
ing springs; the next, that OF runping
streams. Fully equal to these, save in
the exception of hardness, is the water
of wells, free from surface drainage.
The worst water is that of slack streams
and especially stagnant ponds Troy
Times.
Eggs for luncheon: Roll five eggs
for twenty minutes. While they cool,
melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in q
saucepan, add the same quantity of
flour and one pint of boiling milk.
Season well, slice the eggs into this
sauce and serve hot with parsley
The Caterer. 49,.
-Dipping fish in scalding water will
cause the scales to come of very easily,
but If the fish are to be saltcd down
they must on no account be scalded.
You may then pour over them vinegar
with the same effect. Salt fish will
soak fresh much quicker in sour milk
than in water.-7he Cook.
An excellent way to thrash buck
wheat, where there is no thrashing-
machine, is to make q floor of rails,
raised foot above the ground, and
make the bed upon this. As the grain
is thrashed out il falls through between
the rails, which at the end are moved
away and the grain is cleaned up with
out difficulty. y.-Aibany Journal.
-Herodotus pudding (very good)
Half q pound each of bread crumbs and
chopped figs, six ounces each of fresh
suet and brown sugar. Mince nicely
together the figs and suet, add half
teaspeonful of salt and three eggs we'll
beaten, also half a nutmeg. Boil in n
buttered pudding mould for four hours.
Serve with some nice sweet sauce
Harper's Bazar.
-Variety conduces to health: An
anima1 is no more fitted for subsisting
ON q single article of food than man.
When kept ueon one Kind only it soon
begins to reject it, eating only when
compelled ty hunger. Digestion is
best effected when all the demands for
food are complied with. The greater
the variety tie more rapid the progress
of the animaE-Rural Home.
Corn biscuit: Scald two cups of
corn meal in one pint of sweet milk.
Then stir together three-quarters of a
cup Of butter, two cups of sugar and a
little salt, and add to it. Then add
three eggs well beaten, a little flour
and half a cup of hop yeast. Let it rise
the second time; then roll out and let
rise the third time. Bake and send to
the table hot. This amount makes
about twenty-five biscuits.-The House
hold.
Bushes along the fences cause the
cattle to reach over the fences and
break them down. After awhile they
crawl over, and when they get over
once the second offence comes easier.
Breaehy cattle are made in this way,
and damage often done which would
pay for cutting the brush and weeds
for years. Foul seeds are grown and
spread from these sources. Clean kept
fences do the eyes good. How are
yoursP-RardI NeW Yorker.