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THE GENESEE FAR^rER. 



faMxs' Jlc^iivlnuiit. 



ORIGINAL DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



ConlributeU to^tlio Genesee Farmer. 



Sweet Cidek and Pickles. — A correspondent of the 

 5ew York Observer gives the following directions for 

 sweet cider and pickles, with such a tone of authority 

 that there must be something good iu tbem : 



" Sweet Cider.— When it has fermented a very little, re- 

 move all foreign substances by slraiuiug or other means; 

 add to each barrel about four quarts of horse-radish roots, 

 and you will have cider, both sweet and pleasant, that will 

 remain in that same state as long as you can reasonably 

 desire. While the radish does not destroy the life, it im- 

 parts an agreeable flavor, and prevents fermentation." 



" You see, Mr. Editor, I go for the sweet things : sweet 

 cider, svv.eet pickles and sweet cabbage. Take ripe sweet 

 apples, whole or ' quartered' (the same as all Gaul was, 

 as we read in dzsar's Commentaries), tomatoes partly 

 ripe, cucumbers green or ripe, (ripe are much the best,) 

 musk melons green or partly ripe; remove the skin and 

 seeds from the last two, steep in weak brine twelve hours, 

 boil in o-ood cider-vinegar until soft enough to be eaten 

 without good teeth, add as much and as good sugar as 

 your husband will furnish— after paying his taxes— a lit- 

 tle cassia, a crushed horse-radish root as large as your 

 thumb, for each gallon, and you will have sweet pickles 

 that a dyspeptic can eat— fit to be set before a king. The 

 horse-radish will prevent fermentation, and they will re- 

 main good for a year, if you don't eat them sooner— which 

 Tou will be likely to do, if you love good things. If you 

 wish to spoil them, and to learn by sad experience that 

 vou posess, as Carlyle says, ' that infernal apparatus 

 called a stomach,' add all manner of spices to suit your 

 depraved taste." 



Reckipts for the Sick.— i/««sr«. Editors.— I send you 

 two most valuable receipts for your widelj-read paper. I 

 know the nurses in the hospitals can use them to advan- 

 tage—particularly the one for soup. It is similar to 

 beef-tea, and instead of a day it takes about an hour. I 

 recently used this receipt for one of our precious wound- 

 ed officers, who the Doctor thought would not live to 

 reach his home iu Massachusetts, to try and give him 

 strength for his journey.—.^ Virginian, in Keio York 

 Observer. 



Beef Soup for thb Sick.— Broil a beefsteak on the 

 gridiron and preserve the gravy that runs from it; then 

 chop the steak up fine and put it with the gravy that ran 

 from it and about a quart of cold water. Let it boil well, 

 and theu strain it. Season with salt and nutmeg. It is 

 just as nourishing as beef-tea. 



DiBT FOR DiARU<EA.— Roast some rice as you would 

 coffee; then grind it in a coffee-mill; then dissolve two 

 ounces of gum arabic in one pint of hot water; when 

 dissolved put in a tea-cup of rice and let it boil twenty 

 minutes, or until it is the consistency of mush, (if too 

 thick, as you use it, thin it with hot water.) I Kaw a 

 desperate case cured by this most valmihle remedy. (A 

 teacupful of toasted and then ground rice to two ounces 



of gum arabic dissolved iu :.De pint of water and thea 

 boiled twenty minutes.) 



Piccalilli.— Piccalilli is a mixture of all kinds of 

 pickles. Select pickles, from the salt brine, of a uniform 

 size and of various colors'— as small cucumbers, button 

 onions, small bunches of cauliflowers, carrots cut in 

 fanciful shape, radishes, radish-pods, Cayenne-pods, 

 mace, ginger, olives, limes, grapes, strips of horseradish, 

 &c. Arrange your selection tastefully in glass jars, and 

 pour over them a liquor prepared in the following man- 

 ner : To one gallon of white wine vinegar add eight 

 tablespoonfuls of salt, eight of mustard flour, four of 

 ground ginger, two of pepper, two of allspice, two of 

 turmeric, aud boil altogether one minute. The mustard 

 and turmeric must be mixed together by vinegar before 

 they are put into the liquor; when the liquor has boiled, 

 pour it into a pan, cover it closely', and when it has be- 

 come cold pour it into the jars coutainmg the pickles; 

 cover the jars with cork and bladder, and let them stand 

 six months, when they will contain good pickles. Picca- 

 lilli is an excellent accompaniment, to many highly-sea- 

 soned dishes; if well put up it will keep for years. If 

 you like oil in the piccalilli, it should be braided w^th th* 

 vinegar, and added with them to the boiling liquor. — 

 Gertnantown Telegraph. 



Yeast. — We find in an exchange this receipt for yeast 

 which we give hoping that some of our lady readers will 

 try it, and if it is good, inform us of the fact: 



"Put a handful of hops in a tin basin, and pour on 

 them a little more than a quart of boiling water. Boil 

 them five or eight minutes, then strain off 'the water, 

 throw away the hops, and add to the water six potiitoes, 

 pared and sliced; boil them till they are very tender; 

 then pour the water on a half pint of flour, two table- 

 spoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful 

 ginger. Mash the potatoes fine and add to the other in- 

 gredients. Set the mixture in a moderately warm place 

 to rise, and in three days you wi!l have some excellent 

 yeast that will keep a long time in a cool place. Tie a 

 cloth over the crock while it is rising, but when fully 

 risen cover close. By adding a teacupful of yeast this 

 will rise in one day." 



Dame Cakk. — Two cups of sugar, one-half cup of but- 

 ter, three cups of flour, one cup of milk, two esrgs, one 

 teaspoonful cream-tartar, one half teaspoonful soda. 



A New Bed-Buo Trap. — While the skilful Apiarians 

 have contrived effective traps for the bee-moth, why has 

 it never occurred to anyone to make a similar applica- 

 tion of mechanical ingenuity to the relief of jioor hiimnns 

 beset with insect enemies? The thing has been finally 

 conjured up, and now every bed has its bed-bug trn]>, as 

 well as every bee-hive its moth-trap — both being much on 

 the same principle, to wit: Take a board, say a foot wide 

 and four feet long, puncture it with many holes with a 

 small bit, rut it inside of the hpiid-hoard and next »o the 

 bed and (lillows; if there is a 1)\il' about he will lind \ns 

 wav to the boles in the bonid ,<oon. Take it out of iis J 

 place evei-v morninc. hold it over the fire or wiiter. and I 

 irivo it a few riips with a haininer; then put it in place 

 and re))e:it. Tliis is c;iteliiii •; the insects in ii luirrv. :'i''^l 

 upon philooriphical princijiles — the ^"^ * ■ 

 vet lieard of. 



