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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



Peach Preserve. — A lady of Philadelphia, 

 whose peaches keep beautifully and retain much 

 of their delicious flavor, takes half a pound of su- 

 gar to each pound of peaches. The sugar is put 

 into a presorving-kettle, with half a pint of water 

 to every pound of sugar, heated, and the surface 

 skimmed. Into this syrup the peaches, after be- 

 ing pared, are placed, and boiled ten minutes. 

 The peaches are then put into the cans while hot, 

 and immediately sealed up. 



Cojipote of Peach. — Pare half a dozen ripe 

 peaches, and stew them very softly from eighteen 

 to twenty minutes, keeping them often turned in 

 a light syrup, made with five ounces of sugar and 

 half a pint of water boiled together for ten min- 

 utes. Dish the fruit ; reduce the syrup by quick 

 boiling, pour it over the peaches, and serve them 

 hot for a second-course dish, or cold, for dessert. 

 They should be quite ripe, and will be found deli- 

 cious dressed thus. A little lemon-juice may be 

 added to the syrup, and the blanched kernels of 

 two or three peach or apricot stones. 



Blackberries. — Preserve these as strawber- 

 ries or currants, either liquid, or jam, or jelly. 

 BlackbeiTy jelly or jam is an excellent medicine 

 in summer complaint or dysentery. To make it, 

 crush a quart of fully ripe blackberries Avith a 

 pound of the best loaf sugar ; put it over a gen- 

 tle fire, and cook it until tiiick ; then put to it a 

 gill of the best fourth-proof brandy ; stir it for 

 awhile over the fire, then put it in pots. 



Blackberry Syrup. — Make a simple syTup of 

 a pound of sugar to each pint of water ; next 

 boil it until it is rich and tliick ; then add to it 

 as many pints of the expressed juice of ripe black- 

 berries as there are pounds of sugar ; put half a 

 nutmeg grated to each quart of the syrup ; let it 

 boil fifteen or tsventy minutes, then add to it half 

 a gill of fourth-proof brandy, for each quart of 

 syrup ; set it by to become cold ; then l^ottle it for 

 use. A table-spoonful for a child, or a wine-glass 

 for an adult is a dose. 



Blackberry Wine. — The following is said to 

 be an excellent receipt for the manufacture of su- 

 perior wine from blackberries ; Measure your ber- 

 ries and bruise them, to every gallon adding one 

 quart of boiling water : let the mixture stand 

 twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally ; then 

 strain off the liquor into a cask, to every gallon 

 adding two pounds of sugar ; cork tight and let 

 stand till the following October, and you will 

 have wine ready for use, without any further 

 straining or boiling, that will make lips smack as 

 they .never smacked under similar influence be- 

 fore. 



Blackberry Cordial. — We avail ourselves of 

 the kindness of a friend to publish the following 

 excellent receipt for making cordial. It is recom- 

 mended as a delightful beverage, and an infallible 

 specific for diarrhoea or ordinary disease of the 

 bowels : 



Eeceipt. — To half a bushel of blackberries, well 

 mashed, add a quarter of a pound of allspice, two 

 ounces of cinnamon, two ounces of cloves ; pul- 

 verize well, mix and boil slowly until properly 

 done ; then strain or squeeze the juice through 

 homespun or flannel, and add to each pint of the 



juice one pound of loaf-sugar ; boil again for some 

 time, take it off, and, while cooling, add half a gal- 

 lon of best Cognac brandy. 



Dose. — For an adult half a gill to a gill ; for a 

 child, a teaspoonful or more, according to age. — 

 Godei/'s Lady's Booh. 



YOUTH'S DEPARTMENT. 



OLD MARCO, THE TAME BEAR. 



A nobleman in France had an old bear named 

 Marco, which he kept in a little cabin built inside 

 his barn. The winter of 1709 was a very severe 

 one, and many poor people almost froze to death. 

 Some peasants were accustomed to come into the 

 barn to sleep, and among them was a little child, 

 who, seeing Marco had a snug nest, crept in to 

 share it with him. Old Bruin was not accustomed 

 to such liberties taken with his dignity, but he 

 seemed to take the matter kindly, and instead of 

 injuring the little intruder, he took him tenderly 

 between his paws, and hugging him up to his 

 shaggy breast, kept him warm and comfortable 

 till morning. It was a nicer bed than he had slept 

 in for many a night, and Avhen evening came 

 again he returned to his new lodging, where he 

 found old iSIarco glad to see him, and again went 

 to sleep in his great paws. While he slept the 

 bear never stirred, lest he should disturb him, and 

 after this, he saved part of his supper for his hun- 

 gry little friend, who was very thankful to the 

 kind old bear. The friendship continued till the 

 little boy's death, when Marco grieved for him a 

 long time, scarcely taking any food. 



The white bear lives in the cold northern re- 

 gions, where vast numbers of them are found, in 

 proportion to the other animals of that locality. 

 They are sometimes found floating on a fragment 

 of ice a long distance from land ; and then, if the 

 boat of a poor Grecnlander chances to come quite 

 near, a bear will sometimes spring into it, and if 

 the boat is not capsized, he sits down quietly like 

 any other passenger, and allows himself to be 

 rowed to land, M'hen he walks off without stopping 

 to pay his fare. 



A little boy three years old was blessed with 

 a new little sistei*. The day following he was re- 

 quired to be very still, and the reason given there- 

 for, that his mother was very weak, and his sister 

 too. He obeyed the injunction carefully. In4;he 

 course of the day, some playmates came to the 

 house ; he rushed to the door, and putting his lit- 

 tle finger up to check their noise, said, "Be very , 

 quiet — I have got a little baby sister, and she is 

 very weak and tired — for she has walked all the 

 way from Heaven to-day, and you must not dis- 

 turb her." 



The spaces of the Solar System, or some of 

 them at least, appear to be thickly peopled with 

 small planets or asteroids, invisible to the naked 

 eye or by the ordinary telescope. No less than 

 forty-seven of these young planets are now known 

 to exist between Mars and Jupiter, and every few 

 months we hear of a new discovery. The largest 

 of them is said to be only forty miles in diameter, 

 and the smallest only four. 



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