1849. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
259 
^Domestic (Bxonomg, Recipes, $ct. 
Useful Recipes. 
Eds- Cultivator—W ill you please to publish the 
following method of making good bread with flour of 
grown wheat. 
With a large spoon or stick, stir boiling water into 
the flour; then, to cool it before putting in yeast, mix 
in more flour and cold water. Work in enough flour to 
prevent its spreading out flat in the pans. 
Cure for Dysentery. —The following recipe may 
prove of more value to many of your readers than their 
subscriptions for your paper. 
To check a dysentery or summer complaint. Equal 
parts of sumach leaves or bark, catnip and peppermint; 
steep in hot water; drink frequently, and use for injec¬ 
tions. In these complaints, especially in the dysentery, 
the bowels become coated with canker, which comes off, 
together with their lining, often accompanied with blood 
and mucus, which leaves them so raw and inflamed, 
that their contents moving through them causes excru¬ 
ciating pain. This decoction will cleanse the bowels, 
and to assist their healing, take powders or pills of Cay¬ 
enne pepper, and use a tea of the same. To make the 
sumach 11 drink” palatable, put in it the seeds, (which 
are very acid,) and sweeten it. 
Neither these, nor any medicine will avail in these 
complaints, if a strict diet is not observed. A person 
would sooner recover on rice water alone, without me¬ 
dicine, than with medicine and hearty food. 
W. L. F. Milwaukie, Wis., June 11, 1849. 
Butter —Is improved by working the second time 
after the lapse of 24 hours, when the salt is dissolved, 
and the watery particles can be entirely removed. 
Raspberry Syrup. —To every quart of fruit add a 
pound of sugar, and let it stand over night. In the 
morning, boil and skim it for half an hour; then strain it 
through a flannel bag, and pour it into bottles, which 
must be carefully corked and sealed. To each bottle 
add, if you please, a little brandy, if the weather is so 
warm as to endanger its keeping. 
Raspberry Jam. —Take one pound loaf sugar to ev¬ 
ery pound of fruit; bruise them together in your preserv¬ 
ing-pan with a silver spoon, and let them simmer gen¬ 
tly for an hour. When cold put them into glass jars, 
and lay over them a piece of paper saturated with bran¬ 
dy; then tie them up so as carefully to exclude the air. 
Blackberry Syrup. —We are indebted to a friend 
for the following receipt for making blackberry syrup. 
This syrup is said to be almost a specific for the sum¬ 
mer complaint. In 1832 it was successful in more than 
one case of cholera. 
To two quarts of juice of blackberries, add one pound 
loaf sugar, i oz. nutmegs i o±. cinnamon, pulverised, 
\ oz. cloves, | oz. alspice, do. Boil all together for a 
short time, and when cold, add a pint of fourth proof 
brandy. From a teaspoonfull to a wine glass, accord¬ 
ing to the age of the patient, till relieved, is to be given. 
Currant Jelly —Tlace the currants in a stone or 
glass jar, and suspend this jar in a vessel of boiling 
water until the currants are in a condition to yield their 
juice readily; then place them, while hot in a bag, and 
press out the juice ; add pure double-refined loaf sugar , 
and then boil until it jellies: this point is ascertained by 
dropping a portion on a cold plate, and if it will hold 
fast with the plate upside down, it is done, and should 
be removed from the fire. Should any scum arise, it 
may be skimmed off. Put the jelly, while hot, into 
jars, and cover tightly. Our experiment last year re¬ 
sulted thus: Twenty-seven quarts of currants gave 
twenty-nine pints of juice, and with twenty-nine pounds I 
of double-refined sugar, gave eighteen and a half quarts I 
of very superior currant jelly. Those who suppose that 
currant jelly can be made with common brown sugar, 
or even with inferior loaf sugar, will find themselves 
without a market, as an inferior article cannot be sold. 
— Selected. 
Small Beer. —For making three gallons of beer, 
take one quart of molasses, 20 drops oil of spruce, 15 
drops oil of winter-green, 10 drops oil of sassafras; add 
hot water to make the requisite quantity ; mix the in 
gredients well; let the liquor stand till it is blood-warm, 
then add one pint of yeast; let it remain ten or twelve 
hours; bottle it, and in three hours it is fit for use. 
to domoponiumto. 
Turners with Corn. —F. G. R., Shadwell, Va. On 
rich land very good crops of English turneps are some¬ 
times obtained, by scattering the seed broadcast over 
the ground at the time of the last hoeing. If the sea¬ 
son is dry, the turneps seldom amount to much; but if 
it is sufficiently wet, they will grow well, after the 
stalks are topped; or if the stalks are not cut, and the 
corn is cut up arid shocked at the proper time, the tur- 
neps, having the ground to themselves through the au¬ 
tumn, will acquire a good size. 
Cisterns for Watering Stock. —W. J. P., Lake¬ 
ville, Ct. There is no objection to watering stock 
from cisterns, properly made. Make them so deep in 
the ground that they will not be much affected either 
by the heat or cold of the atmosphere. 
; Whitford’s Corn-Sheller. —W. E. W., Peoria, 
III.. We have no information in regard to this imple- 
merit, except what is contained in the article to which 
you allude—Cultivator for 1843, p. 34. 
Dairy Salt.— P. W., Herkimer, N. Y. Pure rock 
salt, ground fine, has generally given satisfaction, for 
the preservation of butter. The article is prepared in 
a nice manner by C. N. Bement, of this city, and put 
up in bags of twenty pounds each. 
THE FLOWERS. 
BY MRS. E. C. KINNEY 
Where’er earth’s soil is by the feet 
Of unseen angels trod, 
The joyous flowers spring up to greet, 
These visitants of God. 
They on celestial errands move 
Earth noiselessly to bless, 
Oft stooping down in balmy-love, 
The flowerets to caress. 
And thus, their breath its fragrance leaves 
Among the woodland blooms, 
4 And breathing sense, through flowers receives 
Angelical perfumes. 
The scarlet or the crimson tips 
That flowery petals wear, 
May be the vermeil from the lips 
Of angels painted there. 
While spirit-whispers safely lie 
■Within each chalice hid, 
That mutely speak to Sorrow’s eye, 
And lift its drooping lid. i 
And ah, that crystal, glistening clear 
Upon the tinted leaf, 
May be an agel’s holy tear, 
Dropt there for human grief. 
Forever hallowed then, as fair, 
Are all the blessed flowers, 
That scent with Heaven’s ambrosial air 
These fading earthly bowers. 
Through flowers Love finds fit utterance, 
And friendship solace lends : 
For he that giveth Flowers perchance 
An angel’s message sends. 
