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USEFUL RECIPES. 
Pulled Bread.—Take from the oven an ordina¬ 
ry loaf when it is about half baked, and with the fin¬ 
gers, while the bread is yet hot, quickly pull the 
half-wet dough into pieces of irregular shape about 
the size of an egg. Do not attempt to smooth or 
flatten them—the rougher their shapes the better. 
Set them upon tins and place in a very slow oven, 
and bake to a rich brown. This forms a deliciously 
crisp crust to eat with cheese, milk, or cream. 
Kentucky Corn Cake.—Take one quart of 
corn-meal and two tablespoonfuls of common wheat 
flour (not prepared); add salt to taste, and mix 
thoroughly with a sufficient quantity of buttermilk 
to form a batter. Next melt a heaping tablespoon¬ 
ful of lard, stir it with the batter well, and bake on 
a hot griddle, pouring them thin. By this recipe 
the full flavor of the corn-meal is obtained, unmixed 
with the taste of molasses, which many people mis¬ 
takenly deem necessary to cause the cakes to bake 
brown. 
Buckwheat Cakes.—Take one-half teacupful 
of good yeast and stir the cakes at night, adding a 
spoonful of molasses in the morning. Bake from 
two to four more than are eaten; while hot, pom- 
boiling water on them and let stand until cool; then 
squeeze them fine and put in your pitcher, where 
there should be one teacupful of the batter. Add a 
cup of water, that it may not sour during the day, 
and set in a cool place. If in danger of souring, 
pour oil' the water and add fresh when they are stir¬ 
red the next evening. One-fourth Indian meal im¬ 
proves them, or instead of meal what we call wheat 
middlings. Fry quickly. 
Huckleberry Dumpling. — Make a paste like 
very rich soda-biscuit dough, roll it half an inch 
thick, then, laying this in a basin with a part 
hanging outside, fill with berries and fold over 
the outer part, enclosing the berries. Steam thirty 
or forty minutes; serve with a sauce of butter and 
sugar. Blackberries and black raspberries may be 
used. 
Chili Sauce.—One dozen large tomatoes, ripe, 
peeled and sliced; G onions chopped line; 6 table¬ 
spoonfuls of brown sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of ginger, 
2 teaspoons of cinnamon, 2 teaspoons cloves, 4 tea¬ 
cups of vinegar, 1 teaspoonful red pepper. Boil two 
hours. Seal in bottles. 
Onions a Cure for Croup.—A lady who speaks 
from experience says that probably nine children out 
of ten who die of croup might be saved by the timely 
application of roast onions, mashed, laid upon a fold¬ 
ed napkin, and goose oil, sweet oil, or even lard, 
poured on and applied as warm as can be borne 
comfortably to the throat and upper part of the 
chest, and to the feet and hands. 
Frosting.—Grate one cocoanut fine, beat the 
whites of three eggs, mix one-half pound of pulver¬ 
ized sugar (witheggs), then put a layer of icing and 
spread the cocoanut over it. Bake 0 round cakes, a 
layer of icing and cocoanut between each. This 
frosting is for cocoanut cake. 
Salt for Burns.—An extensive scald, which for 
twelve hours gave agonizing pain, when immersed 
in a saturated solution of salt, was followed with 
surprising relief. The abatement of pain was imme¬ 
diate, and in four hours both pain and swelling were 
gone. The next day the scalded hand differed from 
the other only by a slight swelling and redness. 
For Sick Headache.—It is simple and cheap, 
and will do no harm if it should not cure your case. 
Take lumps of charcoal (1 have used it from the 
kitchen stove), pound very fine or to a, powder. 
Dose: Two tablespoonfuls to a half tumbler of cold 
water. It will require considerable stirring to cause 
it to unite with the water. Then drink, being care¬ 
ful to swallow all the charcoal possible, and not let 
it settle to the bottom of the tumbler. It is excel¬ 
lent to allay acidity in the stomach. 
Custard Cake.—One cup of sugar, one-half cup 
of sweet milk, l egg, 2 teaspoon fuls of baking powder. 
Bake in thin layers like jelly cake. Prepare a cus¬ 
tard by boiling a half-pint of thin cream, 1 beaten 
egg, 1 tablespoonful of flour, 1 teaspoonful of corn¬ 
starch, and one and one-half cup of sugar together. 
When cold flavor with lemon and spread the custard 
between the layers of cake. 
Chapped Hands.—A correspondent writes us 
that a simple mixture of equal quantities of rich 
cream and strong vinegar will make a compound 
which, if used on the hands after washing them, will 
cure chaps. 
ture in five pints of boiling hot water, stir the mix¬ 
ture well, and apply, while hot, to the floor with a paint 
brush. It dries in a few hours, when polish with a 
floor brush and wipe with a coarse woollen cloth. 
To Prevent Moths.—Moisten with turpentine a 
small linen rag and place it in the chest or ward¬ 
robe, renewing it two or throe times a year, and no 
moths will enter. When furs are packed away in 
the spring, they should be beaten well with a small 
rattan, in order to dislodge any eggs of the moth; 
afterward brush thoroughly, and sew up carefully 
with a linen pillow case; over all pin newspapers, 
leaving no crevice where an insect could insinuate 
itself. 
THE VEGETABLE WAX 
(rhus sucicedanea). 
Cure for Hoarseness.—The juice and pulp of 
lemons, stirred thick with white sugar, will relieve 
hoarseness—besides being an agreeable remedy. 
Beef Sausage.—Take 10 pounds of beef or 5 of 
beef and five of pork, one-quarter pound of salt, 1 
ounce of pepper, one-quarter ounce of nutmeg, one- 
quarter ounce of cloves, one-quarter ounce of salt¬ 
petre. Cut it and stuff it in bags, and let it lie in 
pickle over a week, then hang it up to dry. 
For Toothache.—Put a piece of lime as large 
as a hickory-nut into a quart bottle filled with water, 
and rinse the mouth with it frequently. 
Beeswaxing Floors.—In a hot solution of five 
pounds of good pearlash, in soft water, shaved or 
rasped fine. Stir the mixture while boiling, and, when 
effervescing, add, while stirring, five pounds of dry yel¬ 
low ochre. Pour into cans or boxes and let it harden. 
When wanted for use diffuse one pound of the mix- 
Tiie most important article for illuminating pur¬ 
poses in Japan is the candle made from the fruit of 
the JBhus succedanea , a tree about the size and ap¬ 
pearance of the common sumac of this country. It is 
grown more or less extensively almost everywhere in 
Japan, and especially in the western provinces, from 
the south northwest to the thirty-fifth degree. 
Specimens of this tree have been imported for intro¬ 
duction. 
The tree has a quick growth, and attains the di¬ 
ameter of a foot and a half, and a height of twenty- 
five feet. They begin to yield berries the third year, 
but in California may bear the next year after plant¬ 
ing. The berry here is the size of a small pea, of a 
white color, hanging in clusters, and contains the 
wax, as a thick white coating of the seed. The full- 
grown tree averages fifty pounds of seeds annually, 
about one-half of which is wax. It is a hardy plant, 
growing on indifferent soil, on embankments, and 
out-of-the-way places. 
The wax is obtained by the berries being crushed, 
steamed, and then placed in hemp bags and pressed 
in a wedge press. It is also obtained by boiling the 
bruised seeds and skimming the wax from the top. 
The wax is a pahnatine or glyceride; when first ex¬ 
tracted it is of a yellowish white color, and somewhat 
softer than beeswax. It melts at one hundred and 
twenty-seven degrees, and when formed into candles 
gives a fine clear light. In ordinary candle-making 
the unbleached wax is used. When washed and 
bleached in the sun and air it assumes a pure white 
color. 
The vegetable wax of commerce is the imported 
article from Japan. From experiments made it can 
be readily grown in this country. The tree is highly 
ornamental, as well as for its useful production. 
The wax is in great demand, and commands a good 
price. It is valuable for candles, making the gloss 
lor linen, for waxing thread, and other purposes for 
which the ordinary wax is used. Since it may be 
grown so readily, its cultivation could undoubtedly be 
made a source ot profit, and especially since the pre¬ 
sent process of extracting honey from wax will tend 
to lessen the supply of the ordinary article, and also 
leave ample room for this new industry .—“ Henry 
Loomis ,” in California Horticulturist. 
