cinnamon bark ground I ounce, cloves unground
one-half ounce✪ Apples Spiced. Boil the sugar, vinegar, and spices
together, put the apples in when boiling an»d let
them remain until tender, or about 20 minutes,
then take them out and put them in jars. Boil
down the syrup until it is thick and pour it over.
APPLE PARINGS DRIED FOR JELLY.
Nice fall apple parings may be dried on plates
for one day under a cook stove and then in the
sunshine. They make excellent jelly and no one
will regret the trouble it takes. Proceed to make
the jelly as in other cases.
BEE MOTHS, TO DESTROY.
Molasses mixed with vinegar equal parts, placed
in a pan and set near the hive at night and remove
382 DOMESTIC GUIDE.
in the morning, will prove an excellent trap ; the
moths will get in at night. The trap must be
taken away before the bees begin to fly, or they
will get daubed with it.
NO. 2.
Take a shallow dish and put some lard oil in it
then place a wick in the center, not too large a
wick, and light it. The moth will go for the light
before he will for the hive and falling into the oil
he is destroyed. At night is the time when the
moth commits his depredations and therefore these
traps may be set and taken away again while the
little workers are taking their rest.
BAKED BEANS.
Put the beans to soak early in the evening in a
dish large enough to admit of plenty of water.
Change the water at bedtime, next morning
early parboil 2 hours, then pour off nearly
all the water. Take raw pork scorched a little,
put the beans into a deep dish, put the pork in the
middle, sinking it down so that it is just level with
the top. Add a little molasses and bake 4 or 5
hours✪ Baked Beans, raise the pork a little toward the last, so as
it will get a little brown.
WATER-PROOF DRESSING FOR COARSE
BOOTS.
Tallow 12 ounces, beeswax 6 ounces, resin i
ounce, neatsfoot oil and castor oil of each 2
ounces. Mix by heat and apply hot or heat in by
the fire. Apply once in 8 or 10 days.
MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 383
POLISH LIQUID FOR BOOTS.
Molasses 4 ounces, sweet oil ^ ounce, ivory
black 5 ounces, vinegar 6 ounces. Rub the first
three articles together until the oil is all obliterated,
then stir in gradually the vinegar, until all is thor-
oughly mixed, then bottle for use. Apply with a
sponge to the leather when clean and dry.
OIL POLISH FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.
Ivory black one-half pound, molasses ^ pint,
sweet oil, oil of vitrol of each i ounce. Mix the 3
first articles thoroughly together, then add the
vitrol, stirring briskly while boiling, and be sure to
get the vitrol thoroughly mixed, as upon this de-
pends the polishing qualities of the compound.
CEMENT FOR MENDING LEATHER.
Gutta-percha i ounce, resin i ^ ounces, bisul-
phuret of carbon i pound. Dissolve the gutta-
percha in the bisulphuret, then add the resin.
When all is dissolved then bottle for use. The
leather must be clean and scraped a little to make
it adhere.
HOW TO KEEP CIDER.
To 63 gallons add i J^ gallons good brandy or
rum, with 2 ounces powdered catechu dissolved in
water, 7 pounds moist sugar, one-half ounce bit-
ter almonds and cloves, and 4 ounces mustard
seed✪ How to Keep Cider. These must all be mixed through the cider
and occasionally stirred for 3 or 4 months, when it
is ready for use.
384 DOMESTIC GUIDE.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
cinnamon bark ground I ounce, cloves unground one-half ounce. Boil the sugar, vinegar, and spices together, put the apples in when boiling an»d let them remain until tender, or about 20 minutes, then take them out and put them in jars. Boil down the syrup until it is thick and pour it over.
APPLE PARINGS DRIED FOR JELLY.
Nice fall apple parings may be dried on plates for one day under a cook stove and then in the sunshine. They make excellent jelly and no one will regret the trouble it takes. Proceed to make the jelly as in other cases.
BEE MOTHS, TO DESTROY.
Molasses mixed with vinegar equal parts, placed in a pan and set near the hive at night and remove
in the morning, will prove an excellent trap ; the moths will get in at night. The trap must be taken away before the bees begin to fly, or they will get daubed with it.
NO. 2.
Take a shallow dish and put some lard oil in it then place a wick in the center, not too large a wick, and light it. The moth will go for the light before he will for the hive and falling into the oil he is destroyed. At night is the time when the moth commits his depredations and therefore these traps may be set and taken away again while the little workers are taking their rest.
BAKED BEANS.
Put the beans to soak early in the evening in a dish large enough to admit of plenty of water.
Change the water at bedtime, next morning early parboil 2 hours, then pour off nearly
all the water. Take raw pork scorched a little,
put the beans into a deep dish, put the pork in the
middle, sinking it down so that it is just level with
the top. Add a little molasses and bake 4 or 5
hours, raise the pork a little toward the last, so as
it will get a little brown.
WATER-PROOF DRESSING FOR COARSE
BOOTS.
Tallow 12 ounces, beeswax 6 ounces, resin i ounce, neatsfoot oil and castor oil of each 2 ounces. Mix by heat and apply hot or heat in by the fire. Apply once in 8 or 10 days.
POLISH LIQUID FOR BOOTS.
Molasses 4 ounces, sweet oil ^ ounce, ivory black 5 ounces, vinegar 6 ounces. Rub the first three articles together until the oil is all obliterated, then stir in gradually the vinegar, until all is thoroughly mixed, then bottle for use. Apply with a sponge to the leather when clean and dry.
OIL POLISH FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.
Ivory black one-half pound, molasses ^ pint, sweet oil, oil of vitrol of each i ounce. Mix the 3 first articles thoroughly together, then add the vitrol, stirring briskly while boiling, and be sure to get the vitrol thoroughly mixed, as upon this depends the polishing qualities of the compound.
CEMENT FOR MENDING LEATHER.
Gutta-percha i ounce, resin i ^ ounces, bisulphuret of carbon i pound. Dissolve the guttapercha in the bisulphuret, then add the resin. When all is dissolved then bottle for use. The leather must be clean and scraped a little to make it adhere.
HOW TO KEEP CIDER.
To 63 gallons add i J^ gallons good brandy or rum, with 2 ounces powdered catechu dissolved in water, 7 pounds moist sugar, one-half ounce bitter almonds and cloves, and 4 ounces mustard seed. These must all be mixed through the cider and occasionally stirred for 3 or 4 months, when it is ready for use.
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