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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1878)
December, 1878. THE WEST SHORE. (Of) DOMESTIC RECIPES. Preservinci Pork. The following, from Dr. Pollard's writings on the hog, gives pointi on curing harm. As a general rule, there ia too much smoking. This is more necessary in the large meat, as it servos to dry the meal off end the creosote engendered by the smoking process is antiseptic and preservative. Moat when smoked too much retains this smoked, disagree able taste. In Eugland and France smoking is not used at all, and this is an evidence it is smoked too much here, or more than necessary. The Hanover County hams are famously good, and the best of them I over saw were smoked only four times. An important matter ia that the animal heat should bo out before salting, and this may bo accomplished in the same day if the hogs arc killed by "day-break" and the weather is tolerably cold. We have frequently seen hogs killed very early and salted late in the samo day; and this is our practioe, unlets tho weather is warm. Many modes have been adopted for curing hams, and after repeated trials we think there is none better than the following: For twelve moderate sited hams, take twelve pounds of salt, one pound of salt peter, and enough of molasses to rub them to gether, producing the consistency of damp brown sugar. Rub this in well, lay the hams separate cm loards, with the skin side down. Repeat tho application every week for four weeks. Thon hang up and smoke on damp days with hard wood chips, if procurable; not to be smokod more than four or Ave times. Towards the last of February enclose the hams in osnvaa, painted, or what answers as well in our experi ence, large pspor bags, seouring well aroumi the hock. 'I his keeps out skippers and other in sects. Immediately before doing this, rub some Mack i)o))ior on the meat. If this plan it ac curately followed, we will insure lint-rate hamt. Hroinrta BiHCurm An exchange gives a recipe for making a bitcuit whioh shall accord with advanced hygienic ideas concerning the composition of tlour, etc. On a baking board put two poundi of oat meal and two poundt whole whoaton Hour, ten ouncet of good salt butter, one-half ounce carbonate of soda, one fourth ounce tartaric acid, and four ounces of sugar. All should bo weighed carefully; the butter should be the best that can be procured, mid the soda should never be used without the acid. Mix all together. When the butter has been well rubbed into the flour, add buttermilk, mixing with the hand till of a patty consistency. Knead just at little at possible, to keep the dough light Roll out; cut with biscuit-stamp to the required size, prick with marker, and lire in a moderately quick oven. In the absence of a stamp cut with a lid; and if no marker it at hand use a common fork. In rolling out the biscuita little or no fresh flour should be used ; otherwise the brownish color of the biscuit will bo lost. When firing in the oven, biscuit trays should be used. Any wireworker will make one. If these directions are followed, a moat palatable, agreeable, and nutritious bread will le produced. If cooled in an open basket, and afterward stored away in tint, these biscuits keep sweet and short for a considerable period. (CAVA Jki.LT. T. C. L sends the Flotilla AijriruUarul the following recipe for guava jelly : "Cut the gnava in five ortix aliott, do not peal them, put in the preserve kettle, cover well with water, and boil until unite soft, then strain off, and to each measure of juice, put one of sugar, (good dry sugar the best) return the whole to the kettle and boil until it jellies, and if you add the juioe of three or four limes or lemont it will jelly more readily, juioe to be added at the second boiling. The above it the recipe my wife oast for making jelly, and usu ally succeed sfinely. One important item ia the sugar, the finer and drier the sugar the better. I'ka Kaoax. Thii a true Hootch dish . It baa the merit of being easily cooked. It it easy of digestion, palatable and nourishing. It it made from pea meal. Put three or four table -spoonfuls of the meal into a soup basin; over this pour boiling water, stirring with a fork or spoon. When the water has been absorbed, pour on more, stirring always while adding the water until of the consistency of tiaeto very mU! wit, aim a small bit of salted butter; stir again and the brose is ready. Sup with milk. As this it a nourishing and oheap dith, uo one should give it up because he happens not to like it at the first trial; rather vary the quantities of salt and butter and give it another trial. Bread Puddino. Take a deep pudding diah and butter it; oover the bottom and aides with thin slices of bread, white or brown, than a layer of pared and cut apples or pears, or Iwth mixed in any other fruit you fancy; then sprinkle some sugar; a layer of bread in slices or bits; then fruit; and so on until the dish is mil. l.ny thin slices of bread over; rill up with any fruit juioe or water, lacking this; oover with a plate, and bake in a slow oven four hours. Hot or oold It is most delloious. Any sauoe would spoil it Sanitary Science. Mrs. Hobart writes to the Juttr-Octan at followt : "The wise me ohanic, although impationtly anxious to per form quirk work and achieve results speedily, will yet take time to put all machinery to be used in perfect order, knowing that the tingle drop of oil, promptly applied to prevent friction, it a much more economic expenditure than hours of time luid an incalculable amount of patience to mend the machine after it it onoe broken. Many social scientists begin to realise that, lietter than legislation, prohibitory or ienal, better than reformation and roiwntanoo, and all of those expensive pounds of cure, is the old-fashioned ounce of prevention, (live us well -ordered hornet, universal sanitary knowl edge, and cleanly children, and we believe crime as well at tuffering will rapidly decrease. Not until we have facts in regard to the num ber of children starved, abused, or poisonod into crime by poor food, bail management and foul air, can we estimate the importance of san itary science." Pkouhkm for Cmimrmb Women. The follow ing it from the Hong Kong Vest in regard to a startling innovation made by the Chinese Min ister. A novel ami striking feature in connec tion with the Chinese Minister's entertainment in London was the new departure taken by hit excellency from the established custom of hit country in allowing hit wift to be present to do the honors ss hostess. What will Ins fellow countrymen in China aay to inch a concession to the foreigner, inch a deviation from their social system' The higher class of Chi nees, like true Orientals, keep their women striotly secluded from the vulgar gate. Wom an's position in China is not an enviable one. She is looked down upon as an inferior, la sel dom educated, and la regarded more ia the light of an appendage than at a helpmate, counselor and mend. Even at early as bar en trance upon life, she receives a chilling weluome. Chinese parents invariably desire sons, no mat ter bow many children they may bare. Marble C km Kim. A composition of gum. lac, colored to rait the occasion, is sometimes used. The nut cement it also used, oompd of hydrochlorata of ammonia, 3 ; Hoar of sul phur, I ; iron filings. Ifl. For coating Inaide of cisternal Pulverised baked bricks, 2; quick lime, 2; wood aahea, 2 olive oil to make a ror stooe seams ami pools i pulverised or hard brisk, 6 ; whileUed, I ; litharge, I ; oil to com pound. Another cement ia as fol lows : Hydraulic cement, If; triturated chalk, 0 ; tine aaad, 6 ; infusorial earth, 1 1 all mixed with soluble soda glass. PUlUr'YINU TIIK BUXID. That imparity of blood, says a writer in the 1'krtnologkalJonnal, it the cause of most ol our ill-health it well understood by nearly every " 1 " ...... ... ,v uiminmUMt at almost every step with so-called "medicinal preparations" for cleansing the purple tide ol life, and thus restoring the waning powers of the system. So common is the idea that the thousand and one proprietary compounds poetess the mysterious power ol removing impurities from the circulation, that vast fortune are amassed in the manufacture and tale of them. From the standpoint of the hygienist tho wide spread lielief in the efficacy of these remedies hat no foundation In fact, and the money an freely expended for them ie wore than wasted. The only way that we can remedy the oonte quenoee of an iinierfeot and (mMs action of the blood-making organs, la to add to the vitality of the system, and thus give to the weakened organs the pnwsr of proper functional work 1 while we promote the highset activity of the organs of excretion, that as speedily a possible thsy may remove the useless impurities. The only way to avert the effects of morbid and Kiisonous materials whioh shall find their way into the circulation, is to give the eliminatlv organs the heat possible facilities for removing the harmful agenoiee ; while w increase the vital po ,.r that shall withstand the attack of evil. We must learn that we cannot by any means at our disposal take from Naturae hands the work of blood. making ; or, with our crude de vices, improve upon Tier handiwork. Propel food in proper quantities, para air and correct habits of breathing, plenty of healthful and vig orous exercise, a clean skin ami a clean eon science these will do more to purify the Mood than all the drugs of the pharmacy. We must build up, nut tear down 1 Increase the vital forces, not weaken or daetroy tksm : supply good, wholesome, uiislimulsting loud not drugs or lupous and tolstoso, In short, w must always work through Nature, not over or nou her. TIIK ADVANTAUK OK A Ci.KAN NKIN, Hit funotioni of the tkln, says a writer In Similtirian, are too important to be ignored. When we consider how large a share of the Raids and snllda that enter the body should And their exit by this great emanotory, together with broken cells, morbific waste, awl dlsin-leg-rated tiaras, all of which by ohatraetinn of this organ is thrown hack to poison the whole man physically, mentally ami morally, we have at once the kry to much of th misery thai airlifts oar rao. Suppose, for instance, the conduits that drain our city and mnoe the waste from lit dwellings are obstructed, bow long amid the oovupente remain in the most palatial mansions They would have to abandon their horns, or be con fronted with lissasi and death. Kvery parson with anohetrurtsd akin la in similar jeopardy, and the obstruction moat be removed, or b matt retire from the boos he Uvea In. Per spiration is the safety-valve of the heart, sad lb sewer of lb ricretlons; aad hot air ami its soosasoriee, properly applied, are not only the beet irtawtion against dlseass, but they are among the moat efficient means of prolongiag life, and of protection against unnatural and untimely death; and in the tame proportion that we build with intelligence sanitary strac lures, ami employ them, we may d lapses with a lata and invalids; and ia tne eame ratio we prolong useful Uvea, kUrtsa wftea tired It vary ksjamas. Always arrang roar labor to s to have a short reating-spall both tailor and altar every heart meal, especially If old or fs.hU. pasts tiles