The United States Department of Agriculture gives the fol-
lowing recipe for a wash to be applied to the muslin bags hold-
ing the smoked and cured meat. For 110 pounds of meat use
3 pounds of baryates, 0.06 pound of glue, 0.08 pound chrome
yellow, which is a poison, and 0.40 pound flour. Half fill a pail
with water and mix in the flour, dissolving all the lumps. Dis-
solve the chrome in a quart of water and add it and the glue to
the flour mixture. Bring to the boiling point and add the
baryates slowly, stirring constantly. Make this wash the day
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before it is needed. Stir frequently while applying it with a
brush to the outer surface of the muslin bags around the meat.
Grandma's Mince Meat
8 pounds meat 4 tablespoonfuls allspice
6 pounds currants 4 pounds suet
6 pounds raisins 2 pounds citron
12 pounds sugar 20 pounds raw apples
12 tablespoonfuls cinnamon '2 gallons cider
8 tablespoonfuls mace 4 tablespoonfuls salt
4 tablespoonfuls grated nutmeg✪ Grandma's Mince Meat
Use either boiled beef or pork for this purpose and put
through the food grinder with the currants, seedless raisins,
citron and apples. Add the spices and sugar. Bring the cider
to the boiling point and add the other ingredients. Boil 1 hour,
stirring frequently. Can while hot in air tight and sterilized
glass fruit jars. These jars may be sterilized by boiling in water
15 minutes.
PART II
CHAPTER 1
HOUSEHOLD EECIPES
Toilet Soap
Place 10 pounds of double refined 98 per cent caustic soda
powder in an earthenware jar or in a can with 4% gallons of
water. Stir a few times with a stick. The powder will dissolve
immediately and become hot. Let it stand until the lye thus
made is cool.
Weigh out and place in any utensil convenient for mixing 75
pounds of linseed oil, cottonseed oil or any vegetable oil, clean
grease or tallow. If grease is used it must be melted slowly
until it is liquid and just barely warm, not hot. When oil is
used, it is not heated at all.
Pour the lye into the oil slowly, stirring with a wooden stick,
and continue to stir gently until the oil and lye are combined
thoroughly and have the appearance of honey. Do not stir the
mixture longer or it will separate. The time of stirring varies
with the temperature and the atmospheric conditions but ordi-
narily from 15 to 20 minutes is long enough.
Dampen the sides of pans or boxes with cold water and pour
the soap into them. Allow this to stand in a warm room for 24
hours. Then cut in squares.
The addition of a few drops of oil or mirbane, artificial al-
mond oil, just after the oil and lye are mixed provides perfume.
Other pleasing odors are supplied by a few drops of real almond
oil, citronella or oil of cloves. The precautions to heed in mak-
ing this soap are : allow the lye to cool before using it, use exact
weights of double refined 98 per cent caustic soda and grease or
oil and stir the lye into the grease, not the grease into the lye.
Destroying Weavils in Beans
Place the beans in a box with a tightly fitting lid or in an old
trunk if one is available. Pour carbon bisulphide in a saucer and
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set this on top of the beans. Close the lid of the box or trunk
and do not open for 24 hours. Since carbon bisulphide is explo-
sive, care must be taken not to use it near a fire.
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The United States Department of Agriculture gives the following recipe for a wash to be applied to the muslin bags holding the smoked and cured meat. For 110 pounds of meat use 3 pounds of baryates, 0.06 pound of glue, 0.08 pound chrome yellow, which is a poison, and 0.40 pound flour. Half fill a pail with water and mix in the flour, dissolving all the lumps. Dissolve the chrome in a quart of water and add it and the glue to the flour mixture. Bring to the boiling point and add the baryates slowly, stirring constantly. Make this wash the day
before it is needed. Stir frequently while applying it with a brush to the outer surface of the muslin bags around the meat.
Grandma's Mince Meat
8 pounds meat 4 tablespoonfuls allspice
6 pounds currants 4 pounds suet
6 pounds raisins 2 pounds citron
12 pounds sugar 20 pounds raw apples
12 tablespoonfuls cinnamon '2 gallons cider
8 tablespoonfuls mace 4 tablespoonfuls salt 4 tablespoonfuls grated nutmeg
Use either boiled beef or pork for this purpose and put through the food grinder with the currants, seedless raisins, citron and apples. Add the spices and sugar. Bring the cider to the boiling point and add the other ingredients. Boil 1 hour, stirring frequently. Can while hot in air tight and sterilized glass fruit jars. These jars may be sterilized by boiling in water 15 minutes.
PART II
Toilet Soap
Place 10 pounds of double refined 98 per cent caustic soda powder in an earthenware jar or in a can with 4% gallons of water. Stir a few times with a stick. The powder will dissolve immediately and become hot. Let it stand until the lye thus made is cool.
Weigh out and place in any utensil convenient for mixing 75 pounds of linseed oil, cottonseed oil or any vegetable oil, clean grease or tallow. If grease is used it must be melted slowly until it is liquid and just barely warm, not hot. When oil is used, it is not heated at all.
Pour the lye into the oil slowly, stirring with a wooden stick, and continue to stir gently until the oil and lye are combined thoroughly and have the appearance of honey. Do not stir the mixture longer or it will separate. The time of stirring varies with the temperature and the atmospheric conditions but ordinarily from 15 to 20 minutes is long enough.
Dampen the sides of pans or boxes with cold water and pour the soap into them. Allow this to stand in a warm room for 24 hours. Then cut in squares.
The addition of a few drops of oil or mirbane, artificial almond oil, just after the oil and lye are mixed provides perfume. Other pleasing odors are supplied by a few drops of real almond oil, citronella or oil of cloves. The precautions to heed in making this soap are : allow the lye to cool before using it, use exact weights of double refined 98 per cent caustic soda and grease or oil and stir the lye into the grease, not the grease into the lye.
Destroying Weavils in Beans Place the beans in a box with a tightly fitting lid or in an old trunk if one is available. Pour carbon bisulphide in a saucer and
set this on top of the beans. Close the lid of the box or trunk and do not open for 24 hours. Since carbon bisulphide is explosive, care must be taken not to use it near a fire.
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