Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

enrich it. Ashes sprinkled on a yard, or grass plat, will keep down the coarse grass, and produce white clover. The grass should be cut out of a brick pavement with a knife, and boiling ley poured on to kill the roots. Seeds should be saved as they ripen, from the finest plants; they should be kept in a box with a tight lid to keep them from mice. Greasers for Bake-irons. Take pieces of fat from the back bone, or chine of pork; cut them in pieces of half a pound each; leave the skin on; salt them. They will do to grease the bake-iron where you have buckwheat cakes every morning in winter, and should be kept in a cool place; after remaining in salt several weeks, they may be hung up in an airy place. This is nicer than suet. Cement for the Tops of Bottles or Jars. Take equal parts of rosin and brick-dust pounded fine; a lump of beeswax; stew them together, and keep in an old tin, melting it when you want to seal your bottles or jars. Cement for Mending Cast-iron. To mend a crack or sand hole in an iron pot, beat up the white of an egg, and mix equal weight of salt and sifted ashes; work it very smooth and fill up the crack, let it harden before it is used. If it is a large sand hole you wish to mend, put in a rivet and secure it with the cement, if it gets loose it is easily fastened by the same process. Weather Proof Cement. Take of fine sand one part, two of clay, three of ashes; mix with linseed oil to the consistency required. Put it on with a towel or brush. It is said to become as hard as marble. To Cleanse Vials, &c. Put ashes and water in each one, and boil them in water, letting them heat gradually. Pie plates may be cleansed in the same way. Iron pots that have been used for boiling milk, may be cleaned by boiling ashes and water