Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

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TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL BUTTER

Render beef suet at a very low temperature, churn it in fresh buttermilk and yolks of eggs, and treat like butter, when removed. POUNDED GLASS-mixed with dry corn-meal, and placed within the reach of rats, it is said, will banish them from the premises; or sprinkle cayenne pepper in their holes.

SPOTS ON VARNISHED FURNITURE are readily removed by rubbing them with essence of peppermint or spirits of camphor, and afterwards with "furniture polish" or oil.

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