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Hints to house keepers

To Make Two Gallons of beer.

Put two pounds of brown sugar in a jug, with a
heeaped spoonful of ginger, and a pint of strong hop tea;
pour in a gallon and a half of warm water, and a teacup
of yeast; leave out the cork a day, then fasten it
up, and set it in a cool place, or if you bottle, put two or
three raisins in each bottle.

A pleasant drink. in summer is to take one bottle of
porter, five bottles of water and a pint of molasses; make
a spoonful of ginger into a tea, and mix all well together;
have seveen clean bottles, with one or two raisins in
each; fill them, cork them tight, and lay them on their
sidees on the cellar floor.

Molassees Beer.

Take five pints of molasses, half a pint of yeast, two
spoonsful of pounded ginger, and one of alspice; put
these into a clean half barrel, annd pour on it two gallons
of boiling water; shake it till a fermentation is produced,
then fill it up with warm water, and let it work
with the bung out a day, when it will be fit for use;
remove it to a cold place or bottle it. This is very good
drink for laboring people in warm weather.

To Make Cider.

To make cider that will keep sweet for a length of
time, requires particular attention tto all the points; all
the works aand utencils in use must be perfectly clean,
so that nothing acid shall come in contact with the pulp
or liquor while pressing. The casks should be cleaned
in the following manner:

After washing each barrel clean, put in a lump of unslaked
lime, and pour in a gallon of boiling water; bung
it up, and roll the barrel several times a day, letting it
lay with the bung down; in the evening empty out the
lime-water, and wash the barrel clean in several waters;
after the water is drained out, burn a brimstone match
in it, made of a piece of coarse muslin, one inch broad,
and four long, dipped in melted brimstone; light one