Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—A putty of starch and chloride of xluc hardens quickly and lasts, as a stopper of holes in metals, for months. —To make cheese pie use four eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful sweet cream, two-thirds cupful of butter, one spoonful flour. N utmeg to taste. —Washing the face night and morning in one-half pint of water to which the Juice of one lemon has been added is said to be a good remedy for freckles. —To cure tongues, take four quarts salt; two quarts molasses; sig ounces saltpeter; three gallons water. Boil and skim the ingredients, and when cold pour over the tongues. —ln washing calicoes In which the colors are not ftst, be careful not to l>oll them, but wash in the usual way with soap and rinse in hard water. For dark colored goods add a little salt to the water; for light a little vinegar. —True economy in eating requires us to select and combine a variety of food, so as to furnish the maximum growth or power moet desirable with the least waste of substance, and tiie least tax upon the system in assimilating what is useful and rejecting what is useless.

—Biscuit pudding is very nice to? a poor man’s wife to make. Grate three large biscuits, pour ovfer them one pint boiling milk or cream, and cover closely. When cool add three eggs, half a nutmeg, a little molasses, spoonful flour, sugar to taste; boil this an hour. Serve with butter and sugar. —The Western Rural tells of a man who plants, two or three weeks after the crop is planted, a new hill of corn every fifteenth row each way. And this is the reason: If the weather becomes dry after the filling time, the silk and taseels both become dry and dead. In this condition, if it should become seasonable, the silk revives and renews Its growth, but the tassels do not recover. Then, for want of pollen, the new silk is unable to fill the office for which it was designed. The pollen from the replanted corn is then ready to supply the silk, and the filling is completed. He says nearly all the abortive ears, so common in all corn crops, are caused by the want of pollen, and he had known ears to double their size in this second filling. —An excellent wedding cake is thus made; Take one pound of butter, one pound of sugar, nine eggs, one pound of flour, three pounds of clean currants, two pounds of stoned raisins, from one-half to three-quarters pound of citron, one grated nutmeg, some mace and cinnamon. Rub the butter and sugar together; when light, add first the yolks then the whites of the eggs—the yolks and whites of the eggs to be beaten separately—then put in nearly all your flour, keeping out Just enough to dust your raisins and cement them; cut your citron in such slices as you like, and putinas you put the cake in the pan; after mixing your fruit in the cake, grease a four-quart pan carefully, line it with clean straw paper, a little grease (butter) on the paper; put your cake in and bake, in not too quick an oven, for it burns easily. After It is baked take it out of the pap, paper and all, and let it cool. The next day, to keep it fresh and moist, put it back in the pan, or in a tin caKc-Dox, ami Keep it iigiiiiy covereu.