Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Breakfast Cakes.— Take one quart of buttermilk or aour milk, three eggs, butter in size equal to half a hen’s egg, a little salt, stirring In fine Indian flour till of a proper consistence, and then patting it into p* n » of an inch in depth for a quick bake. Like the ship to the merchant—that is what the farm is.. If the merchant is not able to fill his ship to her full capacity with a cargo, he had better sell her and buy a sloop. If the farmer cannot till his large farm and make It Erofitable by producing paying crops, e had better sell one-hall of it and improve the other.— Lansing f*f Stuffed and Baked Fish.—Take out the backbone of the fish, leaving 'the head and tail on. Chop fine two snail onions, and fry them m a tablespoonful of butter, then add sufficient soaked bread to fill the fish, the yelk of an egg, and' season with salt, nutmeg and parsley, chopped fine. Stuff the fish with the mixture; pour over the whole some melted butter, and bake. If the oven is very hot, lay over it a greased paper, taking it off to allow the fish to become a nice brown. Delicious Soup.— One chicken, four quarts of water, one tablespoon of rice, one onion, one potato, one turnip, onehalf cup of tomatoes, two stalks of celery, pepper and salt to taste. Put on the chicken in cold water and boil to shreds. Strain the broth, return to the kettle and add rice, and in about half an hour add potato, onion and turnip chopped fine. About twenty minutes before serving add the celery cut in small pieces, the tomato, and pepper and salt. Boil well and serve very hot, and you will' have a delicious soup.

Freshly spilled ink can be removed from carpets by wetting in milk. Take cotton-batting and soak up all the ink that it will receive, being careful not to let it spread. Then take fresh cotton wet in milk, and sop it up carefully. Repeat this operation, changing the cotton and milk each time. After most of the ink has beef! taken up in this way, with fresh cotton and clean, rub the spot. Continue until all disappears; then wash the spot in clean, warm water and a little soap; rinse in clear water, and rub until nearly dry. For ink spots on marble, wood or paper, apply ammonia clear just-wetting the spot repeatedly till the ink disappears. — Exchange. According to the Pharmacist, it is a frequent practice in the New York Asylum for Inebriates to administer to the patients at bed-time a glass of milk to produce sleep, and the result is often found satisfactory without the use of medicine. Medicine is there sometimes prescribed in milk. It has been recently stated in medical journals that lactic acid has the effect of promoting sleep by acting as a sedative, and this acid may be produced in the alimentary canal after the ingestion of milk. Can this, then, be the explanation of the action of milk on the nervous system after a long-continued, excessive use of alcoholic drinkP Sugar, also, is capable of being converted in the stomach, in certain morbid conditions, into lactic acid; and a lump of sugar allowed to dissolve in the mouth on going to bed will frequently soothe the restless body to quiet and repose.— Exchange.