Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

A correspondent of the New England Farmer says his method of destroying dock is to cut the root about an inch or one and a half inches below the surface, using a chisel with a handle, long enough to allow the operator to stand erect. The plants ate carried from the field when cut. Transparent Lemon Jelly.—Pare two dozen lemons as thin as possible; put eight with the rinds into hot, not boiling, water; cover it three or four hours; rub some loaf sugar on the rind before peeling, to extract the flavor; put in a china dish with a pound and a half of fine sugar; then add the water and three quarts of boiling milk; mix and pour through a jelly bag until Clear. To Candy Fruit. —Take one pound of best loaf-sugar, dip each lump into a bowl of water, and put the sugar in a preserving kettle. Boil it down until clear, and in a candying state. When sufficiently boiled, have ready the fruit you wish to preserve. Large, .white grapes, oranges separated into small pieces, or preserved fruits, foke» oirt-ef- tlieir syrup and dried, arc nice. Dip the fruit iitto the prepared sugar while it js heft, thfen put them in a cold plate; iley soon Mcome hard.— .I I _ To Destroy Weeds iS^Walks. —The editor of the London Journal Horticulftinrtays: The most efficient texte that we have tried is a solution of arsenic, to be applied in dry wteath*rbMy»; One ponnd of arsenic is dissolved in threb'gallons of cold water and boiled, MrriDg.il -while boiling, then add sjvfep gallons of cold*w*ten and two pounds of crufflid BQdEM<>pky*Bg i* to or grass. The abovp quantity will be enough for twenty-five square yards. One of basest called our attention to his peaches, wluch being destroyed by honey bees. Jtist aOoon as the peaches begin to mellow, the bees attack them, and it} puch numbers as to almost cover th? fruit. We counted twenty bees upon ope Apecimefi ; and ItT’solpe instances, the bees had burrowed thfeir entire length i>tb tjie so stupefied with sucking toe juice, or intent upon thefr work, that it was with considerable'difficulty that wc made them leave the fruit Whether the bees are the first aggressors or not, we are unable to say, but that they soon suck out the juice after an opening is made is quite certain.— Hearth and Home-. / v--Apple Jam.—The apples, which shoul I be ripe, and of the best eating 'sdr*, being pared and quartered, art ’ put into a pan with just water enough to cover them, and boil until they can be reduced to a mash Then for each pound of the pared apples, a pound of rifted sugar is added, being sprinkled over the bailing mixture. Boil and stir it well, until reduced to a

Jam. Then put i<s in pots. The above W the nroat ninipUt way of making it; but to have it of Um beat posaible clearneae, makea tltck ayrup with three pound* of sugar to each pint of water, and clarify it with on egg, aa before directed. Then add one pint of thia syrup for every three pounds of apples, and boil the jam to a proper Sheep Skin Math. —The following ia for' two skins, and if the directions are CiitllfYilly followed, will make something nice: Make strong soapsuds, using hot water, and let it stand till cold ; tlwn wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing out all the dirt ffom among the w<x>l; then wash them in cold water till all the soap is out. Next dissolve half a pound each of salt and alum in a little hot water, and put into a tub of cold water sufficient to cover the skins, and let them soak twelve hours; then hang over a pole to drain. When well drained, stretch' Cafcftilly on a boart to dry. Stretch several times while drying. Before they get entirely dry, sprinkle, on the flesh side one ounce each of finely pulverized alum and saltpetre, rubbing'itin well; then lay the flesh sides together and hang in the shade for two or three days, turning them over every day till perfectly dry. Finish by scraping the flesh side with a blunt knife to remove any remaining scraps of flesh, and then rub the flesh side with pumice or rotten stone and the hands. Very beautiful mittens can be made of jlamb skins tanned as above.— Country Gentleman.• Mountain Cak£.~ Tlje yolks of seven eggs, the whites of five, the other two Wlntes retained for the icing; three-quar-ters pound of white sugar, half pound of white powdered sugar for icing, one lemon, one cocoa-nut, half pound flour. Beat the yolks and whites Separately until quite light, then mix them; and tn the meantime add a wine-glass and a half of water to the three-quarters of a pound of sugar and when boiling hpt pour it into the eggs, stirring wejl all the time until cool. Let the sugar dissolve slowly at first on a part of the fire not too hot, before you let it boll. Add the juice Of a lemon, retaining a few drops for the icing, then stir in the half pound of sifted flour and bake in three flat cakes like you bake jelly cake. Make the icing of the two whites and the half pound of sugar and the lemon drops, and when the cakes are nearly cool turn one upside down, spread on one-third of the icing and then a layer of grated cocoanut, then the next cake in the same way with the icing and cocoa-nut, and the third cake with the icing and cocoa-nut, and it just makes a beautiful loaf and is really very delicious. I like a little tartaric acid in the icing.— Germantown Telegraph.