Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

.—Corn Starch. .Cake.—Take the whites of nine eggs, two and one,half cups sugar, one cup butter, two cups flour, one cup corn-starch, one cup sweet milk, two tea“P<hj»ls bilking powder. Flavor with k‘6iui- Bake in a good-sized dish with a jpiW —To Remove Grease Spots.—Apply a stiff; paste- to: (the -wrong siffiUofJthel material' or garment. Then hang it up a I leave it for some time when you will be surprised to find that the grease has been entirely absorbed by the paste, which can them be rubbed off. —Recipe for Crackers.—Butter, one cup; salt, one teaspoon; flour, two quarts. Rub thoroughly together with the hand, and wet up with cold water; beat well, and beat in flour to make quite brittle and hard; then pinch;off pieces and roll out each cracker by itself, if you wish them to resemble bakers’ crackers. —Corn Bread.—Take one pint and a half of -sour cream; leave a little in the cup and have it hot. In this dissolve one teaspoonful of soda; stir in meal to make a batter thick enough to pour. Beat two eggs—stir in the eggs and soda last. This will make enough for two dripping-pans. Sour milk and a little shortening will do instead of eream. —Cold in the Head.—When the head feels swollen, anj the nose obstructed, the forehead hot, and the eyes watery, snuff a few drops of tincture of camphor up the nose, every hour or two, and take internally five or six drops on a lump of sugar. Ordinary cold, and even influenza, if treated in this way in the very beginning of the attack, is generally controlled at once.

—A very superior glue may be made by dissolving three parts of india-rubber in thirty-four parts of naptha. Heat and agitation will be required to readily effect "the solution. When the rubber is completely dissolved, add sixty-four parts of finely powdered shellac, which must be heated in the mixture until aU is dissiilved. This mixture may be obtained in sheets like glue, by pouring it, when hot, upon plates of metal, where it will harden. When required for use, it may be simply heated in a pot till soft. Two pieces of wood or leather joined together with this glue can ’SCaricfely be sundered without a fracture or tearing of the parts. —Arresting Decay in Potatoes.—Various plans for arresting decay in potatoes after digging have from time to lime beeji made public, such as dusting with quicklime, gypsum, charcoal dust, etc.’ Prof. Church, of Cirencester, Eng., the eminent agricultural chemist, announces that sulphate of lime appears to exercise a very remarkable influence in arresting the spread of decay in potatoes affected by the potato disease. In one -experiment the salt was dusted over some tubers, partially decayed from this cause, as they were being stowed away. Some months afterward the potatoes were found to have suffered no farther injury. A similar trial"with powdered lime proved to be much less effective. —Food-Medicine.—Dr. Hall relates the case of a man who was cured of his biliousness by goinjj without his supper and drinking freely of lemonade. Every morning, says the doctor, this patient • arose with a wonderful sense of rest and refreshment, and a feeling as though the blood had been literally washed, cleansed and cooled by the lemonade and the fast. His theory is that food will be used as a remedy for many diseases successfully. As an example, he cures cases of spitting blood by the use of salt; epilepsy and yellow fever by watermelons; kidney affections by celery; poison, olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, pounded cranberries applied to the parts affected; onions, etc. So the way-tolieep m good health is really to know What to eat—not to know what medicines to take.