Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Potato Puff.—Two Imps cold mashed potatoes; stir in it two tablespoons of melted butter, beating, to a .cream; add two well-beaten eggs, one cup cream or milk'; pour into a deep dish; bake in a quick oven. —To Waterproof Boots and Slices.— Before applying, warm the boots a little, hut take care not to hold thorn too near the fire. Melt together half a pint of boiled linseed oil, two ounces of suet, half an ounce of beeswax, and half an ounce of resin. Cake.—Three eggs, yolks and white, one cup flour, three tablespoons milk, one teaspoon baking powder, a little salt; grate the peel and chop the pulp of one orange together; squeeze the juice out and mix with soft, frosting, and put be r tween the layers of cake when cold. —Cochineal Coloring.—Thefollowing is a good recipe: Cochineal,alum, cream tartar, carl), potassa, eaclLthrce drachms ; water,eight ounces. Rub the cochineal, alum, and cream tartar with eight ounces of boiling water, and when cold gradually add carb, pptassa, and strain; pour water on the strainer sufficient to measure eight fluid ounces/ —Black Walnut “Stain.”—To impart to common pine the color and appearanceof black walnut: One quarter of a pound of asphaltum, one half a pound of common beeswax, to one gallon of turpentine. If found too thin, and beeswax; if too light in color, add asphaltum, though this must be done-with- caution,.as a very little will make a great difference in the shade. Varnish is not essential, as the wax gives a good gloss. —lroning Without Heat—A lady of experience says that much time and trouble may be saved by ironing without heat and flat-irons. When, rinsing the clothes, fold coarse sheets, towels, and tablecloths in the shape they arc wanted, and pass them through the -wringer as tight as possible. Unfold and hang to dry where the wind does not blow very hard. They will need little or no ironing. The tablecloths should be dipped in old, sweet, skimmed milk; this gives them a lustre, and they need no starch. —Should Milk or Cream be Churned?— The N. Y. Observer reports an experiment from-which it-appears that -about 360 pounds of milk made twenty-two pounds of butter, or sixteen to one. The milk was sour and thick. It xvas thought that the quality of the butter would have been somewhat better if the milk had only just begun to turn. As to velocity in churning, it was said there should be from forty to sixty strokes of the dasher in a minute. Some say that the motion should be continuous; others, that the cream (or milk) should have intervals of. rest, and that the airshould occasionally be introduced. It has been discovered by the microscope that butter exists in the milk enclosed in thin sacks of albumen; and these sack* are to be thoroughly-broken To "make good butter. They arc sometimes seen mixed with butter, being only torn in two. The effect of souring is injurious. The great objection to churning milk is the great amount of power required. Ask for Pressing's Cider Vinegar and take no other. Warranted4erpreservfr Prekte». The West Side Briggs House, Chicago, changed hands May Ist, and is now tinder the management of Mr. B. 11. Skinner, «o favorably known in the hotel business’ for twenty years in Chicago. He was formerly proprietor of the Briggs and Metropolitan m ante-fire times. This Utw .is the most centrally located of any hotel .>n .. Chicago. It js immediately accessible to the wholesale houses, rail-. road depots, and all parts of the city by cars and 'busses, they passing the front door of the house. Passengers arriving or departing by either the Mil. & St. Paul; C. & St, Louis; or Pitfsbugh, Ft. W. & C. Railroads avoid omnibus tr;wisfers/T'hc furnitttrii IS new throughout, the table is second to none, and the price only $3.00 per day. Do not fail to go to the'West Side Briggs when visiting Chicago. Consumption.—For the cure of this distressing disease there lias been no medicine yet discovered that can show more evidence of real merit than Allen’s Lung Balsam. This unequaled expectorant for curing consumptioii, and all diseases leading to it,such as affections of the throat, lungs, and all diseases of the pulmonary organs, is introduced to the suffering public after its merits for the cure of such diseases have been fully tested by the medical faculty. The Balsam is, consequently, recommended by physicians who have become acquainted with its great success. , Dr. D. Elmore, of 85 Warren St., Jersey City, jf..J., has a certain cure for Cancer. He uses a vegetable extract that takes out the Cancer, roots and branches, when the sore rapidly heals, and never ulcerates. In its early stage charges nothing for treatment and medicine until cured. Colds and Coughs.—Sudden changes of climate are sources of Pulmonary and. Bronchial affections. Take at once -“Brown's Bronchial Troches," let the Cold, Cough, or Irritation of the Throat be ever so slight.