Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Com Meal Cakes. —Take one quart of sweet milk, and boil with half a cup of sugar and half a cup of buttqr. Add enough of Indian or Southern corn meal to make a stiff batter. Beat three eggs to a foam; add a little pinch of salt, and bake in shallow pans for half an hour. —Rice Griddle Cakes.—Take a coffeecupful of/iold boiled rice, add to it the same amount of wheat flour—thin it to a batter with cold, sw’eet milk —beat up one egg to a froth, and a pinch of salt, and stir into the cakes. Fry on a hot grkldle, and you will always boil enough rice for dinner upon one day to give you a cupful for cakes for ttnrnext morning’s breakfast. An Antidote.—ln cases of accidental poisoning, it is well to have a simple remedy at hand. Poisons of any description which have been intentionally or accidentally swallowed, may be rendered almost instantly harmless by simply swallowing two gills *of sweet oil. An individual with a strong constitution might take more. The oil will neutralize every form of vegetable, animal, or mineral poisons. —Temperature of the Air in Making Butter.-—Recent experiments indicate that the best temperature of the air, as well as of the cream, for rapid churning of butter, is from fifty-four to fifty-nine degrees, instead of the average of sixty-six degrees, as generally taken. A cellar, with temperature regulated by means of a thermometer, seems most suitable for the purpose, especially in summer. —Pea Bugs.—A Jersey man writes to the Country Gentleman that in his neighborhood the pea bug had been gotten rid of by thrashing peas, cleaning them, then putting them in a heap on the barn floor and sprinkling them, at the rate of a quart to five or six bushels, with spirits of turpentine. Leave the peas a few days to dry, after shoveling the heap over to mix their wall with the turpentine. Barrel them, and the bugs are never heard of again. — —— —Late Plowing of Clover Fields.—A correspondent of the Cincinnat i Gazette details several experiments which show that when clover sod is turned in May, after the clover is up some inches, corn planted thereon is far less liable to be troubled by the cut worm, than if the land were plowed the fall before or early in spring. The worms feed on the clover instead of the com. Besides, if the clover is in rank, growing condition when turned under, and the roots full of sap, it will be more rotten at August than if plowed earlier, when the roots are not full of sap. —To Hull Corn—Take one quart of strong lye, prepared by pouring warm water upon a peck or more of ashes; add two quarts of boiling water to it, and put in the corn; let it boil until the hulls begin to start, which you can determine by taking out a few kernels and washing them in cold water. Skim out all the corn; rinse it in two or three waters; put it into cold water, and let it boil up; turn off that water so as to extract all the lye; fill up with boiling water, arid cook for four hours slowly; add salt to your taste; let it boil half an hour more, and serve. It must cook a great while to be palatable.— Country Gentleman.