Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Tomato Honty.—To each pound of tomatoes allow the grated peel of a lemon arid six fresh peach leaves; boil them slowly till they are all to pieces, then squeeze them ' through a bag; to each -pound of liquid allow a pound of sugar and the juice of one lemon; boil them together till they become a thick jelly; then put' them into glasses and lay double tissue paper over the top. ' —1 want to give a simple remedy for a felon. Bum copperas on a shovel until it is soft' and can he inade fine. Then mix a small quantity of it with enough of the. yolk of an egg to make a plaster. (Inly mix enough at once for one plaster, as it soon becomes hard. Put a new one on whenever it gets stiff, and the felon will soon come to an end. So many people sutler so loqg with felons, I think anything that will help shorten their carter ought to be known.— Cor. B'/'x/crw Rural. , —A writer in the Maine Farmer says: “In the full of 1870 we bought a barrel of cider for three dollars, ami put it into a dry cellar, with the bunghole open. There it lay a year, and on examining it proved to be good vinegar, and we sold it to a trader for ten. dollars. . Here was a net profit of more than three hundred per cent. Hundred of barrels of cider were sold from the town that year at ten cents a gallon, all of which would have sold readily in a ycar at thirty cents per gallon. There is always a ready market for good cider vinegar, and if every gallon of cider made in this country should be turned into vinegar, the supply would not equal the demand. For want of pure eider vinegar, thousands of barrels of a villlahotis compound, injurious to health, are annually sold in the name of vinegar.” —Among all the refreshing stimulants, ginger takes first rank; and a, beer prepared from it is Vety delicious and palatable; and if provided for farmhands it will surely have the effect of banishing the whisky bottle and rum jug from the fields. Take three gallons of boiling water, three “pounds of sugar, three ounces of best root ginger, well bruised, (powered ginger will do), and three ounces of cream of tartar; stir until the sugar is all dissolved, let it stand until milk-warm, add three tablespoonsful of yeast poured on ton slicc-of bread; cover with a, cloth and let it stand ...for twenty-four hours; then strain and put into bottles, filling them only twothirds full. Cork tightly and tie down the corks, and it will be ready to drink by the next day. Lemons can be substituted fol- the cream of tartar; and the beer can be kept in a jug. For ginger-beer powders, take two drams of powdered ginger, ten drams of carbonate of soda, and half a pound of powdered white sugar; mix all well and divide into twenty-four equal parts, putting each part into a colored paper. Take two ounces of.tartaric acid; divide into twen-ty-four equal parts ; put each into a white paper. -Dissolve the contents of each paper into a separate glass, one-third full of water• mix and drink while effervescing. This is rr very cheap, refreshing and palatable drink', not only for farm hands, but for all persons in city or country.