Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1874 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Cabbage and turnips, cooked in the same room with milk or butter, would impart a disagreeable taste to them. For fattening animals, three fourths to one pound ormeal per day to each 100 pounds of live weight is said to be about the proper quantity. Apple Sauce.— Two quarts of water, a pint of molasses, a root of ginger, and boil all together twenty minntea ; put in while boiling a peck of pared, cored and quartered apples. Stew till tender. London Syllabub.— A pint and a half of sherry; two ounces ot sugar; grated Dutmeg; two quarts of milk. Sweeten a pint and a half of sherry with the loaf sugar in a bowl, and add nutmeg. Milk into it from the cow about two quarts of milk. Frosted Feet Remedy.— lt is recommended to paint the feet a few nights with tincture of iodjpe. Another remedy, said to be sure, is: Take mutton suet and resin, equal parts; stew together and anoint the feet before going to bed. Golden Salve Recipes.—Two quarts raw linseed oil, three pounds beeswax. Melt thoroughly together and turn into tin boxes. This is the best salve known for burns, scaldSj flesh wounds, old sores, piles, etc. To make small quantities the same proportion as above is required. Fried Sweet-Potatoes— The evening before they are wanted peel and slice them, lay them in a stew-pan and sprinkle sugar between the layers of potatoes; pour on water enough to cover them, and set the stew-pan on the stove. In the morning, by the time you are ready to fry them, they will be cooked just enough; fry in hot lard to a light brown on both -sides, ■ * Remedy for Bee Stings, Etc— The tincture of iodine is almost a sovereign remedy for the sting of bees, wasps, hornets, the bites of spiders, any external poisoning, as the crushing of caterpillars, hop or corn worms on the flesh. Apply the tincture as soon as possible in any way convenient. It may be had at almost any drug store or of any practicing physician.— Gor. Rural New Yorker. Boiled Asparagus—To each half a gallon of water allow one heaped tablespoonful of salt. Asparagus should be dressed as soon as possible after it is cut, although it may be kept for a day or two by putting the stalks into cold water; yet to be good, like every other vegetable, it cannot be cooked too fresh. Scrape the white part of the stems, beginning from the head, and throw them into cold water; then tie them into bundles of about twenty each, keeping the heads all one way, and cut the stalks evenly, that they may all be the same length; put them into boiling water, with salt in the above proportion; keep them boiling quickly until tender, with the saucepan uncovered. When the asparagus is done, dish it upon toast, which should be dipped iu the water it was cooked in, and leave the white ends outward each tyay, with the points meeting in the middle. Serve with a tureen of melted butter. A farmer’s wife writes a letter to the 'Rural New Yorker which she wants the ‘men-folks” to read. It is a plea for more sleep. Have you a wife, she says, who goes about in a listless, spiritless fashion, as though she could but just drag herself about ? Or is she cross and fretful, and do you wonder how she came to have such a temper ? Ten to one, all she needs to make her bright and happy is rest, sleep and loving words. Hire efficient help, that the wife who has passed a sleepless night may take advantage of baby’s morning nap and have one of her own, or, if she choose, lie down in the afternoon and make up the lost sleep. You can afford it if you will. Do you begrudge a hundred dollars a year for y out wife’s comfort and health? Why, no breeding mare would be worked as some men work their wives! Give women their home rights; help them to bear their burdens; give them a few kind, loving words every day, and you will have healthier and happier wives, children and homes.