Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Carrie’s Sponge Cake.—One cup white sugar, three eggs, two-thirds cup' cream, one and a half cups flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar, half-teaspoonful soda, the same of salt. —To wash calicoes and muslin without fading, soak them two or three hours in a pail of water in which two ounces of sugar of lead has been dUeolved; then wash as usual. If they soak longer it does no harm. —Cottage Pudding.—One egg, one cup, sugar, one cup sweet milk, two spoonfuls melted butter, two cups flour, one teaspoon of soda, one of cream tartar. Steam half an hour. To be eaten with pudding sauce. —To cleanse the scalp, take one teaspoonful of powdered borax, one tablespoonful of hartshorn and one quart of water. Mix all together and apply to the head with a soft sponge; then rub the head with a dry towel. Use once a week. —French Loaf.—Put a layer of tomatoes in the bottom of your pudding dish; then a layer of sliced onions, sliced very thin; a little pepper and salt; then a layer of bread and butter, and so on until your dish is full; the last layer tomatoes. Boil one hour, slowly; if large, two hours will not be too long. —Dressing for Chopped Cabbage.—The yolks of three or four hard-boiled eggs, mashed fine, with a lump of butter the size of a walnut ; add to this a teaspoonful of mustard, and beat it all up in vinegar weakened by water and sweetened with sugar so as to be palatable, and pour while hot over the cabbage and cover. Serve when cold. Some prefer salad oil in the place of butter. —To Make Cuttings Grow.—l used to have a great deal of trouble to make currant and gooseberry cuttings or slips frow, until I tried the following plan: I oiled some potatoes until they were nearly done, and then stuck one in each slip and put it in the ground. Every slip sprouted and grew well all summer, with one or two exceptions. The idea of putting the boiled potatoes to the end of cuttings is to furnish and keep moisture enough for them to grow until the roots become large enough to gather this moisture ana substance from the soil. I never tried it on grape cuttings, but do not see any reason why it would not do as well with grapes as with anything else.— Cor. Wisconsin Farmer.