Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Keep soft-soap three months before using. —Bar soap should be kept in a dry place several weeks before using. It will last much longer. —Molasses Candy.—One cup sugar; one cup molasses; piece of butter an inch square; stir; boil until it will rope; last of all one teaspoon of soda. —Corn Starch Cake—One cup butter; two cups sugar; two cups flour; one cup corn starch dissolved in one cup of sweet milk; one teaspoon soda; one ounce oream tartar; whites five of eggs. —Simply wetting and rubbing the stained cloth in cold water will remove all traces of grass stains. Fruit stains will disappear on application of boiling hot water. No soap'should-be used in either case. —The best thing for cleaning tinware is common soda. Dampen a cloth and dip in the soda, and rub the ware briskly, after which wipe dry. Any blackened oi dirty ware can be made to look as well as new.— Exchange. —Violet Ink.—Dissolve one-half ounce gum Arabic in one pint of hot water. Then add sufficient violet aniline dye to make it the right color. A few cents’ worth will make one pint of ink. Get .violet dye at the drug store. —Breakfast Rolls.—lncorporate well two teaspoon'fu's of cream tartar and one teaspoonful of lard with one quart of flour. Dissolve a small teaspoonful of soda, and mix the whole together with cold sweet milk, and bake immediate. —lced Apples.—Pare, core and slice apples of a large, tart kind. Bake them till nearly done. Put them away to get entirely cold ; then prepare some sugar icing, and, first pouring oil all the juice, lay the icing thickly on the tops and sides, as much as you can. Return them to the oven to just harden and set. Serve with cream. —Bread and Apple Pudding.—Cut bread in slices and dip them in cream. Line a pudding dish with slices, then put in a layer of sliced apples and a little sugar, then bread and cream again, and so continue until the dish is fillet!.. having' a layer of bread come on top. Bake in a slow oven two or three hours with a plate over the top of the pudding and a weight on it. —Making Citric Acid.—Treat fresh lemon juice with powered chalk until all the acid is neutralized. Citrate of lime will be precipitated, which wash and then decompose by means of diluted sulphuric acid. A precipitate of sulphate of lime will then be formed while the citrate acid dissolves. Filter, and the sulphuric acid will then deposit itself in crystals when the concentrated liquid cools.