Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Sponge Cake Pudding:—Butter a mold well and ornament it with dried cherries or sultanas, then three parts fill it with Sponge cake, and fill up with custard. Four sponge cakes, half a pint of milk and two or three eggs, sweetened with loaf sugar, make a nice small pudding. Boil or steam it for half an hour, and serve with sweet sauce. —Orange Roley-Polcy.—Make a light paste as for apple dumplings or valise pudding, roll in an oblong sheet, and lay oranges (sweet ones), peeled, sliced and seeded, thickly all over it. Sprinkle with white sugar; scatter a teaspoonful or two of the grated yellow peel over all and roll up closely, lolding down the end to secure the syrup. Boil in a puddingcloth one hour and a half. Eat with lemon sauce. —Minister’s Pudding.—Three eggs, an equal weight of sugar and butter, and the weight of two eggs in flour. Melt the butter, and beat it to a cream; beat the eggs well, mix' them with the butter and sugar, beating the whole to a froth; then add the flour by degrees, and the rind of a lemon chopped very finely. Beat it all together, and pour into a mold; boil gently for an hour. This pudding requires as much beating as a sponge cake. When properly made it is delicious. —Whitewood carvings are best mendet'. with isinglass or white glue. Walnut is mended with the best dark glue, and chipped places filled with putty, which is then stained to the proper depth with raw linseed oil mixed with Vandyke brown, burnt sienna or burnt umber. This takqs weeks to dry, and the carving should be protected from dust. Where veneers are broken and the pieces are not at hand, the edges must be sawed smooth and a new strip glued on, when varnish and polish will hide the mischief The loss of a curl or two from arabesque carving may be unnoticed if the corresponding figure is cut.oft’, the ends rounded smoothly and repolished or gilt as the case may be.— Hearth and Home,. —Cements for leather that will be flexible, water and fire proof at the same time are in demand. Pure india-rubber, to be had of the dentists commonly, dissolved in three times as much of the best chloroform, is simple and excellent for such purposes as mending overshoes, sticking upper and under soles of children’s shoes together when they come apart by wetting, for making slides waterproof, etc. The rubber must be pure and cut into fine shavings and left a long time closely corked in the chloroform, as it is difficult to dissolve. When melted, onethird of the solution and two-thirds of the best glue, added while boiling makes a good cement for harness. Another recipe is two ounces of best Russian isinglass boiled in a pint of ale till dissolved, adding four ounces of the best common glue. When melted, slowly add one and a half ounces of boiled linseed oil, stirring till all are mixed. When cold it is like india-rubber. Shave the leather a little, brush the cement on while hot, and press the parts together with a weight over night.— Hearth and Home.