Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Powdered niter is good for removing freckles. Apply with a rag moistened with glycerine. — Indoor growing plants should have the morning sunshine if possible, although the afternoon sun is better than none. —Catskill Apple Pudding—One pint of sweet milk, four eggs beaten to a froth, one. teaspoon of soda, a little salt, flour enough to make a stiff batter, four large apples chopped; stir well; bake in deep tins; serve hot, with butter and sugar.— Cultivator. —A decoction of chestnut leaves is said to be a sovereign remedy for whooping-cough. Steep three or four drachms of the leaves in boiling water, give it either hot or cold, with or without sugar. Carbonate of lime should he put in saucers about the room in which is a sufferer from the disease. It prevents infection.— Household. —Pickled Pears.—Twenty pounds peeled fruit, seven pounds sugar, one quart vinegar. Boil the sugar and vinegar together, stick a couple of cloves into each pear, and put them into the sugar and vinegar, with water enough to nearly cover them. When cooked enough'remove pears to stone jar, and after boiling the pickle for fifteen minutes longer, pour it over them. Examine in a week and if the pickle is not sufficiently concentrated remove and boil down again. —Cheap Soft, Soap.—The best and cheapest soft soap may be made as follows; Take a clean barrel, the size of a kerosene-oil barrel, and in the bottom place ten or fifteen pounds of barrel potash and fifteen pounds 'of rendered fat or tallow. Upon this pour three pailfuls of boiling-hot water (soft water). Let it stand twenty-four hours and add two pailfuls of boiling soft water, and continue to add a like amount once a day until the barrel is full. Stir it often to make it white. Beyond ali comparison this is the best and' cheapest for household purposes of any soap ever made. The potash will cost t welve and one-half cents a pound.— Hfimestead. —The following is a recipe for making hard soap which is excellent and economical: Nearly every family accumu-lates-through the winter drippings from beef and mutton. These can be utilized for the grease by boiling m water, allowing it to cool, then removing from the water and boiling till all the water is expelled. Of course the whiter the grease the nicer the soap. Take six pounds of sal soda, six pounds grease, three and a half pounds new stone-lime! four gallons soft water, half pound borax. Put soda, lime and water into an iron boiler; boil till all is dissolved. When well settled pour off the clear lye, wash out the kettle and put in the lye, grease-and borax; boil till it comes to soap, pour into a tub to cool, and when sufficiently hard cut into bars and put on boards to dry. This is very nice for washing white flannel and calico. —Rural Ne<c Yorker.