Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Sugar Cake (Bermuda). —One pound brown sugar, one-quarter pound butter and lard, half and half, one teaspoon of soda, nc: 'tntspoons vinegar, one cup of water i;oU thin and bake quickly. —Small Sponge Cakes. —Beat well together two eggs, and then stir in a teacuplul of powdered white sugar, and beat for live minutes; add slowly a teacnpful of flour, beating all the while; grate half a lemon into it and bake in scalloped tins, —Broiled Mutton Chop —Cut the chops from a wed-hung tenderloin of mutton, remove a portion of the fat and trim thpm into a nice shape; slightly beat and level thtm; place a gridiron over, a bright, Clear fire, rub the bars with a little fat and lay on the chops. While broiling frequently turn them, and in about eight minutes they w ill be done. Season w ith pepper and salt, lay them on a very hot dish, mb apiece of butter on each chop and serve hot and expeditiously. —A lady writer in the Journal of HortictiUurc says that she has used the following recipe lor preserving eggs for several years, and finds it successful. She says: We have preserved eggs in dry salt, in jars or boxes, placing the eggs in layers, always allowing the salt to completely cover the top layer. They must be kept in a dry place, " We found Urey kept best in a kitchen cupboard, a cellar being too damp. The eggs, w ith very few exceptions, were fresh and good when boiled or poached. 1 have, heard that bran or sand will answer the same purpose, but have not tried these. —ln taking out grease from clothing with benzole of turpentine, people generally make the mistake of wetting the cloth with the turpentine and then rubbing it with a sponge or piece of cloth. In this way the fat is dissolved, but is spread over a greater space and is not removed. The benzole or turpentine evaporates and the fat covers a greater surface than before. The only way to remove a grease spot is to place soft blotting paper beneath and on top of the spot, which is to be first thoroughly saturated with the benzole and then well pressed. The fat is then dissolved and absorbed by the paper and entirely removed from the clothing.— Western, Hural. - The following proportions are those usually giwn in works on statuary and painting, and are genet ally known, but will bear repetition:—The whole human .figure should be.sixlinies fehc length of the feet. Whether the form be slender or plump, the rule holds good; and deviation from it is a departure from the highest beauty of proportions. The Greeks made all their statues according to this rule The face, from the highest point of forehead where the hair begins, to the chin is one-1 enth of the whole stature. The from the wrist to the little finger, is the same. Frotn the top of the chest t« the highest part of lift- forehead is the seventh. If the face, from the roots of the hair to the chin, be divided into three equal parts, the first division determitus the place where the eyebrows meet, an i the second the place of the ndstrhs. Height from the feet to the top of the head is the distance from the extren.i*iv> of the fifigers w hen the arms are ex - . < nded.