Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Remedy for SouriStomsrh.—l know a person who was in the habit of taking a teaepunafiil of pine charcoal pulverized tor sour stomach, and thought it an excellent remedy. It was taken mixed wtthswect milk —Car. Rural yew Torher. —Treatment of Erysipelas.—The Medical Record states that in • the Brooklyn City Hospital the following has proved efficacious as a local application in erysipelas: Acetate of lead, carbonate of magnesia, camphor, each twenty grains, water one pintj —Bo mi Felon.—The London Lancet suggests the following simple treatment: As soon as the disease is felt pul diriHHly over the spot a fly-blister about tire sD.tof your thumb nail and let it remain for six hours, at the expiration of which time, directly under the surface of theJiiister, may he seen the felon, which can instantly be taken out with the point of a needle or a lancet. —Boiled Flour for Invalids.—Take a pound of fine flour and tie it in a linen cloth as tight as possible; after frequently dipping it in cold water, dredge the outside with flour till a crust is formed round it, which will prevent the water soaking into it while boiling. Then boil it until it becomes a hard, dry mass. Grate two or three spoonfuls of this and prepare it as you would arrowroot, for which it is an excellent substitute, — Exe Wounds.—ln the absence of the ordinary applications, such as adhesive plaster, etc., use cotton wool, which is more generally at hand. It has many advantages over other dressings; in being lighCit does not pain, but relieves it: it is a protection to the wound from other injury, and need not be removed as soon or as often as other applications. It should be applied in quantity and w ith a bandage.— Rural New Yorker. —The white of an egg has proved of iate the most efficacious remedy for burns. Seven or eight successive applications of this substance soothe the pain and effectually exclude the burn from the air. This simple remedy seems preferable to collodion, or even cotton. Extraordinary stories are told of the healing properties of a new oil which is made irom the yolks of ben’s eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard, the yolks are then removed, crushed, and placed over a fire, where they are carefully stirred until the whole substance is just on the point of catching fire, when' the oil separates and may be poured ofi. It is in general use among the colonists of Southern Russia as a means of curing cuts, bruises and scratches. — Boston Journal of Chemistry. —A new method of broiling equal in every respect to the gridiron, excepting that it lacks the smoky taste, is this: Bet your spider on the stove, and let it get smoking hot. Put in no butter or any kind of grease. Have your meat previously prepared by t rimming oil alt pieces of bone, gland, superfluous suet and tissue that will bind the edge and make it turn up. Lay it carefully and smoothly in the spider. It will stick fast at first but as soon as it is browned can he loosened with a knife. Sprinkle a little salt •n the upper surface, and turn it over. Let the other side brown the same as at first. Have a platter warmed, lay the meat carefully upon it, without besmearing the edges; dress with butter and pepper, and send to table hot By this process you have a crisp and brown surface, w ith the, juice retained as well as by broiling, and the additional advantage that the inevitable drippings are sSved and cin he converted into gravy. —Star Spangled Banner.