Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—ls a man does not have food enough, or food of a suitable quality, he cannot work to advantage. And animals, like men, need suitable food. —Potato Balls (For breakfast). —Boil and mash a double quantity of potatoes for dinner, season with sweet cream and a little salt; work in two fresh eggs to a quart. Mold into little balls, prick the tops, and lay away in the cold on a plate. In the morning put on baking panJ and set into the oven until done to a delicate brown, which requires fifteen or tWenty minutes. —Moth Preventive.—Mix half a pint of alcohol, the same quantity of spirits of turpentine, and two ounces of camphor. Keep in a stone bottle and shake before using. The cloths or furs are to be wrapped in linen, and crumpled-up pieces of blotting paper dipped in the liquid are to be placed in the box with them, so that it smells strongly. This requires renewing once a year. —Hominy.—Two quarts of white corn; three half pints of white beans; two pounds of pickled pork. Wash the corn and put it on to boil in water sufficient to cover it, and as the corn swells more water must be added, so as to keep it coverdfl all the time it is cooking. After boiling four hours, add the beans and pork, which being done, the hominy may be sent to table. Should the pork not make it sufficiently salt, more may be added. This is very nice warmed over the next day. —Orange marmalade is thus made: The rind or peel is taken off and scraped, then boiled in water until tender, when the water is poured off’, and the rind cut in thin slices, with the juice which is extracted from the body of the orange added, and set to boil again, with the addition of three-quarters of a pound of sugar to every pound of matter, and in from twenty minutes to half an hour the marmalade is made. It generally comes packed in bowls.— American Grocer. —Housekeepers and millers are often annoyed with weevils breeding in flour in hot weather, and frequently also in winter. They are the product of an insect which lays its eggs between the staves of the barrel and the meshes of muslin sacks. Paper sacks will exclude them completely, as they cannot be penetrated by insects to lay their eggs through them. Weevils are more annoying than injurious and can easily be sifted out. Still many housekeepers throw away flour infested by them. To avoid this loss it is only necessary to Keep flour stored in paper sacks, especially in hot weather.— Prairie Farmer.