Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

j —Butter-Scotch Candy.— Take one I pound of sugar and one pint of water ; I dissolve and boil. When done add one. tablespoonful of butter and enough lemon juice and oil of lemon to flavor. —Recipe for Breakfast Cake.—Take two and a half quarts of flour, one teaspoonfnl of soda, two teaspoonfuis of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of lard, one quart of ! warm water; knead quick, roll thin and bake. in. a shallow pan in a quick, oven. Serve hot, with butter. —According to Bottgcr, a moderate concentrated solution of caustic soda of piotash seems to promote the germination of seeds even more than ammonia, especially of coffee beans, which germinate with difficulty. After soaking for a few hours in dilute potash solution they often put forth snow-white radicles. —Gravy for Yeal or Chicken.—Put a tablespoonful of butter into a hot fry-ing-pan. When it begins to brown dust a tablespoonful of flour into it, stirring constantly with a spoon; add salt and pepper; . then pour in one pint of milk—cream, if you have it; let it boil five minutes and pour over dish of meat. —Many people like onions, but dislike to eat them because of the bad taste that remains in the mouth. This can be remedied by boiling the sliced onions in a half gallon of water for the space of a minute or two. Pour it off; add pepper, salt and butter, and when dished a few spoonfuls of sweet cream. No taste of onions will remain in the mouth, nor can it be detected on the breath.— Cor. InterOcean. —The most essential condition in the preparation of transparent soap, and one frequently overlooked, is that the soap employed shall he as nearly neutral as possible, as any free fatty acids present separate subsequently in flakes; while free soda, on the other hand, attracts carbonic acid from the air, forming crystals of carbonate of soda. The transparency of glycerine soap is also said to be improved by the addition of a small quantity of whi|| syrup. —White Mountain Cake.—Half pound sugar, half pound flour, one-fourth pound ot butter, three eggs, one small teaspoon of bakfing powder, three tablespoons of water. Bake in jelly pans. Icing for the cake: Three-fourths pound of sugar. Spread the icing on each layer of the cake while warm, sprinkle grated cocoanut on each layer over the icing. Cake made by this'recipe took the premium at the Ohio State Fair some three or four years ago. —A red ink for marking clothes, which is not attacked by soap, alkalies or acids, is prepared by Welger as follows: Enough finely-pulverized cinnabar to form "a moderately thick liquid is very intimately mixed with egg albumen previously diluted with an equal bulk of water and beaten to a froth, and filtered through fine linen. Marks formed on cloth with this liquid by means of a quill are fixed, after they have become ary, by pressing the cloth on the other side with a hot iron. The ink will keep in well-closed bottles for a long time without separation of the suspended cinnabar.