Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Every good housekeeper always washes and thoroughly dries her coffeepot every time it is used. . —Cure for Neuralgia.—Take potatoes and slice them thin as you can and bind them bn where the pain is and it will relieve it in a few hours. Keep putting on until a cure is effected, which will be in two or three applications.— Oor. Cincinnati Times. —Cure for Chilblains. —Take in liquid form two ounces of carbolic acid, one ounce of glycerine and three ounces of , rain water; first soak you? feet in warm water (using castile soap) for ten or fifteen minutes, dry off well with a coarse towel, then bathe with the above mixture, frequently using a coarse sponge, rubbing hard. Bathe every time the itching comes on. —Never have the American bee-keep-ers been able to supply the market with pure honey. But the honey-dealers have sometimes found the meijns of filling all the wants and their pockets at the same time. Here is the recipe: Take one gallon of honey and seven gallons of sugar syrup, mix well*and it is done. Some put the mixture in glass jars with a few bits of comb. Some use “ glucose," a kind of syrup made in France with potatoes and sold in Chicago for four or five cents per pound. A New York honey-dealer has disclosed the whole matter to the editor of the Bee-Keepers' Journal. —For oiling floors the following recipe is said to be excellent: To two gallons of linseed oil put one-feurth pound of litharge (painter’s drying stuff); make the oil boiling hot. Then put it on the floor with a piece of carpeting #r any worsted material, just as hot as the hand can bear. It dries at once, and as soon as dry must be washed off with hot water and soap. It is then ready for the waxing, and takes a beautiful polish. This quantity oils a number of floors if put pn only once. If a very dark color is wanted it must be applied a second time. If the floor is rubbed every morning with a waxed rubbing brush it makes a very handsome appearance. —Horses and mules in use during cold, frosty weather are liable to acute suffering by having naked iron bits thrust into their mouth 3. The moment a frosty bit is put into the mouth it is pretty sure to stick fast, and with the least possible movement or change of position tear the tender skin of the mouth or tongue. I have known horses (that I suppose have suffered in this way), when about to be bitted, to open wide their mouths as if to prevent their lips and tongue from coming in contact with the cold bit. With a little trouble we may prevent much of this suffering. Let us all take care to have the iron bits nicely covered with gum cloth,leather or muslin, something pleasant to the mouth, and that will prevent the iron bit coming in contact with the flesh of the animal. Warming the bit by the fire or holding i( in the hand until warm may answer, but •tips requires time and attention, and in cold weather, and perhaps hurry, is very apt to be neglected. A bit once permanently covered may last all winter. — Cor. Berks Intelligencer.