Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Gelatin mixed with glycerine is liquid while hot, but an elastic solid when cold. Useful for hermetically sealing bottles. —Cure for Frozen Feet. —I have tried almost everything that could be mentioned, but found nothing equal to a mixture of turpentine and camphor gum. —W. B. E ., in Cincinnati Times. —Mush Wallies.—One quart of flour, one pint of corn-meal mush, two eggs, a tablespoonful of butter and a little salt. Make a thin batter with sweet milk. Separate the eggs as for rice waffles; it makes them lighter. —Muffins.—One quart of milk, five eggs, one tabiespoonful of good yejist, if homemade three or four; a lump of gutter the size of a walnut and sufficient flour to form a stiff batter. Set in a warm place to rise and when light bake in muffinrings.— Germantown Telegraph. —Cure for a Cold.—A hot lemonade is one of the best remedies in the world for a cold. It acts promptly and effectively and has.no unpleasant after effects. One lemon properly squeezed, cut in slices, put with sugar, and cover with a half-pint of boiling water. Drink just before going to bed and do not expose yourself on the following day. This remedy will ward off’ an attack of the chills and fever if used promptly. — Exchange. —Apple Pie.—Pare and quarter enough tart apples to lay loosely in the prepared paste; the quarters should not touch one another. Fill the paste two-thirds full of ttiin, sweet cream, then sprinkle over one spoonful of flour; butter as large as a walnut, cut iu bits. Sugar (if a common pie-tin is used), two-thirds teacupful. Grate nutmeg over the whole, as no other flavoring gives the peculiarly excellent taste. Bake slow; if a, brown crust forms over the top before the apples cook, stir it under with a knife. If it is not pronounced splendid the fault will be with the apples or not following the directions. —Ellen Clark’s Pudding.—Slice, rather thick, some fresh bread. Pare off all the crust. Butter the bread on both sides and lay it in a deep dish. Fill up with molass’es very profusely, having first seasoned the molasses with ginger, ground cinnamon and powdered mace or nutmeg. It will be much improved by adding the grated yellow rind and the -juice of a-large lemon or orange. Bake it till brown all over the top, and till ike bread and butter has absorbed the molasses, taking care not to let it burn. — Mies Leslie. —For the common sized floating island have a sponge cake that will weigh a pound and a half or two pounds. Slice it downward, almost to the bottom, but do not take the slices apart. Stand up the cake in the center of a glass bowl or deep dish. Have ready a pint and a half of cream, make it sweet with sugar, and color it a fine green with a teacupful of the juice of pounded spinach, boiled five minutes by itself, strained and made very sweet. Or for coloring pink you may use currant jelly or the juice of preserved strawberries. Whip to a stiff froth another pint and a half of sweetened cream and flavor it to suit. Pour round the cake, as it stands in the dish or bowl, the colored, unfrothed cream, and pile the whipped, white cream all over the cake, highest on the top.