Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Squash Fritters.—One cUp of squash (boiled and mashed), one egg, two cups of n.ilk (or buttermilk), about one-fourth .teaspoonful of rods. Flour to make stiff enough to cook on a griddle. —Ginger Crackers.—One pint molasses, a half pound brown sugar, a half pound of butter, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one of cloves and one of ginger, Hour to make a stiff paste; roll thin, cut in squares or strips, and bake in a quick oven. —Custard for Cake. —One pint of rich new milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of flour, one of corn-starch. Flavor same as cake; sweeten to taste. Boil until thick in a tin or earthen vessel, set in hot water. When nearly cool, spread on all of the cake but one and put together the same as jelly cake; cover the top layer with soft icing. Cream Cake.—For cake take one tabiespoonful of butter, one cup of sugar, one egg, two-thirds of a cup of rich sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar and one of soda (or two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder), one and two-thirds cups of flour. Flavor to taste with extract of vanilla or lemon, and bake in layers the same as for jelly-cake. —Meat in Cold Weather.—Meat is much better for family use when at least one week old in cold weather. The English method of keeping meat for some time has great merit. Experts say, hang up a quarter of meat with the cut end up, being the reverse of the usual way by the leg, and the juice w ill remain in the meat, and not run to the cut and. dry up by evaporation. It is worth a trial, and when once made will be continued. How to Make Bay Rum—Bay rum is a useful, agreeable and expensive application to the scalp. Everybody should use it, though, so we will give a formula for making it—as good as can be purchased anywhere, and at a small cost: Take—Oil of bay, ten fluid drachms; oil of pimento, one fluid drachm; acetic ether, two fluid ounces; alcohol, three gallons; water, two and a hall gallons; Mix, and in two weeks filter it carefully, when you will have a superior article of bay rum, better than ..can be purchased at an extravagant price, already prepared. — Physician and Pharmacist. —Although a catarrh of itself is not to 7J5e classed with the dangerous diseases, it is always-troublesome, and if the bronchiie become affected a favorable termina'tion, especially with aged persons, is not a ways 2 -certain. A remedy for this affection, as suggested by Dr. Hagar is as so lows: Five parts of carbolic acid, six of aqua ammonia (specific gravity 0.9G0), ten of distilled water, and fi teen of alcohol are to be mixed together in a M'ide-mouthed bottle, half filled with cotton or asbestus; anti snuffed up from time to time from the bottle. After a thorough trial of his prescription Dr. Brand states that it. sl’.dtteiis the first .stage of the. disease, prevents the second, and alleviates all the symptoms. He prefers, however, to apply it by inhalation through the mouth as well as the nose, by pouring a few drops on porous paper and holding it in the hollow of the hand before the face, with the eyes closed. -