Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Rice Padding Without Eggs.—Put into a well-buttered dish half pound best Carolina rice, simply washed; pour on it three pints of cold milk: sweeten and flavor to taste; put a little butter and nutmeg on the top to brown; bake two and a half hours in a slow oven, on which much of the success of the pudding depends. —Cure for Warts.—Lisfranc immerses the parts on which the warts are developed in a strong solution of black soap. This causes a slight cauterization of the surface of the wart. The loosened tissue is’to be removed and the application repeated every day till the cure is complete. Oil of vitriol should never be used for this purpose; it is very irritating, and inflames the wans instead of curing them. —ls you are well, let yourself alone. One of the great errors of the-age is we medicate the body too mpch. More persons are destroyed by eating too much than by drinking too much. Gluttony kills more than drunkenness in civilized society. The best gymnasium is a woodyard, a clearing, or a corn-field. A hearty laugh is known the world over to be a health promoter; it elevates the spirits, enlivens the circulation, and is marvelously contagious in a good sense. Bodily activity and bodily health are inseparable. If the bowels are loose lie down in bed, remain there and eat nothing until you are well. The three best medicines in the world are warmth, abstinence and repose.—Herald of Health. —As the season for sugar-making has arrived I would like to give your readers my experience in canning maple sirup. I have succeeded in keeping it as nice as when first canned, without any trouble from crystallization, by simply turning the can bottom side up and letting it remain so for an hour before putting it away. By serving it in this way I have kept it when the sirup was nearly as thick as strained honey, as free from crystallizing as when first put up. It is but due to the Rural to say that I got the idea from its columns a few years since, but do not remember whg advanced it. Try it, “troubled Marthas,” and you will have no more broken cans from that cause.— Cor. Rural New Yorker.