Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Cream Pie.—Bake your pastry, take thick, sweet cream, beat to a stiff froth, sweeten, and flavor if desired; pour on the crust, cut thin slices of apple jelly and place over the cream in the pies. It is then ready for use. —Freckles.—A simple remedy for removing Jreckles is a pint of sour milk and a small quantity of horse-radish. Let the mixture stand over night and use it as a wash three times a day until the freckles disappear. —Sick Headache.—Two teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered charcoal, drank in a half-tumbler of water, will often give relief to the sick headache when caused, as in most cases it is, by a superabundance of acid on the stomach. —Crackers.—Butter, one cup; salt, one teaspoonful; flour, two quarts —rub thoroughly together with the hand and wet through with cold water; beat wail in flour to make brittle and hard; then pinch off pieces and roll out each cracker by itself, if you wish them to resemble bakers’ crackers. Sugar Crackers: Flour, four pounds; loaf sugar and butter, of each, half a pound; water, one pint and a half; make as above. —Swallowing Coin.—ls a child swallows a coin need danger be feared, and should physic be given? Ans —Generally when a coin is swallowed there is little or no danger. If it happens to be a bronze then there may be chemical changes that will cause copper poisoning*, otherwise, do not worry, for what will pass into the stomach will pass through. Avoid physic, it empties the bowels when they should be kept full by coarse food —as coarse bread, or something to distend and enlarge the digestive tube. — Exchange. —Cheap Blacking. —A correspondent of the Vermont Farmer vouches for the value of blacking made in the following manner: Fill a bottle half full of nails or rusty bits of iron; then fill with sharp vinegar; shake every few days for a while; in a few weeks it will be ready for use. It improves with age. When used down fill again with vinegar. When boots become red wet in the blacking and oil them; they will look as good as new. The oil sets the color; it will neither rub nor wash off. It is good for all kinds of leather, -will not injure in the least.

—When a child’s ear becomes painful, as it so often does, everything should be done to soothe it, and all strong, irritating applications should be avoided. Pieces of hot onion or fig should not be put in; but should be applied with poppy-fomentation, if the pain does not subside. How much children suffer from their ears—unnitied because unknown—it would probably wring the hearts of those who love them suddenly to discover. It is often very hard, even for medical men, to ascertain that the cause of a young child’s distress is seated in the ear, and frequently a sudden discharge from it, with a cessation of pain, first reveals the secret of a mysterious attack, which has really been an inflammation of the drum. The watchfulness of a parent, however, would probably suffice to detect the cause of suffering if directed to this point as well as to others. If children cry habitually when their ears are washed, that should not be neglected; there is, most likely, some cause of pain. Many membranes are destroyed from the discharges which take place during “ teething.” Whenever there is a discharge of matter from the ear, it wou|d be right to pour in warm water night and morning, and so at least to try to keep it dean. — American Farm Journal