Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1875 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—To cure scratches, procure. buckeye bark, boil until prepared a strong solution ; when cool, wash your horse’s legs with warm salt water and then apply the bark solution three times a day. It is a rapid and certain cure.— Cor.Ohio Farmer. —A simple and usually successful mode of extracting a needle or any piece of steel or iron broken off in the flesh is accomplished by ths application of a simple pocket magnet. An acquaintance of ours had a little daughter who recently broke a needle off in b er hand. A surgeon was called, ’who made several efforts to find the needle by probing and incision, but w ithout success. After the surgeon had left, the mother conceived the idea of trying a magnet; one was procured, and after one or two applications of it the broken fragment of needle was discovered attached to the magnet. — Scientific American. —Few persons understand fully the reason why wet cjothes exert such a chilling influence. It is simply this: Water, when it evaporates, carries off an immense amount of heat, in what is called the ‘latent form. One pound of water in vapor contains as much heat as nine or ten pounds of liquid water, and all this heat must, of course, be taken from the body. If our clothes are moistened with three pounds of water, that is, if by wetting they are three pounds heavier, these three pounds will, in drying, carry off’ as much heat as would raise three gallons of ice-cold water to the boiling point. No wonder that damp clothes chill us.— Household. —To make beef steak and kidney pudding, divide two pounds of rump steak into pieces about an inch square and cut two kidneys into sixteen pieces. Choose a baking dish about four inches in depth; line the dish with a crust made with suet in the proportion of six ounces of suet to one pound of flour. Leave the paste overhanging the edge of the dish for about one inch, then cover the bottom with a portion of the steak and a few pieces of kidney; season with salt and pepper — some add a little flour to thicken the gravy, but it is not necessary—and then add another layer of steak, kidney and seasoning. Proceed in this manner till the dish is full, then pour in sufficient water to come witbin an inch of the top of the dish; cover the top with crust, moisten the edges, press the two crusts together that the gravy may not escape, and turn the overhanging paste upon the tops of the edge of the upper crust. Wring out a cloth in hot water, flour it, place the pudding dish on it, then bring up the corners and tie tightly; put it into boiling water, and let it boil for gat least four hours; if the water diminishes, replenish with boiling -water. The pudding should be kept covered all the time, and not allowed to stop boiling; -when the cloth is removed cut out a round piece in the,top of the crust to -prevent the pudding from bursting and send it to table in the basin, placed either in an ornamental dish or with a napkin pinned around it; serve quickly.-- Household.