Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The hide of the steer weighs about the eighteenth part, and the tallow the twelfth part of the living animal. ! —To get rid of the smell of oil paint plunge a handful of hay into a pailful of water, and let it stand in the room newly painted. —Melons require that the entire patch should l>e worked to mellowness and be made rich. It is all wrong to merely work and enrich around the hill. For melons to do well the roots require a good chance to run as far as the vines. —To kill bed bugs take of iodide of potassium, one ounce, and dissolve it in onehalf pintos turpentine; then apply with a small brush or feather, in all the crevices of the wall and bedstead. Care should be taken to label the mixture “ poison.” —For raspberry jam, to every pound of raspberries take half a pound of loaf sugar, and crush the berries to a perfect jam before adding the sugar; then boil them for twenty minutes, removing all the scum that rises, and seal up tightly in bottles or glass jars. —Sugar Cookies.—Three eggs, two cups white sugar, one cup of butter, one-half teaspoon of soda in a tablespoon of water, flour enough to roll good. When rolled out ready for cutting, spririkle over with white sugar; cut and bake in a moderate oven; flavor to the taste. —Composition Pie.—One cup of flour, one of vinegar, three of water; boil to the consistency of starch, add a piece of butter the size of an egg, sweeten to the taste, add any flavoring you like; bake in a very short, thin crust. When done cover with frosting, and set* in a diy place. This is enough for two pies. —Veal Soup—To a knuckle of veal of six pounds, put seven or nine quarts of water; boil down one-half; skim it well. This is better to do the day before you Kare the soup for the table. Thicken rubbing flour, butter and water together. Season with salt and mace. When done add one pint new milk; let it just come to a boil; then pour into a soup dish lined with macaroni well cooked. —Vanilla Ice-Cream.—Take one quart of rich, new milk, put in a vanilla bean broken in two, and set over the fire in a water-bath to heat. Separate the whites and yelks of three eggs and beat • them very light. When the milk almost boils, stir up the beaten yolks with four cups of crushed white sugar, and add to them the hot milk little by little, beating steadily the while. Then beat in the frothed whites, and place again over the fire, stirring it briskly for about fifteen minutes. It will now be quite as thick as boiled custard. Pour it out into a deep dish or bowl and set it aside to cool. When it is quite cold beat into it three pints of sweet rich cream, and it is ready to freeze. If you cannot get a vanilla bean to use, add three teaspoons -:1s of extract of vanillh to the cold custard. -