Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The Prairie Farmer names cotton-* Wood, soft maple and white elm, if you want shade quickly at the expense of some other things; and black walnut, white ash and sugar maple, If you can wait a little to get something valuable for timber. . —To remove flnger-marks from rosewood furniture take equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and rain water, put them in a bottle, shake them thoroughly, and rub on the furniture with.** soft clotn', and polish with a dry cloth,'it Will remove allnfluger marks, etc. —Plain Pudding.—One teaijupful of tapioca soaked over night in three pints of water;.in the morning pare and core six nice apples and put them into the tapioca and water, with two teacups of sugar, and bake until the apples are soft. To be eaten cold with cream; or milk will do. —To cook carrots by german rule, scrape and cut your carrots after thqy are well washed, put them into a pot in which a cooking spoon of suet or butter has been melted, then pour cn a cup of water, add a pinch of salt and a lump of sugar. After they are Stewed soft brown a spoon or two or flour in butter and pour it over the carrots and let them stew awhile. —Silver Cake.—One cup of white sugar, six tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, the whites of three eggs beaten to a foam, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, t>ne and one-haff cups of flour, and flavor with lemon, of anything liked. This makes one loaf. Gold cake is made exactly the same, except use the yelks of three eggs instead of the whites.

—To mend rubber boots, if it is a crack, sew it together with a few carpet stitches; if a hole, fasten a piece of cloth or rubber over it, and with a cement made by dissolving some bits of rubber (part,of some old rubber shoe) in spirits of turpentine till the mixture is thick enough to spread with a brush. If kept in a warm place it will dissolve in a week. Apply a second or third coat, drying each separately.— Exchcinge. " ~ The Bcientific Fanner says: The amount of good done by chickens among fruit trees can hardly be estimated. We completely conquered the cankerworm in an orchard of 100 trees, in two years’ time, by colonizing a flock of fifty chickens or so in the midst of the lot, not to mention the ceaseless missionary work undertaken by the biddies in the surrounding; gardens and fields. We always preserve alt the birds, too, not begrtidg- 1 ' ing them a,few cherries and» berries. —Tipsy Pudding.—One cup of sugar, one cup of sour cream, one egg, one teaspoonful of saleratus, and flavor with lemon; mix soft, bake in a long tin, having it an inch thick, and when done turn on a cloth, cut in squares of about three inches, split open and spread with raspberry jelly, then put them together again and place them in a dish. Take a pint of sweet milk, set in a kettle to scald; beat the yelks of two eggs with a cup of sugar, flavor with lemon, and pour it inthe dish; then take the whites of the eggsand make a frosting, pour over it and place bits, of jelly dyer it.— Household. —Charlotte Riisse Pudding.—Hcsrt' one and one-half pints of milk to near boiling, by puttingitinto a two-quart tin pail, after which set the pail into ah iron kettle half full of boiling water,’with a little board at the bottom of the kettle, Jo prevent the pail from touching the bottom, into the milk the yelks of four eggs, one-half tablespoonful of corn starch, first dissolved in a little bold milk, one-half cup of sugar, flavor with vanilla and let the whole thicken about as thick as custard, then lay slices of sponge cake into a deep pudding dish and pour over it the custard, and when cool, add to the top a nice frosting made of the white* of four eggs and one-half cup of pow dered sugar; after beating the egg to a stiff froth, then add the sugar, and after well heating it, spread over the pudding and put it into the oven and brown lightly.