Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Clergymens Bore Throat, Catarrh, ! etc.—These affections are not to be relieved by local applications only. Get the and liver tight and the troubles are apt u> cease. Indigestion is the common cause of the sore throat of public speakers.—Mural New Yorker. j —Collodion for Freckles.—The following preparation is recommended as being efb ctual and harmless’: One gram of sulphocarbolale of zinQ is reduced to a very fine powder, and then incorporated by trituration with one gram of essence of lemon (or other flavor); five grams of alcbohol and forty-five grains of collodion.. —Fried Catoots.—Pate and wash the carrots and divide them into halves, boil tWat tender in salted water; whMhdone, drain them. Have ready a weH-Baaten egg and a plate of very fine cracker crumbs. Roll the carrots in the egg, then in the cracker crumbs and fry in halt butter and half lard, in order to give them a rich brown. Serve immediately. —Rye and Indian Leaf.—One quart of corn meal; one pint of fresh rye flour; two eggs; one cup sugar; one teaspoon salt; one teaspoon soda; two teaspoons cream tartar; one quart sweet milk, or sufficient to make a batter soft as johnny-cake. Put it into a basin or small iron kettle (which is better) and steam from two to three hours; then put it in a slow oven and brown nicely. —Economy Cake—Two cups of dried apples chopped fine; soak over night; in the morning, simmer down as dry as possible; when cold, aad two and one-naif cups of molasses; one cup of sugar; one teaspoonful of cloves; two teaspoonfuls, of cinnamon; one teaspoonful of nutmeg; two teaspoonfuls of saleratus; two eggs; two-thiras of a cup of shortening, and flour enough to make a little stiffer than for ordinary cake, w-- aidJoiA&AiM&u —Superior Sponge Cake.—One pound of sugar; half a pound of sifted flour; grated rind and juice of one lemon; ten eggs, or whites of twelve and yelks of eight. Beat the yelks as light as possible; aad the sugar and lemon, and beat very hard; then add one-third of the whites beaten until they stand alone, and give all a good beatidg; add one-third of the flour, then one-third of the whites alternately, until all are.used. When the flour is put in, stir in the gentlest manner, as beating them makes the cake heavy. Better have some one beat the whites while you beat the yelks, in order to get It in the oven so soon as possible. If baked in one loaf, bake one hour. ter m milch cows, says the most-promi-nent of these are the vessels which co-op-erate in the production of milk. “These,” he says, “consist of the vessels which bring the bloqd, the glands which separate the milk and tfie.veins which carry away the blood when thus acted on. Of the former may be named those veins which show themselves between the bearing (vulva) and the udder. These are often buried so that they cannot be seen, and, although on pressure immediately above the udder they frequently appear, yet we must not immediately condemn the animal as a bad milker, when they cannot be observed. Generally, if the skin is mellow and hot much fat present, these veias stow themselves readily. Their presence is very desirable, and, combined with a full development upon the surface of the udder, they indicate a free supply of blood to the milk glands. It is also considered a good point when these veins present a knotty appearance.”