Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Cocoawut Cahot.—Four cups of water, two and a half cups fine white sugar, foqr ! spoonfuls of vinegar, a piece of butter as large as an egg; boil till thick, or about three-quarters of an hour. Just before removing stir in one cup desslcated cocoanut and lay in small, flat cakes on buttered plates to coo) and harden. Boiled Hominy.—Get the fine hominy of your grocer. Soak one cup of .hominy in three cups of water, with salt to taste. In the morning turn it into a quart pail, then put the pail into a kettle of boiling water, cover tightly, and steam one hour; then add one teacup of sweet milk and boil fifteen minutes after stirring the milk in. Cubing Cobn.—According to the Union Medioalo, corns may be Cured with greater certainty and rapidity than in any other way, by simply applying, morning and evening, a drop of perchloride of iron by means of a bit of straw. This treatment, continued for fifteen days, will, in most cases, effect a cure without involving any pain. Chocolate Cream Drops.—Mix onehalf a cup of creqm with two of white sugar; boil and stir full five minutes; set the dish into another of cold water, and stir until it becomes hard; then make into small balls, about the size of marbles, and with a fork roll each one separately in the chocolate, which has in the meantime been put in a bowl over the boiling teakettle and melted. Put on brown paper to cool. Flavor with vanilla, if desired. This amount makes about fifty drops. Copper Cream.—OnO third of a box of gelatine; one large coffee-cup of very Strong coffee (as prepared for the table); one coffee-cup of sugar; one pint of cream. Put the gelatine in a dish with a coffee-cup of cola milk. Let it stand for two hours. Then add the coffee and set the dish on the back of the range until the gelatine is dissolved; meantime, add the sugar; when thoroughly dissolved, strain through a towel. When it begins to jelly, stir in the cream which has "been previously whipped to a stiff froth. Rinse a mola in cold water, pour in the mixture, and set in a cold place for a few hours. To be eaten with cream, or if real crekm cannot be procured, make a soft custard and pour round it before sending to the table. Parlors are parts of the home. They are not rooms furnished and held sacred for company, but are the domain of the resident people. No visitor is as much 1 entitled to the “ best room," as is the owner and occupant. In many a home that Is otherwise well-regulated, the parlor is nover seen, save when formally opened in honor of the presence of some personage that has no just claim upon the mark of distinction. Its doors are kept closed, the curtains never drawn, the blinds never opened to admit the sunlight and fragrant air of the outer world. Open the parlors, live in them, be at home there, it will add a degree of refinement to the children, and make it more inviting to the individuals you desire shall share its privileges. Ventilation is a neglected necessity. Fresh air is life, and its absence is premature decay. The home should be ventilated and well provided with opportunities for continuing so. Its observance will keep up the physical spirit and stamina, the health at home will be better, the dispositions of the members of the family sweeter, everything will return thanks and manifest gratitude if properly supplied with good ventilation. — Factory and Farm.