Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AH excellent recipe for custard-cake is MS follows: Six eggs, two cups sugar, buttor the size of an egg, two and ono-half cups of flour, one-half cud of milk, two teaspoons ol baking-powder. Bake in jelly-tins and put ordtoarv custard between each cake. Clovek should be cut when In the fullest blossom. As it cannot be cured in one day, rake up before is thoroughly dry, and let it cure for thirty hours in cock, then spread to the .mi, and haul in Just as quick as it will do. Don’t Imagine you can save half-cured clover with salt. It cannot be done.— lowa State Register. . • , , : Mint Sauce.—Take a large bunch of young, green mint—if old, the taste will be unpleasant; wash very clean; pick all the leaves from the stalk and mince very fine; cover with cold vinegar and powdered sugar, sufficient to make quite sweet, and a tiny pinch of salt. Some persons prefer dark brown sugar and brown vinegar. California has a law to encourage planting trees along the highways, which authorizes the owners of land to plant and cultivate shade and fruit trees, specifying what kinds are so be planted, the age and distance apart, and provides rules for protection. Four years after the trees are planted, if the owner makes a duly certified statement to the Board of Supervisors of the county of the number of trees that are in good thriving -condition, said Board shall pay one dollar for each sueh tree. Rhubarb Pudding.—Cut the red rhubarb In inch pieces, and place in an earthen baking-dish whose sides you have lined with paste, and one wineglassful of water, sufficient sugar, one lemon minced very fine, also one small orange, having first taken off the skins; cover with paste, carefully wetting the edges of the side and top paste and pinching together; bake in the oven, or place the dish in a pan of boiling water, and a plate over the top large enough to cover it, and place on the fire where it will keep on a boil; this last takes much longer, but is very nice. Cauliflower (Sauce Blanche). —Cut the stalk close, and trim the green leaves from a nice white cauliflower ; tie it in a piece of tarlatan or thin muslin, put it into equal parts of water and sweet milk, salt, and cook until tender. Remove the muslin and place the cauliflower in a hat dish, pour the sauce over it and serve immediately, as it will grow dark if allowed to stand. It can be boiled in water alone, and need not be tied up, but will not be so white and perfect as if these precautions are taken. For the sance, rub a scant tablespoonful of flour into the same quantity of butter; heat a teacupful of milk to the boiling point, and poor it it upon the butter and flour; let all boil up once (stirring constantly); salt to taste. Preserved Persimmons.—A correspondent of the Farmers' Home Journal gives the following recipe: “Take a jar of any size to suit your purpose, and put a layer of sugar first and then a laver of persimmons, after being cleaned and having the stems removed; then, alternately, a layer of sugar and of persimmons—ripe, of course, but not cooked. Cover with paper or cloth, and seal with wax. In the dish referred to the sugar was converted into sirup of the most delicious flavor. The persimmon was tasted cautiously, expecting a powerful astringent effect, not unlike that produced by the fruit when taken immediately from tee tree; but, to our great surprise, the astringeneywas displaced by a most inviting and peculiar aromatic taste, that can scarcely be excelled by any similar preparation.”