Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Evert weed, plant and flower calls upon the farmer to study botapy, the poetry of the natural sciences.— lowa State Hathaway Cake— Whites of three eggs, one cop white sngar, one cup corn starch, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half cup butter, one cup flour, two teaspoons bating powder—or one teaspoon soda and two cream tartar. Bake with increasing fire. Tomato Catsup.— Cut ripe tomatoes in thin slices, and put them in c tin vessel, with salt between each layer; boil moderately half an hour; strain through a hair sieve, and to every gallon of tlie liquor add three mots of horseradish, an onion sliced, with cloves, grated nutmeg, an ounce of black pepper, a red-pepper pod and an ounce of allspice; boil well, and add a pint of vinegar to the gallon; it is then ready for bottling. It appears that parsnips are now proposed as an article of food for horses, and have received considerable support _in France. It is stated that M. le Bian brought with him to Paris for the winter season several horses fed exclusively on parsnips. The appearance and condition of the animals are said to speak well for the nutritive value of their present food, while its cost is below that attending the use of oats, being as one to four—Leaden Live Stock Journal. Cckbant Jelly. Procure currants that are not too ripe, as they will make the firmest jelly and the handsomest color. Wash the currants; mash slightly, and let them boil until they are Soft; strain through a stout coarse bag, squeezing and pressing them closely so as to extract all of tlie juice. To each pint allow a pound of white sugar; put the juice into the preserving kettle and boil for twenty minutes, then add the sugar, let it boil for five minutes longer, and put into your glasses while scalding hot, placing the glasses on the wet towel to prevent their cracking. Noodles. —Two eggs well beaten, a little salt, -stir in as much flour as you can with a spoon. Place it on your moldingboard, and mold in flour till it is very stiff. Cut in halves and roli out very thin, about like wafers. Cut in strips three inches wide, sprinkle on flour to keep them from sticking together, and roll each piece up into a roll. Then, with a sharp knife, begin at the end and cut in fine strips, the finer the better. Place them on a dish, sprinkle on flour, and shake them lightly through the fingers to straighten them out. Cook five or ten minutes. — Cor. Inter-Ocean. A market gardener had a very fine cow that was milked week after week by two hired men. He observed that the amount of butter he carried to market weighed about a pound more on each alternate week. He watched the men and tried the cow after they had finished milking, but always found that there was no milk left in the teats. He finally asked the Scotch girl, who took care of the milk, if she could account for the difference. “ Why, yes,” she says, “ when Jimmilns he says to the old cow, ‘ so, my pretty little muley, so ■' but when Sam milks he hits her on the nip with the edge of the pail, and says, ‘hist, you old brute.’ ”—Sacrarnento Record.