Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1877 — DOMESTIC BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC BREVITIES.

—Very clear apple jelly can be made from the cores ana parings of nice apples; cover with cold water and stew gently; strain, and add a pound of white sugar to a pint of liquid; boil half an hour. —Macaroni and Cheese.—Put one quarter pound macaroni (broken in pieces) in salted boiling water; boil till quite tender; place the macaroni in a buttered baking-dish; pour over onehalf cupful milk, and put small pieces butter on the top, and cover thickly with grated cheese. Bake In the overt until the milk is absorbed, and the top is brown] —Liebig suggested many years ago that the use of cod-liver oil would have a tendency to promote a distaste for alcoholic stimulants. A well-known man of science, Mr. Charles Napier, has tested this assertion, and in twentyseven instances found it, within limits, to ho true. The discovery is an important one, and ought to commend itself to victims of inebriety. —A lady who has been troubled with the neuralgia in her head, used a bag of hot oats at night, as a pillow. She says: “ Heat the oats in a kettle over the fire, or in a pan in your oven. I have never been troubled with neuralgia any place but in my head, so I cannot say how beneficial it would be for neuralgia in other parts of the body. Another cure is drinking hot lemonade.” —Spice Balls.—One-half cupful good butter and one cupful sugar, creamed; one well-beateQ egg, half cupful molasses, half cupful sweet milk, one cupful chopped raisins, teaspoonful of ground cloves; one grated nutmeg, teaspoonful of soda; mix with sifted flour enough to roll out; cut up in pieces and roll up in a ball; do not let them touch each other in the pan; when baked, frost; flavor the frosting with lemon. —Clam Soup.—To three quarts of cold water add sixty clams, chopped fine; boil one hour with a little salt and pepper, and two large whole onions; then add one half-pound of butter, blended with one half-pint of flour; boil fifteen minutes. Toast bread, cut in small squares; take out the whole onions, and pour the soup over the bread in tureen. The flavor of the soup may be varied by using several stocks of celery, in place of the onions. —Rice Waffles. —Put three pints of flour and one pint of rice, boiled soft, into a large bowl. Beat the yelks of four eggs into it, with a little salt; put to this one quart of new milk; beat all very thoroughly till the rice and flour are well mixed and free from lumps, then add half a pint more of milk to thin it. Beat the whites of four eggs till very stiff, then add to the batter, and beat all well together till perfectly light; then bake. —To Color Green.—For four pounds of goods, one ounce sugar of lead, two ounces bichromate of potash. Dissolve the sugar of lead in a tin or brass dish, and the potash in a separate dish; dip from one to the other until a bright yellow is obtained, then, in another vessel, in which two ounces of prussian blue are dissolved, dip till suited. Two ounces of prussian blue and one ounce of oxalic acid will make a permanent blue. Dip from the blue to the acid.