Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1877 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—This is sausage season. Plain article is made of forty’ pounds of lean meat, one pound of salt, three ounces pepper amt half pint of sage. If it is desired to be a little more spicy some add two ounces of allspice, two of ginger and four spoonsful of sugar.— Bcgisler. —Lady Cake.—The whites of eight -welLbeaten eggs, two cupfuls of white sugar, two and three-quarter cupfuls •sifted flowr, two-thirds cupful-ef-butter, one-half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little water, one teaspoonful cream <>f tartar sifted in the flour; flavor with bitter almond. —Calves and yearlings may be made to increase in size and Weight considerably, and make a large quantity of fine manure, by keeping them in a roomyshed, bedding them deeply with cut straw or leaves, and feeding them well. With plenty of bedding the shed need not be .cleaned out until spring. Boston Tea Cakes.—One well-beat- . w egg, Iwo Cxktesgponfida?! one cupful of syveet milk, ojie teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, (wo teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted into the dry flour, two heaping Cupfuls of sifted flour, one tablespoonful of butter, melted; bake in small tins. —Horses should be fed in proportion to- their work. An idle team may be ’wintered upon good hay alone; when working lightly a feed of grain at noon will be sufficient with hay morning and night. With heavy work, ten quarts of ground corn and oats, and charted straw or corn foddoc,,will‘begood feeding, and in many caseOor small horses r less will do. Good grooming is necessary for health in winter. —Jelly -Cake Rolls.—Four eggs, beat whites and yelks Separately; one teacupful white sugar, One teaoupfjdsiftcd flour, one teaspoonful cream-tartar? one-half teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a Very"lifffe notwat'er; flavor with the juice of one .lemon; beat all well together; spread quarter of an inch thick in a square tin, bake quietly; then turn bottom-side up, spread with jelly and roll up while hot. Tluii recipe makes three rolls. ' , f / —Soap.—Dissolve three pounds salsoda in two gallons warm water; <jlack r in a firkin, three pounds of good quicklime; add to It the; soda solution; stir the whole thoroughly ‘with a stick, and add two gallons of boiling water; stir again and let it settle; pour off the clean liquor in a clean iron boiler, placed on the fire, and '.fir into it six pounds of clarified grease and one pound of powdered borax; let it boil slowly until it gets ropy (about ten minutes’ boiling), and pour it into a -tub or tight box; this makes a good hard soap for family use; after drying a month or so, in a dry room, and cut into bars, it is fit for use? Hldpatli’a School History. Recently, In these columns, reference was made to Kidpath's History of the United HUtes, for schools. Those who li*v6 examined it, critically, pronounce tt an inqomparabie text-book for the young, and accord, it a grade of Superiority which no. author of a similar work has attained. Ibis most cordially recommended tp the attention of everybody Interested in the cause of education. Joxeb Bkoihsho St Uo., CincUmati, sxe'the publishers.