Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — HOME. FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

—Vaal Broth. —Stew a small knuckle in about three quarts of .water, two ounces of a little salLand a blade of mace, tin tne liquor is half wasted away. —Cosmetics. —ls ladies would oat meat but once a day, pickles but once a month and sweetmeats never; if they would bathe freely in cold water, and live as much as possible in the open air, they would not require any otnor cosmetics. —Rice Waffles.—To one cupful and a half of boiled rice add two cupfuls of flour; mix it with milk. The batter must be rather thicker than pancake batter. Add a little salt; then beat twp eggs very light, and stir them in the last thing, giving it a good beating. Bako in waffle-irons. —Fried-Lettuce. —Chop lettuce very fine, and, if liked, the tops of two or three young onions. Add two wellbeaten eggs and a little salt, put a piece of butter the size of an egg into a fry-ing-pan, and when melted pour in the mixture. Turn when of a light brown and serve with or without vinegar. —Lemon-Syrup.—Squeeze the lemons; strain the juice carefully lest any pulp should remain; to one pint of juice add two pounds of sugar; set it away till completely dissolved, stirring it occasionally; then bottle it. One or two teaspooniuls of this syrup stirred into a glass of water will make delightful lemonade. —The Philadelphia Farm Journal goes for a man who cuts firewood in Harvest time, but advises the good wife to stick to cobs, chips, old broom handles, buckets, etc., until the last sheaf of oats is in the barn. Come “West, young man,” where coal is mined from under a soil whose surface, tickled with a hoe, laughs with golden crops. If not, cut your fuel when the snow flies. —Prairie Farmer. —The following is a good recipe for making poor man's pudding: One cup of water, one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of soda; stir stiff and steam three hours. The sauce for it is: three-fourths of a cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour. After it has cooked a little, stir in four well-beaten eggs and a tablespoonful of vanilla; or, prepare a vinegar sauce.— N. Y. Times. —lt is a fact first observed and made known by an English farmer and agricultural writer, Mr. John Hannam — recently deceased —and widely confirmed by many experiments during several years past, that the later stages of the ripening process diminish the proportion of flour arid nutritive value of the wheat. The time to secure the best grain is when the kernel is still soft enough to be crushed, but is comparatively free from moisture, and breaks into meal between the thumb-nails.— American Agriculturist. —Mr. Mechi, that accomplished farmer, says in a letter to the Gazette, a quarterly journal edited by the students at "the Agricultural College, Cirencester, Eng.: “Many a worthy and even wealthy English farmer, now advanced in years, laments Hie want of that education and enlightenment which was not available to him in his early days. Education cannot give brains, but it can cultivate and improve them; and even the barren mental fields gain by cultivation. Ignorance in agriculture is not bliss, it is unprofitable."