Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Salt fish are qtiiokMt and beat freshened by soaking in sour milk. —Thistle tea is Used in Texas to cure the heart disease. —Corn oobs charred and pounded arc greatly liked by fowls. —Kerosene will soften boots or shoes which have bfien hardened by water,' .•and render them as pliable as new, i —Tp prevent meat • 'from burning, seta cup of water in the oven while baking. It will prevent meats. qr bread from burning. —Salt will curdle.uew milk; hence, In preparing milk porridge, gravies, die., that should not be added until the dish is prepared. ' —When about to set out young ape pie trees examine the roots for the woolly aphis; which resembles white mold. Washing the routs In carbolic acid soap suds or in a strong decoction of tobacco- will destroy this insect. —Fried Cakes. One teacup of cream; one egg, well beaten; piece of saleratus the size of a hickory nut; teaspoonful of salt, and flour enough to make them roll out thin. Fry in hot lard until of a light brown. —Nice Breakfast Dish.—Cold mashed potatoes, made into little balls and slightly flattened; dip them into an egg slightly, so as to mix the yelk and white; roll them in cracker crumbs. Fry them in hot lard Or butter. Send to the table hot. —Bird’s-Nest Pudding.—Pare and core tart apples; All the openings with butter ana sugar; put into a pan a heaping teaspoonful of dry t&pioca and sugar to each apple; then put in the apples; sprinkle over them cinnamon; fill the pan nearly full of water and bake. —Oatmeal Blanc-Mange.—Take one quart of boiling water, slightly salted, or boiling water will do, and two heaping tablespoonfuls of oat flour, mixed in a little cold water to form a paste, and stir into the boiling milk, ana continue to stir it twenty minutes. Turn it into a mold. May be eaten either cold or warm, with sugar and cream. —ls horses and cows are allowed a large range of fertile feed all at once it is the nature of the animal not to go quietly to feeding, but to run all over the inclosure, examine the boundaries, snatch a mouthful of feed now and then as they run, and Anally come to the yard at night tired and over full, having tramped down more than they have eaten. Molasses Candy.—One pint of sugarhouse syrup; one teacup of brown sugar; a small piece of soda. Put this in a tin dish and boil until done. When it will snap it is done. This is easy to tell if you'drop it in water, or pour a little on snow. Be sure and not let it, burn; and do not put in the soda until it is nearly done. Pour on a greased tin. When cool enough pull until it is white. - •' : - ■ ~ —The Indianapolis Journal announces from oflicial statistics that the annual sheep production of the Hoosier State has fallen nearly one-half since 1870, the number then being about 1,9C0,000, while now there are less than 1,000,000. But the production of dogs has increased in about the same ratio; and although each sheep, for wool, mutton, or increase, is worth on an average about $3.50, the people seem to prefer to maintain dogs, which cost as much as sheep and return no profit, but are generally a nuisance. —Stewed Rabbit (English Style.)— r Cut the rabbit up in nice-sized pieces, wash well and dry. Then fry them a nice brown. Take two large onions, slice very thin, fry also, and dredge with flour. Put all in a saucepan, with pepper, salt, and some good stock—or water, with herbs, mixed, carrot and turnip—but if possible the stock, as only the onions are served with it Let it stew gently two hoars ; rub down a piece of butter - with a little catsup, or hot sauce. Just too minutes before serving, stir all together. —Carrot Soup. —Procure six fine red carrots, scrape and wash well, slice very thin ; also, TWO heads of celery, two onions, two ounces of ham, similarly ; two cloves, one blade of mace, one sprig of thyme, one teaspoonful of salt, one of sugar, half-teaspoonful of pepper, one small bay-leaf if handy ; place the whole in a stew-pan with three ounces of butter ; stew gently for one hour, rub through a,flour-sieve, place the pulp in same stew-pan. add two-quarts of “ stock” or broth, and bring to a boil, stirring all toe time; add a little plain boiled rice ; in the absence of broth, add a little milk, or water. —West Suttield, Mass., counts among its residents an alleged “fiend who puts his two motherless boys to daily torture,” and who, to make his wife’s dying hours more sorrowful, dragged one of her children into her room and flogged it severely.