Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-07
HOME AND FARM.

Novelties In Cooking.-A side dish
which is general favOrite is made by
steaming oatmeal until it is thoroughly
done; when cold, cut it in slices and fry
till brown in butter; crushed wheat and
corn meal may be served the same way.
Rice au Jus.-Thoroughly boil a
cupful of rice, have ready buttered
pie-dish, and pint and half of good
strong stock. Drain the rice, turn it
into the pie dish, pour the stock over
it; add a seasoning of pepper, salt and
butter. Place it in the oven for ten min
utes, and serve very hot.
The United States Miller advises
when one wants to rid their premises
of rats to set a trap and catch one alive.
Paint him bright red color and let him
go. Then set the trap in another place
in the house, mill or barn, and catch q
second rat; paint him and let him loose.
"A Nice Plain Pudding.-O quart
of flour; butter the size of an egg; a
pint of milk; two tablespoonfuls of
baking powder; one cup of cut raisins.
Steam one hour in a two-quart dish.
Boil a pint of milk, add sugar, two Ia
blespoonfuls of flour and fiavoring for
the sauce.
The american Chemist saws that a
Western farmer discovered many years
ago that wood could be made to last
longer than iron in the ground. Time
and weather, he says, seem to have no
effect on it. The posts can be prepared
for less than two cents apiece. This is
the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and
stir in it pulverized charcoal to the con-
sistency of paint. Put a coat of this
over the timber, and, he adds, there is
not man who will live to see it rot.
Stuffed Turnips.-Peel and boil in
boiling water well sailed quart of me-
diminished turnips; as soon as they are
tender in.them, cut slice from the
top of each, scoop out half the middle
with teaspoon, mash the part taken
out, with a little salt, pepper, butter and
the yelk of an egg, and fill the turnips
with the mixture; put on each one the
slice cut from the top, brush them over
with the beaten white of an egg, set them
in a baking dish and brown them in a
hot oven. Serve them hot.
Outside Whitewash-Take one-half
bushel of good unslaked lime, slake it
with boiling water (cover it during the
process to keep in the steam); strain
the liquid through a sieve, and add one
peck of salt, dissolved in warm water,
three pounds of ground rice boiled to a
thin paste; stir in boiling hot one-haf
pound of powdered Spanish whiting,
one pound of white glue. Add five gal
Ions of hot water; let the mixture stand
few days, covered from the dirt, and
apply with calcimining brush.
Cottage Cheese.-Cottage cheese is
made either of sour milk curdled by
heating moderately in kettle or of
sweet milk curdled by rennet. The curd
must not be heated over 100 deg. After
standing half an hour the curd is dipped
out into thin muslin bag or cloth and
hung up in a warm place to drain off the
whey. In twelve hours it may be taken
out, broken up, sailed sufficiently, and
nodded into desirable shapes, and either
used fresh or put away for week or
two to acquire full cheesy flavor. For
immediate use the curd may be mixed
with sweet cream and sweetened if de-
sired. By adding lemon juice, eggs and
sugar, the curd may be made into lem
on cheese cakes in the manner in which
custards are baked.
Grease is fatal to all insect life. In
sects breathe by means of small pores
on their sides. Grease or oil that comes
in contact with the insects closes the
pores and stops the breathing. Mercu-
rial ointment kills as much by the lard
in it as by the mercury-that is, so far
as the vermin are concerned, but not as
to the animals that lick it off from their
bodies, so that almost any oily OR greasy
application will be destructive to insect
vermin that infest animals, if it is ap-
piled where it will do the most good.