The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

NORMANDY PIPPINS.—Let them lie a few hours in
a pan with cold water sufficient to cover them, allow-
ing for expansion, and in the morning add sugar
(with wine and cloves), then let them be baked for two
hqurs in a slow oven. They will be found excellent
either to be eaten as a preserve or with boiled rice,
cold or warm.

To CLEAN DECANTERS.—Put into them broken
egg-shells, pieces of coarse brown or blotting-paper,
with pcarlash, and nearly fill them with lukewarm
water ; shake them well for a few minutes, or, if very
dirty, leave them for a few hours, and then rinse them
with cold water. Decanters that have been used
during the clay should be rinsed with cold water at
night, to prevent the crust from settling. To clean
the outside, rub it with a sponge dipped in whiting,
then brush it well, rinse it in cold water, and finish it
with a dry cloth.

Fox CURING HA3I.—To a large ham put two
ounces of salt prunella and one ounce of saltpetre, beat
them very fine and rub it well over the ham and let it
stand till the next day, then take a pound and a
quarter of salt well dried before the fire, and rub in
hot with one pound of treacle ; cover the ham with it,
and let it be well rubbed with the pickle, morning and
night, for three weeks, turning the ham every time.—
N.B. One pound of salt and one pound of treacle does
for a small ham, with two ounces of red salt, and a
fortnight in pickle.

QUEEN CAKEs.---One pound of sifted sugar, a pound
of butter, eight eggs, a pound and a quarter of flour,
two ounces of currants, and half a nutmeg grated.
Cream the butter, and mix it well with the sugar and
spice ; then put in half the eggs, and beat it ten
minutes ; add the remainder of the eggs, and beat it
ten minutes longer ; stir in the flour lightly, and the
currants afterwards ; then take small tin pans of any
shape, rub the inside of each with butter, fill and bake
them a few minutes in a hot oven, on a baking-tin ;
when done, remove them as soon as possible from the
pans.

SPONGE BiscuiTs.---The weight of eight eggs in
sugar, dried and sifted; the weight of five eggs in
flour, dried and sifted; eight yolks of eggs, to be
beaten in the sugar; the eight whites to be beaten to
a solid froth. When the yolks and sugar are well
mixed, add the whites and beat all well together, then
add the flour by degrees. Add two table-spoonfuls of
orange-flower water, some grated lemon-peel, and
about three drops of the essence of lemon, to be all
well beaten till it is in light bubbles. A quick oven
will bake them in a few minutes. Sift a little sugar
on the top of each cake before they are put into the
oven.

PROJECT FOR A GREAT DOMESTIC SAVING.—The
tyranny of the washerwoman was intolerable, and we
determined to become the Pyms and Hampdens of the
laundry. Some were inclined to what may be called
the fifth monarchy principles of total abolition, and
talked of dirt and independence, by never having their
clothes washed at all ; but the principles of cleanliness
and moderation were dear to the great majority. So
I laid before them a plan I had deeply studied. The
lady of the present day, to whom wealth has been en-
trusted for the purpose of showing what a noble and
unselfish use can be made of it, had presented to the
hospital at Scutari an admirable contrivance for the
rapid drying of the linen of a vast establishment for
the reception of upwards of a thousand sick and
wounded men. In the model wash-houses of London
excellent appliances had been introduced for the saving
of labour and fuel. Ii another quarter I heard of a con-
trivance for the washing of the clothes where machi-
nery performed the first and hardest part of the labour,
leaving only the easier portion of the ironing and
getting-up to the hands of the professional ladies. The
calculations made by all the people I consulted as to
the saving of expense by the adoption of these and
other processes was, that it could not be less than a
half of the usual outlay, and might be a great deal
more. Here was a saving of half my annual bill—if
of mine, of Jobbins' and Mobbins' and every body else's.
Now the number of people in this district with in-
comes from 2001. to 12001. is immense, and although
a man's outlay in this respect is not regulated by his
income, but principally by the number of his family, I
considered I was safe in taking the washing bill of