The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

SOUS.ESOLD ECONOMY..

Ir should be generally known that a small quantity of
vinegar will generally destroy immediately any insect that
may find its way into the stomach ; and a little salad oil will
kill any insect that may enter the ear.
BRANDY CHERRIES.—Weigh the finest morelas, having
cut off half the stalk ; prick them with a needle, and drop
them into a jar or wide-mouthed bottle. Pound three-quarters
the weight of sugar or white candy; strew over; fill up with
brandy, and tie a bladder over.

BEIIING A RAT.—A correspondent of a Glasgow paper
writes :—" Having heard that a belled rat would drive all
other rats away, I tried the experiment a few weeks since, by
procuring a fine sized one, and putting a small sleigh-bell on
his neck. Since then his troublesome fellows, of whom there
were a great many before, have disappeared, leaving him an
undisputed monopoly of their old haunts."
REISIEDY FOR BLISTERED FEET.—Soldiers or pedestrians
whose feet are .apt to blister during long journies, should rub
the feet at night with spirits mixed with tallow dropped from
a ,candle into the ,palm of the hand. On the following
morning no blister will exist, for the spirits possess healing
power, and the tallow keeps the skin soft and pliant.—
Gallon's Art of Travel.
MACKEREL PUDDING.—Cut off the heads of two mackerel;
cat each one in four pieces, keeping the roe in ; fill the pud-
ding with the pieces, season with salt, a little chopped onions
and fennel; add a gill of water; boil one hour, and serve with
fennel sauce over. To pot them, clean, season, and bake them
in a pan, with bay leaves, spice, and some butter; when cold
place them in a pot and cover them with clarified butter.
RASPBERRY JA.ll.—Weigh equal quantities of fruit and
sugar; put the former in a preserving-pan, boil and break it,
stir constantly, and let it boil quickly. When most of the
jlice is evaporated, add the sugar, and simmer half an hour.
'This way is greatly superior in colour and flavour to that which
is made by putting the sugar in at first. Gooseberries and
currants may be done the same way.
GINGER DROPS.—Reduce four ounces of candied orange-
peel to a paste, in a mortar, add two ounces of white ginger,
finely ground, and two pounds of powdered sugar, moisten
these with a coffee-cupful of clove-water, and boil till the
syrup is sufficiently thick to be dropped on buttered paper.
Set the drops in the oven for five minutes, and then remove
the paper from the. bottom.
RASPBERRY VINEGAR.—To a market-gallon of raspberries,
take half-a-gallon of common vinegar, put it into an earthen
pan, and let it stand three days ; then strain them through a
flannel bag, turning back the juice till it runs bright; and to
every quart of juice take a quart of clarified sugar, put in the
juice and boil it a few minutes, take off the scum, put it in a
stone bottle, and it will keep, if necessary, two years.
To PRESERVE STRAWBERRIES MI OLE.—Take equal weights
of fruit and double-refined sugar ; lay the former in a large
dish, and sprinkle half the sugar in fine powder over ; give a
gentle shake to the dish, that the sugar may touch the under
side of the fruit. Next day make a thin syrup with the re-
mainder of the sugar, and, instead of water, allow one pint of
currant juice to every pound of strawberries ; in this simmer
them till sufficiently jellied. Choose the largest starlets; or
others, when not dead ripe. In either of the above ways they
eat well served in thin cream, in glasses.
To MAKE ANCHOVIES.— PrOCIITe a quantity of sprats, as
fresh as possible ; do not wash or wipe them, but just take
them as caught, and for every peck of the fish take two
pounds of common salt, a quarter of a pound of bay salt, four
pounds of saltpetre, two ounces of sal prunella, and two
pennyworth of cochineal; pound all these ingredients in a
mortar, mixing them well together. Then take stone jars, or
small kegs, according to your quantity of sprats, and lay a
layer of the fish and a layer of the mixed ingredients,. alter-
nately, until the pot is full; then press hard down, and cover
close for six months, they will then be fit for use. I can
vouch for the excellence and cheapness of the anchovies made
in this manner; in fact, most of the "fine Gorgona an-
chovies " sold in the oil and pickle shops are made in this or a
similar manner, from British sprats.
Cur IN A PIE-DISH.—The custom of placing an inverted
cup in a fruit pie, the cook will inform us, is to contain the
juice while the pie is baking in the oven, and prevent its
boiling over ; and she is the more convinced in her theory,
because when the pie is withdrawn from the oven, the cup
will be found full of juice. When the cup is first put iu, the
dish is full of cold air ; and when the pie is placed in the
oven, this air will expand by the heat and fill the cup, and
drive out all the juice and a portion of the present air it
contains, in which state it will continue until removed from
the oven, when the air in, the cup will condense, and
occupy a very small space, leaving the remainder to be filled
with juice : but this does not take place till the danger of
the juice boiling over is passed. If a small glass tumbler is
inverted in .the pie, its contents can be examined into while
it is in the oven, and it will be found what has been advanced
is correct.—Gower's Scientific Phenomena of Domestic Life.