The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

RECEIPTS FOR THE MILLION.

SAVOURY RICE.—Put 11b. of rice into 3 quarts of boiling
water, let it simmer for 20 minutes, then skim the water,
and add loz. of hog's lard, and a little salt and allspice ;
let it simmer gently over the fire, closely covered, for an
hour and a quarter, when it will be fit for use. It will
produce rather more than 8113 s. of savoury rice, which, if
purchased at a moderate price, will not cost quite id. a
pound.

- BAKED RICE PIIDDING.—Put -lb. of rice into 3 quarts
of skim milk, and add 2 oz. of treacle, or a little pepper
and salt, and bake it. It will make nearly 41bs. of pud-
ding, and will cost about ld. a-pound. If East Indian
rice is used, it should be previously soaked for a few hours
in water.

BOILED RICE PIIDDING.—BoiI Ilb. of rice in a pud-
ding-bag, so loose as to be capable of holding five times
the quantity. It will produce bibs. of solid pudding, and
may be eaten with treacle. It will cost about id. a-pound.
MACCARONI RICE.—Put 11b. of rice in 5 pints of cold
water, and boil it gently for two hours, by which time it
will be of the consistence of thick paste ; then add 2 pints
of skim milk, and 2 oz. of strong Cheshire cheese grated
pretty fine; add a little pepper and salt, and boil the
whole very gently for another hour. It will produce 91bs.
of maccaroni rice, and will cost not quite N. a-pound.
RICE AND BARLEY PORRIDGE.—Put 11b. of rice and
11b. of Scotch barley into 2 gallons of water, and boil
them very gently for four hours over a slow fire; then
add 4oz. of treacle and loz. of salt, and let the whole sim-
mer for half-an-hour more. It will produce 161bs. in
weight, and will cost rather more than id. a-pound.
SWEET RICE.—Put 1 lb. of rice in 5 pints of cold water
and boil it gently for two hours, by which time it will be
of the consistency of thick paste ; then add 2 pints of
skim milk and 4 ozs. of treacle, and boil the whole very
gently for another hour. It will produce 9 lb. of sweet
pudding, and will cost rather more than id. a pound.
Where no milk is to be had, the first, third, and fifth
receipts are recommended ; where there is plenty of milk
the second receipt is recommended; and where there is
little skim milk to be obtained the cottager is recom-
mended to try the fourth and sixth. By means of these
receipts those of the poorer classes, who earn but a few
shillings a week, are able to be furnished daily with a
cheap, good, and wholesome meal.

- ,
ECONOMY IN Foon.-1 lb. of whole rice boiled in 6
quarts of water, thickened with 1 lb. of oatmeal, will
make 8f lb. of good food. Pat the rice down first with 1
quart of water, and add the remaining 4 quarts of water
as the rice swells ; then put in the oatmeal, stirring all ;
cost, 6d. Add salt, or pepper, or sugar, to suit the taste.
If the rice is steeped fur five or six hours it will be better.
RICE Sour.—Take an ox heel (cost 9d.), or the same
amount of tripe, lean beef, or sheep's liver ; put it on
with 4 or 5 quarts of water, and stew it gently five hours ;
let it stand till cold, take off the fat, and in this fat fry
two or three onions; put these to the stock made by the
cow heel, add 21b. of rice, and boil for an hour and a
half slowly ; then add pepper and salt to taste, 1 quart of
skim milk, and two spoonfuls of flour; stir it into the
soup by degrees, keep stirring for a few minutes, and then
serve.

TURNIP Sore—Slice tour or five turnips and three
onions, put them into a stewpan with half-a-pound of
dripping; cove; close and let it stew without water, turn-
ing it now and then, for half-an-hour. Then add 3 quarts
of cold water, boil slowly two hours, or until the turnips
are all in a pulp, break them fine with a spoon, atkl pepper
and salt to taste.; boil half-an-hour longer till it is quite
smooth, then add two spoonfuls of flour and milk as be-
fore.

VEGETA.ELE SOUP (FRENca).—Take two cabbages or
lettuces, a handful of spillage, and a little parsley, all well
washed ; chop them very small; take six carrots, as many
turnips, three or four onions, also cut small : stew them
in a *lb. 'of butter or dripping; and two quarts of
boiling water, stew them for two hours; put in a little
pepper and -salt, a pint of young pease, in summer, Aar
grey pease:in winter, but the latter must have been pre-
viously-soaked and boiled ; let all stew another hour.
Where these is a garden all these soups may be 'made
at acost of .very little more than ls, for which a good
dinner maybe provided for two days, •as more water may
be added to Alie stock than is here stated ; and a basin of
this broth, thickened with a little boiled rice, would
make a comfortable breakfast for a poor man before he
went to his work, instead of his present camfortless meal
of dry breacisynd sloppy tea.
PEA Sour WITEOUT MEAT.—Take ../a pint of whole
.pease, let them soak all night ; nextkdas put them into
three quarts tef boiling water, let them boil till tender.;
then smash them together so as to form a paste.; put
them back into the water along with aluantity of tur-
nips and carrots, all cut into dice, with some sliced onions;
let the soup -simmer gently for two hours, then thicilen
with oatmeal, and season with pepper aud‘salt.

DIARY FOR 1854.
Jan. ... 1 2 II; 4 5 6 7 July .... . ... ..• ....., . ... '1
8 918 11 12 13 14 .4
3 .5 .6
7 8
15 16 17.18 19 20 21 9 10.11 113 1415
22 2324_15 26 27 28 1€ 17 18 1 021 22
29 30 311.........
•2w 2 *05:2 27 28 29
:Feb. ... •. • ...I -- .1 1 2 3 4 ——--
5 61 .71.8 9 1 11 August. ••_1 . • g. •2 '3 4 5
12 1,3141Z,,16 107 18 6 .7
8 9 1611 12
1920,21,21 23 24 25 15 14 516 /7 18 19
26 27. 2S-I 20 21 22 23.24 '26
27 28 29130 31 .„ ...
:Zilta•ch .. •• • ... ...I 1 :2 3 4
5 6 71 8 O 1011 Sept. ... • • . -• • . 3 2
12 13:1415 1,6 17 18 3 i 5 6 .7
8 9
19 20 2122 28 • 25 • 1C 11 12;13 14 1516
26 27 28 29 :31
... - li 18i19;20 21 2.,4p
24 25 627 28 29130
2 .81 :4 6 6 ,7 8 October 1 2 3 4 5 61 •'7
910,111112 31 •15 8 910:11 1413F14
16 1711839 ,' 1,21 2 15 161711819 20'21
23 24 25126 27 • ' -,l 22 23'2625 26 27
29 30131 ~.. ... ". ...
--
;flay .., -- • 1 2 3 4, 5 8. Novem. •• • ... ••• . 1 2 3 4
.7 8 910 11,12 13 .5
6. 7 91 .1.1
14'15 16 17 18 19 12 13 14115 1637118
;2122 23 2425 26 2 19 20 21 324 25
i 28 29 30 31 _. ••• ... 26 27 28.19 0 ... „.
June ... ... ..... ... . . 1 2 8 , ..,. ... • - . . , 1 2
6..7. 8910 i %rem. 3 4. 67 43 ..£1
11 113 14 15 16 17 10 11 12 131141.516
1819120 21 22 23 1718,19 202122,08
' 252627 28 29 30 ... 24 25 26 1728 2Vi3O
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FESTIVALS, ANNIVERSARIFE, &c., IN 1854.
Golden Number.,. l2 Quadcagesima, first Sunday
Epact ..
Solar Cycle
Dominica' Letter.
Roman Indiction ... l2 Easter Sunday Anril 16

Solar Cyci
Dominic*
Roman It
Julian Pei
Septaagesi
Quinquago
Sunday
Ash Wedn
The yew
The yew
1854.

15 Palm Sunday April 9
1 Letter . .. A. Good Friday April 14
adictlon ..... ... 12 Easter Sunday April 16
riod. 6567 Low Sunday April 23
;ima Sunday, Feb.l2 Ascension !Day May 25
;esitna, or Shrove Whit Sunday June 4
Eeb. 26 Trinity Sunday June 11
nesday .. . March 1 First Sunday is Advent, Dec. 3
in 5615 of ihe.Je.wish Era commences Sept. 23, 1854.
r 1271 of the Makomedan Era commences Sept. 24,

Ramada
coinmenc,

In (month of abstinence observed by the Turks)
!s May 24, 1834.

ECLIPSES OF THE fiUN AND MOON IN 1854.
i.e the year 1854 there will be two Eclipses of the SUIS3, and
two of the Moon.
let.—A partial Eclipse of the Moon, May 12, invisible at
Greenwich.
2nd.--An annular Eclipse of the Bun, May 26th, invisible at
Greenwich.
3rd.—A partial Eclipse of the Moon, Nov. 4th, visible at
Greenwich. Commencement of the Eclipse, Nov. 4th, at
45m. past B afternoon. Middle of the Eclipse, 12m. past 9,
ditto. • End of the Eclipse, 39m. past 9, ditto.
4th.—A total Eclipse of the Sun, Nov. 19th, invisible at
Greenwich.

YEAR'S QUARTERS, 18.54.
Spring Quarter commences March 20, 21m. past 10, P.M.
Summer ditto ditto June 21, Bm. past 1,
Autumn ditto ditto Sept. 23, 13m. past 9, A.M.
Winter ditto ditto Dec. 22, 59m. past 2, A.M.

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
50 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster—taken

THE DERBY, 1854.
6to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat—take 7to 1.
9to 1 Baron Rothschild's King Tom—taken freely
100 to 8 Lord Derby's Dervish—taken.
20 to 1 Mr. J. Adkin's Ruby—taken.
33 to 1 Lord Derby's Boiardo—taken.
100 to 3 Mr. Knowles's Marsyas—taken, aft. off.
40 to 1 Mr. Greville's Bessus—taken.
Dervish is in better odour than he was.

•-•.,a•-•

The Torquay Steeple Chases are fixed for the 15th Feb.
The Duke of Richmond has disposed of his brood mares to
M,s!t. Lupin, of. France. _

,
The brown co`t by Touchstone out of Rowena, first called
Wamba, is now called Rotheram.
The Oundle Grand Stee,ile Chase, with 100 soya. Added, and
the Free Handicap, close on Thursdsy next, the 29th inst.
Died, on the 14th inst., at his father's, near Cheltenham,
Charles Collingbourne, the steeple chase rider, aged 22, from
fever, taken by him at the late Cowbridge Race Meeting.
A few d..ys ago, Mr. Robinson's groom, whilst riding Car-
nabiensis, put him at some timber, in which his legs became
so curiously entangled that the wood had to be sawn before
he could be extricated. The horse has been rendered valueless.
A bay colt by Young Cotherstone (by Cotherstone out of
Lille) out of Mr. I isle's Miss Orbell, has been named Bay
Cotherstone. Mr. Lisle has named his hay twn year old colt
by Touchstone out of Breastgirth, Gladstone. Young Cother-
stone has been sold to go to Australia.

Sir James Boswell has resold the Red Lion to Mr. Thomas
Dawson, and has bought his bay colt Tommy (described as
Tom) by Malcolm out of Rockeda, by Bay Middleton, grand.
dam Hambletonis, by Stamford, the dam of Sir James's
celebrated old horse General Chas6e. He remains in Daw-
son's stables.

The Bey of Tunis, who has the reputation of being one of
the four best chess players in the world (writes the Paris cor-
respondent), has challenged the Chess Club of our Passage
Jouffroy to a rubber game for .t'l,ooo sterling. The first game
has already begun. The club drew the first move.—Daily
News.

The committee of the Cheltenham Spring Meeting, assisted
by the secretary, Mr. Sextie, are using every exertion to
render the forthcoming • lat and Steeple Chase Meeting, on
the 12th and 13th of April, a first-rate one. The programme
will be revised, additional sums added to the various stakes,
and every necessary improvement studied to enhance the
character of the sport.
Mr. Edwin James, 42. C., has presented to Mr. John Scott
very elegant piece of plate, in retain. for a horse which Mr.
John Scott sent as a present to the learned gentleman at the
time of the occurrence of his accident. The article is the
work of Messrs. Emmanuel, of Hanover-square, is of silver.
and is a model of the hoof of West Australian—the size of
life—with the figure of a horse in frosted silver upon a surface,
which opens and forms a large snuff-box.
Count Batthyany has given the follooing names to his foals
of 1853 :—Brown colt by Surplice out of Calm, by Sheet
Anchor, Peaceful ; bay colt by Surplice out of Clemency, by
Lanercoat, Absolution ; black filly by Robert tie Gorham out
of Pergularia, Coal Black Rose; bay or brown filly by Don
John out of Rebecca, by Comus, The Maid of Judah.
Yearlings of 1853 :—Chesnut colt by Col lingwood out of But-
tress, Wooden Wall ; brown colt by Van Tromp out of Calm,
by Sheet Anchor, Dutch Tar; black filly by Launcetot out of
Yarico, Cacique; brown filly by Launcelot out of Whim, by
Voltaire, Whimsical.

THE CHASE,

THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS MEET

To-morrow, (Wednesday,) 28th, at
Thursday, 29th
Saturday, 315 t....
Monday, January 2nd ...
Wednesday, 4th
Thursday, sth
Saturday, 7th
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 28th, at ...
Thursday, 29th
Saturday, 31st ..

...Twemlow Hall
Mere
Norton Priory
Peckforton Point
Saighton
Tarporley
Whatcroft

Ha Iston
Ligh twood Green
Iscoyd

- Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 28th, at Dilhdfn
Friday, 30th Whitmore Station
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.