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Nix mustard plaster with the white OF
an egg instead of hot water, and 1t viii
not raise blister.
FRUIT CAKE.-5 cups flour, 8 of sugar,
u cups Of butter, II cups VAIN sour milk,
2 eggs, glass of wine, either Sicily or
Madeira, teaspoonful saleratus, s nut
megs, pound Of currants, ! pound of
chopped raisins, as also ! pound of citron.
BRAcKETs.-Pretty brackets can be made
by any boy or girl who is handy with a
penknife, from cigar boxes, soaking them
first TO make the wood soft and prevent its
splitting, while a few dimes will buy
pretty figures in Parian marble or plaster
of Paris, to put upon them.
TOMATOES AU GRATIN.-Cut 6 tomatoes
in halves, fill the insides with stufting of
bread-crumbs, pepper and salt: place
small piece of butter Upon each half to-
mato and lay them close together in we'll
buttered tin. Bake in slow oven about
hour. They are good either hot or cold.
PULVER1zED ALUM possesses the prop
erty of purifying water. a tablespoonful
sprinkled into hogsbead of water tthe
water being stirred at the time) will, after
the lapse of few hours, by precipitating
to the bottom the impure particles, so pur-
ify it that it will be found to possess all the
freshness and clearness ofthe finest spring
water. A single teaspoonful will purify
a pailful containing four gallons.
To Cook SWEET APPLEs.-A tery nice
way of treating sweet apples is to stew
them in a nice porcelain kettle, adding
exactly enough mOlasses and water TO
prevent their burning, till cooked through,
i 4l.a,. %,.a,x cfnr f6nr, 70 hn WI
all the liquid residuum, to dry and brown.
This gives baked apple, half jelled, deli
eious In flavor and moisture, that any one
can love and long for.
ORANGE CAKE.-5 eggs, the whites to be
used fer frosting; 2 cups of white sugar ;
tablespoonful of butter; ] pint of sweet
milk; II teaspoonfuls of baking powder +;
81 cups of flour; the juice of l orange.
Bake in 4 cakes. Put frosting between,
and sprinkle the grated orange peel On 1t.
Frost the top. Extra.
RHEUMATIC LINIMENT.-l ounce oflaud-
anum, ! ounce oil of hemlock, / ounce
camphor, 1 pint of alcohol. This is ex-
ceilent. For simple rheumatic pains
make flannel bag, filling it with srnica
blows and dip the bag in hot water and
wiring dry, applying to the place as hot as
can be borne.
CHESTNUT SAUCE.-You can take the
very large Spanish chestnuts, cut slice
in the side of each and roast them well
Peel the nuts and put them into a sauce
pan of rich melted butter. If you use
American chestnuts, boil them till quite
soft trying a few TO asCertain) then pee
them and thicken your melted butter witt
them. American chestnuts are too small
to roast.
SUET APPLE DUMPLINGs.-Chop about ;
pound of suet very fine. Add little salt
and flour enough to make dough, wheI
wet up with cold water. Knead them a
little as possible-only enough to rol
them out and cut them. Pare, core ant
quarter tart apples. Cover each apple Will
dough and wrap white cloth about it, frs
wetting the cloth in hot water. Pin eacl
dumping tightly up, and drop them int
boiling water. Do not let them cease boil
ing until done. An hours time is ample
Make a sweet sauce for them, or eat butte
and sugar upon them. When cold thes
dumplings are quite hard, but ittl
while in the steamer makes them as mic
as at first.