The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-03-31
HOUSE AND FARt,I.
Hints and Recipes.

Hints and kcclpeS.
CoCoANUr rCook1Es.-Two cups of sugar
one cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful
soda dissolved in il te.spoonful OF milk, one
cocoanut and flour enough to roll.
CHoCoLANE CARAMELs.--Take of grated
chocolate, milk, lnolasses, and sugar, each
one cupful, and piece Of butter the size
of an egg; boil until it will harden when
dropped into cold water; add vanilla; put
in :. buttered pan, and before it cools, mark
Oft in square blocks.
A sewing machine weighing four tons
the largest in the world, and driven by
steam-has been introduced into one Of
the great Liverpool establishments for
manufacturing cotton betting The MATER
i'll used for the latter is of great strength
and toughness, and is sewed together in
plies or layers up to all inch in thickness.
FLOATING IsLAND.-Sweeten pint of
thick cream with white sugar, CRATE IN the
peel Of one lemon; whip it to a froth; pour
a pint of thick cream into china dish, lay
sponge cake in thin slices over it lightly,
then a layer Of some kind of jelly, then pour
the whipped cream on top, and pour what
remains into the bottom of the dish. Garn-
ish the rim with sweetmeats.
ORANGE PIE OR PUDD1NG.-One pound
Of butter, one pound Of sugar beaten to a
cream, one glass Of brandy, wine, or rose
water, ten eggs beaten to high froth; have
two oranges and boil the rind until it is ten
der; change the water two or three times
while it is boiling, then beat it in a mortar
and squeeze::the juice in together with the
rind of one lemon grated and the Juice of
the same; mix all we'll together with the
other ingredients, and bake in a puff paste
without an upper crust; half this quantity
is sufficient for two ordinary sized pies.
The last number of Harper's Bazaar
shows pictorially that the feminine dress so
nearly approaches the masculine that it is
hard to tell which is which. Speaker
Sharpe, of the New York Assembly, thought
a gentleman was wearing his hat in tile
gallery. He ordered the hat off. He was
mortified to find that the hat was Derby
and that the wearer was a lady. A sharper
man than Sharpe might have been similar
ly misled.
To BLEACH CLOTH: Into eight quarts of
warm water put one pound Of chloride of
lime; stir with stick few minutes, then
strain through bag of coarse muslin, work.
ing it with the hand to dissolve thoroughly.
Add to this five buckets of warm water. stir
it we'll and put in the muslin. Let it re-
main in one hour, turning it occasionally
that every part may get thoroughly bleach
ed. When taken out, wash well in two
waters to remove the lime, rinse and dry.
This quantity will bleach twenty-five yards
of yardwide muslin. The muslin will
bleach more evenly and quickly if it has
been thoroughly wet and dried before
bleaching.
There is one point Of etiquette which
many women-even well-bred women-fail
to observe, and that is not to allow some
trifling payment of a car fare, or an ice, to
be made by a gentleman acquaintance or
friend whom chance or convenience has
brought in the way. Nowomen Of true self
respect will allow her bills, large or small,
to be paid by any person except one who
may have the right Of father, brother Or hus-
band to do so. Of course, when gentle
man especially invites lady, presumably
for his pleasure, this rule does not hold.
But it is point girls should make in any
chance encounter Of gentleman friends, and
which, often from innocent ignorance, they
fail to observe.