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Breakfast Cakes. Crate cold, dry.

Breakfast Cakes. Crate cold, dry
biscuits until you have pint OF
crumbs; but them in bowl and pour
over them one pint of fresh milk.
Separate the whites and yelks of three
eggs, and beat very light. Sift into
the bowl half pint or flour, add half
tea-spoonful of salt and half gill
of melted lard. Mix perfectly smooth.
If more milk is needed add it as the
batter should be as thick as buttermilk,
Stir in the egg yelks, and when you
are ready to cook the cakes stir the
whites in thoroughly. Have the grid
die very hot, grease well with pure
lard, cook quickly, butter well, and
eat at once. These are delicious.-La-
dies Home Journal. .rs
Washing Soda.-After all the pow
ders are tried, genuine house-keepers
are quite likely to go back to the old
fashioned washing soda for cleaning.
floors, sinks, iron and other metal
work. There is nothing that remove
impurities so rapidly as boiling hot
soda and water, applied with long
handled scrubbing brush and rinsed
off at once with clear water and dried
with clean cloth. A large lump Of
soda melted over the drain in the sink
keeps the pire clear from grease.
While soda is q scrubber's main depen.
dence, it should never be used by the
laundress, as it seriously Injuries
cloth.
Sawdust for Bedding.-C. L. Harts-;
horn uses sawdust for bedding, and
thinks it better than straw, says the
New England Homestead. He always
buys all the fine-faDged horse manure
that he can, because it is cheap, and
makes good absorbent for the liquid
manure and good bedding for the.
cattle. He has used commercial fer
tiliZer in connection with stale manruea
at profit. With shovelful Of coal
ashes in each squash hill, he has raised
a crop since with very little trouble
from grubs or maggots at the roots.
Macaroni and Tomatoe. Soak cup
full of macaroni, broken up, in cold
water for an hour. Then put it over
the fire in plenty of salted water ard
boil twenty minutes or till tender!i
Drain through colander and put in a
covered dish, strain a quart of boiled
tomatoes, return to the pan, and thick,
en-, with half cupful of butter, cream
ed and mixed with two heaping tea,
spoonful of flour; boil till smooth and
season with salt and pepper. Serve;
in small tureen or gravy boat. Help
the macaroni in soup plates and pour
over each plateful enough Of the sauce
to dress it.. z
Potato Omler.--Large cup of mash.
ed potatoes. three eggs, tea.cupof sweet
milk, very little sifted -four, teaspoon
full salt, a little chopped parsley. Beat.
the whites and yelks separately till
very light. Mix thoroughly, turn into
q buttered spider and brown lightly
Invert into a hot plate and serve hot:
Nice for tea.-.-W oman's Work. ~
Rose Geranium FIavoring.-This is
used for any kind of loaf cake that
that has no fruit in il. Wash three
leaves of geranium for each loaf, lay
them in the bottom of the cake pan,
and cover with bIttered paper On8
this pour the cake and bake. The
heat will cause the flavor of the leaves
to penetrate the loaf.
Welch Rarebit.-Take square slices
of stale, light bread, without crust;
butter them, and dip in bowl of hot
water Lay on heated dish, and set
to keep warm. Put half pint of
milk in small saucepan; stand itov-i
er moderate fire: when boiling add
half-pint of grated or crumbed cheese,
and stir until it melts, season with
little salt and pepper, add the yelks of
two eggs, stir and pour over the toast.
The mixture should not be tough or
stgingy.-The Farm and Fireside. "a
The Heifer's First Cali. 1T has been
suggested as being adventurous to have,
a heifer drop her first calfin the gpring
just as the fresh grass is starting. This
kind of food is good for her health,
and it stimulates milk section. Wheat
bran and corn.meal are help, but
be very careful with the corn-meal at
first, lest it cause feverish condition;
Begin with bran, and after q little
keep adding cornmeal until itequals
in weight the bran. ~. gl
Fruit Pudding.-Toast and butter
slices of bread, pour over it hot stewed
fruit, having alternate layers of fruit
and bread with layer Of fruit on top.
Serve cold with cream and sugar..
Any kind of small fruit, fresh or dried,
can be used. These puddings will not
disagree with even delicate stom-
ach. -
Cheese Patties.-roll out puff paste
quite thin; strew over it some good
grated cheese, and fold it over; repeat
this three times, rolling it out each
time; then cut the paste into squares or
fancy forms, brush them oyer with
the yelk of well-beaten egg and bake
in quick oven about fifteen minutes.
To be served in a hot napkin when;
done and eaten at once.
For Wounds.-The aching and stiff
ness caused by wounds can be relieved
by holding the wound over the smoke
of burning sugar. Put some live Goals
on shovel, pour on them tablespoon
full of sugar, and hold the wound over
the smoke. Perhaps this is "mind
cure,n but we have seen persons relie-
we'd by this simple remedy.
How to Eat Radishes.
Everybody knows how to- eat rad
ishes raw with salt. But here is plan
by which O delicious breakfast dish
can be made of them: Select some
Young round radishes, boil them for
twenty minutes and serve with hot
buttered toast.
Burning Feet.