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Ham Gravy: Cut the slices of har

Ham Gravy: Cut the slices OF ham
into strips and boil in sufficient water
for gravy; when tender add salt and
pepper and thickening made from one
egg well beaten, four tablespoonful OF
sweet milk OF cream, and one table
spoonful of our.-Ladies' World.
Chocolate Filling: Boil together two
cupfuls of white sugar and two thirds
of cupful of sweet milk or water, un-
til it is "ropy." Then remove from the
fire and stir constantly until cool The
grated square of chocolate may be
stirred through the frosting or sprinkled
over each layer of cake.-Housekeeper.
Tomato Soup: Boil a pint of canned
tomatoes. Ten minutes before wanted,
cook tablespoon each of butter and
flour in skillet without browning,
stirring all the time. Add the toma-
toes, in which have been placed small
pinch of soda, pint or more OF rich,
sweet milk, salt and pepper, and serve.
-Housekeeper
Charlotte Russo: Take pint OF
rich milk and soak third of box Of
gelatine in it. Make a pint of egg Gus
tard, flavor with a tea-spoonful OF
| extract of vanilla, add the gela-
tine when cool and thick, stir in pint
of whipped cream. Line a mold with
slices of stale sponge cake, pour in the
mixture and set on ice to harden
| Woman's Journal.
Plain Cookies: Two eggs, one and
one-half cups of sugar, one cup of but,
ter Tor half cup each of lard and but
teri, one-half cup of cold water, one
small teaspoonful of soda; flavor ia
taste. If it is desired to make them
soft, thick cookies, mix in only enough
flour to handle the dough, and roll out
thick; if wanted thin and crisp, mould
stiff with -four and roll out thin.-La
dies World.
Plain Welsh Rarebit: Put into the
chafing-dish one pound of grated cheese
English dairy cheese is recommended
one tablespoonful of butter, a quarter
of tablespoonful of salt, goodly
quantity Of pepper or one-eighth of q
teaspoonful of red pepper; stir the in
gradients and as soon as the cheese be
gins to boil add a Tablespoonful o.
tomato catsup. Serve ON buttered toast
IN. Y. Observer.
Sponge Cake: Take ten eggs, theil
weight in sugar, half their weight il
flour, two teaspoonfuls each of vanill;
extract and lemon juice, pinch o
salt; beat together the sugar and tn,
yolks of the eggs; beat the whites til
they stand alone; mix the whites will
the yolks, add the favoring, then tn
flour, work as quickly as possible. Pu
into pans, and bake in an oven not to-
hot.-Harper's Bazaar.
Columbian Pudding: Boil teacup
full of milk, and when partly cool flavo
highly with vanilla. Slice thin and la,
in deep dish half pound of almon,
sponge cake. Pour over it the hot mill
and quart of cream. Add two ounce
of pounded almonds, half a pound O
pulverized sugar and half a dozen well
beaten eggs. Stir these in lightly, AM
at once place in a moderate oven an
bake to delicate brown. Eat with
hot sauce or whipped cream.-Orang
Judd Farmer.
-Corn-Fritters: If you are tired o
plain canned corn, try these corn-frit
tiers. They are nice for breakfast, TO
lunch, or as side dish for dinner
when the variety of vegetables is small
To one can of corn add one teacupfu
of sweet milk, two eggs, half tea
spoonful of salt, and flour, prepare
with baking-powder, enough to max
very stiff batter. Drop this bate
by spoonfuls into boiling lard or DRIP
pings, and fry the same as doughnuts
Farm and Fireside.
Poisoning by Ivy: I have found
free use of cold water to be the hes
remedy for poison vine. Formerly
, suffered long and severely. Now on tn
first appearance. of the poisoning on til
skin, no matter on what part of tn
body, | pour cold water on it unit
thoroughly chilled. On re-appearanc
of the fever or redness with itching,
again douche as fully as at first, and +,
peat if necessary several times. If tn
face is poised lie down and shut tn
eyes, letting another do the pourin
, when the hands have touched the pc
soned skin be sure to wash them {
once: no one need suffer more tina
twenty-four hours who uses cold watt
as above.-Home.