Year: 1874

~ tiDle VI tntefeSt-tne uiuueE
table.


I Mention is made of an inverate
cribber which was effectually cured of
the reprehensible habit by simply
mailing strips of sheep.skin, wool sido
up, on The edges Of the manager and
in every place about the stall where
the horse could get hold with his
teeth.


CHESTNUT CRgAM.-Pound twen.
ty.five roasted chestnuts in mortar
with little milk; then put the paste
50 made into stew-pan with the
yolks of two eggs. half apint of milk,
two ounces of butter, and four oun-
ces of powdered sugar; when it has
boiled a little while strain it put it in
to dish or glass for the table, and let
it cool.


MOUNTAIN CAKE.-Stir TO acream
one cup of butter, and two of white
sugar add the wEite of six eggs bea.
ten TO a stiff froth, one and third
cups of milk, three and a third cups
of sifted -four, half u teaspoonful Of
soda teaspoonful of cream.o of tartar.
Flavor with lemon. Bake in a mod
crate oven. 1t looks well cut in sill
ces.


FRICAssEE OF COLD ROAST BEEF.
Cut the beef into very thin slices.
season it with little pepper and salt,
shred 4 bunch of parsley very small.
cut an onion into pieces, and put all
together into stew-pan with piece
of butter and three-quarters of pint
of good broth. Let all simmer slow.
ly, then stir in the yolks of two well
beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of vinegar.
or Juice of hall lemon, and wine
glass of port wine. Stir it briskly
over the fire, and turn the fricassee
into hot dish If the favor of shal
OF is liked, the di.h can be previous
ly rubbed with one


IcING FOR Ks.-Whisk the
whites of seven eggs until they stand
alone and are perfectly dry. Have
ready sifted and pulverized one and
a half pounds of the finest white SUI
gar. Add enc tablespoonful of this
to the eggs at a time, beating contin.
ually till all is consumed Add t..
blcspooniul of any extract YOU fancy
rose lemon or vanilla is best. II
properly beaten, the icing will hardly
run at all, and will dry in few
hours in q warm place. Dissolve
very little gum arabic or gum traga
canth, and add to keep the Icing
from peeling uif when the cake is cut,
as it would otherwise do.


SMOKED BEEF wtTH Eads. Cut
some smoked beef in thin shavings or
chips, put them into 4 frying pan,
and nearly gil it with hot water, set
it on the fire AMI let it boil up once.
then pom il off; add to the beef
good bit Of lard, twice the size Of an
egg, for half n pound of the beef.
shake little pepper over and let it
fry for few minutes over quick
fire then break two or three or more
eggs into it, stir them together until
the eggs arc done, then turn it on to IL
dish,


Or after frying the beef with Il
little wheat flour drcdged over, fry
eggs, ard serve with it the same NJ
ham.


To PREPARE .S;n.vERING How
often the quicksilver on the back Of
looking glasses get rubbed oil in spots
An easy way to repair it is to clean
the bare portion Of the glass by rub
bing it gently with fine cotton, taking
care 20 remove all dust and grease.
With the point of a knife cut from
the back ofanother lass a portion Of
the silvering of the required form,
but a little larger. Place drop Of
mercury upon it, This spreads anil
presently the picc1 Of amalgam may
be lifted up with the blade o: knife
and transferred to the place to be re-
paired. Press it with p.ece Of col.
ton wool. 1t hardlens speedily aud
the patch is as good as ary other part
Of the mirror.


WEDDING CAKE.-One pound Of
-four, nine eggs, the whites aud yolks
beaten separately, one pound Of but
ter beaten TO cream, one pound Of
sugar, one teacup Of molasscs, nut
megs grated, or ground mace, ouo
ounce, one teaspooful Of ground all
spice, one teaspoonful OF cinnamon
and a gil of brandy beat this mix
ture well.


Having picked, washed and dried
three pounds of currants, and stoned
and cut in Two three pounds OF raj
sins, strcw half "A pound OF -four over
them, mix it well tn ough and stir
them with pound Of citron cut in
strips into the cake.


Line round tin pans with butterei
paper, put the mixture in an inch
and halt or two inches deep, and
bake IN moderate oven an hour and
a halt or two hours. Ice the cake. -
Yqnkce Cook Book.