Year: 1879

To MAKE CURRAKT JELLY The our rants should be ripe and fresh picked put them on the fire with only water enough to prevent burning; let them stew gently till they turn white strain them through sieve to one pint of juice add a pound of sugar; boil 1t half an hour, then put spoonful on plate and set on ice or where 1t will cool. If boiled sufficiently it will stiffen in five minutes. If it does not stiffen, boil longer and try it every five min utes. When done, strain through very fine sieve, or coarse muslin, into glass jars. Set them in the sun two days, then paste writing paper over them and cover the paper with the white of an egg.

 Lard requires no other care than to be kept in a dry, cool place. Pack butter in clean, scalded tirkin 1; cover it with a strong brine and spread a cloth all over the top. If you have bit of saltpeter dissolve 1t with the brine. Butter comes more easily and has a peculiar hardness and sweetness, if the cream is scalded and strained before it is used. The cream should stand down cellar over night, after be- ing scalded, that 1t may get perfectly cold.

 BLACKBERRY CORDIAL. = Take the ripest blackberries, mash them, put them in linen bag and squeeze out the juice. To every quart of juice allow one pound of beaten loaf sugar. Put the sugar into large porcelain kettle and pour the juice on. When 1t IS all melted set it on the fire and boil to thin jelly. When cold add quart of k< rf 0f tie. Fit to use at once.

 BAKED INDIAN PUDDING.-Put half a pint of sweet milk and the same of water into tin pan or basin, and when 1t boils stir in 0 cup of Indian meal, wet up with little water and teaspoontul of salt remove from the fire and add pint of cold sweet milk, four beaten eggs, a cup of sugar and any seasoning you like stir well bake in deep dish half or three-quarters of an hour.

 POTATO SoUP.-Boil two or three pounds of potatoes, mash them well, add slowly good broth, sufficient for your tureen let this boil well, and then add some spinach. sorrel, little parsley, lemon, thyme. mint and sage, all chopped fine. Boil all five minutess pepper and salt to taste. Just before 4b On bA0 AIOS aSA0 tWO WCA- ---0--~ en eggs.

 BLACK D-BLUE.-A black-and blue spot is neither pretty nor pleasant, and there is no reason why any small boy should be disfgured with one, unless he likes it as an evidence of his war-hke propensities. As soon as he comes in crying, because Tommy hit him, cover the mark with moistened starch and it will immediately disappear. BLACKBERRY WNE.-Mash the Der ries and add one quart of boiling water to each gallon. Let the mixture stand twenty four hours, stirring occasion ally then strain the measure, adding two pounds of sugar and one pint of good rye whisky to each gallon. Bottle and cork tight. Fit for use in three months.

 PRESERVING STRAwBERRIEs.-To pre- serve strawberries and make them re- tain their color, put in plenty of sugar, as much as you would use for the table, and when canned they will retain both color and flavor.

 BLACKBERRY PIE.-Fill the dish not quite even full and add four table spoons of sugar to each pie Sprinkle little four on top, then put on the top crust and press around the edge.