Year: 1879

Domestic Receipts,


Chocolate For Cake.-The whites of
three eggs. one and one-half cups of SUI
gar, three tablespoonfuls of grated choco-
late, one teaspoonful vanilla. seass .....


Chill Sauce Twelve large, rlpc toma-
toes, four ripe p1ppins, two large onions,
two tablespoonfuls of salt, two of sugar,
one of cinnamon, three cups of cider vine
gar. Chop all fine and boil an hour.
Bottle for use. .1.


Cream Pie( (Fine) ).-One-half pound
butter, four eggs, sugar, salt, and nutmeg
to your taste, and two tablespoonfuls Of
arrow root. Wet with cold milk; pour
on it, quart Of boiling milk, and stir
the whole together. To be baked in
deep dish.


New Kettles.-To remove iron tasty
from new kettles, boil handful of hae
in them, and repeat the process if neces-
sary. Hay water is great sweetner of
tin, wooden and iron ware. In Irish dai-
ries everything used for milk is scalded
with hay water.


Cup Pudding-Three eggs, their
weight in flour, butter, and sugar; whip
the eggs well separated y, and the butter
to cream, then stir in the -four gently,
and mix all together. Bake it twenty
minutes in small pudding cups. They
may he favored with bitter almond or
lemon-peel. Served with wine sauce.


To Remove Dampness.-For a damp
closet or cupboard, which is liable to
cause mildew, place in it SANGER full of
quick lime, and it will not only absorb
all apparent dampness, but sweeten and
disinfect the the space. Renew the lime
once fortnight; If the place be very
lamp, renew it as often as it becomes
slaked.


Blackberry Cordial.-Take the ripest
blaekberries, mush 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 a
large porcelain kettle and pour the juice
on. When it is all melted, set it on the
fire and boil to thin jelly. When cold
add quart of brandy to every quart of
juice and bottle. Fit to use at once.


Simple Treatment For Sciatica.--The
Brussels Medical Journal gives, on the
authority of DR.. Ebrard, Of Mines, this
method of curing sciatica and neuralgia
pains. Heat t1atiron sufficiently hot
to vaporize vinegar, wrap in woolen
clotn moistened with vinegar, apply as
warm as can be borne to the painful spot,
two or three times day. AS rule, the
pain disappears within twenty-four hours,
and recovery is rapid.


Eggs in Case of Trouble.-Thc white
of an egg is said to be specific for fish
bones sticking in the throat. It is to be
swallowed raw, and will carry down a
bone easily and certainly. There IS an
other fact concerning eggs which it will
be we'll to remember. When, as some
times by accident, corrosive sublimate is
swallowed, the white Of one or two eggs
taken Wilt neutralize the poison and
change the effect to dose of calomel.


Custard Pudding.-Into half pint of
milk, put the peel of half a lemon very
finely shred; when It boils, put in an
ounce of lump sugar, take out the peel,
and pour the milk on two eggs we'll beat
en-. Put the custard into a basin or tart
dish, and set it in saucepan with boiling
water reaching only half way up the ba-
sin. Do not let the water boil, but keep
it just bubbling. In about twenty min
utes the custard should be set. 1t may
be eaten either hot or cold, and any flavor
may be substituted for that of lemon-peel.


jaw.-Having lately seen accounts
of several cases of lockjaw, resulting from
injuries by stepping on rusty nails, g., !
send you remedy which has been known
to prevent this painful disease in several
instances: Take a red-hot coal from the
fire and pour sweet oil (olive oiD on it.;
then hold the wounded part over the
thick smoke as near as possible without
burning. It will be necessary to repeat
| the operation two or three times a day.
This remedy has been known to cure after
the jaws had commenced to get stiff. D


Bartlett Pears, Canned First prepare
a syrup; allow one pint of water and a
quarter pound of W hite sugar to every
quart of pears; while the syrup is heat
ing peel the pears; drop each piece as it
is pared into clear cold water; this is done
to keep them from changing color; when
the syrup has come to hard boil, drop
in the fruit carefully, so as not to bruise
boil until they look clear, and can be
easily pierced with folk have your cans
tolled in hot water; fill them with the
scalding fruit to overhowing; keep them
on the fire ali the while and seal. Com
mon pears require different treatment
they must be boiled in water until ten
der, then boiled ten minutes in the syru1
before canning.


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