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PAO& . 58 • 11 . 58 . . 126 126 i27 · 127 . 127 127 127 128 . . . 128 . . . 128 129 129 130 130 130 . . . 130 131 PAGE latroduction . . . . . . 9 A Nice Breakfast Dish Hints on Marketing . . . . . 11 (hicken in Jelly Rules for Eating . . . A Good Dish . . . . How to Select Meat . How to Select Fish . . CAKES. How to Select Poultry .. White Lady Cake . . . . How to Select Game Macaroons . . . . Carving . . . . . . . 16 Almond Icing . . To Make Icing for Cakes BREAD AND BREAKFAST DISHES. Loaf Cake . . . Plain White Family Bread . . . Rich Bride Cake .. Graham Bread . 94 Lady Fingers . . . . . Boston Brown Bread Queen Cake . . . . . Corn bread . . . Chocolate Macaroons Steamed Brown Bread Caramel Cake . .. Parker House Rolls Pound Cake . . . French Rolls . Cocoanut Sponge Cake . . Buns . Cocoanut Pound Cake Biscuits Cocoanut Cup Cake . . . To Make Rusks . Cocoanut Drops . . Sweet Milk Gems . Citron Heart Cakes Breakfast Gems . . . . . Imperial Cakes . . 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The Account of the Finnegan Asso- ciation, which has its rooms in the Italian quarter and whose president sleeps in a city stable, is one of the funniest things ever written. The meetings of the association are side-splitting; the slang, the rough wit, the genuine humor, the debates will make you laugh, whether you want to or not. Katie Finnegan is a character worthy of the por- trayal of a master hand. The author has the genius of a Balzac or a Hugo in making you see the people she writes about. “Souls In Pawn” is a veritable drama of real life and it couches your emotions and wins your heart. It is strong, pure, sweet and Full of Sensations. The kind of sensa- tions that makes your blood tingle as if touched by an electric whip. Thackeray or Dickens never pictured a heroine as beauti- ful and winsome and true as Katherine Irving, the principal character in “Souls In Pawn." No writer has ever described life in Sing Sing prison, that haven for paralyzed souls, or Bellevue Hospital, that great Castle- prison of wretchedness, as the author of Souls In Pawn” has in this fascinating book. It Paints and Exposes Hypocrites. “Souls In Pawn” is a book for reformers. IT HAS 808 PAGES. Bound in best English cloth. MAILED POSTPAID ON RECEIPT OF PRICE, $1.25. Home Life Publishing Co., 150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. Agents Wanted. INDEX. . 136 136 136 136 143 • 137 137 143 143 137 144 168 168 145 C 168 168 168 PAGE PAGB Nell's Chocolate Cake . . . . 136 Lemon Trifle .:. . . . . 141 Chocolate Loaf Cake. . Floating Island . . 141 Rice Cake. . i 136 Apple Snow . . . 142 Cream Cake. .. Tropical Snow .. . 142 Sponge Cake . Swiss Cream . • 142 Doughnuts . . . . . . 142 . Italian Cream . Coffee Cake . . . . 137 . . Whipped Cream Spice Cake . . . Tipsy Cake . . . 143 Soft Ginger Bread . 137 Snow Pyramids . 143 . Sweet Strawberry Short Cake . . An Excellent Dessert . Ginger Nuts . . . . 137 Apple Fritters .. Ribbon Cake Jelly Cake Fritters Jelly Roll . 138 Peach Meringue . . . . . Delicate Crullers . . . . . . 138 Charlotte Russe . . . 144 Jellied Grapes . . COSMETIQUES. Jelly and Custard . . 145 Complexion Wash . . . Lemon Toast 145 . . . . . Dish of Snow Whipped Cream . . . To Clear a Tanned Skin Omelet for Dessert . Oil To Make the Hair Curl . . . Jelly Fritters Wrinkles in the Skin .. Pearl Water for the Face . 168 FISH. Pearl Dentifrice. . . 168 Wash for a Blotched Face . Boiled Salmon . . . . . . Face Powder . :. : Broiled Salmon : : 168 A Good Wash for the Hair 169 Baked Salmon . .. Salmon Trout DRINKS. Spiced Salmon (Pickled) To Make Green Tea Salmon and Caper Sauce. . 160 To Make Black Tea . Salmon Cutlets. . . . . . . Iced Tea . Dried or Smoked Salmon ". o . . 160 Coffee . Boiled Cod. . . . 160 Cod Pie . . Chocolate . . . .. Dried Codfish 161 . Lemon Syrup . Stewed Salt Cod . . Strawberry Syrup . . . . . 161 . Raspberry Syrup . Cousin Kate's Codfish Balls 161 Codfish Cakes . Strawberry Sherbet. . . . Boiled Bass . . . Raspberry Vinegar . . . 162 Fried Bass . . . . . Lemonade . . To Fry or Broil Fish Properly Egg Nogg . . . . 162 Baked Black Bass Raisin Wine . . . . .. 162 Currant Wine . Broiled Mackerel . . 162 Salt Mackerel with Cream Sauce Ginger Wine . . Boiled Eels Fine Milk Punch . Claret Cup . . 163 Fricasseed Eels . . . . . Roman Punch. . 163 Fried Eels . . . . . . . Collared Eels. Cream Nectar . .. 163 Fried Trout . . Red Currant Cordial 163 Trout in Jelly (er uther Fish) Elderberry Syrup · · · · · 163 Boiled Trout . . . Broiled Trout . DESSERT AND TEA DISHES. . . . Baked Haddock . Boiled Custard. 139 Curried Haddock. .. Lemon Custard . 139 Rizzared Haddock . . Snow Custard . 139 Broiled White Fish (Fresh) Tapioca Custard . Baked White Fish Blanc Mange . . 140 To Select Lobsters Ivory Blanc Mange . . 140 Boiled Lobsters . . . Rice Blanc Mange . . . . . 140 Curried Lobsters Apple Trifle . . . . . . . 141' Lobster Chowder . . . . . 160 160 • 161 162 163 140 INDEX. PAGE . 39 39 · 41 . 41 41 42 . 42 156 158 PAGE Chowder . . . . To Boil Corned Beef . . . 39 ro Fry Smelts . . A Nice Way to Serve Coid Beef To Bake Smelts . . 39 Spiced Beef . Red Herrings or Yarmouth Bloaters Broiled Beefsteak Potted Fish Fried Beefsteak . . . . . . Beefsteak Pie Oysters on the Shell. . Oysters Stewed with Milk . . . . Boiled Leg of Mutton Roast Loin of Mutton Oysters Fried in Butter . . Oysters Scalloped . . . Broiled Mutton Chops . Oysters Fried . . . . Mutton Chop, Fried Oyster Patties Roast Forequarter of Lamb Oysters Broiled ... . Lambs' Sweet Breads Clam Fritters To Roast Veal . . Clams, Soft Shelled . .. Veal Chops . Veal Cutlets . To Broil Soft Shell Clams Clam Chowder . Stuffed Fillet of Veal with Bacon . . . i 42 Veal Cake . · ICES, ICE-CREAM, CANDY. Veal Pie. Boiled Calf's Head . .. Currant Ice 156 Calf s Head Cheese Strawberry or Raspberry Ice . . . Boiled Calf's Feet, Parsley and Butter. Orange and Lemon Ices. . 156 Calf's Liver and Bacon. Ice-Cream . . . . . 156 Sweet Breads . . . . Vanilla or Lemon Ice-Cream . 157 Egged Veal Hash Strawberry Ice-Cream . . 157 Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding . Chocolate Ice-Cream . . . 157 Beef Heart, Baked or Roasted Cream Candies . . . . 157 Beef Kidney Pineapple Ice-Cream . . Potted Beef Italian Cream . . . 158 Boiled Tongue To Make Barley Sugar. Fricasseed Tripe. To Make Everton Taffee . 159 Broiled Tripe Cocoanut Drops . . . 159 Roast Rabbit Molasses Candy . . . Stewed Rabbit, Larded Chocolate Caramels . . 159 Fricasseed Rabbit Lemon Candy . . . . A Pretty Dish of Venison . To Broil Venison Steaks INVALID COOKERY. Beefsteak and Kidney Pudding Port Wine Jelly 164 Tapioca Jelly 164 MISCELLANEOUS. Arrowroot Wine Jelly 164 Jellied Chicken . 164 An Excellent Hard Soap . . 169 Chicken Broth To Wash Woolen Blankets 169 To Make Gruel. 165 For Clothes that Fade. 170 Barley Water 165 Lamp Wicks . 170 Arrowroot Blanc Mange 165 To Make Old Crape Look Nearly Equal to Lemonade for Invalids New Mutton Broth . To Clean Kid Gloves Flaxseed Lemonade 166 Stains and Spots 170 Arrowroot 166 To Remove Grease Spots. . 171 Stewed Rabbits in Milk Stains on Marble mi . . Slippery Elm Bark Tea Tb Keep Starch from Sticking 171 Beef Tea . . . . . 167 Paint or Varnish , 172 Egg Wine 167 To Remove Ink from Carpets. 172 Toast Water 167 To Remove Ink from Paper Onion Gruel 167 Ink on Rosewood or Mahogany . 172 Feed for Canary Birds . . 173 MEATS, Coal Fire 173 Roast Beef . . . . . 43 For Cleaning Ink Spots . 173 Round of Beef Boiled . 43 | Polish for Bright Stoves and Steel Articles 173 159 159 164 166 170 170 166 TOOT 166 171 167 . . . 172 INDEX. vii PUDDING SAUCES. Rich Wine Sauce Whipped Cream Sauce Lemon Sauce Jelly Sauce Cabinet Pudd uce Foaming Sauce Spanish Sauce . Hard Sauce. Pudding Sauce Sauce for Plum Pudding Vanilla Sance PAGE 118 118 118 119 119 119 119 119 119 119 120 Canned Peaches. Canned Pears. Canned Plums Canned Currants Canned Pineapple Canned Quinces Canned Tomatoes Canned Corn PAGE 155 155 155 155 155 155 156 156 POULTRY, GAME, Etc.. PASTRY. 120 121 121 121 121 121 . . 122 122 . 123 . Very Good Puff Paste. Plainer Paste Suet Crusts for Pies or P To Ice Pastry To Glaze Pastry. Mince Meat Apple Custard Pie Apple Meringue Pie Apple Pie Lemon Pie Custard Pie Cocoanut Pie Lemon Tarts Pastry Sandwiches Cherry Pie Squash Pie Cream Pie Tartlets Peach Pie. Pumpkin Pie Tart Shells Mince Pies 123 123 Roast Turkey . Boiled Turkey To Roast a Fowl o Boiled Chicken Broiled Chicken Fried Chicken Fricassee of Chicken To Curry Chicken Pressed Chicken Chicken Pot Pie . Chicken Salad . Chicken, Jellied . Chicken Pates Sage and Onion Sta and Pork To Roast a Goose Roast Ducks Roast Pigeons To Make a Bird's N Pigeons in Jelly. Pigeon Pie . . . Wild Ducks .. Roast Wild Duck Wild Turkey To Roast Snipe, woodcock, and Plover. 64 Roast Partridge · · · · .. 68 Roast Quail Roast Prairie Chicken . . . Larded Grouse . . cks 123 . . . 123 124 124 124 124 124 125 125 125 · . 66 66 . . 66 . 125 . PRESERVES, CANNED FRUITS, JELLY. PORK, HAM, Eto. 147 147 US 151 To Preserve Plums Without the Skins 146 To Preserve Purple Plums. 146 Preserved Greengages in Syrup , 147 Preserved Cherries in Syrup Preserved Pears . . Preserved Peaches. 148 Preserved Citron. 148 Crab Apples Preserved 148 Pineapple Preserved . 148 Gooseberry Jam . . 149 Black Currant Jam 149 Raspberry Jam 149 Quince Preserve. . 149 Red Currant Jelly · · 150 Apple Jelly . 150 Black Currant 151 Crab Apple Jelly Other Jellies 151 Wine Jelly 151 Calves' Feet J Orange Marmalade 152 Lemon Marmalade. 152 Quince Marmalade Peach Marmalade 152 Apple Butter , . 152 Lemon Butter .. 53 Peach Butter Apple Ginger (a D Iced Currants To Bottle Fruit Butter To Green Fruit for Preserving'in sugar or Vinegar : : : To Color Preserves 154 To Color Fruit Yellow 154 Canned Strawberries 154 To Choose Pork To Roast a Leg of Pork Pork and Beans . Pork Sausages Pork Chops, Steaks Roast Pig Pigs' Cheek Roast Spare Rib Pork Fritters Baked Ham . To Boil a Ham . To Broil Ham.. Fried Ham and Eggs Ham Toast . Head Cheese Pigs' Feet Soused To Tell Good Eggs .. Keeping Eggs Fresh Poached Eggs Dropped Eggs Stuffed Eggs Eggs a La Suisse . Eggs Brouille . 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Town Views A Photographic Collection of Nero York's Most Beautiful Views. From Original Plates. Compiled and Published by HOME LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 150 Nassau Street, New York. PRICE, 50 CENTS. INTRODUCTION. F ALL the arts upon which the physical well-being of man, in his social state, is dependent, none has been more neglected than that of cookery, though none is more important, for it supplies the very fountain of life. The preparation of human food, so as to make it at once whole- some, nutritive, and agreeable to the palate, has hitherto been beset by imaginary difficulties and strong prejudices. Many persons associate the idea of wealth with culinary perfection; others consider unwholesome, as well as expen- sive, everything that goes beyond the categories of boiling, roasting, and the gridiron. All are aware that wholesome and luxurious cookery is by no means incompatible with lim- ited pecuniary means; whilst in roasted, boiled, and broiled meats, which constitute what is termed true American fare, much that is nutritive and agreeable is often lost for want of skill in preparing them. Food of every description is whole- some and digestible in proportion as it approaches nearer to the state of complete digestion, or, in other words, to that state termed chyme, whence the chyle or milky juice that afterwards forms blood is absorbed, and conveyed to the heart. Now nothing is further from this state than raw meat and raw vegetables. Fire is therefore necessary to soften them, and thereby begin that elaboration which is consum. mated in the stomach. The preparatory process, which forms the cook's art, is more or less perfect in proportion as the ali. ment is softened, without losing any of its juices or flavor- for flavor is not only an agreeable but a necessary accom- paniment to wholesome food. Hence it follows, that meat very much underdone, whether roasted or boiled, is not so wholesome as meat well done but retaining all its juices. And here comes the necessity for the cook’s skill, which is so often at fault even in these simple modes of preparing human nourishment. INTRODUCTION. Pork, veal, lamb, and all young meats, when not thoroughly cooked, are absolute poison to the stomach; and if half-raw beef or mutton are often eaten with impunity, it must not be inferred that they are wholesome in their semi-crude state, but only less unwholesome than the young meats. Vegetables, also, half done, which is the state in which they are often sent to the table, are productive of great gastric derangement, often of a predisposition to cholera. A great variety of relishing, nutritive, and even elegant dishes, may be prepared from the most homely materials, which may not only be rendered more nourishing, but be made to go much further in a large family than they usually do. The great secret of all cookery, except in roasting and broiling, is a judicious use of butter, flour, and herbs, and the application of a very slow fire-for good cooking requires only gentle simmering, but no boiling up, which only renders the meat hard. Good roasting can only be acquired by prac. tice, and the perfection lies in cooking the whole joint thor oughly without drying up the juice of any part of it. This is also the case with broiling; while a joint under process of boiling, as we have said, should be allowed to simmer gently. With regard to made dishes, as the horrible imitations of French cookery prevalent in America are termed, we must admit that they are very unwholesome. All the juices are boiled out of the meat, which is swimming in a heterogenous compound, disgusting to the sight, and seasoned so strongly with spice and Cayenne pepper enough to inflame the stomach of an ostrich. French cookery is generally mild in seasoning, and free from grease ; it is formed upon the above-stated principle of reducing the aliment as near to the state of chyme as possi- ble, without injury to its nutritive qualities, rendering it at once easy of digestion and pleasant to the taste. la battete HOON HINTS ON MARKETING. In the first place, the housewife ought, where it is possible, to do her marketing herself, and pay ready money for every. thing she purchases. This is the only way in which she can be sure of getting the best goods at the lowest price. We re- peat that this is the only way compatible with economy ; be- cause, if a servant be entrusted with the buying, she will, if she iş not a good judge of the quality of articles, bring home those she can get for the least money (and these are seldom the cheapest); and even if she is a good judge, it is ten to one against her taking the trouble to make a careful selection. When the ready-money system is found inconvenient, and an account is run with a dealer, the mistress of the house ought to have a pass-book in which she should write down all the orders herself, leaving the dealer to fill in only the prices. Where this is not done, and the mistress neglects to compare the pass-book with the goods ordered every time they are brought in, it sometimes happens, either by mistake, or the dishonesty of the dealer, or the servant, that goods are entered which were never ordered, perhaps never had, and that those which were ordered are overcharged; and if these errors are not detected at the time, they are sure to be diffi- cult of adjustment afterwards. For these and other economic reasons, the housewife should avoid running accounts, and pay ready-money. RULES FOR EATING.. DR. HALL, on this important subject, gives the following ad- vice:- 1. Never sit down to table with an anxious or disturbed mind; better a hundred times intermit that meal, for there will then be that much more food in the world for hungrier stomachs than yours; and besides, eating under such circum- stances can only, and will always, prolong and aggravate the condition of things. - 12 - 2. Never sit down to a meal after any intense mental effort, for physical and mental injury are inevitable, and no one has a right to deliberately injure body, mind or estate. 3. Never go to a full table during bodily exhaustion-desig. nated by some as being worn out, tired to death, used up, over done, and the like. The wisest thing to be done under such circumstances is to take a cracker and a cup of warm tea, either black or green, and no more. In ten minutes you. will feel a degree of refreshment and liveliness which will be pleasantly surprising to you; not of the transient kind which a glass of liquor affords, but permanent; but the tea gives present stimulus and a little strength, and before it subsides, nutriment begins to draw from the sugar, and cream, and bread, thus allowing the body gradually, and by safe degrees, to regain its usual vigor. Then, in a couple of hours, a full meal may be taken, provided that it does not bring it later than two hours before sundown; if later, then take nothing for that day in addition to the cracker and tea, and the next day you will feel a freshness and vigor not recently known. No lady will require to be advised a second time, who will conform to the above rules; while it is a fact of no unusual observation among intelligent physicians, that eating heartily, and under bodily exhaustion, is not unfrequently the cause of alarming and painful illness, and sometimes sudden death. These things being so, let every family make it a point to as- semble around the table with kindly feelings--with a cheerful humor, and a courteous spirit; and let that member of it be sent from it in disgrace who presumes to mar the re-union by sullen silence, or impatient look, or angry tone, or complaining tongue. Eat ever in thankful gladness, or away with you to the kitchen, you “ill-tempered thing, that you are.” There was good philosophy in the old-time custom of having a buffoon or music at the dinner-table. HOW TO SELECT MEAT. Ox-BEEF, when it is young, will have a fine open grain, and a good red color; the fat should be white, for when it is of a deep yellow color, the meat is seldom very good. The grain - 14 - to the bone, which, if the ham be well cured, may be draw“ out again without having any of the meat adhering to it, and without your perceiving any disagreeable smell. A short ham is reckoned the best. HOW TO SELECT FISH, TURBOT, which is in season the greater part of the year, should have the underside of a yellowish white, for when it is very transparent, blue, or thin, it is not good; the whole fish should be thick and firm. SALMON should have a fine red flesh and gills; the scales should be bright, and the whole fish firm. Many persons think that salmon is improved by keeping a day or two. CoD should be judged by the redness of the gills, the white. ness, stiffness and firmness of the flesh, and the clear fresh. ness of the eyes; these are the infallible proofs of its being good. The whole fish should be thick and firm. WHITE-FISH may be had good almost throughout the year; but the time in which they are in their prime is early in the year. The white-fish is light and delicate, and in choosing it you must examine whether the fins and flesh be firm. FRESH-WATER FISH may be chosen by similar observations respecting the firmness of the flesh, and the clear appearance of the eyes, as salt-water fish. In a LOBSTER lately caught, you may put the claws in mo- tion by pressing the eyes; but when it has been long caught, the muscular action is not excited. The freshness of boiled lobsters may be determined by the elasticity of the tail, which is flaccid when they have lost any of their wholesomeness. Their goodness, independent of freshness, is determined by their weight. CRABS, too, must be judged of by their weight, for when they prove light, the flesh is generally found to be wasted and watery. If in perfection, the joints of the legs will be stiff, and the body will have an agreeable smell. The eyes, by a dull appearance, betray that the crab has been long caught. - 15 — HOW TO SELECT POULTRY. In the choice of Poultry the age of the bird is the chief point to which you should attend. A young TURKEY has a smooth black leg ; in an old one the legs are rough and reddish. If the bird be fresh killed the eyes will be full and fresh, and the feet moist. Fowls, when they are young, the combs and the legs will be smooth, and rough when they are old. In GEESE, when they are young, the bills and the feet are yellow and have a few hairs upon them, but they are red if the bird be old. The feet of a goose are pliable when the bird is fresh killed, and dry and stiff when it has been killed some time. Geese are called green till they are two or three months old. Ducks should be chosen by the feet, which should be supple; and they should also have a plump and hard breast. The feet of a tame duck are yellowish, those of a wild one, reddish. PIGEONS should always be eaten while they are fresh ; when they look flabby and discolored about the under part, they have been kept 100 long. The feet, like those of poultry, show the age of the bird ; when they are supple, it is young; when stiff. it is old. Tame pigeons are larger than wild ones. HOW TO SELECT GAME. VENISON, when young, will have the fat clear and bright, and this ought also to be of a considerable thickness. When you do not wish to have it in a very high state, a knife plunged into either haunch or the shoulder, and drawn out, will by the smell enable you to judge if the venison be suffi. ciently fresh. With regard to venison, which, as it is not an everyday article of diet, it may be convenient to keep for some time after it has begun to get high or tainted, it is useful to know that animal putrefaction is checked by fresh burnt charcoal ; by means of which, therefore, the venison may be prevented from getting worse, although it cannot be restored to its orig. inal freshness. The meat should be placed in a hollow dish, - 16 - and the charcoal powder strewed over it until it covers the joint to the thickness of half an inch. HARES and RABBITS, when the ears are dry and tough, the haunch thick, and the claws blunt and rugged, they are old. Smooth and sharp claws, ears that readily tear, and a narrow cleft in the lip, are the marks of a young hare. Hares may be kept for some time after they have been killed ; indeed, many people think they are not fit for the table until the in- side begins to turn a little. Care, however, should be taken to prevent the inside from becoming musty, which would spoil the flavor of the stuffing. PARTRIDGES have yellow legs and a dark-colored bill when young. They are not in season till after the first of September. CARVING. THE seat for the carver should be somewhat elevated above the other chairs; it is extremely ungraceful to carve standing, and it is rarely done by any person accustomed to the business. Carving depends more on skill than on strength. We have seen very small women carve admirably sitting down; and very tall men who knew not how to cut a piece of beefsteak without rising on their feet to do it. . The carving-knife should be very sharp, and not heavy; and it should be held firmly in the hand; also the dish should be not too far from the carver. It is customary to help the fish with a fish trowel, and not with a knife. The middle part of a fish is generally considered the best. In helping it, avoid breaking the flakes, as that will give it a mangled appearance. In carving ribs or sirloin of beef begin by cutting thin slices off the side next to you. Afterward you may cut from the tenderloin, or cross-part near the lower end. Do not send anyone the outside piece, unless you know that they particu- larly wish it. In helping beefsteak put none of the bone on the plate. In cutting a round of corned beef begin at the top; but lay aside the first cut or outside piece, and send it to no one, as it is al- ways dry and hard. In a round of beef à-la-mode the outside is frequently preferred. - 18- To carve a fowl, begin by sticking your fork in the pinion, and drawing it towards the leg ; and then passing your knife underneath take off the wing at the joint. Next, slip your knife between the leg and the body, to cut through the joint; and with the fork turn the leg back, and the joint will give way. Then take off the other wing and leg. If the fowl has been trussed (as it ought to be) with the liver and giz- zard, help the liver with one wing, and the gizzard with the other. The liver-wing is considered the best. After the limbs are taken off enter your knife into the top of the breast, and cut under the merry-thought, so as to loosen it, lifting it with your fork. Afterward cut slices from both sides of the breast. Next take off the collar-bones, which lie on each side of the merry-thought, and then separate the side- bones from the back. The breast and wings are considered as the most delicate parts of the fowl; the back, as the least desirable, is generally left in the dish. Some persons, in carv- ing a fowl, find it more convenient to take it on a plate, art as they separate it return each part to the dish ; but this is not the usual way. A turkey is carved in the same manner as a fowl; except thai the legs and wings, being larger, are separated at the lower joint. The lower part of the leg (or drumstick, as it is called), being hard, tough, and stringy, is never helped to any one, but allowed to remain on the dish. First cut off the wing, leg, and breast from one side ; then turn the turkey over, and cut them off from the other. To carve a goose, separate the leg from the body, by putting the fork into the small end of the limb; pressing it close to the body, and then passing the knife under, and turning the leg back, as you cut through the joint. To take off the wing, put your fork into the small end of the pinion, and press it closely to the body; then slip the knife under, and separate the joint. Next cut under the merry-thought, and take it off ; and then cut slices from the breast. Then turn the goose, and dismember the other side. Take off the two upper side-bones that are next to the wings, and then the two lower side-bones. The breast and legs of a goose afford the finest pieces. If a goose is old there is no fowl so tough; and, if difficult to carve, it will be still more difficult to eat. Partridges, pheasants, grouse, etc., are carved in the same - 19 manner as fowls. Quails, woodcocks, and snipes are merely split down the back; so also are pigeons, giving a half to each person. In helping any one to gravy, or to melted butter, do not pour it over their meat, fowl or fish, but put it to one side on a va- cant part of the plate, that they may use just as much of it as they like. In filling a plate never heap one thing on another. in helping vegetables, do not plunge the spoon down to the bottom of the dish, in case they should not have been per- fectly well drained, and the water should have settled there. By observing carefully how it is done you may acquire a knowledge of the joints, and of the process of carving, which a little daily practice will soon convert into dexterity. If a young lady is ignorant of this very useful art, it will be well for her to take lessons of her father, or her brother, and a mar- ried lady can easily learn from her husband. Domestics who wait at table may soon, from looking on daily, become so ex. pert that, when necessary, they can take a dish to the side. table and carve it perfectly well. At a dinner-party, if the hostess is quite young, she is free quently glad to be relieved of the trouble of carving by the gentleman who sits nearest to her; but if she is familiar with the business she usually prefers doing it herself. SOUPS. GENERAL REMARKS. Be careful to proportion the quantity of water to that of the ineat. Somewhat less than a quart of water to a pound of meat is a good rule for common soups. Rich soups, intended for company, may have a still smaller allowance of water. Soup should always be made entirely of fresh meat that has not been previously cooked. An exception to this rule may sometimes be made in favor of the remains of a piece of roast beef that has been very much under-done in roasting. This may be added to a good piece of raw meat. Cold ham, also, may be occasionally put into white soups. Soup, however, that has been originally made of raw meat entirely is frequently better the second day than the first, pro- vided that it is reboiled only for a very short time, and that no additional water is added to it. Unless it has been allowed to boil too hard, so as to exhaust: the water, the soup-pot will not require replenishing. When it is found absolutely necessary to do so, the additional water must be boiling-hot when poured in ; if lukewarm or cold, it will entirely spoil the soup. Every particle of fat should be carefully skimmed from the surface. . Greasy soup is disgusting and unwholesome. The lean of meat is much better for soup than the fat. Long and slow boiling is necessary to extract the strength from the meat. If boiled fast over a large fire the meat be. comes hard and tough, and will not give out its juices. Potatoes, if boiled in the soup, are thought by some to ren-- der it unwholesome, from the opinion that the water in which potatoes have been cooked is almost a poison. As potatoes. are a part of every dinner, it is very easy to take a few out of the pot in which they have been boiled by themselves, and to cut them up and add them to the soup just before it goes to table. Remove all shreds of meat and bone. The cook should season the soup but very slightly with salt. and pepper. If she puts in too much it may spoil it for the on))) NI M.D. MONDAY 7,017 Online din compot KrosE. Coffee. UESDAY Oatmeal with Cream. WWEDNESDAY.COM Larded Grouse Raked Tomatoes Coffee. Coffee. Wheat Cakes Fruit. Cream Toast. OOOONODUS Doncada Chicken Cutlets Salmon Cutlets Broiled Potatoes THURSDAY O MOOOOOO Potatoes and Cream Fruit. Fruit. Coffee. 10 NUOTO Parker House Rolls PRILIKUW B OOM 2 Sama Broiled Lamb Chops. MA) Fried Sweet Potatoes. II 9. FRIDAY TRD'SATURDAY Stuffed Tomatoes Fruit. Coffee. Coffee or Chocolate. Googoporcowooooww Breakfast Gems SUNDAY Rice Griddle Cakes. WOOWWODOWOWOWQvogucc@CE Baked Sweetbreads Shredded Codfish Balls Fried Ham and Eggs Coffee. Potatoes a là Cream Baked Sweet Potatoes Fruit. Omelet (Splendid) Fruit. Beef Patés UNMITTITUTO LIVI Puzi HRTAUTMINER INFO PS Baked Potatoes. Kasih Fruit. OOONOCE LOOS. w ii WNMITTI-LOBSTIR 00000OORDOOSJET & — 21- taste of most of those who are to eat it; but if too little, it is -easy to add more to your own plate. Stock-Four pounds of shin of beef, or four pounds of knuckle of veal, or two pounds of each; any bones, trimmings of poultry, or fresh meat, quarter-pound of lean bacon or ham, two ounces of butter, two large onions, each stuck with cloves ; one turnip, three carrots, one head of celery, three lumps of sugar, two ounces of salt, half a teaspoonful of whole pepper, one large blade of mace, one bunch of savory herbs, four quarts and a half-pint of cold water. Cut up the meat and bacon, or ham, into pieces of about three inches square; rub the butter on the bottom of the stewpan; put in half a pint of water, the meat, and all the other ingre- dients. Cover the stewpan, and place it on a sharp fire, occa- ':sionally stirring its contents. When the bottom of the pan becomes covered with a pale, jelly-like substance, add the four quarts of cold water, and simmer very gently for five hours. As we have said before, do not let it boil quickly. Remove every particle of scum while it is doing, and strain it through a fine hair sieve. This stock is the basis of many of the soups afterward men. tioned, and will be found quite strong enough for ordinary pur. poses. Time : five and one-half hours. Average cost, twenty-five cents per quart. White Stock Soup.-Six pounds knuckle of veal, half pound lean bacon, two tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed in one of flour, two onions, two carrots two turnips. three cloves stuck in an onion, one blade of mace, bunch of herbs, six quarts of water, pepper and salt, one cup of boiling milk. Cut up the meat and crack the bones. Slice carrots, turnips, and one onion, leaving that with the cloves whole. Put on with mace, and all the herbs except the parsley, in two quarts of cold water. Bring to a slow boil; take off the scum, as it rises, and at the end of an hour's stewing, add the rest of the cold water-one gallon. Cover and cook steadily, always gently, four hours. Strain off the liquor, of which there should be about five quarts ; rub the vegetables through the colander, and pick out bones and meat. Season these highly and put, as is your Saturday custom, into a wide-mouthed jar, or a - 22 - large bowl. Add to them three quarts of stock, well salted, and, when cold keep on ice. Cool to-day's stock; remove the fat, season, put in chopped parsley, and put over the fire. Heat in a saucepan a cup of milk, stir in the floured butter ; cook three minutes. When the soup has simmered ten min- utes after the last boil, and been carefully skimmed, pour into the tureen, and stir in the hot, thickened milk. Shin of Beef Soup.—Get a shin-bone of beef weighing four or five pounds ; let the butcher saw it in pieces about two inches long, that the marrow may become the better incorpo- rated with the soup, and so give it greater richness. Wash the meat in cold water; mix together of salt and pep- per each a tablespoonful, rub this well into the meat, then put into a soup-pot; put to it as many quarts of water as there are pounds of meat, and set it over a moderate fire, until it comes to a boil, then take off whatever scum may have risen, after which cover it close, and set it where it will boil very gently for two hours longer, then skim it again, and add to it the proper vegetables which are these-one large carrot grated, one large turnip cut in slices (the yellow or ruta baga is best), one leek cut in slices, one bunch of parsley cut small, six small potatoes peeled and cut in half, and a teacupful of pearl barley well washed, then cover it and let it boil gently for one hour, at which time add another tablespoonful of salt and a thickening made of a tablespoonful of wheat flour and a gill of water, stir it in by the spoonful ; cover it for fifteen min- utes and it is done. Three hours and a half is required to make this soup; it is the best for cold weather. Should any remain over the first day, it may be heated with the addition of a little boiling water, and served again. Take the meat from the soup, and if to be served with it, take out the bones, and lay it closely and neatly on a dish, and garnish with sprigs of parsley ; serve made mustard and cat- sup with it. It is very nice pressed and eaten with mustard and vinegar or catsup. Mutton Soup with Tapioca.—Three pounds perfectly lean mutton. The scrag makes good soup and costs little. Two or three pounds of bones, well pounded, one onion, two tur. pips, two carrots, two stalks of celery, a few sprigs of parsley; YMD UITNO ...... MONDAS Fish Showder Baked Hash. ontes 1111111 M Johnny Cake Pears and Grapes. Tea. 1211) II ESDAT EDNESD) ZIEDAM STUES 26 Croquettes Stewed Oysters Rice and Meat Waffles Tomato Stuffed Toasted Brown Bread. Chocolate. Irish Stew Baked Sweet Potatoes. Salmon Salad Potato Puffs Lemon Tart Tea. SA THURS UDDU CRC Dutch Gmeiet (75). Potato Snow Egg Plant Toast. Jelly Fritters Tea. & COMMONS ATT MT lll CLIT ) 2DAY MITTE R O ATURS 11Illilm ERIDA FOFRIS Oysters on Half-Shell. Curned Lobster Brown Bread. Lettuce Salad Fruit. Cheese. Cocoa. 5 Chicken in Jelly French Fried Potatoes Celery Salad (102). French Pan-cakes Chocolate. Tills SITION Tm UNDA D11A Oyster Patties Fried Cakes Sardine Salad Baked Apples with Cream, Cheese. Cocoa. VA 23 — if you have any tomatoes left from yesterday, add them, four tablespoonfuls of pearl or granulated tapioca (not heaping spoonfuls), four quarts of water. Put on the meat, cut in small pieces, with the bones, in two quarts of cold water. Heat very slowly, and when it boils pour in two quarts of hot water from the kettle. Chop the vegetables ; cover with cold water. So soon as they begin to simmer, throw off the first water, replenishing with hot, and stew until they are boiled to pieces. The meat should cook steadily, never fast, five hours, keeping the pot-lid on. Strain into a great bowl ; let it cool to throw the fat to the surface ; skim and return to the fire. Season with pepper and salt, boil up, take off the scum; add the vegetables with their liquor. Heat together ten minutes, strain again, and bring to a slow boil before the tapioca goes in. This should have been soaked one hour in cold water, then cooked in the same within an. other vessel of boiling water until each grain is clear. It is necessary to stir up often from the bottom while cooking. Stir gradually into the soup until the tapioca is dissolved. Send around grated cheese with this soup. Veal Soup.—To about three pounds of a joint of veal, which must be well broken up, put four quarts of water and set it over to boil. Prepare one-fourth pound of macaroni by boil- ing it by itself, with sufficient water to cover it; add a little butter to the macaroni when it is tender, strain the soup and season to taste with salt and pepper, then add the macaroni in the water in which it is boiled. The addition of a pint of rich milk or cream and celery flavor is relished by many. Ox-Tail Soup.—Take two ox-tails and two whole onions, two carrots, a small turnip, two tablespoonfuls of flour, and a little white pepper, add a gallon of water, let all boil for two hours; then take out the tails and cut the meat into small pieces, return the bones to the pot, for a short time, boil for another hour, then strain the soup, and rinse two spoonfuls of arrowroot to add to it with the meat cut from the bones, and let all boil for a quarter of an hour. Vegetable Soup.-Two pounds of coarse, lean beef, cut into strips, two pounds of knuckle of veal, chopped to pieces, two pounds of mutton bones, and the bones left from your cold veal, cracked to splinters, one pound of lean ham, four large: HIMINDA ) MONO 2,5 JES: arvon 13))) ku .. Chicken Cream Baked White Fish, Stuffed Potatoes. Boiled Chicken, Egg Sauce Stuffed Egg Plant Lettuce Salad. Apple Pudding Assorted Fruit. Cream Cheese. Coffee. Vio 12 MON Shu D U CON ......llll 21 TUESDAY RSS (DINNER Potato Soup Broiled Mackerel Cream Sauce Fotatces. Stewed Rabbit Larded Banana Fritters. Celery Salad Peach Dumpling. Fruit. Cheese. Water Crackers. Coffee. T HURSDAY Ox-Tail Broiled Salmon. Potatoes. Chicken Fricassee Stuffed Tomatoes Sardine Salad. Plum Fudding Fruit. Roquefort Cheese. Coffee. J Oysters, Celery, Game Soup Baked Smelts Anchovy Sauce Potatoes, Roast Beef Tenderloin Baked Mushrooms on Toast Tomato Salad Pineapple Ice Cream Wine Jelly. Cheese. Coffee. FRIDAY TURDAS LULN Mutton with Tapioca Broiled Trout Egg Sauce Potatoes. Roast Forequarter of Lamb Currant Jelly. Lettuce Salad Cabinet Pudding Fruit, Camembert Cheese. Coffee. Oysters, Celery. A lá Julian Baked Black Bass Potatoes. Wild Duck Lettuce Salad. Parsnip Creamed Tarts. Assorted Fruit. Cheese, Coffee. SUNDAY 11 Blue Points. Celery. Vermicelli Soup Salmon Trout. Potatoes. Larded Grouse Lima Beans, Roast Sirloin of Beef Celery Salad. Chocolate Pudding Jellied Fruits. Cheese. Coffee. S lip D Som AR: TLCC do PSIC VT - 25 — pieces and put them to the soup; add a pint of Madeira and one lemon sliced thin, add cayenne pepper and salt to taste; let it simmer gently for two hours, then skim it clear and serve. Make a forcemeat of the brains as follows : put them in a stew-pan, pour hot water over, and set it over the fire for a few minutes, then take them up, chop them small, with a sprig of parsley, a saltspoonful of salt and pepper each, a table- spoonful of wheat flour, the same of butter, and one well- beaten egg; make it in small balls, and drop them in the soup fifteen minutes before it is taken from the fire ; in making the balls, a little more flour may be necessary. Egg-balls may also be added. Hard Pea Soup.—Many persons keep the bones of their roasts in order to convert them into stock for pea soup, which is, to my taste, one of the most relishable of all soups, and a famous dish for cold weather, with this advantage in its favor, that it may be made from almost anything. Capital stock for pea soup can be made from a knuckle of ham or from a piece of pickled pork. Supposing that some such stock is at hand to the extent of about two quarts, procure, say, two pounds or split peas, wash them well, and then soak them for a night in water to which a very little piece of soda has been added (the floating peas should be all thrown away), strain out the peas and place them in the stock, adding a head of celery, a cut- down carrot, and a large onion or two, and season with a pinch of curry powder, or half an eggspoonful of cayenne pepper. Boil with a lid on the pot till all is soft, skimming off the scum occasionally, and then carefully strain into a well-warmed tureen, beating the pulp through the strainer with a spoon. Serve as hot as possible, placing a breakfast- cupful of crumbled toast (bread) into the tureen before the soup is dished. Much of the success in preparing this soup lies in the “straining,” which ought to be carefully attended to. A wire sieve is best; but an active housewife must never stick. If she has not a sieve made for the purpose, she can fold a piece of net two or three times, and use that. When a knuckle of ham has been used to make the stock it should form a part of the dinner, with potatoes; or it may be used as a breakfast or supper relish. - 26 – Green Pea Soup.-Wash a small quarter of lamb in cold water, and put it into a soup-pot with six quarts of cold water; add to it two tablespoonfuls of salt, and set it over a moderate fire-let it boil gently for two hours, then skim it clear; add a quart of shelled peas, and a teaspoonful of pepper; cover it, and let it boil for half an hour, then having scraped the skins from a quart of small young potatoes, add them to the soup, cover the pot; and let it boil for half an hour longer; work quarter of a pound of butter, and a dessert spoonful of flour together, and add them to the soup ten or twelve minutes be- fore taking it off the fire. Serve the meat on a dish with parsley sauce over, and the soup in a tureen. Potato Soup. Potato soup is suitable for a cold day. Make it in the following manner: Get as many beef or ham bones as you can, and smash them into fragments. Add a little bit of lean ham to give flavor. Boil the bone and ham for two hours and a half at least. The bone of a roast beef is excel. lent. Strain off the liquor carefully, empty out the bones and débris of the ham, restore the liquor to the pot, and place again on the fire. Having selected, washed, and pared some nice potatoes, cut them into small pieces, and boil them in the stock till they melt away. An onion or two may also be boiled among the bones to help the flavor. I do not like thick po- tato soup, and I usually strain it through a hair sieve, after doing so placing it again on the fire, seasoning it with pepper and salt to taste. A stick of celery boiled with the bones is an improvement. Make only the quantity required for the day, as potato soup is best when it is newly made. Tomato Soup.—Tomato soup is a much relished American dish, and is prepared as follows: Steam, or rather stew slowly, a mess of turnips, carrots, and onions, also a stock of celery, with half a pound of lean ham and a little bit of fresh butter over a slow fire for an hour or so. Then add two quarts of diluted stock or of other liquor in which meat has been boiled, as also eight or ten ripe tomatoes. Stew the whole for an hour and a half, then pass through the sieve into the pan again ; add a little pepper and salt, boil for ten minutes and serve hot. This soup may, on an emergency, be made from tomato sauce or canned tomatoes. Put thin toasted bread . .. THE INVALID'S TRAY. Mat.selill 01) Chicken Broth Stewed Rabbit in Milk Asparagus on Toast Iced Tomatoes sliced. AVANSAS Oooooo Graham Cakes Snow Pudding Chocolate. Oyster Soup Roast Plover Mashed Potatoes. Lettuce with Cream. Crackers. Raspberry Water Ice Sponge Cake. Green Tea. Beef Tea Rare Roast Beef Pared Roasted Potatoes. Crab-apple Jelly Celery Salad. Coffee Jelly and Whipped Cream. Iced Milk. III 77777 M D Unyol Clam Bouillon Chicken Cream Scalloped Oysters Sweetbreads with Water Cress Sliced Banana and Oranges. Angel Food. Egg Wine Bosan MW IMBITTUTTO - 27 - cut in dice into the soup, if approved, as it is being uished Serve very hot. Plain Calf's Head Soup.-Take a calf's head well cleaned, a knuckle of veal, and put them both into a large kettle; put one onion and a large tablespoon of sweet herbs, into a cloth and into the kettle, with the meat, over which you have poured about four quarts of water. If you wish the soup for a one o'clock dinner, put the meat over to boil as early as eight o'clock in the morning; let it boil steadily and slowly and season well with salt and pepper. About one hour before serving, take off the soup and pour it through a colander, pick out all the meat carefully, chop very fine and return to the soup, putting it again over the fire. Boil four eggs very hard, chop them fine, and slice one lemon very thin, adding at the very last. Soup à la Julienne.—Half pint of carrots, half pint of tur. nips, quarter of a pint of onions, two or three leeks, half a head of celery, one lettuce, a little sorrel and chervil, if liked, two ounces of butter, two quarts of stock. Cut the vegetables into strips of about one and a quarter inches long, and be particular they are all the same size, or some will be hard whilst the others will be done to a pulp. Cut the lettuce, sorrel and chervil into larger pieces ; fry the carrots in the butter, and pour the stock boiling to them. When this is done, add all the other vegetables, and herbs, and stew gently for at least an hour. Skim off all the fat, pour the soup over thin slices of bread, cut round, about the size of a quarter-dollar, and serve. Game Soup.-Two grouse or partridges, or, if you have neither, use a pair of rabbits ; half a pound of lean ham; two medium-sized onions; one pound of lean beef; fried bread ; butter for frying; pepper, salt, and two stalks of white celery cut into inch lengths ; three quarts of water. Joint your game neatly ; cut the ham and onions into small pieces, and fry all in butter to a light brown. Put into a soup-pot with the beef, cut into strips, and a little pepper. Pour on the water ; heat slowly, and stew gently two hours. Take out the pieces of bird, and cover in a bowl ; cook the soup an hour longer; strain ; cool; drop in the celery, and simmer ten minutes. Pour upon fried bread in the tureen. - 29 - shin slices from the edge of the roll and shake out into long strips ; put them into the soup lightly and boil for ten min- utes ; salt should be added while mixing with the flour- about a saltspoonful. Irish Stew.–Stoved Potatoes.—These form excellent and nutritious dishes. The former dish can be made from a por: tion of the back ribs or neck of mutton, the fleshy part of which must be cut into cutlets. Flatten these pieces of meat with a roller, and dip them in a composition of pepper, salt, and flour. Peel potatoes and slice them to the extent of two pounds of potatoes for every pound of meat. Anonion or two sliced into small bits will be required. Before building the materials into a goblet, melt a little suet or dripping in it, then commence by laying in the pot a layer of potatoes, which dust well with pepper and salt, then a layer of the meat sprinkled with the chopped onion, and so on till the goblet is pretty full. Fill in about a breakfast cupful of gravy, if there be any in the house; if not, water will do. Finish off with a treble row of potatoes on the top. Let the mess stew slowly for about three hours, taking great care to keep the lid so tight that none of the virtue can escape-letting away the steam is just letting away the flavor. Shake the pot occasionally with some force, to prevent burning. Some cooks, in preparing this dish, boil the potatoes for some time, and then pour and dry them well ; others add a portion of kidney to the stew; while ex- travagant people throw in a few oysters, a slice or two of lean ham, or a ham shank. Irish stew should be served as hot as possible.–Stoved potatoes are prepared much in the same way. Cut down what of the Sunday's roast is left, and pro- ceed with it just as you would with the neck of mutton. Some cooks would stew the bones of the roast, in order to make a gravy in which to stove the meat and potatoes, but the bones will make excellent potato soup. To get up a Soup in Haste.-Chop some cold cooked meat fine, and put a pint into a stew-pan with some gravy, season with pepper and salt, and a little butter if the gravy is not rich, add a little flour moistened with cold water, and three pints boiling water, boiled moderately half an hour. Strain over some rice or nicely toasted bread, and serve. Uncooked meat may be used by using one quart of cold water to a pound - 30 - of chopped meat, and letting it stand half before boiling. Celery root may be grated in as seasoning, or a bunch of parsley thrown in. To Color Soups.—A fine amber color is obtained by adding finely-grated carrot to the clear stock when it is quite free from scum. Red is obtained by using red skinned tomatoes from which the skin and seeds have been strained out. Only white vegetables should be used in white soups, as chicken. Spinach leaves, pounded in a mortar, and the juice expressed and added to the soups, will give a green color. Black beans make an excellent brown soup. The same color can be gotten by adding burnt sugar or browned flour to clear stock. FISH, Fish are good, when the gills are red, eyes are full, and the body of the fish is firm and stiff. After washing them well, they should be allowed to remain for a short time in salt water sufficient to .cover them ; before cooking, wipe them dry; dredge lightly with flour, and season with salt and pepper. Salmon-trout and other small fish are usually fried or broiled; all large fish should be put in a cloth, tied closely with twine, and placed in cold water, when they may be put over the fire to boil. When fish are baked, prepare the fish the same as for boiling, and put in the oven on a wire gridiron, over a drip- ping-pan. Boiled Salmon.–The midaie slice of salmon is the best. Sew up neatly in a mosquito-net bag, and boil a quarter of an hour to the pound in hot, salted water. When done, unwrap with care, and lay upon a hot dish, taking care not to break it. Have ready a large cupful of drawn butter, very rich, in which has been stirred a tablespoonful of minced parsley and the juice of a lemon. Pour half upon the salmon, and serve the rest in a boat. Garnish with parsley and sliced egg.. Here is a recipe for a nice pickle for cold salmon made of the liquor in which the fish has been boiled, of which take as much as you wish, say three breakfast cupfuls, to which add 31 – vinegar to taste (perhaps a teacupful will be enougly), a good pinch of pepper, a dessert spoonful of salt Boil for a few minutes with a sprig or two of parsley and a little thyme. After it has become quite cold, pour it over the fish. Broiled Salmon.-Cut some slices about an inch thick, and broil them over a gentle, bright fire of coals, for ten or twelve minutes. When both sides are done, take them on to a hot dish; butter each slice well with sweet butter; strew over each a very little salt and pepper to taste, and serve. Baked Salmon.–Clean the fish, rinse it, and wipe it dry; rub it well outside and in with a mixture of pepper and salt, and fill it with a stuffing made of slices of bread, buttered freely and moistened with hot milk or water (add sage or thyme to the seasoning if liked); tie a thread around the fish, so as to keep the stuffing in (take off the thread before serv- ing); lay muffin-rings, or a trivet in a dripping-pan, lay bits of butter over the fish, dredge flour over, and put it on the rings ; put a pint of hot water in the pan, to baste with; bake one hour if a large fish, in a quick oven; baste frequently. When the fish is taken up, having cut a lemon in very thin slices, put them in the pan, and let them fry a little ; then dredge in a teaspoonful of wheat flour; add a small bit of but- ter; stir it about, and let it brown without burning for a little while; then add half a teacup or more of boiling water, stir it smooth, take the slices of lemon into the gravy-boat, and strain the gravy over. Serve with boiled potatoes. The lemon may be omitted if preferred, although generally it will be liked. Salmon-Trout.-Dressed the same as salmon. Spiced Salmon (Pickled).—Boil a salmon, and after wiping it dry set it to cool; take of the water in which it was boiled, and good vinegar each equal parts, enough to cover it; add to it one dozen cloves, as many small blades of mace, or sliced nutmeg, one teaspoonful of whole pepper, and the same of alspice ; make it boiling hot, skim it clear, add a small bit of butter (the size of a small egg), and pour it over the fish ; set it in a cool place. When cold, it is fit for use, and will keep for a long time, covered close, in a cool place. Serve instead of pickled oysters for supper. A fresh cod is very nice, done in the same manner; as is also a striped sea bass. - 32 — Salmon and Caper Sauce.-Two slices of salmon, one quarter pound butter, one half teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one shalot; salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to taste. Mode : Lay the salmon in a baking-dish, place pieces of butter over it, and add the other ingredients, rubbing a little of the seasoning into the fish ; baste it frequently ; when done, take it out and drain for a minute or two ; lay it in a dish, pour caper sauce over it, and serve. Salmon dressed in this way, with tomato sauce, is very delicious Salmon Cutlets.-Cut the slices one inch thick, and season them with pepper and salt; butter a sheet of white paper, lay each slice on a separate piece, with their ends twisted ; broil gently over a clear fire, and serve with anchovy or caper sauce. When higher seasoning is required, add a few chopped herbs and a little spice. Dried or Smoked Salmon.-Cut the fish down the back, take out the entrails, and roe, scale it, and rub the outside and in with common salt, and hang it to drain for twenty-four hours. Pound three ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of coarse salt, and two of coarse brown sugar; mix these well together, and rub the salmon over every part with it; then lay it on a large dish for two days; then rub it over with common salt, and in twenty-four hours it will be fit to dry. Wipe it well, stretch it open with two sticks, and hang it in a chimney, with a smothered wood-fire, or in a smoke-house, or in a dry, cool Sphace. a dos Shad done in this manner are very fine. Boiled Cod.-Lay the fish in cold water, a little salt, for half an hour. Wipe dry, and sew up in a linen cloth, coarse and clean, fitted to the shape of the piece of cod. Have but one fold over each part. Lay in the fish-kettle, cover with boiling water, salted at discretion. Allow nearly an hour for a piece weighing four pounds. Cod Pie.—Any remains of cold cod, twelve oysters, sufficient melted butter to moisten it; mashed potatoes enough to fill up the dish. Mode: Flake the fish from the bone, and carefully take away all the skin. Lay it in a pie-dish, pour over the melted butter and oysters (or oyster sauce, if there is any left), and - 33 — 10, cover with mashed potatoes. Bake for half an hour, and soud to table of a nice brown color. Clam Bouillon.—The difficulty in obtaining fresh clams, at a distance from the seashore, need not worry you any longer, as your grocer can now furnish you with a delicious article of Clam Bouillon put up in glass bottles hermetically sealed, which is very easily prepared. If served in cups, fill one-third of cup with Bouillon, add boiling water and seaso. to suit the taste. If for soup, take a quart bottle of Bouillon add two quarts of water, a half cup of milk and a little butter ; bring to a boil, serve hot and season. Dried Codfish. This should always be laid in soak at least one night before it is wanted ; then take off the skin and put it in plenty of cold water; boil it gently (skimming it meanwhile) for one hour, cr tie it in a cloth and boil it. Serve with egg sauce ; garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut in slices, and sprigs of parsley. Serve plain boiled or mashed potatoes with it. Stewed Salt Cod.-Scald some soaked cod by putting it over the fire in boiling water for ten minutes ; then scrape it white, pick it in flakes, and put it in a stew-pan, with a table- spoonful of butter worked into the same of flour, and as much milk as will moisten it; let it stew gently for ten minutes; add pepper to taste, and serve hot; put it in a deep dish, slice hard-boiled eggs over, and sprigs of parsley around the edge. This is a nice relish for breakfast, with coffee and tea, and rolls or toast. Codfish Cakes. First boil soaked cod, then chop it fine, put to it an equal quantity of potatoes boiled and mashed ; moisted it with beaten eggs or milk, and a bit of butter and a little pepper; form it in small, round cakes, rather more than half an inch thick; flour the outside, and fry in hot lard or beef drippings until they are a delicate brown ; like fish, these must be fried gently, the lard being boiling hot when they are put in; when one side is done turn the other. Serve for breakfast. Boiled Bass.-Put enough water in the pot for the fish to swim in, easily. Add half a cup of vinegar, a teaspoonful of salt, an onion, a dozen black peppers, and a blade of mac:. Sew up the fish in a piece of clean net, fitted to its shape - 35 — ten minutes for a small mackerel. Chop a little parsley, work it up in the butter, with pepper and salt to taste, and a squeeze of lemon-juice, and put it in the back. Serve before the butter is quite melted. Mackerel baked will be found palatable. Clean and trim the fish nicely, say four large ones, or half a dozen small ones, bone them and lay neatly in a baking dish, or a bed of potato chips well dusted with a mixture of pepper and salt; on the potatoes, place a few pieces of butter. Dust the fish sepa- rately with pepper and salt, and sprinkle slightly with a di- luted mixture of anchovy sauce and catsup. Bake three quar- ters of an hour. Salt Mackerel, with Cream Sauce.- Soak overnight in lukewarm water, changing this in the morning for ice-cold. Rub all the salt off, and wipe dry. Grease your gridiron with butter, and rub the fish on both sides with the same, melted.. Then broil quickly over a clear fire, turning with a cake- turner so as not to break it. Lay upon a hot water dish, and cover until the sauce is ready. Heat a small cup of milk to scalding. Stir into it a teaspoon- ful of corn-starch wet up with a little water. When this thickens, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, pepper, salt and chopped parsley. Beat an egg light, pour the sauce gradually over it, put the mixture again over the fire, and stir one min- ute, not more. Pour upon the fish, and let all stand, covered, over the hot water in the chafing-dish. Put fresh boiling wa- ter under the dish before sending to table. Boiled Eels.-Four small eels, sufficient water to cover them ; a large bunch of parsley. Choose small eels for boiling ; put them in a stewpan with the parsley, and just sufficient water to cover them; simmer till tender. Take them out, pour a little parsley and butter over them, and serve some in a tureen. Fricaseed Eels. After skinning, cleaning, and cutting five or six eels in pieces of two inches in length, boil them in water nearly to cover them, until tender; then add a good-sized bit of butter, with a teaspoonful of wheat flour or rolled cracker worked into it, and a little scalded and chopped parsley; add salt and pepper to taste, and a wine-glass of vinegar if liked ; let them simmer for ten minutes and serve hot. - 36 -- rand geef nacker. Fried Eels.-After cleaning the eels well, cut thout in pieces two inches long ; wash them and wipe them dry; roll them in wheat flour or rolled cracker, and fry as directed for other fish, in hot lard or beef dripping, salted. They should be browned all over and thoroughly done. Eels may be prepared in the same manner and broiled. Collared Eels.—One large eel; pepper and salt to taste; two blades of mace, two cloves, a little allspice very finely pounded, six leaves of sage, and a small bunch of herbs minced very small. Mode : Bone the eel and skin it; split it, and sprinkle it over with the ingredients, taking care that the spices are very finely pounded, and the herbs chopped very small. Roll it up and bind with a broad piece of tape, and boil it in water, mixed with a little salt and vinegar, till tender. It may either be served whole or cut in slices ; and when cold, the eel should be kept in the liquor it was boiled in, but with a little more vinegar put to it. Fried Trout.—They must, of course, be nicely cleaned and trimmed all round, but do not cut off their heads. Dredge them well with flour, and fry in a pan of boiling hot fat or oil. Turn them from side to side till they are nicely browned, and quite ready. Drain off all the fat before sending the fish to table; garnish with a few sprigs of parsley, and provide plain melted butter. If preferred, the trout can be larded with beaten egg, and be then dipped in bread-crumbs. The frying will occupy from five to eight minutes, according to size. Very large trout can be cut in pieces. Trout in Jelly (or other fish).—This is a beautiful supper dish, and may be arranged as follows: Turn the fish into rings, with tail in mouth. Prepare a seasoned water in which to boil the trout; the water should have a little vinegar and salt in it, and may be flavored with a shallot, or a clove of gar. lic. When the water is cold, place the trout in, and boil them very gently, so as not hash or break them. When done, lift out and drain. Baste with fish jelly, for which a recipe is given elsewhere, coat after coat, as each coat hardens. Ar- range neatly, and serve. Boiled Trout.-Let the water be thoroughly a-boil before you put in the fish. See that it is salt, and that a dash of vin. - 37 — egar has been put in it. Remove all scum as it rises, and boil the fish till their eyes protrude. Lift them without breaking, drain off the liquor, and serve on a napkin, if you like. To be eaten with a sauce according to taste, that is, it can be made of either anchovies or shrimps. Broiled Trout.—Clean and split them open, season with a little salt and cayenne ; dip in whipped egg, dredge with flour, and branded over a clear fire. Serve with sauce. Baked Haddock.-Choose a nice fish of about six pounds, which trim and scrape nicely, gutting it carefully, fill the vacuum with a stuffing of veal, chopped ham, and bread- crumbs, sew up with strong thread, and shape the fish round, putting its tail into its mouth, or, if two are required, lay them along the dish reversed—that is, tail to head ; rub over with plenty of butter, or a batter of eggs and flour, and then sprinkle with bread-crumbs. Let the oven be pretty hot when put in. In about an hour the fish will be ready. Serve on the tin or aisset in which they have been baked, placing them on a larger dish for that purpose. Mussel sauce is a good accom- paniment. Curried Haddock.--Curried haddock is excellent. Fillet the fish and curry it in a pint of beef stock slightly diluted with water, and thickened with a tablespoonful of curry powder, Some cooks chop up an onion to place in the stew. It will take an hour to ready this fish. If preferred, fry the fish for a few minutes in clean lard or oil before stewing it in the curry. Rizzared Haddock.–First, of course, procure your fish, clean them thoroughly, rub them well with salt, and let them lie for one night, after which hang them in the open air, to dry, in a shady place. In two days they will be ready for the gridiron. Before cooking them take out the backbone and skin them, if desired (I never do skin them), broil till ready, eat with a little fresh butter. Haddocks can be boiled with advantage : all that is neces- sary is to put plenty of salt in the water, and not to serve them till they are well done. As a general rule, it may be ascer- tained when the fish is sufficiently cooked by the readiness with which the flesh lifts from the bone. Stick a fork into the shoulder of a cod or haddock and try it. If living suffi. – 38 – ciently near the sea, procure sea water in which to boil your haddocks. Broiled White-Fish-Fresh.—Wash and drain the fish ; sprinkle with pepper and lay with the inside down upon the gridiron, and broil over fresh bright coals. When a nice brown, turn for a moment on the other side, then take up and spread with butter. This is a very nice way of broiling all kinds of fish, fresh or salted. A little smoke under the fish adds to its flavor. This may be made by putting two or three cobs under the gridiron. Baked White-Fish.--Fill the fish with a stuffing of fine bread-crumbs and a little butter ; sew up the fish; sprinkle with butter, pepper, and salt. Dredge with flour and bake one hour, basting often, and serving with parsley sauce or egg sauce. To Select Lobsters.—These are chosen more by weight than size, the heaviest are best ; a good small-sized one will not unfrequently be found to weigh as heavily as one much larger. If fresh, a lobster will be lively and the claws have a strong motion when the eyes are pressed with the finger. The male is best for boiling; the flesh is firmer, and the shell a brighter red; it may readily be distinguished from the female; the tail is narrower, and the two uppermost fins within the tail are stiff and hard. Those of the hen lobster are not so, and the tail is broader. Hen lobsters are preferred for sauce or salad, on account of their coral. The head and small claws are never used. Boiled Lobster.—These crustaceans are usually sold ready- boiled. When served, crack the claws and cut open the body, lay neatly on a napkin-covered dish, and garnish with a few sprigs of parsley. Lobster so served is usually eaten cold. Curried Lobster.–Pick out the meat of two red lobsters from the shells into a shallow sauce-pan, in the bottom of which has been placed a thin slice of tasty ham, with a little cayenne pepper and a teaspoonful of salt. Mix up half a cup- ful of white soup and half a cupful of cream and pour over the meat. Put it on the fire and let it simmer for about an hour, when you will add a dessert spoonful of curry, and an. other of flour rubbed smooth in a little of the liquor taken out of the pot ; in three minutes the curry will be ready to dish. . - 39 -- Some add a dash of lemon to this curry (I don't), and the cream can be dispensed with if necessary. Put a rim of well-boiled rice round the dish if you like, or serve the rice separately. Lobster Chowder.-Four or five pounds of lobster, chopped fine; take the green part and add to it four pounded crackers; stir this into one quart of boiling milk; then add the lobster, a piece of butter one-half the size of an egg, a little pepper and salt, and bring it to a boil. Chowder.-Cut some slices of pork very thin, and fry then out dry in the dinner pot; then put in a layer of fish cut ir slices on the pork, then a layer of onions, and then potatoes, ail cut in exceedingly thin slices; then fish, onions, potatoes again till your materials are all in, putting some salt and pepper on each layer of onions; split some hard biscuits, dip them in water, and put them round the sides and over the top; put in water enough to come up in sight; stew for over half an hour, till the potatoes are done; add half a pint of milk, or a teacup of sweet cream, five minutes before you take it up. To Fry Smelts. Egg and bread-crumbs, a little flour ; boil- ing lard. Smelts should be very fresh, and not washed more than is necessary to clean them. Dry them in a cloth, lightly flour, dip them in egg, and sprinkle over with very fine bread. crumbs, and put them into boiling lard. Fry of a nice pale brown, and be careful not to take off the light roughness of the crumbs, or their beauty will be spoiled. Dry them before the fire on a drainer, and serve with plain melted butter. To Bake Smelts.—Smelts, bread-crumbs, one-quarter pound of fresh butter, two blades of pounded mace; salt and cayenne to taste. Wash and dry the fish thoroughly in a cloth, and arrange them nicely in a flat baking-dish. Cover them with fine bread-crumbs, and place little pieces of butter all over them. Season and bake for fifteen minutes. Just before serv- ing, add a squeeze of lemon-juice, and garnish with fried parsley and cut lemon. Red Herrings or Yarmouth Bloaters.—The best way to cook these is to make incisions in the skin across the fish, be- cause they do not then require to be so long on the fire, and will be far better than when cut open. The hard roe makes a nice relish by pounding it in a mortar, with a little anchovy, - 40 - and spreading it on toast. If very dry, soak in warm water, one hour before dressing. Potted Fish.—Take out the backbone of the fish; for one weighing two pounds take a tablespoon of allspice and cloves mixed; these spices should be put into little bags of not too thick muslin; put sufficient salt directly upon each fish; then roll in a cloth, over which sprinkle a little cayenne pepper; put alternate layers of fish, spice and sago in an earthen jar; cover with the best cider-vinegar ; cover the jar closely with a plate and over this put a covering of dough, rolled out to twice the thickness of pie crust. Make the edges of paste to dhere closely to the sides of the jar, so as to make it air-tight. Put the jar into a pot of cold water and let it boil from three to five hours, according to quantity. Ready when cold. Oysters on the Shell.—Wash the shells and put them on hot coals or upon the top of a hot stove, or bake them in a hot oven ; open the shells with an oyster knife, taking care to lose none of the liquor, and serve quickly on hot plates, with toast. Oysters may be steamed in the shells, and are excellent eaten in the same manner. Oysters Stewed with Milk.—Take a pint of fine oysters, put them with their own liquor, and a gill of milk into a stew- pan, and if liked, a blade of mace; set it over the fire, take off any scum which may rise ; when they are plump and white turn them into a deep plate; add a bit of butter, and pepper to taste. Serve crackers and dressed celery with them. Oys- ters may be stewed in their own liquor without milk. Oysters Fried in Batter.—Half pint of oysters, two eggs, half pint of milk, sufficient flour to make the batter; pepper and salt to taste; when liked, a little nutmeg ; hot lard. Scald the oysters in their own liquor, beard them, and lay them on a cloth, to drain thoroughly. Break the eggs into a basin, mix the flour with them, add the milk gradually, with nutmeg and seasoning, and put the oysters in a batter. Make some lard hot in a deep frying-pan, put in the oysters, one at a time; when done, take them up with a sharp-pointed skewer, and dish them on a napkin. Fried oysters are frequently used for garnishing boiled fish, and then a few bread-crumbs should be added to the flour. - 41 - Scalloped Oysters.-Two tablespoonfuls of white stock, two tablespoonfuls of cream ; pepper and salt to taste; bread-crumbs, oiled butter. Scald the oysters in their own liquor, take them out, beard them, and strain the liquor free from grit. Put one ounce of butter into a stew-pan; when melted, dredge in sufficient flour to dry it up; add the stock, cream, and strained liquor, and give one boil. Put in the oys- · ters and seasoning; let them gradually heat through, but not boil. Have ready the scallop-shells buttered ; lay in the oys- ters, and as much of the liquid as they will hold ; cover them over with bread-crumbs, over which drop a little oiled butter. Brown them in the oven, or before the fire, and serve quickly, and very hot. Fried Oysters.—Take large oysters from their own liquor on to a thickly folded napkin to dry them off ; then make a tablespoonful of lard or beef fat hot, in a thick bottomed fry- ing-pan, add to it half a saltspoonful of salt; dip each oyster in wheat flour, or cracker rolled fine, until it will take up no more, then lay them in the pan, hold it over a gentle fire until one side is a delicate brown; turn the other by sliding a fork under it; five minutes will fry them after they are in the pan. Oysters may be fried in butter, but it is not so good ; lard and butter half and half is very nice for frying. Some persons like a very little of the oyster liquor pourel in the pan after the oysters are done ; let it boil up, then put it in the dish with the oysters; when wanted for breakfast, this should be done. Oysters to be fried, after drying as directed, may be dipped into beaten egg first, then into rolled cracker. . Oyster Patties. Make some rich puff paste and bake it in very small tin patty pans ; when cool, turn them out upon a large dish; stew some large fresh oysters with a few cloves, a little mace and nutmeg ; then add the yolk of one egg, boiled hard and grated ; add a little butter, and as much of the oyster liquor as will cover them. When they have stewed a little while, take them out of the pan and set them to cool. When quite cold, lay two or three oysters in each shell of puff paste. Broiled Oysters.- Drain the oysters well and dry them with a napkin. Have ready a griddle hot and well buttered; am 4i - in the castor; serve mashed, if not new potatoes, with it, and ripe fruit, or pie, or both, for dessert, for a small family dinner. Spiced Beef.-Four pounds of round of beef chopped fine ; take from it all fat; add to it three dozen small crackers rolled fine, four eggs, one cup of milk, one tablespoon ground mace, two tablespoons of black pepper, one tablespoon melted butter; mix well and put in any tin pan that it will just fill, packing it well; baste with butter and water, and bake two hours in a slow oven. Broiled Beefsteak.-Lay a thick tender steak upon a grid- iron over hot coals, having greased the bars with butter be- fore the steak has been put upon it; (a steel gridiron with slender bars is to be preferred, the broad flat iron bars of grid- irons commonly used fry and scorch the meat, imparting a disagreeable flavor). When done on one side, have ready your platter warmed, with a little butter on it; lay the steak upon the platter with the cooked side down, that the juices which have gathered may run on the platter, but do not press the meat; then lay your beefsteak again upon the gridiron quickly and cook the other side. When done to your liking, put again on the platter, spread lightly with butter, place where it will keep warm for a few moments, but not to let the butter become oily (over boiling steam is best); and then serva on hot plates. Beefsteak should never be seasoned with salt and pepper while cooking. If your meat is tough, pound well with a steak mallet on both sides. Fried Beefsteaks.—Cut some of the fat from the steak, and put it in a frying pan and set it over the fire; if the steaks are not very tender, beat them with a rolling pin, and when the fat is boiling hot, put the steak evenly in, cover the pan and let it fry briskly until one side is done, sprinkle a little pepper and salt over, and turn the other; let it be rare or well-done as may be liked ; take the steak on a hot dish, add a wine- glass or less of boiling water or catsup to the gravy ; let it boil up once, and pour it in the dish with the steak. Beefsteak Pie.—Take some fine tender steaks, beat them a little, season with a saltspoonful of pepper and a teaspoonful of salt to a two pound steak; put bits of butter, the size of a hickory nut, over the whole surface, dredge a tablespoonful. of flour over, then roll it up and cut it in pieces two inches --46 — beef drippings, when both sides are a fine brown, take them on a hot dish, put a wine-glass of hot water in the pan, let it become hot, stir in a teaspoonful of browned flour, let it boil up at once, and serve in the pan with the meat. Roast Fore-Quarter of Lamb.-Lamb, a little salt. To ob- tain the flavor of lanıb in perfection it should not be long kept; time to cool is all that is required; and though the meat may be somewhat thready, the juices and flavor will be infinitely superior to that of lamb that has been killed two or three days. Make up the fire in good time, that it may be clear and brisk when the joint is put down. Place it at sufficient distance to prevent the fat from burning, and baste it constantly till the moment of serving. Lamb should be very thoroughly done without being dried up, and not the slightest appearance of red gravy should be visible, as in roast mutton : this rule is applicable to all young white meats. Serve with a little gravy made in the dripping-pan, the same as for other roasts, and send to table with it a tureen of mint sauce. Lambs' Sweetbreads.-Two or three sweetbreads, one-half pint of veal stock, white pepper and salt to taste, a small bunch of green onions, one blade of pounded mace, thickening of butter and flour, two eggs, nearly one-half pint of cream, one teaspoonful of minced parsley, a very little grated nutmeg. Mode: Soak the sweetbreads in lukewarm water, and put them into a saucepan with sufficient boiling water to cover them, and let them simmer for ten minutes ; then take them out and put them into cold water. Now lard them, lay them in a stewpan, add the stock, seasoning, onions, mace, and a thickening of butter and flour, and stew gently for one quar- ter of an hour or twenty minutes. Beat up the egg with the cream, to which add the minced parsley and very little grated nutmeg. Put this to the other ingredients; stir it well till quite hot, but do not let it boil after the cream is added, or it will curdle. Have ready some asparagus-tops, boiled ; add these to the sweetbreads, and serve. LAMB STEAK dipped in egg, and then in biscuit or bread- crumbs, and fried until it is brown, helps to make variety for the breakfast table. With baked sweet potatoes, good cof- fee, and buttered toast or corn muffins, one may begin the day with courage. - 47 — To Roast Veal.-Rinse the meat in cold water; if any part is bloody, wash it off ; make a mixture of pepper and salt, al- lowing a large teaspoonful of salt, and a saltspoonful of pep- per for each pound of meat; wipe the meat dry; then rub the seasoning into every part, shape it neatly, and fasten it with skewers, and put it on a spit, or set it on a trivet or muffin rings, in a pan ; stick bits of butter over the whole upper sur- face; dredge a little flour over, put a pint of water in the pan to baste with, and roast it before the fire in a Dutch oven or reflector, or put it into a hot oven ; baste it occasionally, turn it if necessary that every part may be done ; if the water wastes add more, that the gravy may not burn; allow fifteen minutes for each pound of meat; a piece weighing four or five pounds will then require one hour, or an hour and a quarter. Veal Chops.-Cut veal chops about an inch thick; beat them flat with a rolling-pin, put them in a pan, pour boiling water over them, and set them over the fire for five minutes ; then take them up and wipe them dry; mix a tablespoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of pepper for each pound of meat; rub each chop over with this, then dip them, first into beaten egg, then into rolled crackers as much as they will take up ; then finish by frying in hot lard or beef dripping ; or broil them. For the broil have some sweet butter on a steak dish ; broil the chops until well done, over a bright clear fire of coals (let them do gently that they may be well done); then take them on to the butter, turn them carefully once or twice in it, and serve. Or dip the chops into a batter, made of one egg beaten with half a teacup of milk, and as much wheat flour as may be necessary. Or simply dip the chops without parboiling into wheat flour; make some lard or beef fat hot in a frying-pan ; lay the chops in, and when one side is a fine delicate brown, turn the other. When all are done, take them up, put a very little hot water into the pan, then put it in the dish with the chops. Or make a flour gravy thus : After frying them as last di- rected, add a tablespoonful more of fat to that in the pan, let it become boiling hot; make a thin batter, of a small table- spoonful of wheat flour and cold water ; add a little more salt and pepper to the gravy, then gradually stir in the batter; stir it until it is cooked and a nice brown; then put it over the meat, or in the dish with it ; if it is thicker than is liked, add a little boiling water. -48 — Veal Cutlets.-Two or three pounds of veal cutlets, egg and bread-crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of minced savory herbs, salt and pepper to taste, a little grated nutmeg. Cut the cutlets about three-quarters of an inch in thickness, flatten them, and brush them over with the yolk of an egg ; dip them into bread-crumbs and minced herbs, season with pepper and salt and grated nutmeg, and fold each cutlet in a piece of buttered paper. Broil them, and send them to table with melted butter or a good gravy. Stuffed Fillet of Veal with Bacon.- Take out the bone from the meat, and pin into a round with skewers. Bind securely with soft tapes. Fill the cavity left by the bone with a force- meat of crumbs, chopped pork, thynie, and parsley, seasoned with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and a pinch of lemon-peel. Cover the top of the fillet with thin slices of cold cooked, fat bacon or salt pork, tying them in place with twines crossing the meat in all directions. Put into a pot with two cups of boiling water, and cook slowly and steadily two hours. Then take from the pot and put into a dripping-pan. Undo the strings and tapes. Brush the meat all over with raw egg, sift rolled cracker thickly over it, and set in the oven for half an hour, basting often with gravy from the pot. When it is well browned, lay upon a hot dish with the pork about it. Strain and thicken the gravy, and serve in a boat. If your fillet be large, cook twice as long in the pot. The time given above is for one weighing five pounds. • Veal Cake (a convenient Dish for a Picnic).- A few slices of cold roast veal, a few slices of cold ham, two hard-boiled eggs, two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley, a little pepper, good gravy, or stock No. 109. 'Cut off all the brown outside from the veal, and cut the eggs into slices. Procure a pretty mould ; lay veal, ham, eggs, and parsley in layers, with a little pepper between each, and when the mould is full, get some strong stock, and fill up the shape. Bake for one-half hour, and when cold, turn it out. Veal Pie.-Cut a breast of veal small, and put it in a stew- pan, with hot water to cover it; add to it a tablespoonful of salt, and set it over the fire; take off the scum as it rises ; when the meat is tender turn it into a dish to cool; take out all the small bones, butter a tin or earthen basin or pudding- — 49 — pan, line it with a pie paste, lay some of the parboiled meat in to half fill it; put bits of butter the size of a hickory nut all over the meat; shake pepper over, dredge wheat flour over until it looks white; then fill it nearly to the top with some of the water in which the meat was boiled ; roll a cover for the top crust, puff paste it, giving it two or three turns, and roll it to nearly half an inch thickness ; cut a slit in the centre, and make several small incisions on either side of it; lay some skewers across the pie, put the crust on, trim the edges neatly with a knife ; bake one hour in a quick oven. A breast of veal will make two two-quart basin pies ; half a pound of nice corned pork, cut in thin slices and parboiled with the meat, will make it very nice, and very little, if any butter, will be required for the pie; when pork is used, no other salt will be necessary. Boiled Calf's Head (without the skin).-Calf's head, water, a little salt, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one table- spoonful of minced parsley, pepper and salt to taste, one tablespoonful of lemon juice. After the head has been thoroughly cleaned, and the brains removed, soak it in warm water to blanch it. Lay the brains also into warm water to soak, and let them remain for an hour. Put the head into a stew-pan, with sufficient cold water to cover it, and when it boils, add a little salt ; take off every particle of scum as it rises, and boil the head until perfectly tender. Boil the brains, chop them, and mix with them melted butter, minced parsley, pepper, salt, and lemon-juice in the above proportion. Take up the head, skin the tongue, and put it on a small dish with the brains round it. Have ready some parsley and butter, smother the head with it, and the re- mainder send to table in a tureen. Bacon, ham, pickled pork, or a pig's cheek are indispensable with calf's head. The brains are sometimes chopped with hard-boiled eggs. Calf's Head Cheese. Boil a calf's head in water enough to cover it, until the meat leaves the bones, then take it with a skimmer into a wooden bowl or tray ; take from it every par- ticle of bone , chop it small; season with pepper and salt; a heaping tablespoonful of salt, and a teaspoonful of pepper will be sufficient; if liked, add a tablespoonful of finely chopped sweet herbs ; lay a cloth in a colander, put the minced meat – 50 – into it, then fold the cloth closely over it, lay a plate over, and on it a gentle weight. When cold it may be sliced thin for supper or sandwiches. Spread each slice with made mustard. Boiled Calf's Feet and Parsley and Butter.-Two calf's feet, two slices of bacon, two ounces of butter, two tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice, salt and whole pepper to taste, one onion, a bunch of savory herbs, four cloves, one blade of mace, water, parsley and butter. Procure two white calf's feet ; bone them as far as the first joint, and put them into warm water to soak for two hours. Then put the bacon, butter, lemon-juice, onions, herbs, spices, and seasoning into a stewpan; lay in the feet and pour in just sufficient water to cover the whole. Stew gently for about three hours; take out the feet, dish them, and cover with pars- ley and butter. The liquor they were boiled in should be strained and put by in a clean basin for use; it will be found very good as an addition to gravies, etc., etc. Calf's Liver and Bacon.-Two or three pounds of liver, bacon, pepper and salt to taste, a small piece of butter, flour, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one-quarter pint of water. Cut the liver in thin slices, and cut as many slices of bacon as there are of liver; fry the bacon first, and put that on a hot dish before the fire. Fry the liver in the fat which comes from the bacon, after seasoning it with pepper and salt, and dredging over it a very little flour. Turn the liver occasionally to prevent its burning, and when done, lay it round the dish with a piece of bacon between each. Pour away the bacon fat, put in a small piece of butter, dredge in a little flour, add the lemon-juice and water, give one boil, and pour it in the middle of the dish. Sweetbread.-Three sweetbreads, egg, bread-crumbs, oiled butter, three slices of toast and brown gravy. Choose large white sweetbreads.; put them into warm water to draw out the blood, and to improve their color ; let them remain for rather more than one hour; then put them into boiling water, and allow them to simmer for about ten min. utes, which renders them firm. Take them up, drain them, brush over the egg, sprinkle with bread-crumbs; dip them in egg again, and then into more bread crumbs. Drop on them - 53 — and is, by many persons, preferred. If to serve cold, peel it, fasten it down to a piece of board by sticking a fork through the root, and another through the top, to straighten it. When cold, glaze it, and put a paper ruche round the root, and gar- nish with tufts of parsley. Fricasseed Tripe.-Cut a pound of tripe in narrow strips, put a small cup of water or milk to it, add a bit of butter the size of an egg, dredge in a large teaspoonful of flour, or work it with the butter ; season with pepper and salt, let it simmer gently for half an hour, serve hot. A bunch of parsley cut small and put with it is an improvement. Broiled Tripe.—Prepare tripe as for frying ; lay it on a gridiron over a clear fire of coals, let it broil gently ; when one side is a fine brown, turn the other side (it must be nearly done through before turning); take it up on a hot dish, butter it, and if liked, add a little catsup or vinegar to the gravy. Roast Rabbit.-Empty, skin, and thoroughly wash the rab- bit; wipe it dry, line the inside with sausage-meat and force- meat (the latter of bread-crumbs, well-seasoned, and worked up). Sew the stuffing inside, skewer back the head between the shoulders, cut off the fore-joints of the shoulders and legs, bring them close to the body, and secure them by means of a skewer. Wrap the rabbit in buttered paper, keep it well basted, and a few minutes before it is done, remove the paper, flour and froth it, and let it acquire a nice brown color. It should be done in three-quarters of an hour. Take out the skewers, and serve with brown gravy and red-currant jelly. To bake the rabbit, proceed in the same manner as above; in a good oven, it will take about the same time as roasting. Most cooks garnish the rabbit with slices of lemon, and serve up with currant jelly. Sometimes the head is cut off before sending to the table ; but this is a matter of individual taste. Stewed Rabbit, Larded.-One rabbit, a few strips of bacon, rather more than one pint of good broth or stock, a bunch of savory herbs, salt and pepper to taste, thickening of butter and flour, one glass of sherry. Well wash the rabbit, cut it into quarters, lard them with slips of bacon, and fry them; then put thein into a stewpan with the broth, herbs, and a season- ing of pepper and salt; simmer gently until the rabbit is ten- der, then strain the gravy, thicken it with butter and flour, - 54 - add the sherry, give one boil, pour it over the rabbit, and serve. Garnish with slices of cut lemon. Fricasseed Rabbits.—The best way of cooking rabbits is to fricassee them. ' Cut them up, or, disjoint them. Put them into a stew-pan; season them with cayenne pepper, salt and some chopped parsley. Pour in a pint of warm water (or of veal broth, if you have it) and stew it over a slow fire till the rabbits are quite tender; adding (when they are about half done) some bits of butter rolled in flour. Just before you take it from the fire, enrich the gravy with a gill or more of thick cream with some nutmeg grated into it. Stir the gravy well, but take care not to let it boil after the cream is in, lest it curdle. Put the pieces of rabbit on a hot dish, and pour the gravy over them. A Pretty Dish of Venison.-Cut a breast of venison in steaks, make quarter of a pound of butter hot in a pan, rub the steaks over with a mixture of a little salt and pepper, dip them in wheat flour, or rolled crackers, and fry a rich brown; when both sides are done, take them up on a dish, and put a tin cover over; dredge a heaping teaspoonful of flour into the butter in the pan, stir it with a spoon until it is brown, with- out burning, put to it a small teacup of boiling water, with a tablespoonful of currant jelly dissolved into it, stir it for a few minutes, then strain it over the meat and serve. A glass of wine, with a tablespoonful of white sugar dissolved in it, may be used for the gravy, instead of the jelly and water. Venison may be boiled, and served with boiled vegetables, pickled beets, etc., and sauce. To Broil. Venison Steaks.- Let the gridiron become hot, rub the bars with a bit of suet, then lay on the steaks, having dipped them in rolled crackers or wheat flour, and set it over a bright, clear, but not fierce, fire of coals; when one side is done, take the steak carefully over the steak dish, and hold it so that the blood may fall into the dish, then turn them on the gridiron, let it broil nicely; set a steak dish where it will be- come hot, put on it a bit of butter the size of an egg for each pound of venison, put to it a saltspoon of salt, and the same of black pepper, put to it a tablespoonful of currant jelly, made liquid with a tablespoonful of hot water or wine, lay the steaks on, turn them once or twice in the gravy, and serve hot. Or - 55 — they may be simply broiled, and served with butter, pepper and salt; or having broiled one side, and turned the steaks, lay thin slices of lemon over, and serve in the dish with the steaks. Beefsteak and Kidney Pudding.-Two pounds of rump- steak, two kidneys, seasoning to taste of salt and black pep- per, suet crust made with milk (see PASTRY), in the proportion of six ounces of suet to each one pound of flour. Mode : Procure some tender rump-steak (that which has been hung a little time), and divide it into pieces about an inch square, and cut each kidney into eight pieces. Line the dish with crust made with suet and flour in the above proportion, leaving a small piece of crust to overlap the edge. Then cover the bottom with a portion of the steak and a few pieces of kidney; season with salt and pepper (some add a little flour to thicken the gravy, but it is not neces- sary), and then add another layer of steak, kidney and seasoning. Proceed in this manner till the dish is full, when pour in sufficient water to come within two inches of the top of the basin. Moisten the edges of the crust, cover the pudding over, press the two crusts together that the gravy may not escape, and turn up the overhanging paste. Wring out a cloth in hot water, flour it, and tie up the pudding ; put it into boiling water, and let it boil for at least four hours, If the water diminishes, always replenish with some, hot in a jug, as the pudding should be kept covered all the time, and not allowed to stop boiling. When the cloth is removed, cut a round piece in the top of the crust, to prevent the pudding bursting, and send it to table in the basin, either in an orna- mental dish, or with a napkin pinned round it. Serve quickly. - - 57 — in butter till a delicate brown. Serve on slices of hot toast, with either a white or curry sauce poured around. Pieces of cold veal make a nice dish, if prepared in this manner. Beef Paities.-Chop fine some cold beef ; beat two eggs and mix with the meat and add a little milk, melted butter, and salt and pepper. Make into rolls and fry. Jellied Veal.-Boil the veal tender, pick it up fine, put in a mould, add the water it was boiled in, and set it in a cold place; season with salt and pepper to taste; a layer of hard-boiled eggs improves it. Rice and Meat Croquettes.—One cupful of boiled rice, one cupful of finely-chopped cooked meat-any kind ; one tea- spoonful of salt, a little pepper, two tablespoonfuls of butter, half a cupful of milk, one egg. Put the milk on to boil, and add the meat, rice and seasoning. When this boils, add the egg, well beaten ; stir one minute. After cooling, shape, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry as before directed. American Toast.–To one egg thoroughly beaten, put one cup of sweet milk and a little salt. Slice light bread, and dip into the mixture, allowing each slice to absord some of the milk; then brown on a hot buttered griddle; spread with but- ter, and serve hot. Meat and Potatoes.- Mince beef or mutton, small, with onions, pepper and salt ; add a little gravy, put into scallop shells or small cups, making them three parts full, and fill them up with potatoes mashed with a little cream, put a bit. of butter on the top and brown them in an oven. Breaded Sausages.--Wipe the sausages dry. Dip them in beaten egg and bread-crumbs Put them in the frying-basket and plunge into boiling fat. Cook ten minutes. Serve with a garnish of toasted bread and parsley. Ham Croquettes.--One cupful of finely chopped cooked ham, one of bread-crumbs, two of hot mashed potatoes, one large tablespoonful of butter, three eggs, a speck of cayenne. Beat te ham, cayenne, butter, and two of the eggs into the potato. Let the mixture cool slightly, and shape it like croquettes. Roll in the bread-crumbs, dip in beaten egg and again in crumbs, put in the frying-basket and plunge into boiling fata Cook two minutes. Drain, and serve. - 58 — A Nice Breakfast Dish.—Chopped cold meat well seasoned; wet with gravy, if convenient, put it on a platter; then take cold rice made moist with milk and one egg, season with pep- per and salt ; if not sufficient rice, add powdered bread-crumbs; place this around the platter quite thick; set in oven to heat and brown. Chicken in Jelly.--A little cold chicken (about one pint), one cupful of water or stock, one-fifth of a box of gelatine, half a teaspoonful of curry powder, salt, pepper. Cut the meat from the bones of a chicken left from dinner. Put the bones on with water to cover, and boil down to one cupful. Put the gelatine to soak in one-fourth of a cupful of cold water. When the stock is reduced as much as is necessary, strain and season. Add the curry and chicken. Season, and simmer ten minutes; then add the gelatine, and stir on the table until it is dissolved. Turn all into a mould, and set away to harden. This makes a nice relish for tea or lunch. If you have mushrooms, omit the curry, and cut four of them into dice. Stir into the mixture while cooking. This dish can be varied by using the whites of hard-boiled eggs, or bits of boiled ham. To serve : Dip the mould in warm water, and turn out on the dish. Garnish with parsley. A Good Dish.-Mince cold beef or lamb; if beef put in a pinch of pulverized cloves ; if lamb, a pinch of summer savory to season it, very little pepper and some salt, and put it in a baking dish; mash potatoes and mix them with cream and butter and a little salt, and spread them over the meat; beat up an egg with cream or milk, a very little ; spread it over the potatoes, and bake it a short time, sufficient to warm it through and brown the potatoes. 日20時 ​TEA POULTRY, GAME, ETC. Roast Turkey.-Carefully pluck the bird, singe it with white paper, and wipe it thoroughly with a cloth; draw it, preserve the liver and gizzard, and be particular not to break the gall- bag, as no washing will remove the bitter taste it imparts where it once touches. Wash it inside well, and wipe it thor- oughly with a dry cloth; the outside merely requires wip- ing nicely. Cut off the neck close to the back, but leave enough of the crop-skin to turn over ; break the leg-bones close below the knee; draw out the strings from the thighs, and flatten the breast-bone to make it look plump. Have ready your dress- ing of bread-crumbs, mixed with butter, pepper, salt, thyme or sweet marjoram ; fill the breast with this, and sew the neck over to the back. Be particular that the turkey is firmly trussed. Dredge it lightly with flour, and put a piece of butter into the basting-ladle ; as the butter melts, baste the bird with it. When of a nice brown and well-frothed, serve with a tureen of good brown gravy and one of bread-sauce. The liver should be put under one pinion, and the gizzard under the other. Fried sausages are a favorite addition to roast-turkey; they make a pretty garnish, besides adding much to the flavor. When these are not at hand, a few force-meat balls should be placed round the dish as a garnish. Turkey may also be stuffed with sausage-meat, and a chestnut force-meat with the same sauce, is by many persons, much esteemed as an ac- companiment to this favorite dish. SECOND RECIPE.—After drawing and cleansing the turkey, prepare a dressing of chopped sausage and bread crumbs, mix- ing in butter, pepper, salt and thyme to flavor. Fill the craw and the body of the turkey with this, and sew up carefully. Dredge with flour and put in the oven to roast, basting freely, first with hutter and water, then with the gravy from the pan. The time it takes to roast will depend both on the age and the weight of the turkey. If you have a good fire, you will be safe to allow ten minutes or so to the pound. Roast to a fine brown, and serve with the chopped giblets, which should be well stewed; add cranberry sauce. - 60 - Boiled Turkey.-Hen turkeys are the best for boiling. They are the whitest, and, if nicely kept, tenderest. Of course the sinews must be drawn, and they ought to be trussed with the legs out, so as to be easily carved. Take care to clean the turkey well after it has been singed. Place the fowl in a sufficiently large pot with clean water sufficient to cover it, and a little more; let the fire be a clear one, but not too fierce, as the slower the turkey boils the plumper it will be. Skim carefully and constantly, and simmer for two hours and a half in the case of a large fowl, and two hours for a smaller one, and from an hour and ten to an hour and forty minutes for still smaller turkeys. Some people boil their turkeys in a floured cloth. I don't; the whiteness being mostly in the fowl itself. My stuffing for a boiled turkey is thought good. I prepare it of crumbs of stale bread, with a little marrow r butter, some finely-shreded parsley, and two dozen small oys. ters, minus their beards, of course, and neatly trimmed. Stuff with this and a little chopped ham in addition if desired. To Roast a Fowl or Chicken.-Have a bright, clear, and steady fire for roasting poultry ; prepare it as directed ; spit it, put a pint of hot water in the dripping pan, add to it a small tablespoonful of salt, and a small teaspoonful of pepper, baste frequently, and let it roast quickly, without scorching; when nearly done, put a piece of butter the size of a large egg to the water in the pan ; when it melts, baste with it, dredge a little flour over, baste again, and let it finish ; half an hour will roast a full-grown chicken, if the fire is right. When done take it up, let the giblets (heart, liver, and gizzard) boil tender, and chop them very fine, and put them in the gravy ; add a tablespoonful of browned flour, and a bit of butter, stir it over the fire for a few minutes, then serve in a gravy tureen. Or put the giblets in the pan and let them roast. Boiled Chickens.-Clean, wash, and stuff as for roasting. Baste a floured cloth around each, and put into a pot with enough boiling water to cover them well. The hot water cooks the skin at once, and prevents the escape of the juices. The broth will not be so rich as if the fowls are put on in cold water, but this is a proof that the meat will be more nutritious and better flavored. Stew very slowly, for the first half hour especially. Boil an hour or more, guiding yourself by size sed toughness. Serve with egg or bread-sauce. - 61 — Broiled Chicken.-Prepare in the same way as for boiling, cut them in two through the back, and flatten them; place on a cold gridiron over a nice red fire. After a little time, when they have become thoroughly hot, set them on a plate or other dish, and lard them well with a piece of butter ; pepper and salt them to taste, chiefly on the inside, then place them on the broiler and continue turning till done-they will take fully twenty minutes. Serve hot, with a little dab of butter and plenty of stewed mushrooms—a delightful dish. Fried Chicken.-Cut the chicken in pieces, lay it in salt and water, which change several times ; roll each piece in flour ; fry in very hot lard or butter, season with salt and pepper; fry parsley with them also. Make a gravy of cream seasoned · with salt, pepper and a little mace, thickened with a little flour in the pan in which the chickens were fried, pouring off the lard. Fricassee of Chicken.-Cut into joints, scald and skin, place in a stew-pan, with two raw onions cut into eight parts, a little chopped parsley, salt and pepper, and the least squeeze of lemon juice. Add a bit of butter as large as an egg, and fill in a pint of water. Stew for an hour under a very close lid, then lift and strain off the gravy, into which beat grad- ually a teacupful of cream and the yolks of two eggs; heat up the gravy, taking care that it does not boil, and pour it over the fricassee. To Curry Chicken.-Slice an onion and brown in a little butter; add a spoonful of curry powder; allow it to remain covered for a few minutes to cook; add a little more butter and put in chicken, veal, etc., etc.; cut up small, thicken with a little flour. This is excellent. Pressed Chicken.-Cut up the fowls and place in a kettle with a tight cover, so as to retain the steam ; put about two teacups of water and plenty of salt and pepper over the chicken, then let it cook until the meat cleaves easily from the bones ; cut or chop all the meat (freed from skin, bone and gristle) about as for chicken salad ; season well, put into a dish and pour the remnant of the juice in which it was cooked over it. This will jelly when cold, and can then be sliced or set on the table in shape. Nice for tea or lunch. The knack of making this simple dish is not having too much — 62 — water; it will not jelly if too weak, or if the water is allowed to boil away entirely while cooking. Chicken Pot-Pie.-Skin and cut up the fowls into joints, and put the neck, legs and backbones in a stew-pan, with a little water, an onion, a bunch of savory herbs, and a blade of mace; let these stew for an hour, and, when done, strain off the liquor : this is for gravy. Put a layer of fowl at the bottom of a pie-dish, then a layer of ham, then one of force- meat and hard-boiled eggs, cut in rings; between the layers put a seasoning of pounded mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt. Pour in about a half a pint of water, border the edge of dish with puff-crust, put on the cover, ornament the top and glaze it by brushing over it the yolk of an egg. Bake for about an hour and a half, and, when done, pour in at the top, the gravy made from the bones. A Chicken Salad.—Take a fine white bunch of celery (four or five heads), scrap and wash it white; reserve the delicate green leaves; shred the white part like straws, lay this in a glass, or white china dish, in the form of a nest. Mince all the white meat of a boiled, or white stewed fowl, without the skin, and put it in the nest. Make a salad dressing thus: Rub the yolks of two hard boiled eggs to a smooth paste, with a dessert spoonful of salad oil, or melted butter ; add to it two teaspoonfuls of made mus- tard, and a small teaspoonful of fine white sugar, and put to it gradually (stirring it in) a large cup of strong vinegar. Make a wreath of the most delicate leaves of the celery, around the edge of the nest, between it and the chicken ; pour the dressing over the chicken when ready to serve; if the dress- ing is poured over too soon it will discolor the celery. White heart lettuce may be used for the nest, instead of celery. Jellied Chicken.-Boil a fowl until it will slip easily from the bones ; let the water be reduced to about one pint in boil. ing; pick the meat from the bones in good sized pieces, taking out all gristle, fat and bones, place in a wet mould ; skim the fat from the liquor ; a little butter; pepper and salt to the taste, and one half ounce of gelatine. When this dissolves, pour it hot over the chicken. The liquor must be seasoned pretty high, for the chicken absorbs. – 67 – currant jelly, and a pinch of cayenne. Thicken with browned flour and serve in a tureen. Wild Turkey.-Draw and wash the inside very carefully, as with all game. Domestic fowls are, or should be, kept up without eating for at least twelve hours before they are killed; but we must shoot wild when we can get the chance, and of course it often happens that their crops are distended by a re- cent hearty meal of rank or green food. Wipe the cavity with a dry soft cloth before you stuff. Have a rich force-meat, bread crumbs, some bits of fat pork, chopped fine, pepper and salt. Moisten with milk, and beat in an egg and a couple of tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Baste with butter and water for the first hour, then three or four times with gravy ; lastly, five or six times with melted butter. A generous and able housekeeper told me once that she always allowed a pound of butter for basting a large wild turkey. This was an extrava- gant quantity, but the meat is drier than that of the domestic fowl, and not nearly so fat. Dredge with flour at the last, froth with butter, and when he is of a tempting brown, serve. Skim the gravy, add a little hot water, pepper, thicken with the giblets chopped fine and browned flour, boil up, and pour into a tureen. At the South the giblets are not put in the gravy, but laid whole, one under each wing, when the turkey is dished. Garnish with small fried sausages, not larger than a dollar, crisped parsley between them. Send around currant jelly and cranberry sauce with it. To Roast Snipes, Woodcocks, or Plovers.—Pick them im- mediately ; wipe them, and season them slightly with pepper and salt. Cut as many slices of bread as you have birds. Toast them brown, butter them, and lay them in the pan. Dredge the birds with flour, and put them in the oven with a brisk fire. Baste them with lard, or fresh butter. They will be done in twenty or thirty minutes. Serve them up laid on the toast, and garnished with sliced orange, or with orange jelly. Roast Partridge.—Choose young birds, with dark-colored bills and yellowish legs, and let them hang a few days, or there will be no flavor to the flesh, nor will they be tender. The time they should be kept, entirely depends on the taste of those for whom they are intended, as what some persons, — 68 — would consider delicious, would be to others disgusting and offensive. They may be trussed with or without the head, the latter mode being now considered the most fashionable. Pluck, draw, and wipe the partridge carefully inside and out; cut off the head, leaving sufficient skin on the neck to skewer back; bring the legs close to the breast, between it and the side-bones, and pass a skewer through the pinions and thick part of the thighs. When the head is left on, it should be brought round and fixed on to the point of the skewer. When the bird is firmly and plumply trussed, roast it before a nice bright fire ; keep it well basted, and a few minutes before serving, flour and froth it well. Dish it, and serve with gravy and bread-sauce, and send to table hot and quickly. A little of the gravy should be poured over the bird. . Roast Quail.-Pluck and draw the birds, rub a little butter over them, tie a strip of bacon over the breasts, and set them in the oven for twenty to twenty-five minutes. Roast Prairie Chicken.—The bird being a little strong, and its flesh when cooked a little dry, it should be either larded or wide strips of bacon or pork placed over its breast. A mild seasoned stuffing will improve the flavor of old birds. Dust a little flour over them, baste occasionally, and serve. Pheas- ants may be managed in the same manner. Larded Grouse.-Clean and wash the grouse. Lard the breast and legs. Run a small skewer into the legs and through the tail. Tie firmly with twine. Dredge with salt, and rub the breast with soft butter; then dredge thickly with flour. Put into a quick oven. If to be very rare, cook twenty min- utes ; if wished better done, thirty minutes. The former time, as a general thing, suits gentlemen better, but thirty minutes is preferred by ladies. If the birds are cooked in a tin-kitchen, it should be for thirty or thirty-five minutes. When done, place on a hot dish, on which has been spread bread sauce. Sprinkle fried crumbs over both grouse and sauce. Garnish with parsley. The grouse may, instead, be served on a hot dish, with the parsley garnish, and the sauce and crumbs served in separate dishes. The first method is the better, however, as you get in the sauce all the gravy that comes from the birds. - 69 — Pork, Hams, etc.—To CHOOSE PORK.-If the rind of pork is tough and thick, and cannot easily be impressed with the fin. ger, it is old. If fresh, the flesh will look cool and smooth ; when moist or clammy it is stale. The knuckle is the first to become tainted. Pork is often what is called measly, and is then almost poisonous; measly pork may easily be detected, the fat being full of small kernels. Swill or still-fed pork is not fit for curing ; either dairy or corn fed is good. Fresh pork is in season from October to April. In cutting up a large hog, it is first cut in two down the back and belly. The chine or backbone should be cut out from each side the whole length, and is either boiled or roasted. The chine is considered the prime part. The sides of the hog are made into bacon, and the inside or ribs is cut with very little meat; this is the spare-rib. To Roast a Leg of Pork.—Take a sharp knife and score the skin across in narrow stripes (you may cross it again so as to form diamonds) and rub in some powdered sage. Raise the skin at the knuckle and put in a stuffing of minced onion and sage, bread-crumbs, pepper, salt, and beaten yolk of egg. Fasten it down with a buttered string, or with skewers. You may make deep incisions in the meat of the large end of the leg, and stuff them also, pressing in the filling very hard. Rub a little sweet oil all over the skin with a brush or a goose feather, to make it crisp and of a handsome brown. A leg of pork will require from three to four hours to roast. Moisten it all the time by brushing it with sweet oil, or with fresh but- ter tied in a rag. To baste it with its own dripping will make the skin tough and hard. Skim the fat carefully from the gravy, which should be thickened with a little flour. A roast leg of pork should always be accompanied by apple sauce, and by mashed potatoes and mashed turnips. Pork and Beans.--Pick over carefully a quart of beans and let them soak over night; in the morning wash and drain in another water, put on to boil in cold water with half a tea- spoon of soda ; boil about thirty minutes (when done the skin of a bean will crack if taken out and blown upon), drain, and put in an earthen pot first a slice of pork and then the beans, with two or three tablespoons of molasses When the beans 70 — are in the pot, put in the centre half or three-fourths of a pound of well-washed salt pork with the rind scored in slices or squares, and uppermost; season with pepper and salt if needed ; cover all with hot water, and bake six hours or longer in a moderate oven, adding hot water as needed; they cannot be baked too long. Keep covered so that they will not burn on the top, but remove cover an hour or two before serving, to brown the top and crisp the pork. Pork Sausages.-Take such a proportion of fat and lean pork as you like; chop it quite fine, and for every ten pounds of meat take four ounces of fine salt, and one of fine pepper ; dried sage, or lemon thyme, finely powdered, may be added if liked ; a teaspoonful of sage, and the same of ground allspice and cloves, to each ten pounds of meat. Mix the seasoning through the meat; pack it down in stone pots, or put it in muslin bags. Or fill the hog's or ox's guts, having first made them perfectly clean, thus : empty them, cut them in lengths, and lay them three or four days in salt and water, or weak lime water; turn them inside out once or twice, scrape them; then rinse them, and fill with the meat. If you do not use the skins or guts, make the sausage meat up the size and shape of sausages, dip them in beaten egg, and then into wheat flour, or rolled crackers, or simply into wheat flour, and fry in hot lard. Turn them, that every side may be a fine color. Serve hot, with boiled potatoes or hominy ; either taken from the gravy, or after they are fried, pour a little boil. ing water into the gravy in the pan, and pour it over them; or first dredge in a teaspoonful of wheat flour, stir it until it is smooth and brown ; then add a little boiling water, let it boil up once, then put it in the dish with the sausages. Chopped onion and green parsley may be added to the sausage meat, when making ready to fry. Or sausage meat may be tied in a muslin bag, and boiled, and served with vegetables; or let it become cold, and cut in slices. Pork Chops, Steaks and Cutlets.-Fry or stew pork chops, after taking off the rind or skin, the same as for veal. Cutlets and steaks are also fried, broiled, or stewed, the same as veal. Roast Pig.-Thoroughly clean the pig, then rinse it in cold water, wipe it dry; then rub the inside with a mixture of salt –71– and pepper, and if liked, a little pounded and sifted sage; make a stuffing thus : cut some wheat bread in slices half an inch thick, spread butter on to half its thickness, sprinkled with pepper and salt, and if liked, a little pounded sage and minced onion ; pour enough hot water over the bread to make it moist or soft, then fill the body with it and sew it together, or tie a cord around it to keep the dressing in, then spit it ; put a pint of water in the dripping-pan, put into it a table- spoonful of salt, and a teaspoonful of pepper, let the fire be hotter at each end than in the middle, put the pig down at a little distance from the fire, baste it as it begins to roast, and gradually draw it nearer; continue to baste occasionally ; turn it that it may be evenly cooked; when the eyes drop out it is done; or a better rule is to judge by the weight, fifteen minutes for each pound of meat, if the fire is right. Have a bright clear fire, with a bed of coals at the bottom; first put the roast at a little distance, and gradually draw it nearer ; when the pig is done stir up the fire, take a coarse cloth with a good bit of butter in it, and wet the pig all over with it, and when the crackling is crisp take it up; dredge a little flour into the gravy, let it boil up once, and having boiled the heart, liver, etc., tender, and chopped it fine, add it to the gravy, give it one boil, then serve. Pig's Cheek.—Is smoked and boiled like ham with vegeta- bles ; boiled cabbage or fried parsnips may be served with it. Roast Spare-Rib.—Trim off the rough ends neatly, crack the ribs across the middle, rub with salt and sprinkle with pepper, fold over, stuff with turkey-dressing, sew up tightly, place in dripping-pan with a pint of water, baste frequently, turning over once so as to bake both sides equally until a rich brown. Pork Fritters.-Have at hand a thick batter of Indian meal and flour ; cut a few slices of pork and fry them in the frying- pan until the fat is fried out; cut a few more slices of the pork, dip them in the batter, and drop them in the bubbling fat, sea- soning with salt and pepper; cook until light brown, and eat while hot. Baked Ham.-Cover your ham with cold water, and simmer gently just long enough to loosen the skin, so that it can be pulled off. This will probably be from two or three hours. - 72 — according to the size of your ham. When skinned, put in a dripping-pan in the oven, pour over it a teacup of vinegar and one of hot water, in which dissolve a teaspoonful of English mustard, bake slowly, basting with the liquid, for two hours. Then cover the ham all over to the depth of one inch with coarse brown sugar, press it down firmly, and do not baste again until the sugar has formed a thick crust, which it will soon do in a very slow oven. Let it remain a full hour in, after covering with the sugar, until it becomes a rich golden brown. When done, drain from the liquor in the pan and put on a dish to cool. When it is cool, but not cold, press by turning another flat dish on top, with a weight over it. You will never want to eat ham cooked in any other way when you have tasted this, and the pressing makes it cut firmly for sandwiches or slicing. To Boil a Ham.—Wash thoroughly with a cloth. Select a small size to boil, put it in a large quantity of cold water, and boil twenty minutes for each pound, allowing it to boil slowly; take off the rind while hot and put in the oven to brown half an hour ; remove and trim. To Broil Ham.-Cut some slices of ham, quarter of an inch thick, lay them in hot water for half an hour, or give them a scalding in a pan over the fire; then take them up, and lay them on a gridiron, over bright coals; when the outside is. browned, turn the other; then take the slices on a hot dish, butter them freely, sprinkle pepper over and serve. Or, after scalding them, wipe them dry, dip each slice in beaten egg, and then into rolled crackers and fry or broil. Fried Ham and Eggs (a Breakfast Dish).-Cut the ham into slices, and take care that they are of the same thickness in every part. Cut off the rind, and if the ham should be partic- ularly hard and salt, it will be found an improvement to soak it for about ten minutes in hot water, and then dry it in a cloth. Put it into a cold frying-pan, set it over the fire, and turn the slices three or four times whilst they are cooking. When done, place them on a dish, which should be kept hot in front of the fire during the time the eggs are being poached. Poach the eggs, slip them on to the slices of ham, and serve quickly. Ham Toast. — Mince finely a quarter of a pound of cooked ham with an anchovy boned and washed ; add a little cay- -73- enne and pounded mace; beat up two eggs; mix with the mince, and add just sufficient milk to keep it moist; make it quite hot, and serve on small rounds of toast or fried bread. Head Cheese.—Having thoroughly cleaned a hog's head or pig's head, split it in two with a sharp knife, take out the eyes, take out the brains, cut off the ears, and pour scalding water over them and the head, and scrape them clean. Cut off any part of the nose which may be discolored so as not to be scraped clean ; then rinse all in cold water, and put it into a large kettle with hot (not boiling) water to cover it, and set the kettle (having covered it) over the fire ; let it boil gently, taking off the scum as it rises ; when boiled so that the bones leave the meat readily, take it from the water with a skimmer into a large wooden bowl or tray ; take from it every particle of bone ; chop the meat small and season to taste with salt and pepper, and if liked, a little chopped sage or thyme; spread a cloth in a colander or sieve; set it in a deep dish, and put the meat in, then fold the cloth closely over it, lay a weight on which may press equally the whole surface (a sufficiently large plate will serve). Let the weight be more or less heavy, ac- cording as you may wish the cheese to be fat or lean; a heavy weight, by pressing out the fat, will of course, leave the cheese lean. When cold, take the weight off ; take it from the colan- der or sieve, scrape off whatever fat may be found on the out- side of the cloth, and keep the cheese in the cloth in a cool place; to be eaten sliced thin, with or without mustard, and vinegar, or catsup. After the water is cold in which the head was boiled, take off the fat from it, and whatever may have drained from the sieve, or colander and cloth ; put it together in some clean water, give it one boil; then strain it through a cloth, and set it to become cold ; then take off the cake of fat. It is fit for any use. Pigs' Feet Soused. -Scald and scrape clean the feet; if the covering of the toes will not come off without, singe them in hot embers, until they are loose, then take them off. Many persons lay them in weak lime water to whiten them. Having scraped them clean and white, wash them and put them in a pot of hot (not boiling) water, with a little salt, and let them boil gently, until by turning a fork in the flesh it will easily break, and the bones are loosened. Take off the scum as it rises. When done, take them from the hot water into cold vinegar, enough to cover them, add to it one-third as much of the water in which they were boiled ; add whole pepper and allspice, with cloves and mace if liked, put a cloth and a tight fitting cover over the pot or jar. Soused feet may be eaten cold from the vinegar, split in two from top to toe, or having split them, dip them in wheat flour and fry in hot lard, or broil and butter them. In either case, let them be nicely browned. To Tell Good Eggs.-Put them in water-if the large end turns up, they are not fresh. This is an infallible rule to dis- tinguish a good egg from a bad one. Keeping Eggs Fresh.—“ All it is necessary to do to keep eggs through summer is to procure small, clean, wooden or tin vessels, holding from ten to twenty gallons, and a barrel, more or less, of common, fine-ground land plaster. Begin by put- ting on the bottom of the vessel two or three inches of plaster, and then, having fresh eggs, with the yolks unbroken, set them up, small end down, close to each other, but not crowding, and make the first layer. Then add more plaster and enough so the eggs will stand upright, and set up the second layer ; then another deposit of plaster, followed by a layer of eggs, till the vessel is full, and finish by covering the top layer with plaster. Eggs so packed and subjected to a temperature of at least 85 degrees, if not 90 degrees, during August and Septem- ber, came out fresh, and if one could be certain of not having a temperature of more than 75 degrees to contend with, I am confident eggs could be kept by these means all the year round. Observe that the eggs must be fresh laid, the yolks unbroken, the packing done in small vessels, and with clean, fine-ground land plaster, and care must be taken that no egg so presses on another as to break the shell." Eggs may be kept good for a year in the following manner : To a pail of water, put of unslacked lime and coarse salt each a pint; keep it in a cellar, or cool place, and put the eggs in, as fresh laid as possible. It is well to keep a stone pot of this lime water ready to re- ceive the eggs as soon as laid ; make a fresh supply every few months. This lime water is of exactly the proper strength; –75 — strong lime water will cook the eggs. Very strong lime water will eat the shell. Poached Eggs.-Two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of milk, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of butter. Beat the eggs, and add the salt and milk. Put the butter in a small saucepan, and when it melts, add the eggs. Stir over the fire until the mixture thickens, being careful not to let it cook hard. About two minutes will cook it. The eggs, when done, should be soft and creamy. Serve immediately. Dropped Eggs.-Have one quart of boiling water and one tablespoonful of salt in a frying-pan. Break the eggs, one by one, into a saucer, and slide carefully into the salted water. Cook until the whites are firm, and lift out with a griddle-cake turner and place on toasted bread. Serve immediately. Stuffed Eggs.—Six hard-boiled eggs cut in two, take out the yolks and mash fine ; then add two teaspoonfuls of butter, one of cream, two or three drops of onion juice, salt and pep- per to taste. Mix all thoroughly and fill the eggs with this mixture; put them together. Then there will be a little of the filling left, to which add one well beaten egg. Cover the eggs with this mixture, and then roll in cracker crumbs. Fry a light brown in boiling fat. Plain baked eggs make a quite pretty breakfast dish. Take a round white-ware dish thick enough to stand the heat of the oven, put into it sufficient fresh butter, and break as many eggs in it as are desirable, putting a few bits of butter on the top, and set in a rather slow oven until they are cooked. Have a dish of nicely made buttered toast arranged symmetrically on a plate, and garnish it and the dish of eggs with small pieces of curled parsley. Eggs à la Suisse.-Spread the bottom of a dish with two ounces of fresh butter; cover this with grated cheese ; break eight whole eggs upon the cheese without breaking the yolks. Season with red pepper and salt if necessary; pour a little cream on the surface, strew about two ounces of grated cheese on the top, and set the eggs in a moderate oven for about a quarter of an hour. Pass a hot salamander over the top, to brown it. Eggs Brouille. Six eggs, half a cupful of milk, or, better still, of cream ; two mushrooms, one teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper, three tablespoonfuls of butter, a slight grating -79- turn the omelet into a dish, and serve. This must be done over a moderate fire. Eggs Poached in Balls.- Put three pints of boiling water into a stew-pan; set it on a hot stove or coals ; stir the water with a stick until it runs rapidly around, then, having broken an egg into a cup, taking care not to break the yolk, drop it into the whirling water; continue to stir it until the egg is cooked; then take it into a dish with a skimmer, and set it over a pot of boiling water; boil one at a time, until you have enough. These will remain soft for a long time. Omelet au Natural.—Break eight or ten eggs into a basin; add a small teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper, with a tablespoonful of cold water; beat the whole well with a spoon or whisk. In the meantime put some fresh sweet butter into an omelet pan, and when it is nearly hot, put in an omelet; while it is frying, with a skimmer-spoon raise the edges from the pan, that it may be properly done. When the eggs are set and one side is a fine brown, double it half over, and serve hot. These omelets should be put quite thin in the pan ; the butter required for each will be about the size of a small egg. Omelet in Batter. Fry an omelet; when done, cut it in squares or diamonds; dip each piece in batter made of two eggs and a pint of milk with enough wheat flour, and fry them in nice salted lard, to a delicate brown. Serve hot. Scrambled Eggs.-Four eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, half a teaspoonful of salt. Beat the eggs, and add the salt to them; melt the butter in a saucepan. Turn in the beaten. eggs, stir quickly over a hot fire for one minute, and serve. Omelet (splendid).—Six eggs, whites and yolks beaten sepa- rately, half pint milk, six teaspoons corn starch, one teaspoon baking powder, and a little salt ; add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, last; cook in a little butter. 1 RUM VEGETABLES. Boiled Potatoes.-Old potatoes are better for being peeled and put in cold water an hour before being put over to boil. They should then be put into fresh cold water when set over the fire. New potatoes should always be put into boiling water, and it is best to prepare them just in time for cooking. Are better steamed than boiled. Mashed Potatoes.—Potatoes are not good for mashing un- til they are full grown; peel them, and lay them in water for an hour or more before boiling, for mashing. Old potatoes, when unfit for plain boiling, may be served mashed. Cut out all imperfections, take off all the skin, and lay them in cold water for one hour or more; then put them into a dinner-pot or stewpan, with a teaspoonful of salt; cover the stewpan, and let them boil for half an hour, unless they are large, when three-quarters of an hour will be re quired; when they are done, take them up with a skimmer into a wooden bowl or tray, and mash them fine with a pota- toe beetle ; melt a piece of butter, the size of a large egg, into half a pint of hot milk; mix it with the mashed potatoes un- til it is thoroughly incorporated and a smooth mass; then put it in a deep dish, smooth the top over, and mark it neatly with a knife; put pepper over, and serve. The quantity of milk used must be in proportion to the quantity of potatoes. Mashed potatoes may be heaped on a flat dish; make it in a crown or pineapple ; stick a sprig of green celery or parsley in the top ; or, first brown it before the fire or in an oven. Mashed potatoes may be made a highly ornamental dish. After shaping it, as taste may direct, trim the edge of the plate with a wreath of celery leaves or green parsley ; or, first brown the outside in an oven or before the fire. Fried Potatoes.-Peel and cut the potatoes into thin slices, as nearly the same size as possible ; make some butter or dripping quite hot in a frying-pan ; put in the potatoes, and fry them on both sides to a nice brown. When they are crisp and done, take them up, place them on a cloth before the fire, - 80 - rapidly until creamy. Pile as lightly and irregularly as you can in a hot dish. Scalloped Potatoes. Prepare in this proportion: Two cups of mashed potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of cream or milk, and one of melted butter; salt and pepper to taste. Stir the potatoes, butter, and cream together, adding one raw egg. If the potatoes seem too moist, beat in a few fine bread-crumbs Bake in a hot oven for ten minutes, taking care to have the top a rich brown. Potato Croquettes. Pare, boil, and mash six goon eized potatoes. Add one tablespoonful of butter, two-thirds of a cupful of hot cream or milk, the whites of two eggs well beaten, salt and pepper to taste. When cool enough to handle, work into shape, roll in egg and bread-crumbs, and fry in hot lard. Potatoes à la Creme.—Heat a cupful of milk; sti) in a heaping tablespoonful of butter cut up in as much flour. Stir until smooth and thick; pepper and salt, and add two chrpfuls of cold boiled potatoes, sliced, and a little very finely chopped parsley. Shake over the fire until the potåtoes are hot all through, and pour into a deep dish. To Boil Sweet Potatoes.-Wash them perfectly clean, put them into a pot or stew-pan, and pour boiling water over to cover them ; cover the pot close, and boil fast for half an hour, or more if the potatoes are large; try them with a fork; when done, drain off the water, take off the skins, and serve. Cold sweet potatoes may be cut in slices across or length- wise, and fried or broiled as common potatoes; or they may be cut in half and served cold. Roasted Sweet Potatoes. Having washed them clean, and wiped them dry, roast them on a hot hearth as directed for common potatoes ; or put them in a Dutch oven or tin re- flector. Roasted or baked potatoes should not be cut, but broken open and eaten from the skin, as from a shell. To Bake Sweet Potatoes.-Wash them perfectly clean, wipe them dry, and bake in a quick oven, according to their size-half an hour for quite small size, three-quarters for larger, and a full hour for the largest. Let the oven have a good heat, and do not open it, unless it is necessary to turn them, until they are done. –81 – French Fried Sweet Potatoes.-Prepare and fry the same as the white potatoes. Or they can first be boiled half an hour, and then pared, cut and fried as directed. The latter is the better way, as they are liable to be a little hard if fried when raw. Turnips.-Boil until tender; mash and season with butter, pepper, salt, and a little rich milk or cream. Spinach.—An excellent way to serve spinach is to first look it over carefully ; wash it in two or three waters. If the stalks are not perfectly tender, cut the leaves from the stalk. Boil for twenty minutes in water with enough salt dissolved in it to salt the spinach sufficiently. When done let it drain, then chop it fine, put it on the stove in a saucepan, with a lump of butter, salt, and pepper, and enough milk to moisten it. When the butter is melted and the spinach steaming, take from the fire and put it in the dish in which it is going to the table. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut in slices or in rings --that is, with the yolk removed and rings of the white only left. Beets.-Clean these nicely, but do not pare them, leaving on a short piece of the stalk. Then put over to boil in hot water. Young beets will cook tender in an hour; old beets require several hours' boiling. When done, skin quickly while hot, slice thin into your vegetable dish, put on salt, pepper, and a little butter, put over a little vinegar, and serve hot or cold. To Preserve Vegetables for Winter Use.-Green stringed beans must be picked when young; put a layer three inches deep in a small wooden keg or half barrel ; sprinkle in salt an inch deep, then put another layer of beans, then salt, and beans and salt in alternate layers, until you have enough ; let the last be salt; cover them with a piece of board which will fit the inside of the barrel or keg, and place a heavy weight upon it; they will make a brine. When wanted for use, soak them one night or more in plenty of water, changing it once or twice, until the salt is out of them, then cut them, and boil the same as when fresh. Carrots, beans, beet-roots, parsnips, and potatoes, keep best in dry sand or earth in a cellar ; turnips keep best on a cellar bottom, or they may be kept the same as carrots, etc. What- - 82 — ever earth remains about them when taken from the ground, should not be taken off. When sprouts come on potatoes or other stored vegetables, they should be carefully cut off. The young sprouts from turnips are sometimes served as a salad, or boiled tender in salt and water, and served with butter and pepper over. Celery may be kept all winter by setting it in boxes filled with earth; keep it in the cellar; it will grow and whiten in the dark; leeks may also be kept in this way. Cabbage set out in earth, in a good cellar, will keep good and fresh all winter. Small close heads of cabbage may be kept many weeks by taking them before the frost comes, and laying them on a stone floor ; this will whiten them, and make them tender. Store onions are to be strung, and hung in a dry, cold place. Delicate Cabbage.—Remove all defective leaves, quarter and cut as for coarse slaw, cover well with cold water, and let remain several hours before cooking, then drain and put into pot with enough boiling water to cover; boil until thoroughly cooked (which will generally require about forty-five min- utes), add salt ten or fifteen minutes before removing from fire, and when done, take up into a colander, press out the water well, and season with butter and pepper. This is a good dish to serve with corned meats, but should not be cooked with them; if preferred, however, it may be seasoned by add- ing some of the liquor and fat from the boiling meat to the cabbage while cooking. Drain, remove, and serve in a dish with drawn butter or a cream dressing poured over it. Red Cabbage.-Select two small, solid heads of hard red cabbage; divide them in halves from crown to stem; lay the split side down, and cut downwards in thin slices. The cab- bage will then be in narrow strips or shreds. Put into a saucepan a tablespoon of clean drippings, butter, or any nice fat; when fat is hot, put in cabbage, a teaspoon of salt, three tablespoons vinegar (if the latter is very strong, use but two), and one onion, in which three or four cloves have been stuck, buried in the middle ; boil two hours and a half ; if it becomes too dry and is in danger of scorching, add a very little water. This is very nice. - 83 - Cauliflower. Boil a fine cauliflower, tied up snugly in coarse tarlatan, in hot water, a little salt. Drain and lay in a deep dish, flower uppermost. Heat a cup of milk ; thicken with two tablespoonfuls of butter, cut into bits, and rolled in flour. Add pepper, salt, the beaten white of an egg, and boil up one min- ute, stirring well. Take from the fire, squeeze the juice of a lemon through a hair sieve into the sauce, and pour half into a boat, the rest over the cauliflower. Mashed Carrots.-Scrape, wash, lay in cold water half an hour; then cook tender in boiling water. Drain well, mash with a wooden spoon, or beetle, work in a good piece of butter, and season with pepper and salt. Heap up in a vegetable dish, and serve very hot. Boiled Green Corn.—Choose young sugar-corn, full grown, but not hard ; test with the nail. When the grain is pierced, the milk should escape in a jet, and not be thick. Clean by stripping off the outer leaves, turn back the innermost cover- ing carefully, pick off every thread of silk, and re-cover the ear with the thin husk that grew nearest it. Tie at the top with a bit of thread, put into boiling water salted, and cook fast from twenty minutes to half an hour, in proportion to size and age. Cut off the stalks close to the cob, and send whole to table wrapped in a napkin. Or you can cut from the cob while hot and season with butter, pepper, and salt. Send to table in a vegetable dish. Green Peas.-Shell and lay in cold water fifteen minutes. Cook from twenty to twenty-five minutes in boiling salted water. Drain, put into a deep dish with a good lump of but- ter ; pepper and salt to taste. To Boil Onions.—Take off the tops and tails, and the thin outer skin; but no more, lest the onions should go to pieces. Lay them on the bottom of a pan which is broad enough to contain them without piling one on another; just cover them with water, and let them simmer slowly till they are tender all through, but not till they break. Serve them up with melted butter. Fried Onions.-Cut them in thin slices and season them; have a piece of fat bacon frying to get the juice, take it out, and put the onions in and stir until a pretty lirown. - 84- Boiled Parsnips.—Wash the parsnips, scrape them thor. oughly, and, with the point of the knife, remove any black specks about thein, and, should they be very large, cut the thick part into quarters. Put them into a saucepan of boiling water, salted in the above proportion, boil them rapidly until tender, which may be ascertained by thrusting a fork in them; take them up, drain them, and serve in a vegetable dish. This vegetable is usually served with salt fish, boiled pork, or boiled beef; when sent to table with the latter, a few should be placed alternately with carrots round the dish as a garnish. Parsnips Fried in Butter.-Scrape the parsnips and boil gently forty-five minutes. When cold, cut in long slices about one-third of an inch thick. Season with salt and pepper. Dip in melted butter and in flour. Have two tablespoonfuls of butter in the frying-pan, and as soon as hot, put in enough parsnips to cover the bottom. Fry brown on both sides, and serve on a hot dish. Creamed Parsnips.-Boil tender, scrape, and slice length- wise. Put over the fire with two tablespoonfuls of butter, pepper, and salt, and a little minced parsley. Shake until the mixture boils. Dish the parsnips, add to the sauce three table- spoonfuls of cream in which has been stirred a quarter spoon- ful of flour. Boil once, and pour over the parsnips. Parsnip Fritters.—Boil four or five parsnips ; when tender, take off the skin and mash them fine, add to them a teaspoon- ful of wheat flour and a beaten egg ; put a tablespoonful of lard or beef dripping in a frying-pan over the fire, add to it a saltspoonful of salt; when boiling hot, put in the parsnips, make it in small cakes with a spoon; when one side is a deli- cate brown, turn the other; when both are done, take them on a dish, put a very little of the fat in which they were fried over, and serve hot. These resemble very nearly the taste of the salsify or oyster plant, and will generally be preferred. Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster.-Boil and serve as directed for parsnips ; either plain boiled, or fried, or made fritters. Boiled Vegetable Marrow.-Have ready a saucepan of boil- ing water, properly salted ; put in the marrows after peeling them, and boil them until quite tender. Take them up with a slice; halve, and, should they be very large, quarter them. - 85 - Dish them on toast, and send to table with them a tureen of melted butter, or, in lieu of this, a small pat of salt butter. Large vegetable marrows may be preserved throughout the winter by storing them in a dry place ; when wanted for use, a few slices should be cut and boiled in the same manner as above; but, when once begun, the marrow must be eaten quickly, as it keeps but a short time after it is cut. Vegeta- ble marrows are also very delicious mashed: they should be boiled, then drained, and mashed smoothly with a wooden spoon. Heat them in a saucepan, add a seasoning of salt and pepper, and a small piece of butter, and dish with a few snip- pets of toasted bread placed round as a garnish. Vegetable marrows are delightful when sliced and fried for ten minutes in butter. Before being fried they may be dipped in a batter of flour and water, seasoned with a little salt. Veg- etable marrows may be also dressed as follows : Boil one, and when it is about ready cut it in pieces, which place in a fresh saucepan, covered with soup stock, either white or brown; add a little salt in stewing. Serve in a deep dish when thoroughly tender. Vegetable marrows are very nice plain boiled, and served upon buttered toast. Peel them and cut them so as to be able to remove the seeds. Marrows will take from twenty minutes to an hour to boil, according to size and age. After being parboiled, they may be sliced down, dipped in egg, and then rubbed among bread crumbs, and fried, serve them as hot as possible. Stewed Tomatoes.-Pour boiling water over six or eight large tomatoes, or a greater number of small ones ; let them remain for a few minutes, then peel off the skins, squeeze out the seeds and some of the juice, by pressing them gently in the hand; put them in a well tinned stewpan, with a tea- spoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper, a bit of butter, half as large as an egg, and a tablespoonful of grated bread or rolled crackers ; cover the stewpan close, and set it over the fire for nearly an hour; shake the stewpan occasionally, that they may not burn; serve hot. . This is decidedly the best manner of stewing tomatoes ; they may be done without the bread crumbs, and with less stewing · if preferred. - 88- Drain tre asparagus, and arrange upon the toast. Pepper, salt, and butter generously. Mushrooms, Stewed. If fresh, let them lie in salt and water about one hour, then put them in the stewpan, cover with water, and let them cook two hours gently. Dress them with cream, butter and flour, as oysters, and season to taste. Mushrooms, Fried. When peeled, put them into hot but- ter, and let them heat thoroughly through—too much cooking toughens them. Season well with butter, pepper, and salt. Serve on buttered toast; a teaspoonful of wine or vinegar on each mushroom is a choice method. Baked Mushrooms.—Place some large flat ones, nicely cleaned and trimmed, on thin slices of well buttered toast, putting a little nudgel of butter in each, as also a snuff of pepper and salt; lay them on a baking tray, and cover them carefully; heap the hot ashes upon them, and let them bake on the hearth for fifteen or twenty minutes. · Broiled Mushrooms.—Choose the largest sort, lay them on a small gridiron over bright coals, the stalk upward. Broil quickly, and serve, with butter, pepper, and salt over. Mashed Squash.-Peel, seed and slice fresh summer squashes. Lay in cold water ten minutes ; put into boiling water, a little salt, and cook tender. Twenty minutes will suffice if the squash be young. Mash in a colander, pressing out all the water; heap in a deep dish, seasoning with pepper, salt and butter. Serve hot. Baked Squash.—Cut in pieces, scrape well, bake from one to one and a half hours, according to the thickness of the squash. To be eaten with salt and butter, as sweet potatoes. Fried Squashes.-Cut the squash into thin slices, and sprinkle it with salt; let it stand a few moments, then beat two eggs, and dip the squash into the egg ; then fry it brown in butter. Stewed Celery.—Is an excellent winter dish, and is very easily cooked. Wash the stalks thoroughly, and boil in well salted water till tender, which will be in about twenty'min- utes. After it is made ready, as above, drain it thoroughly, place it on toasted bread, and pour over it a quantity of sauce. - 89 — A sauce of cream, seasoned with a little mace, may be served over the celery. It may also be served with melted butter. Stuffed Egg-plant.-Cut the egg-plant in two, scrape out all the inside, and put it in a saucepan, with a little minced ham ; cover with water, and boil until soft; drain off the water; add two tablespoonfuls grated crumbs, tablespoonful butter, half a minced onion, salt and pepper ; stuff each half of the hull with the mixture; add a lump of butter to each, and bake fifteen minutes. SAUCES FOR MEATS, FISH, POULTRY OR VEGETABLES. To Make Drawn Butter -Put half a pint of milk in a per- fectly clean stewpan, and set it over a moderate fire; put into a pint bowl a heaping tablespoonful of wheat flour, quarter of a pound of sweet butter, and a saltspoonful of salt; work these well together with the back of the spoon, then pour into it, stirring it all the time, half a pint of boiling water; when it is smooth, stir it into the boiling milk, let it simmer for five minutes or more, and it is done. Drawn butter made after this recipe will be found to be most excellent; it may be made less rich by using less butter. Parsley Sauce.—Make a drawn butter as directed, dip a bunch of parsley into boiling water, then cut it fine, and stir into the drawn butter a few minutes before taking it up. Egg Sauce.—Make a drawn butter ; chop two hard-boiled eggs quite fine, the white and yolk separately, and stir it into the sauce before serving. This is used for boiled fish or vege- tables. Onion Sauce. -Peel some nice white onions, and boil them tender; press the water from them ; chop them fine, and put them to a half pint of hot milk; add a bit of butter and a teaspoonful of salt, and pepper to taste. Serve with boiled veal, or poultry, or mutton. - 90 ell in withe drist poult Anchovy Sauce. — Make the butter sauce, and stir into it four tablespoonfuls of essence of anchovy and one of lemon juice. Bread Sauce.-One pint milk, one cup bread-crumbs (very fine), one onion, sliced, a pinch of mace, pepper and salt to taste, three tablespoonfuls butter. Simmer the sliced onion in the milk until tender; strain the milk, and pour over the bread-crumbs, which should be put into a saucepan. Cover and soak half an hour; beat smooth with an egg-whip, add the seasoning and butter; stir in well, boil up once, and serve in a tureen. If it is too thick, add boiling water and more butter. This sauce is for roast poultry. Some people add some of the gravy from the dripping-pan, first straining it, and beat- ing it well in with the sauce. Tomato Sauce.-Can be cheaply made either from the fresh fruit, or from the canned tomatoes, which are on sale in every grocer's shop. : Squeeze as much as you require through a sieve, and then simmer slowly for a little time in a few table- spoonfuls of beef gravy; season with pepper and salt. Ex. cellent for chops and cutlets, or for roasted beef. Tomato Mustard.-One peck of ripe tomatoes; boiled with two onions, six red peppers, four cloves of garlic, for one hour; then add a half-pint or half-pound salt, three table spoons black pepper, half-ounce ginger, half-ounce allspice, half-ounce mace, half-ounce cloves; then boil again for one hour longer, and when cold add one pint of vinegar and a quarter-pound of mustard ; and if you like it very hot, a tablespoonful of cayenne. Mint Sauce.—Mix one tablespoon of white sụgar to half a teacup of good vinegar ; add the mint, and let it infuse for half an hour in a cool place before sending to the table. Serve with roast lamb or mutton. Celery Sauce.-Mix two tablespoons of flour with half a teacup of butter ; have ready a pint of boiling milk; stir the flour and butter into the milk; take three heads of celery, cut into small bits, and boil for a few minutes in water, which strain off ; put the celery into the melted butter, and keep it stirred over the fire for five or ten minutes. This is very rice with boiled fowl or turkey. 91- Governor's Sauce.-One peck green tomatoes, four large onions, six red peppers, one teacup grated horseradish, one teaspoon cayenne and one of black pepper, one teaspoon mus- tard, half cup sugar; slice the tomatoes, and sprinkle one tea- cup salt on, and lay all night; drain well in the morning, then simmer all together till cooked through. Cream Sauce.-One cupful of miík, a teaspoonful of flour and a tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper. Put the but- ter in a small frying-pan, and when hot, but not brown, add the flour. Stir until smooth; then gradually add the milk. Let it boil up once. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve. This is nice to cut cold potatoes into and let them just heat through. They are then creamed potatoes. It also answers as a sauce for other vegetables, omelets, fish and sweetbreads, or, indeed, for anything that requires a white sauce. If you have plenty of cream, use it, and omit the butter. Russian Sauce.-(Piquant) may be thus made: Grated horseradish four tablespoonfuls, weak mustard one spoonful, sugar half a spoonful, a little salt, two or three grains of cayenne, and a spoonful or two of vinegar. Mix thoroughly, and serve to cold meat. When wanted for fish, let it be added to melted butter-two parts butter to one of sauce. Mayonnaise Sauce.—Mix in a two-quart bowl one even tea- spoon ground mustard, one of salt, and one and a half of vin- egar; beat in the yolk of a raw egg, then add very gradually half a pint pure olive oil (or melted butter), beating briskly all the time. The mixture will become a very thick batter. Flavor with vinegar or fresh lemon juice. Closely covered, it will keep for weeks in a cold place, and is delicious. Oyster Sauce.-Take a pint of oysters, and save out a little of their liquor. Put them with their remaining liquor, and some mace and nutmeg, into a covered saucepan, and simmer them on hot coals about ten minutes. Then drain them, Oysters for sauce should be large. Having prepared in a saucepan some drawn or melted butter (mixed with oyster liquor instead of water), pour it into a sauce-boat, add the oysters to it, and serve it up with boiled poultry, or with boiled 'fresh fish. Celery, first boiled and then chopped, is an im- provement to oyster sauce. — 92- Lobster Sauce.-Put the coral and spawn of a boiled lob- ster into a mortar, with a tablespoonful of butter, pound it to a smooth mass, then rub it through a sieve ; melt nearly a quarter of a pound of sweet butter, with a wineglass of water, or vinegar ; add a teaspoonful of made mustard, stir in the coral and spawn, and a little salt and pepper; stir it until it is smooth, and serve. Some of the meat of the lobster may be chopped fine, and stirred into it. Caper Sauce.—Make a butter sauce, and stir into it one tablespoonful of lemon juice, two of capers, and one of essence of anchovy. Mustard Sauce.-Stir three tablespoonfuls of mixed mus- tard and a speck of cayenne into a butter sauce. This is nice for devilled turkey and broiled smoked herrings. Curry Sauce.-One tablespoonful of butter, one of flour, one teaspoonful of curry powder, one large slice of onion, one large cupful of stock, salt and pepper to taste. Cut the onion fine, and fry brown in the butter. Add the flour and curry powder. Stir for one minute, add the stock, and season with the salt and pepper. Simmer five minutes ; then strain, and serve. - This sauce can be served with a broil or sauté of meat or fish. Cranberry Sauce. After removing all soft berries, wash thoroughly, place for about two minutes in scalding water, remove, and to every pound of fruit add three-quarters of a pound granulated sugar and a half pint water; stew together over a moderate but steady fire. Be careful to cover and not to stir the fruit, but occasionally shake the vessel, or apply a gentler heat if in danger of sticking or burning. If attention to these particulars be given, the berries will retain their shape to a considerable extent, which adds greatly to their appear- ance on the table. Boil from five to seven minutes, remove from fire, turn into a deep dish, and set aside to cool. If to be kept, they can be put up at once in air-tight jars. Or, for strained sauce, one and a half pounds of fruit should be stewed in one pint of water for ten or twelve minutes, or until quite soft, then strained through a colander or fine wire sieve, and three-quarters of a pound of sugar thoroughly stirred into the pulp thus obtained ; after cooling it is ready for use. Serve with roast turkey or game. When to be kept for a long time - 95 — the top of the form ; also take care it does not boil entirely away or stop boiling. To serve it, remove the lid and set it a few moments into the open oven to dry the top, and it will then turn out in perfect shape. This bread can be used as a pudding, and served with a sauce made of thick sour cream, well sweetened and seasoned with nutmeg; or it is good toasted the next day. Corn Bread.-Sift three quarts of corn meal, add a table- spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful baking-powder, and mix sufficient water with it to make a thin batter. Cover it with a bread-cloth and set it to rise. When ready to bake stir it well, pour it into a baking-pan, and bake slowly. Use cold water in summer and hot water in winter, Steamed Brown Bread.—One quart each of milk and In.. dian meal, one pint rye meal, one cup of molasses, two tea- spoonfuls of soda. Add a little salt and steam four hours. Parker House Rolls.-One teacup home-made yeast, a little salt, one tablespoon sugar, a piece of lard size of an egg, one pint milk, flour sufficient to mix. Put the milk on the stove to scald with the lard in it. Prepare the flour with salt, sugar and yeast. Then add the milk, not too hot. Knead thor- oughly when mixed at night; in the morning but very slight kneading is necessary. Then roll out and cut with large bis- cuit cutter. Spread a little butter on each roll and lap to- gether. Let them rise very light, then bake in a quick oven. French Rolls.-One pint of milk, scalded; put into it while hot half a cup of sugar and one tablespoon of butter. When the milk is cool, add a little salt and half a cup of yeast, or one compressed yeast cake; stir in flour to make a stiff sponge, and when light, mix as for bread. Let it rise until light, punch it down with the hand, and let it rise again-re- peat two or three times; then turn the dough on to the mould. ing-board and pound with the rolling-pin until thin enough to cut. Cut out with a tumbler, brush the surface of each one with melted butter, and fold over. Let the rolls rise on the tins; bake, and while warm brush over the surface with melted butter to make the crust tender. Buns.-Break one egg into a cup and fill with sweet milk; mix with it half cup yeast, half cup butter, one cup sugar, enough flour to make a soft dough; flavor with nutmeg. Let - 96 — rise till very light, then mold into biscuit with a few currants. Let rise a second time in pan; bake, and when nearly done, glaze with a little molasses and milk. Use the same cup, no matter about the size, for each measure. Biscuit.-Dissolve one rounded tablespoon of butter in a pint of hot milk; when lukewarm stir in one quart of flour; add one beaten egg, a little salt, and a tea cup of yeast; work into dough until smooth. If winter, set in a warm place; if sum- mer, in a cool one to rise. In the morning work softly and roll out one-half inch and cut into biscuit and set to rise for thirty minutes, when they will be ready to bake. These are delicious.. To Make Rusks.—To every pound of flour allow two ounces of butter, one-quarter pint of milk, two ounces of loaf sugar, three eggs, one tablespoonful of yeast. Put the milk and but- ter into a saucepan, and keep shaking it round until the latter is melted. Put the flour into a basin with the sugar, mix these well together, and beat the eggs. Stir them with the yeast to the milk and butter, and with this liquid work the flour into a smiooth dough. Cover a cloth over the basin, and leave the dough to rise by the side of the fire; then knead it, and divide it into twelve pieces ; place them in a brisk oven, and bake for about twenty minutes. Take the rusks out, break them in half, and then set them in the oven to get crisp on the other side. When cold, they should be put into tin canisters to keep them dry; and, if intended for the cheese course, the sifted sugar should be omitted. Sweet Milk Gems.-Beat one egg well, add a pint new milk, a little salt, and Graham flour until it will drop off the spoon nicely; heat and butter the gem-pans before dropping in the dough ; bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. Breakfast Gems.—One cup sweet milk, one and a half cups flour one egg, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon baking powder, beaten together five minutes ; bake in hot gem-pans in a hot oven about fifteen minutes. Graham Breakfast Cakes.—Two cups of Graham flour, one cup of wheat flour, two eggs well beaten; mix with sweet milk, to make a very thin batter; bake in gem irons ; have the irons hot, then set them on the under vate in the oven; will bake in fifteen minutes. - 97 - Buckwheat Cakes.-One quart buckwheat flour; four table- spoonfuls yeast; one teaspoonful salt; one handful Indian meal ; two tablespoonfuls molasses—not syrup. Warm water enough to make a thin batter. Beat very well and set to rise in a warm place. If the batter is in the least sour in the morn- ing, stir in a very little soda dissolved in hot water. Mix in an earthen crock, and leave some in the bottom each morning -a cupful or so—to serve as sponge for the next night instead of getting fresh yeast. In cold weather this plan can be suc- cessfully pursued for a week or ten days without setting a new supply. Of course you add the usual quantity of flour, etc., every night, and beat up well. Do not make your cakes too small. Buckwheats should be of generous size. Somie put two-thirds buckwheat, one-third oatmeal, omitting the In- dian. Flannel Cakes.-Beat six eggs very light, stir in them two pounds of flour, one gill of yeast, small spoonful of salt, and sufficient milk to make a thick batter. Make them at night for breakfast, and at ten in the morning for tea. Have your griddle hot, grease it well, and bake as buckwheat. Butter and send them hot to the table, commencing after the family are seated. Rice Griddle-Cakes.-Boil half a cup rice ; when cold mix one quart sweet milk, the yolks of four eggs, and flour suffi- cient to make a stiff batter; beat the whites to a froth, stir in one teaspoon soda, and two of cream tartar; add a little salt, and lastly, the whites of eggs; bake on a griddle. A nice way to serve is to spread them while hot with butter, and almost any kind of preserves or jelly ; roll them up neatly, cut off the ends, sprinkle them with sugar, and serve immediately. French Pancakes.—Two eggs, two ounces of butter, two ounces of sifted sugar, two ounces of flour, half pint of new milk. Beat the eggs thoroughly, and put them into a basin with the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; stir in the sugar and flour, and when these ingredients are well mixed, add the milk ; keep stirring and beating the mixture for a few minutes ; put it on buttered plates, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Serve with a cut lemon and sifted sugar, or pile the pancakes high on a dish, with a layer of pre- serve or marmalade between each. - 99 — to have excellent mush, the meal should be allowed to cook well, and long as possible while thin, and before the final hand- ful is added. When desired to be fried for breakfast, turn into an earthen dish and set away to cool. Then cut in slices when you wish to fry ; dip each piece in beaten eggs and fry on a hot griddle. Corn Mush. Put four quarts fresh water in a kettle to boil, salt to suit the taste; when it begins to boil stir in one and a half quarts meal, letting it sift through the fingers slowly to prevent iumps, adding it a little faster at the last, until as thick as can be conveniently stirred with one hand; set in the oven in the kettle (or take out into a pan), bake an hour, and it will be thoroughly cooked. It takes corn meal so long to cook thoroughly that it is very difficult to boil it until done without burning. Excellent for frying when cold. Use a hard wood paddle, two feet long, with a blade two inches wide and seven inches long, to stir with. The thor- ough cooking and baking in oven afterwards takes away all the raw taste that mush is apt to have, and adds much to its sweetness and delicious flavor. Graham Mush.-—Sift meal slowly into boiling salted water, stirring briskly until it is as thick as can be stirred with one. hand; serve with milk, or cream and sugar, or butter and syrup. It is much improved by removing from the kettle to a pan as soon as thorougly mixed, and steaming for three or four hours. It may also be eaten cold, or sliced and fried, like corn mush. 651219 SALADS, PICKLES AND CATSUP. Lettuce.-The early lettuce and first fine salad, are five or six leaves in a cluster ; their early appearance is their great- est recommendation ; cabbage, or white-heart lettuce is later, and much more delicate ; break the leaves apart, one by one, from the stalk, and throw them into a pan of cold water; rinse them well, lay them into a salad bowl, or deep dish, lay the largest leaves first, put the next size upon them, then lay on the finest white leaves; cut hard-boiled eggs in slices or quarters, and lay them at equal distances around the edge and over the salad ; serve with vinegar, oil, and made mus- tard in the castor. Or, having picked and washed the let- tuce, cut the leaves small; put the cut salad in a glass dish or bowl, pour a salad dressing over, and serve ; or, garnish with small red radishes, cut in halves or slices, and hard-boiled eggs, cut in quarters or slices ; pour a salad dressing over when ready to serve. Serve with boiled lobster, boiled fowls, or roasted lamb or veal. Lettuce Salad.—Take the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs, add salt and mustard to taste.; mash it fine ; make a paste by adding a dessert-spoon of olive oil or melted butter (use butter always when it is difficult to get fresh oil); mix thoroughly, and then dilute by adding gradually a teacup of vinegar, and pour over the lettuce. Garnish by slicing another egg, and laying over the lettuce. This is sufficient for a moderate-sized dish of lettuce. Salmon Salad.-One quart of cooked salmon, two heads of lettuce, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one of vinegar, two of capers, one teaspoonful of salt, one-third of a tea. spoonful of pepper, one cupful of mayonnaise dressing, or the French dressing. Break up the salmon with two silver forks. Add to it the salt, pepper, vinegar and lemon juice. Put in the ice-chest, or some other cold place, for two or three hours. Prepare the lettuce as directed for lobster salad. At serving time, pick out leaves enough to border the dish. Cut or tear the remainder in pieces, and arrange these in the centre of a — 101 – flat dish. On them heap the salmon lightly, and cover with the dressing. Now sprinkle on the capers. Arrange the whole leaves at the base, and, if you choose, lay one-fourth of a thin slice of lemon on each leaf. Lobster Salad. - Put a large lobster over the fire in boiling water slightly salted; boil rapidly for about twenty minutes ; when done it will be of a bright red color, and should be re- moved, as if boiled too long it will be tough; when cold crack the claws, after first disjointing, twist off the head (which is used in garnishing), split the body in two, lengthwise, pick out the meat in bits not too fine, saving the coral separate ; cut up a large head of lettuce slightly, and place on a dish, over which lay the lobster, putting the coral around the out- side. For dressing, take the yolks of three. eggs, beat well, add four tablespoons salad oil, dropping it in very slowly, beating all the time; then add a little salt, cayenne pepper, half teaspoon mixed mustard, and two tablespoons vinegar. Pour this over the lobster, just before sending to table. Tomato Salad. Take the skin, juice and seeds from nice, fresh tomatoes, chop what remains with celery, and add a good salad dressing. Salad Dressing.–Yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, rubbed very fine and smooth, one teaspoon English mustard, one of salt, the yolks of two raw eggs beaten into the other, dessert- spoon of fine sugar Add very fresh sweet oil, poured in by very small quantities, and beaten as long as the mixture con- tinues to thicken, then add vinegar till as thin as desired. If not hot enough with mustard, add a little cayenne pepper. Sardine Salad. --Arrange one quart of any kind of cooked fish on a bed of crisp lettuce. Split six sardines, and if there are any bones, remove them. Cover the fish with the sardine dressing. Over this put the sardines, having the ends meet in the centre of the dish. At the base of the dish make a wreath of thin slices of lemon. Garnish with parsley or let- tuce, and serve immediately. French Salad Dressing.—Three tablespoonfuls of oil, one of vinegar, one saltspoonful of salt, one-half a saltspoonful of pepper. Put the salt and pepper in a cup, and add one table- spoonful of the oil. When thoroughly mixed, add the re- mainder of the oil and the vinegar. This is dressing enough - 103 — salad Dressing (Excellent).-Four eggs, one teaspoonful of mixed mustard, one quarter teaspoonful of white pepper, half that quantity of cayenne, salt to taste, four tablespoon- fuls of cream, vinegar. Boil the eggs until hard, which will be in about one-quarter hour or twenty minutes ; put them into cold water, take off the shells, and pound the yolks in a mortar to a smooth paste. Then add all the other ingredients, except the vinegar, and stir them well until the whole are thoroughly incorporated one with the other. Pour in sufficient vinegar to make it of the consistency of cream, taking care to add but little at a time. The mixture will then be ready for use. Pickled Cucumbers.—Wash and wipe six hundred small cucumbers and two quarts of peppers. Put them in a tub with one and a half cupfuls of salt and a piece of alum as large as an egg. Heat to the boiling point three gallons of cider vine- gar and three pints of water. Add a quarter of a pound each of whole cloves, whole allspice and stick cinnamon, and two ounces of white mustard seed, and pour over the pickles. To Pickle Onions. -Peel the onions until they are white, scald them in strong salt and water, then take them up with a skimmer; make vinegar enough to cover them, boiling hot, strew over the onions whole pepper and white mustard seed, pour the vinegar over to cover them; when cold, put them in wide-mouthed bottles, and cork them close. A tablespoon- ful of sweet oil may be put in the bottles before the cork. The best sort of onions for pickling are the small white but- tons. Pickled Cauliflowers.—Two cauliflowers, cut up; one pint of small onions, three medium-sized red peppers. Dissolve half a pint of salt in water enough to cover the vegetables, and let these stand over night. In the morning drain them. Heat two quarts of vinegar with four tablespoonfuls of mus- tard, until it boils. Add the vegetables, and boil for about fifteen minutes, or until a fork can be thrust through the cau- liflower. Red Cabbage.-Procure a firm, good-sized cabbage, and after taking off any straggling or soiled leaves, cut it in very narrow slices, which, after you sprinkle them well with salt, lay aside for forty-eight hours. Next drain off the salt liquor -- 105 — ing press dry through a sieve, put it in a porcelain kettle and cover with vinegar; add one cup of sugar, a tablespoon of each kind of spice; put into a muslin bag ; stew slowly about an hour, or until the tomatoes are as soft as you desire. Pickled Walnuts (very good).—One hundred walnuts, salt and water. To each quart of vinegar allow two ounces of whole black pepper, one ounce of allspice, one ounce of bruised ginger. Procure the walnuts while young ; be careful they are not woody, and prick them well with a fork; prepare a strong brine of salt and water (four pounds of salt to each gallon of water), into which put the walnuts, letting them re- main nine days, and changing the brine every third day ; drain them off, put them on a dish, place it in the sun until they become perfectly black, which will be in two or three days ; have ready dry jars, into which place the walnuts, and do not quite fill the jars. Boil sufficient vinegar to cover them, for ten minutes, with spices in the above proportion, and pour it hot over the walnuts, which must be quite covered with the pickle; tie down with bladder, and keep in dry place. They will be fit for use in a month, and will keep good two or three years. Green Tomato Pickle.-One peck green tomatoes sliced, six large onions sliced, one teacup of salt over both; mix thor- oughly and let remain over night; pour off liquor in the morning and throw it away; mix two quarts of water and one of vinegar, and boil twenty minutes; drain and throw liquor away; take three quarts of vinegar, two pounds of sugar, two tablespoons each of allspice, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and mustard, and twelve green peppers chopped fine; boil from one to two hours. Put away in a stone crock. Chili Sauce.-Eight quarts tomatoes, three cups of pep- pers, two cups of onions, three cups of sugar, one cup of salt, one and a half quarts of vinegar, three teaspoonfuls of cloves, same quantity of cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls each of ginger and nutmeg ; boil three hours; chop tomatoes, peppers, and onions very fine; bottle up and seal. Mixed Pickles.—Three hundred small cucumbers, four green peppers sliced fine, two large or three small heads cauli- flower, three heads white cabbage shaved fine, nine large onions sliced, one large root horseradish, one quart green beans — 106 — cut one inch long, one quart green tomatoes sliced ; put this mixture in a pretty strong brine twenty-four hours ; drain three hours, then sprinkle in a quarter pound black and a quarter pound white mustard seed; also one tablespoon black ground pepper; let it come to a good boil in just vinegar enough to cover it, adding a little alum. Drain again, and when cold, mix in a half pint ground mustard; cover the whole with good cider vinegar; add turmeric enough to color, if you like. Pickled Mushrooms.-Sufficient vinegar to cover the mush- rooms ; to each quart of mushrooms, two blades pounded mace, one ounce ground pepper; salt to taste. Choose some nice young button-mushrooms for pickling, and rub off the skin with a piece of flannel and salt, and cut off the stalks ; if very large, take out the red inside, and reject the black ones, as they are too old. Put them in a stewpan, sprinkle salt over them, with pounded mace and pepper in the above proportion; shake them well over a clear fire until the liquor flows, and keep them there until it is all dried up again; then add as much vinegar as will cover them ; just let it simmer for one minute, and store it away in stone jars for use. When cold, tie down with bladder, and keep in a dry place ; they will remain good for a length of time, and are generally considered delicious. Favorite Pickles.-One quart raw cabbage chopped fine ; one quart boiled beets chopped fine; two. cups sugar, table- spoon salt, one teaspoon black pepper, a quarter teaspoon red pepper, one teacup grated horseradish ; cover with cold vin- egar and keep from the air. Tomato Mustard. - Slice and boil for an hour, with six small red peppers, half bushel of ripe tomatoes ; strain through a colander and boil for an hour with two tablespoonfuls of black pepper, two ounces ginger, one ounce allspice, half ounce cloves, one-eighth ounce mace, quarter pound salt. When cold add two ounces mustard, two ounces curry powder, and one pint of vinegar. Indian Chetney.-Eight ounces of sharp, sour apples, pared and cored, eight ounces of tomatoes, eight ounces of salt, eight ounces of brown sugar, eight ounces of stoned raisins, four ounces of cayenne, four ounces of powdered ginger, two ounces of garlic, two ounces of shalots, three quarts of vin- — 109 — after it has been very gently poured off ; if the operation is not successful, it must be repeated until you have quite a clear liquor. It should be examined occasionally, and if it is spoil- ing should be reboiled with a few peppercorns. Brine that Preserves Butter a Year.–To three gallons of brine strong enough to bear an egg, add one quarter pound good loaf sugar, and one tablespoonful of saltpetre; boil the brine, and when it is cold, strain carefully. Pack butter closely in small jars, and allow the brine to cover the butter to the depth of at least four inches. This completely excludes the air. If practicable, make your butter into small rolls, wrap each carefully in a clean muslin cloth, tying up with a string ; place a weight over the butter, to keep it all sub- merged in the brine. This mode is most recommended by those who have tried both. PUDDINGS. General Remarks.-All boiled puddings should be put on in boiling water, which must not be allowed to stop simmering, and the pudding must always be covered with the water; if requisite, the saucepan should be kept filled up. To prevent a pudding boiled in a cloth from sticking to the bottom of the saucepan, place a small plate or saucer underneath it; if a mould is used, this precaution is not necessary; but care must be taken to keep the pudding well covered with water. For dishing a boiled pudding, as soon as it comes out of the pot, dip it into a basin of cold water, and the cloth will then not adhere to it. Great expedition is necessary in sending pud- dings to table, as, by standing, they quickly become heavy, batter puddings particularly. For baked or boiled puddings, the moulds, cups, or basins should be always buttered before the mixture is pụt in them, and they should be put into the saucepan directly they are filled. Christmas Plum Pudding.-One pound butter, one pound suet, freed from strings and chopped fine, one pound sugar, - 1.10 - two and a half pounds flour, two pounds raisins, seeded, chopped, and dredged with flour, two pounds currants, picked over carefully after they are washed, one quarter pound cit. ron, shred fine, twelve eggs, whites and yolks beaten sepa- rately, one pint milk, one cup brandy, one half ounce cloves, one half ounce mace, two grated nutmegs. Cream the butter and sugar, beat in the yolks when you have whipped them smooth and light; next put in the milk, then the flour, alter- nately with the beaten whites, then the brandy and spice, lastly the fruit, well dredged with flour. Mix all thoroughly; wring out your pudding cloth in hot water, flour well inside, pour in the mixture, and boil five hours. Boiled Butter Pudding.–Three eggs, one ounce butter, one pint milk, three tablespoonfuls flour, a little salt. Put the flour into a basin, and add sufficient milk to moisten it; care- fully rub down all the lumps with a spoon, then pour in the remainder of the milk, and stir in the butter, which should be previously melted; keep beating the mixture, add the eggs and a pinch of salt, and when the batter is quite smooth, put it into a well-buttered basin, tie it down very tightly, and put it into boiling water ; move the basin about for a few min- utes after it is put in the water, to prevent the flour settling in any part, and boil for one and one quarter hour. This pud- ding may also be boiled in a floured cloth that has been wetted in hot water ; it will then take a few minutes less than when boiled in a basin. Send these puddings very quickly to table, and serve with sweet sauce, wine, sauce, stėwed fruit, or jam of any kind; when the latter is used, a little of it may be placed round the dish in small quantities, as a garnish. Batter Pudding.-One quart milk, four eggs, six ounces flour, a little soda and salt. Mix the flour very carefully with a little milk, so it will not be lumpy. Bake twenty minutes. Serve immediately. Madeira Pudding.-One-half pound cheap suet, three-quar- ters of a pound bread-crumbs, six ounces moist sugar, one- quarter pound flour, two eggs, two wineglasses of sherry ; mix the suet, bread-crumbs, sugar and flour well together. When these ingredients are well mixed, add the eggs and two glasses of sherry, to make a thick batter; boil three hours and a half. Serve with wine sauce. — 113 — into a large mould, and set in ice-water in a cool place. Wher ready to serve, turn out as you would jelly, only have the pud ding in a deep dish. Pour one quart of soft custard around it, and serve. Cream Tapioca Pudding.–Soak three tablespoons of tapi oca in water over night, put the tapioca into a quart of boiling milk, and boil half an hour ; beat the yolks of fur eggs with a cup of sugar; add three tablespoons of prepared cocoanut; stir in and boil ten minutes longer ; pour into a pudding-dish; beat the whites of the four eggs to a stiff froth, stir in three tablespoons of sugar; put this over the top and sprinkle cocoa- nut over the top and brown for five minutes. A Bachelor's Pudding.–Four ounces of grated bread, four ounces of currants, four ounces of apples, two ounces of sugar, three eggs, a few drops of essence of lemon, a little grated nutmeg. Pare, core, and mince the apples very finely, suffi- cient, when minced, to make four ounces ; add to these the currants, which should be well washed, the grated bread, and sugar; whisk the eggs, beat these up with the remaining in- gredients, and, when all is thoroughly mixed, put the pud- ding into a buttered basin, tie it down with a cloth, and boil for three hours. Macaroni Pudding.-One half pound macaroni broken into inch lengths, two cups boiling water, one teaspoonful butter, one large cup milk, two tablespoonfuls sugar, grated peel of half a lemon, a little cinnamon and salt. Boil the macaroni in the water until it is tender, and has soaked up the liquid. It must be cooked in a farina-kettle. Add the butter and salt. Cover for five minutes without cooking. Put in the rest of the ingredients. Simmer, after the boil begins ten minutes longer, before serving in a deep dish. Be careful in stirring, not to break the macaroni. Eat with butter and powdered sugar, or cream and sugar. Baked Indian Pudding.-Two quarts scalded milk with salt, one and one-half cups Indian meal (yellow); one tablespoon ginger, letting this stand twenty minutes ; one cup molasses, two eggs (saleratus if no eggs), a piece of butter the size of a common walnut. Bake two hours. Splendid. Boiled Indian Pudding.– Warm a pint of molasses and pint of milk, stir well together, beat four eggs, and stir gradually ~116 — the other half of the milk beat up the rice flour into a thin datter, adding to it through a strainer the hot seasoned milk, stirring all the time. The eggs well whisked should next be added. A sprinkling of salt is an improvement. Bake this mixture in a moderate oven for a little over an hour, say sev enty minutes, or boil in a buttered basin or shape. Serve with apricot preserve, or marmalade, or indeed any kind of jam. Fig Pudding.-One-half pound figs, one-quarter pound grated bread, two and a half ounces powdered sugar, three ounces butter, two eggs, one teacup of milk. Chop the figs small and mix first with the butter, then all the other ingre- dients by degrees; butter a mould, sprinkle with bread crumbs, cover it tight and boil for three hours. Bread and Butter Pudding.–Place as many slices of thin cut bread and butter as you like in a pie dish, say ten or twelve slices, sprinkle a few well-washed currants between the layers, beat up half a dozen of eggs in two pints of new milk, adding sugar to taste and a little flavoring, such as nut- meg or cinnamon, and pour over the bread and butter. Bake for an hour and ten minutes, and send it to table in the dish it has been baked in. Cabinet Pudding.–One quart of milk, four eggs, four ta- blespoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, one table- spoonful of butter, three pints of stale sponge cake, one cup- ful of raisins, chopped citron and currants. Have a little more of the currants than of the other two fruits. Beat the eggs, sugar and salt together, and add the milk. Butter a three-pint pudding mould (the melon shape is nice), sprinkle the sides and bottom with the fruit, and put in a layer of cake. Again sprinkle in fruit, and put in more cake. Continue this until all the materials are used. Gradually pour on the cus- tard. Let the pudding stand two hours, and steam an hour and a quarter. Serve with wine, or creamy sauce. Snow Pudding. — One-half package gelatine ; pour over it a cup of cold water, and add one and one - half cups of sugar ; when soft, add one cup boiling water, juice of one lemon, and the whites of four well-beaten eggs; beat all to- gether until very light; put in glass dish, and pour over it custard made as follows: One pint milk, yolks of four eggs, ard grated rind of one lemon; boil. Splendid. - 118 — butter, a little salt, and boil; beat the yolks of three eggs with a cup of sugar, and boil the whole to a very thick custard ; flavor with vanilla; when cold cover with whites of eggs beaten. Common Custard. - Beat either four or five fresh eggs light; then stir them into a quart of milk; sweeten to taste; flavor with a teaspoonful of peach water, or extract of lemon, or . vanilla, and half a teaspoonful of salt; rub butter over the bottom and sides of a baking dish or tin basin ; pour in the custard, grate a little nutmeg over, and bake in a quick oven. Three-quarters of an hour is generally enough. Try whether it is done by putting a teaspoon handle into the middle of it; if it comes out clean, it is enough. Or, butter small cups, set them into a shallow pan of hot water, reaching nearly to the top of the cups; nearly fill them with the custard mixture ; keep the water boiling until they are done. The pan may be set in an oven, or over a fire ; if over the fire, it is best to brown them with a hot shovel. PUDDING SAUCES. Rich Wine Sauce.—One cupful of butter, two of powdered sugar, half a cupful of wine. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar gradually, and when very light, add the wine, which has been made hot, a little at a time. Place the bowl in a basin of hot water, and stir for two minutes. The sauce should be smooth and foamy. Whipped Cream Sauce.- Whip a pint of thick sweet cream, add the beaten whites of two eggs, sweeten to taste; place pudding in centre of dish, and surround with the sauce; or pile up in centre, and surround with moulded blanc-mange.or fruit puddings. Lemon Sauce. One cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, one egg, one lemon, juice and grated rind, three tablespoonfuls of boiling water ; put in a tin pail, and thicken over steam. — 119 — Jelly Sauce.-Melt one ounce of sugar and two tablespoons grape jelly over the fire in a half pint of boiling water, and stir into it half a teaspoon corn starch, dissolved in a half cup cold water; let come to a boil, and it will be ready for use. Any other fruit jelly may be used instead of grape. Cabinet Pudding Sauce.—Take the yolks of five eggs, and whip them lightly ; express the juice of a lemon, and grate down a little of the peel. The other ingredients are a table- spoonful of butter, a cup of sugar, a glass of good wine, and a little spice. Mix the sugar and butter, adding the yolks, spice, and lemon juice. Beat fifteen minutes, then add the wine, and stir hard. Immerse in a saucepan of boiling water, beating while it heats. Foaming Sauce.—Beat whites of three eggs to a stiff froth; melt teacup of sugar in a little water, let it boil, stir in one glass of wine, and then the whites of the three eggs; serve at once. Spanish Sauce.-One-half cup of boiling water, one table- spoon corn starch, two tablespoonfuls vinegar, one tablespoon- ful butter, one cup sugar, one-half nutmeg. Hard Sauce.-Beat to a cream a quarter of a pound ef bút- ter, add gradually a quarter of a pound of sugar ; beat it un- til very white ; add a little lemon juice, or grate nutmeg on top. Pudding Sauce.—One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, yolks of three eggs : one teaspoon corn starch or arrow root; stir the whole until very light; add sufficient boiling water to make the consistency of thick cream ; wine or brandy, te suit the taste. Sauce for Plum Pudding.–The yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful of powdered sugar, one gill of milk, a very little grated lemon-rind, two small wineglassfuls of brandy. Sepa- rate the yolks from the whites of three eggs, and put the former into a stew-pan; add the sugar, milk, and grated lemon- rind, and stir over the fire until the mixture thickens ; but do not allow it to boil. Put in the brandy ; let the sauce stand by the side of the fire, to get quite hot; keep stirring it, and serve in a boat or tureen separately, or pour it over the pud. red suscineglarhree e he whitwineglas:ill of mi ding. — 120 — Vanilla Sauce.—The whites of two eggs and the yolk of one, half a cupful of powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of va- nilla, three tablespoonfuls of milk. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, next beat in the sugar, and then the yolk of the egg and the seasoning. Serve immediately. This sauce is for light puddings. PASTRY. Very Good Puff-Paste.—To every pound of flour allow one pound of butter, and not quite one-half pint of water. Care- fully weigh the flour and butter, and have the exact propor- tion ; squeeze the butter well, to extract the water from it, and afterwards wring it in a clean cloth, that no moisture may remain. Sift the flour; see that it is perfectly dry, and proceed in the following manner to make the paste, using a very clean paste-board and rolling-pin. Supposing the quan- tity to be one pound of flour, work the whole into a smooth paste, with not quite one-half pint of water, using a knife to mix it with; the proportion of this latter ingredient must be regulated by the discretion of the cook; if too much be added, the paste, when baked, will be tough. Roll it out until it is of an equal thickness of about an inch ; break four ounces of the butter into small pieces ; place these on the paste, sift over it a little flour, fold it over, roll out again, and put another four ounces of butter. Repeat the rolling and buttering until the paste has been rolled out four times, or equal quantities of flour and butter have been used. Do not omit, every time the paste is rolled out, to dredge a little flour over that and the rolling-pin, to prevent both from sticking. Handle the pasta as lightly as possible, and do not press heavily upon it wirh the rolling-pin. The next thing to be considered is the oven, as the baking of pastry requires particular attention. Do not put it into the oven until it is sufficiently hot to raise the paste; for the best-prepared paste, if not properly baked, will be good for nothing. Brushing the paste as often as rolled out, and the pieces of butter placed thereon, with the white of - 122 - off the scum that rises when it reaches the boiling point, add hot water from time to time until it is tender, then remove the lid from the pot, salt, let boil till almost dry, turning the meat over occasionally in the liquor, take from the fire, and let stand over night to get thoroughly cold; pick bones, gristle, or stringy bits from the meat, chop very fine, mincing at the same time three pounds of nice beef suet; seed and cut four pounds raisins, wash and dry four pounds currants, slice thin a pound of citron, chop fine four quarts good cook- ing tart apples ; put into a large pan together, add two ounces cinnamon, one of cloves, one of ginger, four nutmegs, the juice and grated rinds of two lemons, one tablespoon salt, one tea- spoon pepper, and two pounds sugar. Put in a porcelain kettle one quart boiled cider, or, better still, one quart currant or grape juice (canned when grapes are turning from green to purple), one quart nice molasses or syrup, also a good lump of butter; let it come to boiling point, and pour over the ingredi- ents in the pan after having first mixed them well, then mix again thoroughly. Pack in jars and put in a cool place, and, when cold, pour molasses over the top an eighth of an inch in thickness, and cover tightly. This will keep two months. For baking, take some out of a jar; if not moist enough add a little hot water, and strew a few whole raisins over each pie. Instead of boiled beef, a beef's heart or roast meat may be used ; and a good proportion for a few pies is one-third chopped meat and two-thirds apples, with a little suet, raisins, spices, butter, and salt. Apple Custard Pie.-Peel sour apples and stew until soft and not much water is left in them, and rub through a colan- der. Beat three eggs for each pie. Put in proportion of one cup butter and one of sugar for three pies. Season with nutmeg. Apple Meringue Pie.—Pare, slice, stew and sweeten ripe, tart and juicy apples, mash and season with nutmeg (or stew lemon peel with them for flavor), fill crust and bake till done; spread over the apple a thick meringue made by whipping to froth whites of three eggs for each pie, sweetening with three tablespoons powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla, beat until it will stand alone, and cover pie three-quarters of an inch thick. Set back in a quick oven till well “set,” and eat cold. In their season substitute peaches for apples. - 124 — of sponge cake; beat it all together until smooth; put into twelve patty-pans lined with puff-paste, and bake until the crust is done. Pastry Sandwiches.-Puff-paste, jam of any kind, the white of an egg, sifted sugar. Roll the paste out thin; put half of it on a baking sheet or, tin, and spread equally over it apricot, greengage, or any pre- serve that may be preferred. Lay over this preserve another thin paste, press the edges together all round, and mark the paste in lines with a knife on the surface, to show where to cut it when baked. Bake from twenty minutes to half an hour; and, a short time before being done, take the pastry out of the oven, brush it over with the white of an egg, sift over pounded sugar, and put it back in the oven to color. When cold, cut it into strips; pile these on a dish pyramidically, and serve. These strips, cut about two inches long, piled in cir. cular rows, and a plateful of flavored whipped cream poured in the middle, make a very pretty dish. Cherry Pie.-Line the dish with a good crust, and fill with ripe cherries, regulating the quantity of sugar you scatter over them by their sweetness. Cover and bake. Eat cold, with white sugar sifted over the top. Squash Pie.—Two teacups of boiled squash, three-fourths teacup of brown sugar, three eggs, two tablespoons of molas- ces, one tablespoon of melted butter, one tablespoon of ginger, one teaspoon of cinnamon, two teacups of milk, a little salt. Make two plate pies. Cream Pie.-Pour a pint of cream upon a cup and a half powdered sugar; let stand until the whites of three eggs have been beaten to a stiff froth; add this to the cream, and beat up thoroughly; grate a little nutmeg over the mixture, and bake in two pies without upper crusts. Tartlets.-Puff-paste, the white of an egg, pounded sugar. Mode:—Roll some good puff-paste out thin, and cut it into two and a half inch squares; brush each square over with the white of an egg, then fold down the corners, so that they all meet in the middle of each piece of paste; slightly press the two pieces together, brush them over with the egg, sift over sugar, and bake in a nice quick oven for about a quarter of an hour. When they are done, make a little hole in the mid- - 125 — dle of the paste, and fill it up with apricot jam, marmalade, or red currant jelly. Pile them high in the centre of a dish, on a napkin, and garnish with the same preserve the tartlets are filled with. Peach Pie.—Line a pie-tin with puff-paste, fill with pared peaches in halves or quarters, well covered with sugar ; put on upper crust and bake; or make as above without upper crust, bake until done, remove from the oven, and cover with a meringue made of the whites of two eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with two tablespoons powdered sugar; return to oven and brown slightly. Canned peaches may be used instead of fresh, in the same way. Tart Shells.-Roll out thin a nice puff-paste, cut out with a glass or biscuit cutter, with a wine-glass or smaller cup cut out the centre of two out of three of these, lay the rings thus made on the third, and bake immediately; or shells may be made by lining patty-pans with paste. If the paste is light: the shells will be fine, and may be used for tarts or oyster pat ties. Filled with jelly and covered with meringue (tablespoon sugar to white of one egg), and browned in oven, they are very nice to serve for tea. Pumpkin Pie.—One quart of stewed pumpkin, pressed through a sieve ; nine eggs, whites and yolks beaten sepa- rately; two scant quarts of milk, one teaspoonful of mace, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and the same of nutmeg ; one and a half cup of white sugar, or very light brown. Beat all together, and bake in crust without cover. Mince Pies.—Three pounds of raisins, stone and chop them a little ; three pounds of currants, three pounds of sugar, three pounds of suet chopped very fine, two ounces of candied lemon-peel, two ounces of candied orange-peel, six large ap- ples grated, one ounce of cinnamon, two nutmegs, the juice of three lemons and the rinds grated, and half a pint of brandy. Excellent. "SITEIT TRAIT - 127 Almond Icing.- Whites of four eggs; one pound sweet al. monds; one pound powdered sugar; a little rose-water. Blanch the almonds by pouring boiling water over them and stripping off the skins. When dry pound them to a paste, a few at a time, in a Wedgewood mortar, moistening it with rose-water as you go on. When beaten fine and smooth, beat gradually into icing. Put on very thick, and, when nearly dry, cover with plain icing. To Make Icing for Cakes.—Beat the whites of two small eggs to a high froth; then add to them quarter of a pound of white sugar, ground fine, like four; flavor with lemon ex- tract, or vanilla ; beat it until it is light, and very white, but not quite so stiff as kiss mixture; the longer it is beaten, the more firm it will become. No more sugar must be added to make it so. Beat the frosting until it may be spread smoothly on the cake. This quantity will ice quite a large cake, over the top and sides. Loaf Cake.—One pound of butter beaten to a cream, two pounds of sugar rolled fine, three pounds of sifted wheat flour, six well beaten eggs, three teaspoonfuls of powdered salera- tus dissolved in a little hot water, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, and half a nutmeg, grated; add one pound of currants, well washed and dried, one pound of raisins, stoned and cut in two; work the whole well together, divide it in three loaves, put them in buttered basins, and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Rich Bride-Cake.—Take four pounds of sifted flour, four pounds of sweet fresh butter, beaten to a cream, and two pounds of white powdered sugar; take six eggs for each pound of flour, an ounce of ground mace or nutmegs, and a tablespoonful of lemon extract, or orange-flower water. Lady Fingers.—Take eight eggs; whip the whites to a firm snow. In the meantime, have the yolks beaten up with six. ounces of powdered sugar. Each of these operations should be performed at least one hour. Then mix all together with six ounces of sifted flour, and when well incorporated, stir in half a pint of rose or orange-flower water ; stir them together for some time. Have ready some tin plates, rubbed with white wax; take a funnel with three or four tubes : fill it with the paste, and - 129 - with the dry ingredients. Beat the cake well for twenty min. utes, and put it into a round tin, lined at the bottom and sides with a strip of white buttered paper. . Bake it from one and one-half to two hours, and let the oven be well heated when the cake is first put in, as, if this is not the case, the currants will all sink to the bottom of it. To make this preparation light, the yolks and whites of the eggs should be beaten sepa- rately, and added separately to the other ingredients. A glass of wine is sometimes added to the mixture; but this is scarcely necessary, as the cake will be found quite rich enough without it. Cocoanut Sponge Cake.—Beat the yolks of six eggs with half a pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of flour; add a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of lemon essence, and half a nutmeg, grated ; beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and stir them to the yolks, etc., and the white meat of a co- coanut, grated ; line square tin pans with buttered paper, and having stirred the ingredients well together, put the mixture in an inch deep in the pans ; bake in a quick oven half an hour; cut it in squares, to serve with or without icing. Cocoanut Pound Cake. — Beat half a pound of butter to a cream ; add gradually a pound of sitted flour, one pound of powdered sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of grated lemon peel, quarter of a pound of prepared cocoanut, four well-beaten eggs, and a cupful of milk; mix thoroughly; butter the tins, and line them with buttered paper; pour the mixture in to the depth of an inch and a half, and bake in a good oven. When baked, take out, spread icing over them, and return the cake to the oven a mo- ment to dry the icing. Cocoanut Cup Cake.-Two cups of sugar, two cups of but. ter, one cup of milk, one teaspoonful of essence of lemon, half a nutmeg, grated, four well-beaten eggs, and the white meat of a cocoanut, grated; use as much sifted wheat flour as will make a rather stiff batter; beat it well, butter square tin pans, line them with white paper, and put in the mixture an inch deep ; bake in a moderate oven half an hour, or it may re- quire ten minutes longer. When cold, cut in small squares or diamonds ; this is a rich cake, and is much improved by a thin icing. This cake should be made with fine white sugar. 130 — Cocoanut Drops.—Break a cocoanut in pieces, and lay it in cold water; then cut off the dark rind, and grate the white meat on a coarse grater; put the whites of four eggs with half a pound of powdered white sugar ; beat it until it is light and white, then add to it a teaspoonful of lemon extract, and grad- ually as much grated cocoanut as will make it as thick as can be stirred easily with a spoon ; lay it in heaps, the size of a large nutmeg, on sheets of white paper, place them the dis- tance of half an inch apart; when the paper is full, lay it on a baking tin, set them in a quick oven; when they begin to look yellowish, they are done ; let them remain on the paper until nearly cold, then take them off with a thin-bladed knife. Citron Heart Cakes.—Beat half a pound of butter to a cream, take six eggs, beat the whites to a froth, and the yolks with half a pound of sugar, and rather more than half a pound of sifted flour, beat these well together, add a wine- glass of brandy, and quarter of a pound of citron cut in thin slips, bake it in small heart shaped-tins, or a square tin pan, rubbed over with a bit of sponge dipped in melted butter, put the mixture in half an inch deep, bake fifteen or twenty minutes in a quick oven. These are very fine cakes. Shredded almonds may be used instead of citron. Imperial Cake.—One pound of flour, half a pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, four eggs, half a pound of currants, well washed and dredged, half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, half a lemon, grated rind and juice, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Drop from a spoon upon well- buttered paper, lining a baking pan. Bake quickly. Plum Cake.—Make a cake of two cups of butter, two cups of molasses, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs, well-beaten, one teaspoonful of powdered saleratus, dissolved with a little hot water, one teaspoonful of ground mace or nutmeg, one tea- spoonful of ground allspice, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, and gill of brandy; stir in flour to make a batter as stiff as may be stirred easily with a spoon; beat it well until it is light, then add two pounds of raisins, stoned, and cut in two, two pounds of currants, picked, washed, and dried, and half a round of cit- ron, cut in slips. Bake in a quick oven. This is a fire, rich cake, easily made, and not expensive. - 1:1- Gold and Silver Cake.—Gold Part.—Yolks of eight eggs, . scant cup butter, two of sugar, four of flour, one of sour milk, teaspoon soda, tablespoon corn-starch ; flavor with lemon and vanilla. Silver Part.-Two cups of sugar, one of butter, four (scant) of flour, one of sour milk, teaspoon soda, tablespoon corn- starch, whites of eight eggs; flavor with almond or peach. Putin pan, alternately, one spoonful of gold and one of silver. To Make Small Spon ze-Cakes. The weight of five eggs in flour, the weight of eight in pounded loaf sugar; flavoring to taste. Let the flour be perfectly dry, and the sugar well pounded and sifted. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, and beat the latter up with the sugar; then whisk the whites until they become rather stiff, and mix them with the yolks, but do not stir them more than is just necessary to mingle the ingredients well together. Dredge in the flour by degrees, add the flavoring ; butter the tins well, pour in the batter, sift a little sugar over the cakes, and bake them in rather a quick oven, but do not allow them to take too much color, as they should be rather pale. Remove them from the tins before they get cold, and turn them on their faces, where let them remain until quite cold, when store them away in a. closed tin canister, or wide-mouthed glass bottle. Lemon Cheese Cake.-Two cups sugar, half cup of butter, three-quarters cup sweet milk, whites of six eggs, three cups: flour, three teaspoons baking powder. SAUCE FOR LEMON CHEESE CAKE.—Grated rind and juice of two lemons, yolks of three eggs, half cup butter, one cup sugar;; mix all together, and set on stove, and cook till thick as sponge, stirring all the time; then use like jelly between the cakes. Snow Cake.-One pound of arrowroot, half pound of pounded white sugar, half pound of butter, the whites of six eggs; flavoring to taste, of essence of almonds, or vanilla, or lemon. Mode : Beat the butter to a cream; stir in the sugar and ar- rowroot gradually, at the same time beating the mixture. Whisk the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add them to the other ingredients, and beat well for twenty minutes. Put in whichever of the above flavorings may be preferred ; pour the: - 135 — warm, the gold between the white ones, and cover with frost. ing. California Cake.—Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, two eggs, three teaspoons baking powder, put in three cups sifted flour, flavor and add fruit. This receipt makes two cakes. White Mountain Cake.-One cup sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half cup corn-starch, one cup flour, whites of six eggs, a little vanilla, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder. Bake in layers. FROSTING FOR ABOVE.—Whites of five .eggs, twenty table- spoonfuls sifted sugar, beaten very light; a little vanilla. Spread between layers and outside of cake. Lemon Cake.—One-half cup of sugar, one teaspoon butter, one tablespoonful of milk, three eggs, one cup flour, one tea- spoon baking-powder, bake in jelly-tins, put between two apple and one lemon, grated together with a little sugar. Strawberry Shortcake.—Make good biscuit crust, bake in two tins of same shape and size; mix berries with plenty of sugar; open the shortcake, butter well and place berries in layers, alternated with the crust; have the top layer of berries and over all put charlotte russe or whipped cream. Marble Cake.— White Part:- Whites of seven eggs, three cups white sugar, one of butter, one of sour milk, four of flour, sifted and heaping, one teaspoonful soda; flavor to taste. Dark Part:-Yolks of seven eggs, three cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of sour milk, four of flour, sifted and heap- ing, one tablespoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and cloves, one teaspoonful soda; put in pans a spoonful of white part and then a spoonful of dark, and so on. Bake an hour and a quarter. Use coffe-cups to measure. This will make one large and one medium cake. The white and dark parts are alternated, either putting in a spoonful of white, then of dark, or a layer of white and then of dark part, being careful that the cake may be nicely “marbleized.” White Pound Cake.—One pound sugar, one of flour, half pound butter, whites of sixteen eggs, teaspoonful baking-pow- der sifted thoroughly with the flour; put in cool oven with gradual increase of heat. For boiled icing for the cake, take - 136 — three cups sugar boiled in one of water until clear; beat whites of three eggs to a very stiff froth, and pour over them the boiling liquid, beating all the time for ten minutes; frost while both cake and icing are warm. Nell's Chocolate Cake.- One cup of butter, two of sugar, five eggs, leaving out two of the whites, one scant cup of milk, two full teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix well in three cups flour; bake in two long shallow tins. Dressing: Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, add a scant cup and a half of sugar; flavor with vanilla, add six tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate; add the dressing when the cake is cold, and cut in diamond slices. Chocolate Loaf Cake.—Dissolve two ounces of unsweetened Menier chocolate in five tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Beat a half cup of butter to a cream; add gradually one and one-half cup of sugar, then add the yolks of four eggs and the melted chocolate; beat until smooth. Then add half a cup of milk, a teaspoonful of vanilla and two cups of flour; beat again until smooth, and add one heaping teaspoonful of bak- ing powder and the well-beaten whites of four eggs. Give the whole a vigorous beating. Bake in a loaf cake-pan in a moderate oven for about 45 minutes. This cake is very nice and delicate for lunch. Rice Cake.—One cupful of butter, two of sugar, two and one-fourth of rice flour, six eggs, the juice and rind of a lemon. Beat the butter to a cream; then gradually beat in the sugar, and add the lemon. Beat the yolks and whites separately, and add them to the beaten sugar and butter. Add also the rice flour. Pour into a shallow pan, to the depth of about two inches. Bake from thirty-five to forty-five minutes in a mod- erate oven. Cream Cake.-Two eggs, one cup of sugar; one cup of cream, two cups of flour; one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and one teaspoonful of soda. Doughnuts.-One cup of sugar, two eggs, two tablespoon- fuls of melted butter, two-thirds cup of milk, two even tea- spoonfuls of cream tartar, one even teaspoonful of soda, flour enough to roll, salt and nutmeg. Sponge Cake.—One pound sugar, one of flour, ten eggs. Stir yolks of eggs and sugar till perfectly light; beat whites. — 138 — sifted. Return it to the sieve, and mix the soda and cream of tartar with it. Sift this into the bowl of beaten ingredi. ents. Beat quickly and vigorously, to thoroughly mix, and then stop. Take three sheet pans of the same size, and in each of two put one-third of the mixture, and bake. To the other third add four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a cupful of currants and about an eighth of a pound of citron, cut fine. Bake this in the remaining pan. When done, take out of the pans. Spread the light cake with a thin layer of jelly, while warm. Place on this the dark cake, and spread with jelly. Place the other sheet of light cake on this. Lay a paper over all, and then a thin sheet, on which put two irons. The cake will press in about two hours. Jelly Roll.—Make the sponge-cake mixture as for lady-fin. gers, and bake in one shallow pan twenty minutes. While it is yet warm cut off the edges, and spread the cake with any kind of jelly. Roll up, and pin a towel around it. Put in a cool place until serving time. Cut in slices with a sharp knife. Delicate Crullers.-Four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of lard, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and half a nutmeg, grated; a teaspoonful of lemon extract may be added; work into these as much sifted flour as will make a nice dough, roll it to about an eighth of an inch thickness, and fry, as di- rected, for doughnuts and crullers. To make little baskets, cut the paste in strips an inch and a half wide and three inches long, and with a gigling iron, cut slits across it from one side to the other, within a quarter of an inch of either edge, and quarter of an inch apart; then join the two ends together in a circle, forming the basket; press it down slightly, that the strips may bulge, and so form the basket, like those made for fly traps, of paper; as soon as they are taken from the fat (five minutes will do them), grate white sugar over. 110D - 140 — Tapioca Pudding.—Three ounces of tapioca, one quart of milk, two ounces of butter, quarter of a pound of sugar, four eggs, flavoring of vanilla or bitter almonds. Wash the tapioca, and let it stew gently in the milk by the side of the stove for quarter of an hour, occasionally stirring it; then let it cool; mix with it the butter, sugar and eggs, which should be well beaten, and flavor with either of the above ingredients. Butter a pie-dish, and line the edges with puff-paste; put in the pud- ding, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour. If the pud. ding is boiled, add a little more tapioca, and boil it in a but- tered basin one and a half hours. Blanc-Mange.-One quarter pound of sugar, one quart of milk, one and a half ounces of gelatine, the rind of half a lemon, four laurel leaves. Put all the ingredients into a lined saucepan, and boil gently until the gelatine is dissolved; taste it occasionally to ascertain when it is sufficiently flavored with the laurel leaves; then take them out, and keep stirring the mixture over the fire for about ten minutes. Strain it through a fine sieve into a jug, and, when nearly cold, pour it into a well-oiled mould, omitting the sediment at the bottom. Turn it out carefully on a dish, and garnish with preserves, bright jelly, or a compôte of fruit. Ivory Blanc-Mange.-Soak one ounce of gelatine for ten minutes in a little cold milk and pour over the gelatine, and stir it constantly until it is all dissolved ; it may be placed in the dish and set on top of a boiling tea-kettle for a few min- utes ; remove it and add a small cupful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of sherry wine. Strain into moulds. Rice Blanc-Mange.-One quarter pound of ground rice, three ounces of loaf sugar, one ounce of fresh butter, one quart of milk, flavoring of lemon peel, essence of almonds or vanilla, or laurel leaves. Mix the rice to a smooth batter with about one-half pint of the milk, and the remainder put in a saucepan, with the sugar, butter, and whichever of the above flavorings may be preferred ; bring the milk to the boiling point, quickly stir in the rice, and let it boil for about ten minutes, or until it comes easily away from the saucepan, keeping it well stirred the whole time. Grease a mould with pure salad oil ; pour in the rice, and let it get perfectly set, when it should turn out quite easily ; garnish it with jam, or - 141 — pour round a compôte of any kind of fruit, just before it is sent to table. This blanc-mange is better for being made the day before it is wanted, as it then has time to become firm. If laurel leaves are used for flavoring, steep three of them in the milk, and take them out before the rice is added; about eight drops of essence of almonds, or from twelve to sixteen drops of essence of vanilla, would be required to flavor the above proportion of milk. Apple Trifle.—Ten good-sized apples, the rind of one half lemon, six ounces of pounded sugar, one-half pint of milk, one-half pint of cream, two eggs, whipped cream. Peel, core, and cut the apples into thin slices, and put them into a sauce- pan, with two tablespoonfuls of water, the sugar, and minced lemon rind. Boil all together until quite tender, and pulp the apples through a sieve; if they should not be quite sweet enough, add a little more sugar, and put them at the bottom of the dish to form a thick layer. Stir together the milk, cream, and eggs, with a little sugar over the fire, and let the mixture thicken, but do not allow it to reach the boiling point. When thick, take it off the fire ; let it cool a little, then pour it over the apples. Whip some cream with sugar, lemon peel, etc., the same as for other trifles ; heap it high over the cus- tard, and the dish is ready for table. It may be garnished as fancy dictates, with strips of bright apple jelly, slices of cit- ron, etc. Lemon Trifle.--Juice of two lemons and grated peel of one, one pint cream, well sweetened and whipped stiff, one cup of sherry, a little nutmeg. Let sugar, lemon-juice, and peel lie together two hours before you add wine and nutmeg. Strain through double tarlatan, and whip gradually into the frothed cream. Serve very soon, heaped in small glasses. Pass cake with this, as well as with the tea. Floating Island.—Take a quart of, rich cream, and divide it in half. Sweeten one pint of it with loaf sugar, and stir into sufficient currant jelly to color it a fine pink. Put it into a glass bowl, and place in the center a pile of sliced al- mond sponge cake, or of lady cake; every slice spread thickly with raspberry jam or marmalade, and laid evenly one on an- other. Have ready the other pint of cream, flavored with the juice of two lemons, and beaten to a stiff froth. Heap it all - 142 — over the pile of cake so as entirely to cover it. Both creams must be made very sweet. Apple Snow.–Forms a showy, sweet dish, and may be made as follows: Ten or a dozen apples prepared as before, flavored with a little lemon juice; when reduced to a pulp let them stand to cool for a little time, meanwhile beat up the whites of ten or a dozen eggs to a froth, and stir into the apples, as also some sifted sugar, say a teacupful; stir till the mixture begins to stiffen, and then heap it up in a glass dish or serve in custard cups, ornamented with spots of red currant jelly. Thick cream should at table be ladled out to the snow. Tropical Snow.—Ten sweet oranges, one cocoanut, pared and grated, two glasses sherry, one cup powdered sugar, six bananas. Peel and cut the oranges small, taking out the seeds. Put a layer in a glass-bowl and wet with wine, then strew with sugar. Next, put a layer of grated cocoanut, slice the bananas thin, and cover the cocoanut with them. When the dish has been filled in this order, heap with cocoanut. Eat soon or the oranges will toughen. . Swiss Cream.—One-quarter pound of macaroons or six small sponge-cakes, sherry, one pint of cream, five ounces of lump sugar, two large tablespoonfuls of arrowroot, the rind of one lemon, the juice of half a lemon, three tablespoonfuls of milk. Lay the macaroons or sponge-cakes in a glass dish, and pour over them as much sherry as will cover them, or sufficient to soak them well. Put the cream into a lined saucepan, with the sugar and lemon rind, and let it remain by the side of the fire until the cream is well flavored, when take out the lemon-rind. Mix the arrowroot smoothly with the cold milk; add this to the cream, and let it boil gently for about three minutes, keeping it well stirred. Take it off the fire, stir till nearly cold, when add the lemon-juice, and pour the whole over the cakes. Garnish the cream with strips of angelica, or candied citron cut thin, or bright-colored jelly or preserve. This cream is exceedingly delicious, flavored with vanilla instead of lemon; when this flavoring is used, the sherry may be omitted, and the mixture poured over the dry cakes. Italian Cream.—Take one quart of cream, one pint of milk sweetened very sweet, and highly seasoned with sherry wine — 143 — and vanilla ; beat it with a whip dasher, and remove the froth as it rises, until it is all converted into froth. Have ready one box of gelatine dissolved in a little warm water; set your frothed cream into a tub of ice; pour the gel- atine into it, and stir constantly until it thickens, then pour into moulds, and set in a cool place. Whipped Cream.—Mix one pint of cream with nine table. spoons of fine sugar and one gill of wine in a large bowl; whip these with the cream dasher, and as the froth rises, skim into the dish in which it is to be served. Fill the dish full to the top, and ornament with kisses or macaroons. Tipsy Cake.-One moulded sponge or Savoy cake, sufficient sweet wine or sherry to soak it, six tablespoonfuls of brandy, two ounces of sweet almonds, one pint of rich custard. Pro- cure a cake that is three or four days old-either sponge, Sa- voy, or rice answering for the purpose of a tipsy cake. Cut the bottom of the cake level, to make it stand firm in the dish; make a small hole in the centre, and pour in and over the cake sufficient sweet wine or sherry, mixed with the above propor- tion of brandy, to soak it nicely. When the cake is well soaked, blanch and cut the almonds into strips, stick them all over the cake, and pour round it a good custard, allowing eight eggs instead of five to the pint of milk. The cakes are sometimes crumbled and soaked, and a whipped cream heaped over them, the same as for trifles. Snow Pyramids.—Beat to a stiff foam the whites of half a dozen eggs, add a small teacupful of currant jelly, and whip all together again. Fill as many saucers as you have guests half full of cream, dropping in the centre of each saucer a tablespoonful of the beaten eggs and jelly in the shape of a pyramid. An Excellent Dessert.-One can or twelve large peaches, two coffee cups of sugar, one pint of water, and the whites of three eggs; break the peaches with and stir all the ingredi- ents together; freeze the whole into form ; beat the eggs to a froth. Apple Fritters.- One teacup of sweet milk, one tablespoon of sweet light dough dissolved in milk, three eggs beaten sepa- rately, one teaspoon of salt, one and a half tea cups of flour, one tablespoon of sugar, and the grated peel of a lemon, peeled -144 - apples sliced without the core, drop into hot lard with a piece of apple in each one; sprinkle with powdered or spiced sugar. Let them stand after making and they will be lighter. Good. Jelly-Cake Fritters.-Some stale sponge, or plain cup cake, cut into rounds with a cake-cutter. Hot lard, strawberry or other jam, or jelly, a little boiling milk. Cut the cake care- fully and fry a nice brown. Dip each slice for a second in a bowl of boiling milk, draining this off on the side of the ves- sel ; lay on a bot dish and spread thickly with strawberry jam, peach jelly, or other delicate conserve. Pile them neatly and send around hot, with cream to pour over them. This is a nice way of using up stale cake, and if rightly prepared, the dessert is almost equal to Neapolis tan pudding. Peach Meringue.-Pare and quarter (removing stones) a quart of sound, ripe peaches, place them all in a dish that it will not injure to set in the oven and yet be suitable to place on the table. Sprinkle the peaches with sugar, and cover them well with the beaten whites of three eggs. Stand the dish in the oven, until the eggs have become a delicate brown, then remove and, when cool enough, set the dish on ice, or in a very cool place. Take the yolks of the eggs, add to them a pint of milk, sweeten and flavor and boil same in a custard kettle, being careful to keep the eggs from curdling. When cool, pour into a glass pitcher and serve with the meringue when ready to use. Charlotte Russe.-Whip one quart rich cream to a stiff froth, and drain well on a nice sieve. To one scant pint milk add six eggs, beaten very light; make very sweet; flavor high with vanilla. Cook over hot water till it is a thick cus- tard. Soak one full ounce gelatine in a very little water, and warm over hot water. When the custard is very cold, beat in lightly the gelatine and the whipped cream. Line the bottom of your mould with buttered paper, the sides with sponge cake, or lady fingers, fastened together with the white of an egg. Fill with the cream, put in a cold place, or in sum- mer, on ize. To turn out, dip the mould for a moment in hot water. In draining the whipped cream, all that drips through can be rewhipped. - Jellied Grapes.—A very delicate dish is made of one-third of a cup of rice, two cups of grapes, half a cup of water, and -115 — two spoons of sugar. Sprinkle the rice and sugar among the grapes, while placing them in a deep dish ; pour on the water, cover close, and simmer two hours slowly in the oven. Serve cream as sauce, or cold, as pudding. If served warm, as pud. ding, increase slightly the proportion of rice and sugar. Jelly and Custard.—One-half package of gelatine, soaked in water enough to cover it; when soaked, pour one pint of boiling water over it, then add one cup of white sugar, and squeeze the juice of one large lemon into it and a little essence of lemon, and set aside to stiffen. Make a custard with a pint and a half of milk, the yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful of corn starch; sugar and fla. voring. When the jelly is set, and just before using, cut the jelly into squares, laying them in layers, at intervals, in the bottom of the dish ; then pour in some of the cold custard, an. other layer of jelly, and so on, until the custard is all used. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, adding two or three teaspoonfuls of confectioner's sugar, and lay on in pieces, with jelly between. All these recipes are best when prepared in a tin set inside of another, in which there is a little water, to prevent danger of burning. Lemon Toast.–Take the yolks of six eggs, beat them well, and add three cups of sweet milk; take baker's bread, not too stale, and cut into slices; dip them into the milk and eggs, and lay the slices into a spider, with sufficient melted butter, hot, to fry a nice delicate brown; take the whites of the six eggs, and beat them to a froth, adding a large cup of white sugar; add the juice of two lemons, heating well, and adding two cups boiling water. Serve over the toast, as a sauce, and you will find it a very delicious dish. Dish of Snow, Whipped Cream.-To the whites of three eggs, beaten to a froth, add a pint of cream and four table- spoonfuls of sweet wine, with three of fine white sugar and a teaspoonful of extract of lemon or vanilla ; whip it to a froth, and serve in a glass dish; serve jelly or jam with it. Or, lay lady fingers or sliced sponge cake in a glass dish, put spoon- fuls of jelly or jam over, and heap the snow upon it. , Omelet for Dessert.—Beat six eggs light, add a teaspoon. ful of salt, and four or five macaroons, pounded fine ; beat - 116 — them well together; fry, as usual, strew plentifully with sugar, and serve. Jelly Fritters.—Make a batter of two eggs, a pint of milk, and a pint bowl of wheat flour or more ; beat it light; put a tablespoonful of lard or beef fat in a frying or omelet pan, add a saltspoonful of salt, make it boiling hot, put in the bat- ter by the large spoonful, not too close ; when one side is a delicate brown, turn the other; when done, take them on to a dish, with a doyly over it, put a dessert spoonful of firm jelly or jam on each, and serve. PRESERVES, CANNED FRUITS, JELLY To Preserve Plums without the Skins. Pour boiling water over large egg, or magnum bonum plums, cover them until cold, then pull off the skins. Make a syrup of a pound of sugar and a teacup of water for each pound of fruit, make it boiling hot, and pour it over; let them remain for a day or two, then drain it off, and boil again ; skim it clear, and pour it hot over plums ; let them remain until the next day, then put them over the fire in the syrup, boil them very gently un. til clear ; take them from the syrup, with a skimmer, into the pots or jars ; boil the syrup until rich and thick, take off any skum which may rise, then let it cool and settle, and pour it over the plums. If brown sugar is used, which is quite as good except for greengages, clarify it, as directed. To Preserve Purple Plums.—Make a syrup of clean brown sugar, clarify it as directed in these recipes; when perfectly clear and boiling hot, pour it over the plums, having picked out all unsound ones, and stems; let them remain in the syrup two days, then drain it off; make it boiling hot, skim it and pour it over again ; let them remain in the syrup two days, then drain it off; make it boiling hot, skim it and pour it over again; let them remain another day or two, then put them in a preserving kettle over the fire, and simmer gently until the syrup is reduced and thick or rich. One pound of sugar for each pound of plums. Small damsons are very fine, preserved — 147 — as cherries or any other ripe fruit; clarify the syrup and when boiling hot put in the plums ; let them boil very gently until they are cooked and the syrup rich. Put them in pots or jars; the next day secure as directed. Preserved Greengages in Syrup.—To every pound of fruit allow one pound of loaf sugar, one quarter pint of water. Boil the sugar and water together for about ten minutes; divide the greengages, take out the stones, put the fruit into the syrup, and let it simmer gently until nearly tender. Take it off the fire, put it into a large pan, and, the next day, boil it up again for about ten minutes with the kernels from the stones, which should be blanched. Put the fruit carefully into jars, pour over it the syrup, and, when cold, cover down, so that the air is quite excluded. Let the syrup be well skimmed both the first and second day of boiling, otherwise it will not be clear. To Preserve Cherries in Syrup.-Four pounds of cherries, three pounds of sugar, one pint of white-currant juice. Let the cherries be as clear and as transparent as possible, and perfectly ripe; pick off the stalks, and remove the stones, damaging the fruit as little as you can. Make a syrup with the above proportion of sugar, mix the cherries with it, and boil them for about fifteen minutes, carefully skimming them; turn them gently into a pan, and let them remain till the next day; then drain the cherries on a sieve, and put the syrup and white-currant juice into the preserving pan again. Boil these together until the syrup is somewhat reduced and rather thick; then put in the cherries, and let them boil for about five min- utes; take them off the fire, skim the syrup, put the cherries into small pots or wide-mouthed bottles; pour the syrup over, and when quite cold, tie them down carefully, so that the air is quite excluded. Preserved Pears.—To six pounds of pears, four pounds of sugar, two coffee cups of water, the juice of two lemons, and the rind of one, a handful of whole ginger; boil all together for twenty minutes, then put in your pears and boil till soft, say about a quarter of an hour; take them out and boil your syrup a little longer; then put back your fruit and give it a boil; bottle while hot; add a little cochineal to give them a nice color. 148 ? To Preserve Peaches.—Peaches for preserving may be rips but not soft; cut them in halves, take out the stones, and pare them neatly; take as many pounds of white sugar as of fruit, put to each pound of sugar a teacup of water; stir it until it is dissolved, set it over a moderate fire, when it is boiling hot, put in the peaches, let them boil gently until a pure, clear, uniform color; turn those at the bottom to the top carefully with a skimmer several times; do not hurry them; when they are clear, take each half up with a spoon, and spread the halves on flat dishes to become cold; when all are done, let the syrup boil until it is quite thick, pour it into a large pitcher, and let it set to cool and settle. When the peaches are cold put them carefully into jars, and pour the syrup over them, leaving any sediment which has settled at the bottom, or strain the syrup. Some of the kernels from the peach stones may be put in with the peaches while boiling. Let them remain open one night, then cover. To Preserve Citron.—Pare the citrons and cut them into slices about an inch and a half thick, then into strips the same thickness, leaving them the full length of the fruit; take out all the seeds with a small knife, then weigh, and to each pound of citron put a pound of white sugar, make a syrup; to ten pounds put a pint of water, and simmer gently for twenty minutes; then put in the citron and boil for one hour, or un- til tender; before taking off the fire put in two lemons, sliced thin, seeds taken out, and two ounces of root ginger; do not let them boil long after the lemon and ginger are put in; do not stir them while boiling. The above is very fine if care- fully attended to. Crab-Apples.—To each pound of fruit allow half a pound of sugar, and a pint of water to three pounds of sugar. When the syrup is boiling hot, drop in the apples. They will cook very quickly. When done, fill a jar with the fruit, and fill it up with sle. Pare the fruit cut in slices; Pineapple.—Pare the fruit, and be sure you take out all the eyes and discolored parts. Cut in slices, and cut the slices in small bits, taking out the core. Weigh the fruit, and put in a pan with half as many pounds of sugar as of fruit. Let it stand over night. In the morning put it over the fire and let it boil rapidly for a minute only, as cooking long discolors it. Put it in the jars as directed. - 149 — Gooseberry Jam.-To every eight pounds of red, rough, ripe gooseberries, allow one quart of red-currant juice, five pounds of loaf sugar. Have the fruit gathered in dry weather, and cut off the tops and tails. Prepare one quart of red-currant juice, the same as for red-currant jelly; put it into a preserv- ing-pan with the sugar, and keep stirring until the latter is dissolved. Keep it boiling for about five minutes; skim well; then put in the gooseberries, and let them boil from one-half to three-quarters of an hour; then turn the whole into an earthen pan, and let it remain for two days. Boil the jam up again until it looks clear; put it into pots, and when cold cover with oiled paper, and over the jars put tissue paper, brushed over on both sides with the white of an egg, and store away in a dry place. Care must be taken in making this to keep the jam well stirred and well skimmed, to prevent it burning at the bottom of the pan, and to have it very clear. Black Currant Jam.- Pick the currants carefully, and take equal quantities of fruit and sugar. Pounded loaf sugar is best. Dissolve it over or mix it with the currants. Put in a very little water, or red currant juice, boil, and skim for twenty-five minutes. Raspberry Jam.-To five or six pounds of fine red raspber. ries (not too ripe) add an equal quantity of the finest quality of white sugar. Mash the whole well in a preserving kettle; add about one quart of currant juice (a little less will do), and boil gently until it jellies upon a cold plate ; then put into small jars; cover with brandied paper, and tie a thick white paper over them. Keep in a dark, dry and cool place. : Quince Preserve.—Pare, core, and quarter your fruit, then weigh it, and allow an equal quantity of white sugar. Take the peelings and cores, and put in a preserving kettle; cover them with water, and boil for half an hour; then strain through a hair sieve, and put the juice back into the kettle, and boil the quinces in it, a little at a time, until they are tender; lift out, as they are done, with a drainer, and lay on a dish ; if the liquid seems scarce add more water. When all are done, throw in the sugar, and allow it to boil ten minutes before putting in the quinces ; let them boil until they change color, say one hour and a quarter, on a slow fire; while they are boiling, occasionally slip a silver spoon under them, to see that - 150 — skit from the staflave the ť Ulter this jar in they do not burn, but on no account stir them. Have two fresh lemons, cut in thin slices, and when the fruit is being put in jars, lay a slice or twɔ in each. Red Currant Jelly.-Red currants ; to every pint of juice allow three-quarters pound of loaf sugar. Have the fruit gathered in fine weather; pick it from the stalks, put it into a jar, and place this jar in a saucepan of boiling water over the fire, and let it simmer gently until the juice is well drawn from the currants; then strain them through a jelly bag of fine cloth, and, if the jelly is wanted very clear, do not squeeze them too much, as the skin and pulp from the fruit will be pressed through with the juice, and so make the jelly muddy. Measure the juice, and to each pint allow three-quarters pound of loaf sugar; put these into a preserving pan, set it over the fire, and keep stirring the jelly until it is done, carefully re- moving every particle of scum as it rises, using a wooden or silver spoon for the purpose, as metal or iron ones would spoil the color of the jelly. When it has boiled from twenty min- utes to a half hour, put a little of the jelly on a plate, and if firm when cool, it is done. Take it off the fire, pour it into small gallipots, cover each of the pots with an oiled paper, and then with a piece of tissue paper, brushed over on both sides with the white of an egg. Label the pots, adding the year when the jelly was made, and store it away in a dry place. A jam may be made with the currants, if they are not squeezed too dry, by adding a few fresh raspberries, and boiling all to- gether, with sufficient sugar to sweeten it nicely. As this pre- serve is not worth storing away, but is only for immediate eating, a smaller proportion of sugar than usual will be found enough; it answers very well for children's puddings, or for a nursery preserve. Apple Jelly.- Apples, water ; to every pint of syrup allow three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar. Pare and cut the ap- ples into pieces, remove the cores, and put them in a preserv. ing pan, with sufficient cold water to cover them. Let them boil for an hour; then drain the syrup from them through a hair sieve, or jelly bag, and measure the juice; to every pint allow three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, and boil these together for three-quarters of an hour, removing every parti. cle of scum as it rises, and keeping the jelly well stirred, that — 151 – it may not burn. A little lemon-rind may be boiled with the apples, and a small quantity of strained lemon juice may be put in the jelly just before it is done, when the flavor is liked. This jelly may be ornamented with preserved greengages, or any other preserved fruit, and will turn out very prettily for dessert. It should be stored away in small pots. Black Currant Jelly.- Pick each currant individually, and heat the lot in a jar set in boiling water; squeeze as before, and allow a pint of juice to a pound of sugar; a little water may be added if thought proper, or a little red-currant juice. Boil for half an hour, carefully removing the skimmings. Another way: Clarify the sugar, and add the fruit to it whole ; boil for twenty minutes, and strain, then boil a few minutes addi- tional. Pot it, and paper it when cool. The refuse berries may be kept as black-currant jam, for tarts, dumplings, etc. Crab Apple Jelly.-Wash the fruit clean, put in a kettle, cover with water, and boil until thoroughly cooked. Then pour it into a sieve, and let it drain. Do not press it through. For each pint of this liquor allow one pound of sugar. Boil from twenty minutes to half an hour. Other Jellies.—Jellies can be made from quinces, peaches and apples, by following the directions for crab-apple jelly. Wine Jelly.—One box of gelatine, dissolved in one pint of cold water, one pint of wine, one quart of boiling water, one quart of granulated sugar, and three lemons. Calve's Feet Jelly.-Should be made, at any rate, the day before it is required. It is a simple affair to prepare it. Pro- cure a couple of feet, and put them on the fire in three quarts of water ; let them boil for five hours, during which keep skim- ming. Pass the liquor through a hair sieve into a basin, and let it firm, after which remove all the oil and fat. Next, take a teacupful of water, two wineglassfuls of sherry, the juice of half a dozen lemons and the rind of one, the whites and shells of five eggs, half a pound of fine white sugar, and whisk the whole till the sugar is melted ; then add the jelly, place the whole on the fire in an enameled stewpan, and keep actively stirring till the composition comes to the boil ; pass it twice through a jelly bag, and then place it in the moulds. Orange Marmalade. Allow pound for pound. Pare half the oranges, and cut the rind into shreds. Boil in three waters - 152 — until tender, and set aside. Grate the rind of the remaining oranges; take off, and throw away every bit of the thick white inner skin ; quarter all the oranges, and take out the seeds. Chop, or cut them into small pieces ; drain all the juice that will come away, without pressing them, over the sugar ; heat this, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, adding a very little water, unless the oranges are very juicy. Boil and skim five or six minutes ; put in the boiled shreds, and cook ten min- utes ; then the chopped fruit and grated peel, and boil twenty minutes longer. When cold, put into small jars, tied up with bladder, or with paper, next the fruit, cloths dipped in wax over all. A nicer way still, is to put away in tumblers, with self-adjusting metal tops. Press brandied tissue paper down closely to the fruit. Lemon Marmalade.-Is made as you would prepare orange -allowing a pound and a quarter of sugar to a pound of the fruit, and using but half the grated peel. Quince Marmalade.-Gather the fruit when fully ripe; pare, quarter and core it; boil the skins with as many teacupfuls of water as you have pounds of quinces; when they are soft, mash them, and strain the water from them, and put it to the quinces; boil them until they are soft enough to mash them fine ; rub them through a sieve ; put to the pulp as many pounds of sugar; stir them together, and set thein over a gen- tle fire until it will fall from a spoon, like jelly, or try some in a saucer. If it jellies when cold, it is enough. Put it in pots or tumblers, and when cold, secure, as directed for jelly. Strawberry Mousse.—Wash and hull a quart box of straw- berries, sprinkle with one cup of sugar or more if the berries are rather sour, and let stand one hour. Crush and put through a cheese cloth. Soak one and a half tablespoonfuls of Cooper's Clarified Gelatine in two tablespoonfuls of cold. water and dissolve in one quarter cupful of hot water, then add to the strawberry juice, color with a little red coloring, and set the dish in a pan of ice water, stirring until it begins to thicken. Fold in carefully the whip from one quart of cream, then turn into a mould, pack in salt and ice, using the two in equal proportions, and let it stand fully four hours. · Ice Cream.-Soak a quarter of a box of Cooper's Clarified Gelatine in half a cup of cold milk. Make a boiled custard – 153 — with one quart of milk, six yolks of eggs and one cup of sugar. Cook slightly until smooth but not curdled, and add the soaked gelatine. Strain, and when cool add a generous pint of cream, sugar to make it quite sweet, and flavor highly with any flavoring desired. Ice creams are richer and mould. better when made with Cooper's Clarified Gelatine. Orange Water Ice.-Soak one tablespoonful of Cooper's. Clarified Gelatine in one half cup of cold water ; add one half cup of boiling water and when dissolved add one cup sugar, one cup cold water, the juice of six large oranges, or one pint of juice. Strain when the sugar is dissolved, pour into the freezing can and freeze. A tablespoonful of Cooper's Clarified Gelatine, soaked and dissolved, gives a light and smooth consistency to Sherbets and Water Ices. Lemon Sherbets.—Soak one tablespoonful of Cooper's Clarified Gelatine in a little cold water and dissolve with one half cup boiling water ; add one pint sugar, a scant quart of water, one half pint lemon juice and the grated yellow rind of two lemons. Strain and freeze. Turn the crank of the freezer slowly, for the faster it is turned the slower the sherbet freezes. Lemon Butter.-Beat six eggs, one-fourth pound butter, one pound sugar, the rind and juice of three lemons; mixed together, and set in a pan of hot water to cook. Very nice for tarts, or to eat with bread. Iced Currants. -One-quarter pint of water, the whites of two eggs, currants, pounded sugar. Select very fine bunches of red or white currants, and well beat the whites of the eggs. Mix these with water; then take the currants, a bunch at a time, and dip them in ; let them drain for a minute or two, and roll them in very finely pounded sugar. Lay them to dry. on paper, wnen the sugar will crystallize round each currant, and have a very pretty effect. All fresh fruit may be pre- pared in the same manner; and a mixture of various fruits iced in this manner, and arranged on one dish, looks very well for a summer dessert. To Bottle Fruit Butter.–VERY USEFUL IN WINTER. — Fresh fruit, such as currants, raspberries, cherries, goose- berries, plums of all kinds, damsons, etc.; wide-mouthed glass bottles, new corks to fit them tightly. Let the fruit be full grown, but not too ripe, and gathered in dry weather. Pick - 154 - it off the stalks without bruising or breaking the skin, and reject any that is at all blemished ; if gathered in the damp, or if the skins are cut at all, the fruit will mould. Have ready some perfectly dry glass bottles, and some nice new soft corks or bungs; burn a match in each bottle, to exhaust the air, and quickly place the fruit in to be preserved ; gently cork the bottles, and put them into a very cool oven, where let them re- main until the fruit has shrunk away a fourth part. Then take the bottles out; do not open them, but immediately beat the corks in tight, cut off the tops, and cover them with melted resin. If kept in a dry place, the fruit will remain good for months; and on this principally depends the success of the preparation, for if stored away in a place that is the least damp, the fruit will soon spoil. To Green Fruit for Preserving in Sugar or Vinegar. Ap- ples, pears, limes, plums, apricots, etc., for preserving or pick- ling, may be greened thus: Put vine-leaves under, between, and over the fruit in a preserving kettle ; put small bits of alum, the size of a pea, say a dozen bits to a kettlefull; put enough'water to cover the fruit, cover the kettle close to ex- clude all outer air, set it over a gentle fire, let them simmer; when they are tender drain off the water; if they are not a fine green let them become cold, then put vine-leaves and a bit of saleratus or soda with them, and set them over a slow fire until they begin to simmer; a bit of soda or saleratus the size of a small nutmeg will have the desired effect; then spread them out to cool, after which finish as severally directed. To Color Preserves Pink.-By putting in with it a little cochineal powdered fine, then finish in the syrup. To Color Fruit Yellow.—Boil the fruit with fresh skin lemons in water to cover them, until it is tender; then take it up, spread it on dishes to cool, and finish as may be directed. Canned Strawberries. After the berries are pulled, let as many as can be put carefully in the preserve kettle at once be placed on a platter. To each pound of fruit add three- fourths of a pound of sugar ; let them stand two or three hours, till the juice is drawn from them, pour it in the kettle and let it come to a boil, and remove the scum which rises ; then put in the berries very carefully. As soon as they come - 155 — thoroughly to a boil put them in warm jars, and seal while boiling hot. Be sure the cans are air-tight. Canned Peaches.—Select some fine, free-stone peaches; pare, cut in two and stone them. Immerse in cold water, taking care not to break the fruit. See that the peaches are not over ripe. Place in the kettle, scattering sugar between the layers—the sugar should be in the proportion of a full tablespoonful to a quart of fruit. To prevent burning put a little water in the kettle. Heat slowly to a boil, then boil for three or four minutes. Can and seal the fruit. Canned Pears.—Prepare and can precisely like peaches in preceding recipe, except that they require longer cooking. When done they are easily pierced with a silver fork. Canned Plums.–To every pound of fruit allow three-quar- ters of a pound of sugar ; for the thin syrup, a quarter of a pound of sugar to each pint of water. Select fine fruit, and prick with a needle to prevent bursting. Simmer gently in a syrup made with the above proportion of sugar and water. Let them boil not longer than five minutes. Put the plums in a jar, pour in the hot syrup, and seal. Greengages are also delicious done in this manner. Canned Currants.-Look them over carefully, stem and weigh them, allowing a pound of sugar to every one of fruit; put them in a kettle, cover, and leave them to heat slowly and stew gently for twenty or thirty minutes ; then add the sugar, and shake the kettle occasionally to make it mix with the fruit; do not allow it to boil, but keep as hot as possible until the sugar is dissolved, then pour it in cans and secure the covers at once. White currants are beautiful preserved in this way. Canned Pineapple.-For six pounds of fruit when cut and ready to can make syrup with two and a half pounds of sugar and nearly three pints of water ; boil syrup five minutes and skim or strain if necessary ; then add the fruit, and let it boil up; have cans hot, fill and shut up as soon as possible. Use the best white sugar. As the cans cool, keep tightening them up. To Can Quinces.-Cut the quinces into thin slices like ap- ples for pies. To one quart jarful of quinces take a coffee- saucer and a half of sugar and a coffee-cup of water ; put the sugar and water on the fire, and when boiling put in the quinces ; have ready the jars with their fastenings, stand the - 156 — jars in a pan of boiling water on the stove, and when the quince is clear and tender put rapidly into the jars, fruit and syrup together. The jars must be filled so that the syrup over- flows, and fastened up tight as quickly as possible. Canning Tomatoes.-Scald your tomatoes, remove the skins, cut in small pieces, put in a porcelain kettle, salt to taste, and boil fifteen minutes ; have tin cans filled with hot water ; pour the water out and fill with tomatoes; solder tops on immediately with shellac and rosin melted together. Canned Corn.-dissolve an ounce tartaric acid in half tea- cup water, and take one tablespoon to two quarts of sweet corn; cook, and while boiling hot, fill the cans, which should be tin. When used turn into a colander, rinse with cold water, add a little soda and sugar while cooking, and season with butter, pepper and salt. ICES, ICE-CREAM, CANDY. Currant Ice.-One pint of currant juice, one pound of sugar, and pint of water; put in freezer, and when partly frozen add the whites of three eggs well beaten. Strawberry or Raspberry Ice.—One quart of berries. Ex- tract the juice and strain ; one pint of sugar, dissolved in the juice ; one lemon, juice only ; half pint of water. Orange and Lemon Ices. The rind of three oranges grated and steeped a few moments in a little more than a pint of water; strain one pint of this on a pound of sugar, and then add one pint of orange or lemon juice ; pour in the freezer, and when half frozen add the whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Ice-Cream.-One quart of new milk, two eggs, two table- spoons of corn-starch ; heat the milk in a dish set in hot water, then stir in the corn-starch mixed smooth in a little of the milk; let it boil for one or two minutes, then remove from stove and cool, and stir in the egg and a half pound of sugai. If to be extra nice, add a pint of rich cream, and one-fourth - 157 — pound of sugar, strain the mixture, and when cool add the flavoring, and freeze as follows: Prepare freezer in the usual manner, turn the crank one hundred times, then pour upon the ice and salt a quart of boiling water from the tea-kettle. Fill up again with ice and salt, turn the crank fifty times one way and twenty-five the other (which serves to scrape the cream from sides of freezer); by this time it will turn very hard, indicating that the cream is frozen sufficiently. Vanilla or Lemon Ice-Cream.—Take two drachms of vanilla cr lemon-peel, one quart of milk, half a pound of sugar, one pint of cream, and the yolks of three eggs ; beat the yolks well, and stir them with the milk, then add the other ingre- dients ; set it over a moderate fire, and stir it constantly with a silver spoon until it is boiling hot, then take out the lemon peel or vanilla, and, when cold, freeze it. Strawberry Ice-Cream.-Sprinkle strawberries with sugar, wash well and rub through a sieve; to a pint of the juice add half a pint of good cream; make it very sweet; freeze, and when beginning to set, stir lightly one pint of cream whipped, and lastly a handful of whole strawberries, sweetened. It may then be put in a mould and imbedded in ice, or kept in the freezer ; or mash with a potato-pounder in an earthen bowl one quart of strawberries with one pound of sugar, rub it through a colander, add one quart of sweet cream and freeze. Or, if not in the strawberry season, use the French bottled strawberries (or any canned ones), mix juice with half a pint of cream, sweeten and freeze ; when partially set add whipped cream and strawberries. Chocolate Ice-Cream.—Take six ounces of chocolate, a pint of cream, half a pint of new milk, and half a pint of sugar. Rub the chocolate down into the milk and mix thoroughly, adding the cream and sugar. The milk should be heated al. most to boiling. Heat until it thickens, stirring constantly. Strain and set aside to cool, afterwards freeze. This makes perhaps the most favorite of ice-creams. Cream Candies.-Three and one-half pounds of sugar to one and one-half pints of water; dissolve in the water before put- ting with the sugar one-quarter of an ounce of fine white gum. arabic, and when added to the sugar put in one teaspoon of cream of tartar. The candy should not be boiled quite to the - 159 — strips with a pair of scissors; these strips should then be twisted, and the barley-sugar stored away in a very dry place. It may be formed into lozenges or drops, by dropping the sugar in a very small quantity at a time on to the oiled slab or dish. To Make Everton Tofiee.-One pound of powdered loaf- sugar, one teacupful of water, one-quarter pound of butter, six drops of essence of lemon. Put the water and sugar into a brass pan, and beat the butter to a cream. When the sugar is dissolved, add the butter, and keep stirring the mixture over the fire until it sets when a little is poured on to a buttered dish; and just before the toffee is done add the essence of lemon. Butter a dish or tin, pour on it the mixture, and when cool it will easily separate from the dish. Butter-scotch, an excellent thing for coughs, is made with brown, instead of white sugar, omitting the water, and flavored with one-half ounce of ginger. It is made in the same manner as toffee. Cocoanut Drops.—To one grated cocoanut add lialf its weight of sugar, and the white of one egg cut to a stiff froth; mix thoroughly and drop on buttered white paper or tin sheets. Bake fifteen minutes. Molasses Candy. -One cup of molasses, two cups of sugar, one tablespoon vinegar, a little butter and vanilla; boil ten minutes, then cool it enough to pull. Chocolate Caramels.—Two cups of brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup chocolate grated fine, one cup of boiled milk, one tablespoon of flour; butter the size of a large Eng- lish walnut; let it boil slowly and pour on flat tins to cool; mark off while warm. Lemon Candy.—Put into a kettle three and one-half pounds of sugar, one and one-half pints of water, and one teaspoon of cream of tartar. Let it boil until it becomes brittle when dropped in cold water ; when sufficiently done take off the fire and pour in a shallow dish, which has been greased with a lit- tle butter. When this has cooled so that it can be handled, add a teaspoon of tartaric acid and the same quantity of ex- tract of lemon, and work them into the mass. The acid must be fine and free from lumps. Work this in until evenly dis- tributed, and no more, as it will tend to destroy the transpar- ency of the candy. This method may be used for preparing all other candies, as pineapple, etc., using different flavors. DRINKS. To Make Green Tea.-Have ready a kettle of water boil. ing fast, pour some into the teapot, let it remain for a few minutes, then throw it out; measure a teaspoonful of tea för each two persons, put it in the pot, pour on it about a gill of boiling water, cover it close for five minutes, then fill it up; have a covered pitcher of boiling water with it; when two cups are poured from it fill it up; you will thus keep the strength good and equal. If the company is large, it is best to have some of the tea drawn in the covered pitcher, and re- plenish the teapot or urn when it is exhausted. To Make Black Tea.- Make as directed for green tea. Iced Tea.—Prepare'tea in the morning, making it stronger and sweeter than usual; strain and pour into a clean stone jug or glass bottle, and set aside in the ice-chest until ready to use. Drink from goblets without cream. Serve ice broken in small pieces on a platter nicely garnished with well-washed grape-leaves. Iced tea may be prepared from either green or black alone, but it is considered an improvement to mix the two. Tea made like that for iced tea (or that left in the tea- pot after a meal), with sugar to taste, a slice or two of lemon, a little of the juice, and some pieces of cracked ice, makes a delightful drink. Serve in glasses. To Make Coffee.-Take a good-sized cupful of ground cof- fee, and pour into a quart of boiling water, with the white of an egg and the crushed shell. Stir well together, adding a half cupful of cold water to clear. Put into the coffee-boiler, and boil for about a quarter of an hour; after standing for a little to settle pour into your coffee-pot, which should be well- scalded, and send to the table. The coffee should be stirred as it boils. To make coffée au lait, take a pint each of hot made coffee and boiling milk; strain through thin muslin into coffee-pot, to get rid of the grounds, and serve hot. Chocolate.—Take six tablespoonfuls scraped chocolate, or three of chocolate and three of cocoa, dissolve in a quart of - 161 — boiling water, boil hard fifteen minutes, add one quart of rich milk, let scald and serve hot; this is enough for six persons. Cocoa can also be made after this recipe. Some boil either cocoa or chocolate only one minute and then serve, while others make it the day before using, boiling it for one hour, and when cool skimming off the oil, and when wanted for use, heat it to the boiling point and add the milk. In this way it is equally good and much more wholesome. Cocoa is from the seed of the fruit of a small tropical tree. There are seve- ral forms in which it is sold; the most nutritious and conven- ient being chocolate, the next cocoa, then cocoa nibs, and last cocoa shells. The ground bean is simply cocoa; ground fine and mixed with sugar it is chocolate; the beans broken into bits are “nibs.” The shells are the shells of the bean, usually removed before grinding. The beans are roasted like coffee, and ground between hot rollers. Lemon Syrup-Take the juice of twelve lemons, grate the rind of six in it, let it stand over night, then take six pounds of white sugar, and make a thick syrup. When it is quite cool, strain the juice into it, and squeeze as much oil from the grated rind as will suit the taste. A tablespoon- ful in a goblet of water will make a delicious drink on a hot day, far superior to that prepared from the stuff commonly sold as lemon syrup. Strawberry Syrup. Take fine ripe strawberries, crush them in a cloth, and press the juice from them; to each pint of it put a pint of simple syrup, boil gently for one hour, then let it become cold, and bottle it; cork and seal it. When served, reduce it to taste with water, set it on ice, and serve in small tumblers half filled. Raspberry Syrup.—Make as directed for strawberry. Strawberry Sherbet.—Take fourteen ounces of picked straw. berries, crush them in a mortar, then add to them a quart of water; pour this into a basin, with a lemon sliced, and a tea- spoonful of orange-flower water; let it remain for two or three hours. Put eighteen ounces of sugar into another basin, cover it with a cloth, through which pour the strawberry juice, after as much has run through as will; gather up the cloth, and squeeze out as much juice as possible from it; when the sugar - 163 — ' of two eggs, and add soft water to make forty gallons. Color with cochineal and let it stand six months before use. Fine Milk Punch.-Pare off the yellow rind of four large lemons, and steep it for twenty-four hours in a quart of brandy or rum. Then mix with it the juice of the lemons, a pound and a half of loaf-sugar; two grated nutmegs, and a quart of water. Add a quart of rich unskimmed milk, made boiling hot, and strain the whole through a jelly-bag. You may either use it as soon as it is cold, or make a larger quantity (in the above proportions), and bottle it. It will keep several months. Claret Cup.-One quart bottle of claret, one bottle of soda. water, one lemon cut very thin, four tablespoons of powdered sugar, quarter of a teaspoon of grated nutmeg, one liquor glass of brandy, one wineglass of sherry wine. Half an hour before it is to be used, put in a large piece of ice, so that it may get perfectly cold. Roman Punch.-Grate the yellow rinds of four lemons and two oranges upon two pounds of loaf-sugar. Squeeze on the juice of the lemons and oranges; cover it, and let it stand till next day. Then strain it through a sieve, add a bottle of champagne, and the whites of eight eggs beaten to froth. You may freeze it or not. Cream Nectar.—Dissolve two pounds of crushed sugar, in three quarts of water; boil down to two quarts; drop in the white of an egg while boiling; then strain, and put in the tar- taric acid; when cold drop in the lemon to your taste; then bottle and cork. Shake two or three times a day. Red Currant Cordial.—To two quarts of red currants put one quart of whiskey; let it stand twenty-four hours, then bruise and strain through a flannel bag. To every two quarts of this liquor, add one pound of loaf-sugar, add quarter of a pound of ginger well bruised and boiled; let the whole stand to settle, then strain or filter; bottle and cork, seal the corks tightly. It is an improvement to have half red raspberry juice if the flavor is liked. The above is fit for use in a month. Elderberry Syrup.—Take elderberries perfectly ripe, wash and strain them, put a pint of molasses to a pint of the juice, boil it twenty minutes, stirring constantly, when cold add to each quart a pint of French brandy; bottle and cork it tight. It is an excellent remedy for a cough. INVALID COOKERY. Port Wine Jelly.-Melt in a little warm water an ounce of gelatine ; stir it into a pint of port wine, adding two ounces of sugar candy, an ounce of gum arabic, and half a nutmeg, grated. Mix all well and boil it ten minutes ; or till every- thing is thoroughly dissolved. Then strain it through muslin and set it away to get cold. Tapioca Jelly.—Wash the tapioca carefully in two or three waters, then soak it for five or six hours, simmer it then in a stewpan until it becomes quite clear, add a little of the juice of a lemon, wine if desired. Arrowroot Wine Jelly.-One cup boiling water, two heap- ing teaspoons arrowroot, two heaping teaspoons white sugar, one tablespoonful brandy or three tablespoonfuls of wine. An excellent corrective to weak bowels. Jellied Chicken.—Cook six chickens in a small quantity of water, until the meat will part from the bones easily ; season to taste with salt and pepper; just as soon as cold enough to handle, remove bones and skin ; place meat in a deep pan or mould, just as it comes from the bone, using gizzard, liver and heart, until the mould is nearly full. To the water left in the kettle, add three-fourths of a box of gelatine (some add juice of lemon), dissolved in a little warm water, and boil until it is reduced to a little less than a quart, pour over the chicken in the mould, leave to cool, cut with a very sharp knife and serve. The slices will not easily break up if directions are followed. Chicken Broth.-Half fowl, or the inferior joints of a whole one, one quart of water, one blade of mace, half onion, a small bunch of sweet herbs, salt to taste, ten peppercorns. If a young one be used for this broth, the inferior joints may be put in the broth, and the best pieces reserved for dressing in some other manner. Put the fowl into a saucepan, with all the ingredients, and simmer gently for one and a half hours, - 166 — Lemonade for Invalids.-One-half a lemon, lump sugar to taste, one pint of boiling water. Pare off the rind of the lemon thinly; cut the lemon into two or three thick slices, and remove as much as possible of the white outside pith, and all the pips. Put the slices of lemon, the peel and lump sugar, into a jug ; pour over the boiling water ; cover it closely, and in two hours it will be fit to drink. It should either be strained, or poured off, from the sediment. Mutton Broth. Is frequently ordered as a preparation for invalids. For the sick room, such broth must be made as plainly as possible, and so as to secure the juice of the meat. Boil slowly a couple of pounds of lean mutton for two hours, skim it very carefully as it simmers, and do not put in very much salt. If the doctor permits, some vegetable, as season. ing, may be added, and for some broths a little fine barley or rice is added. Flaxseed Lemonade.-Four tablespoonfuls of flaxseed (whole), one quart boiling water poured on the flaxseed, juice of two lemons, leaving out the peel. Sweeten to taste ; steep three hours in a covered pitcher. If too thick, put in cold water with the lemon juice and sugar. Ice, for drinking. It is splendid for colds. Arrowroot.—This is very nourishing and light, either for invalids or infants ; make it with milk or water ; put a pint. of either into a stewpan, make it boiling hot, add a saltspoon of salt, put a heaped teaspoonful of ground Bermuda arrow- root into a cup, make it smooth with cold milk, stir it into the stewpan, and let it simmer for two or three minutes ; then turn it into a bowl, sweeten, and grate nutmeg over, if liked ; should it be preferred thin, use less arrowroot. This should be made only as much as is wanted at a time, since it will be- come as thin as water if heated over. Stewed Rabbits in Milk.—Two very young rabbits, not nearly half grown; one and one-half pints of milk, one blade of mace, one dessert spoonful of flour, a little salt and cay- enne. Mix the flour very smoothly with four tablespoonfuls of the milk, and when this is well mixed, add the remainder. Cut up the rabbits into joints, put them into a stewpan with the milk and other ingredients, and simmer them very gently until quite tender. Stir the contents from time to time, to COSMETIQUES. Complexion Wash.-Put in a vial one drachm of benzoin gum in powder, one drachm nutmeg oil, six drops of orange- blossom tea, or apple blossoms put in half pint rain water, and boiled down to one teaspoonful and strained, one pint of sherry wine. Bathe the face morning and night; will re- move all flesh worms and freckles, and give a beautiful com- plexion. Or, put one ounce of powdered gum of benzoin in pint of whiskey; to use, put in water in washbowl till it is milky, allowing it to dry without wiping. This is perfectly harmless." To Clear a Tanned Skin.-Wash with a solution of car- bonate of soda and a little lemon juice; then with Fuller's earth water, or the juice of unripe grapes. Oil to Make the Hair Curl.—Olive oil, one pound; oil of organum, one drachm; .oil of rosemary, one and one-half drachms. Mix. Wrinkles in the Skin.-White wax, one ounce; strained honey, two ounces ; juice of lily bulbs, two ounces. The fore. going melted and stirred together will remove wrinkles. Pearl Water for the Face.-Put a half pound of best Windsor soap scraped fine into a half a gallon of boiling water ; stir it well until it cools ; add a pint of spirits of wine and half an ounce of oil of rosemary ; stir well. This is a good cosmetique, and will remove freckles. Pearl Dentifrice.-Prepared chalk, one-half pound; pow. dered myrrh, two ounces ; camphor, two drachms; orris root powdered, two ounces. Moisten the camphor with alcohol and mix all well together. Wash for a Blotched Face.-Rose water, three ounces ; sul- phate of zinc, one drachm; mix. Wet the face with it, gently dry it and then touch it over with cold cream, which also gen- tly dry off. Face Powder.—Take of wheat starch one pound ; powdered orris root, three ounces ; oil of lemon, thirty drops ; oil of ber- - 169 — gamot, oil of cloves, each fifteen drops. Rub thoroughly to- gether. A Good Wash for the Hair.-One pennyworth of borax, half a pint of olive oil, one pint of boiling water. Mode : Pour the boiling water over the borax and oil ; let it cool; then put the mixture into a bottle. Shake it before using, and apply it with a flannel. Camphor and borax, dissolved in boiling water and left to cool, make a very good wash for the hair; as also does rosemary water mixed with a little borax. After using any of these washes, when the hair be- comes thoroughly dry, a little pomatum or oil should be rubbed in, to make it smooth and glossy. MISCELLANEOUS. An Excellent Hard Soap.-Pour twelve quarts soft boiling water on two and one-half pounds of unslacked lime; dissolve five pounds sal soda in twelve quarts soft hot water; then mix and let them remain from twelve to twenty-four hours. Pour off all the clear fluid, being careful not to allow any of the sediment to run off; boil three and one-half pounds clean grease and three or four ounces of rosin in the above lye till the grease disappears ; pour into a box and let it stand a day to stiffen and then cut in bars. It is as well to put the lime in all the water and then add the soda. After pouring off the fluid, add two or three gallons of water and let it stand with the lime and soda dregs a day or two. This makes an excel- lent washing fluid to boil or soak the clothes in, with one pint in a boiler of water. To Wash Woolen Blankets.- Dissolve soap enough to make a good suds in boiling water, add a tablespoon of aqua am- monia; when scalding hot, turn over your blankets. If con- venient, use a pounder, or any way to work thoroughly through the suds without rubbing on a board. Rinse well in hot water. There is usually soap enough from the first suds to make the second soft; if not, add a little soap and ammonia ; and after being put through the wringer let two persons, standing op- – 170 — posite, pull them into shape; dry in the sun. White flannels may be washed in the same way without shrinking. Calicoes and other colored fabrics can, before washing, be advan- tageously soaked for a time in a pail of water to which a spoonful of ox gall has been added. It helps keep the color. A teacup of lye to a pail of water will improve the color of black goods when necessary to wash them, and vinegar in the rinsing water of pink or green will brighten those colors, as will soda for purple and blue. For Clothes that Fade.—One ounce sugar of lead in a pail of rain water. Soak over night. Lamp-Wicks.—To insure a good light, wicks must be changed often as they soon become clogged, and do not per- mit the free passage of the oil. Soaking wicks in vinegar twenty-four hours before placing in lamp insures a clear flame. To Make Old Crape Look Nearly Equal to New.—Place a little water in a teakettle, and let it boil until there is plenty of steam from the spout; then, holding the crape in both hands, pass it to and fro several times through the steam, and it will be clean and look nearly equal to new. To Clean Kid Gloves.-Rub with very slightly damp bread-crumbs. If not effectual, scrape upon them dry fuller's earth or French chalk, when on the hands, and rub them quickly together in all directions. Do this several times. Or put gloves of a light color on the hands and wash the hands in a basin of spirits of hartshorn. Some gloves may be washed in a strong lather made of soft soap and warm water or milk; or wash with rice pulp; or sponge them well with turpentine, and hang them in a warm place or where there is a current of air, and all smell of turpentine will be removed. Stains and Spots.—Children's clothes, table linens, towels, etc., should be thoroughly examined before wetting, as soap- suds, washing-fluids, etc., will fix almost any stain past re- moval. Many stains will pass away by being simply washed in pure soft water; or alcohol will remove, before the article has been in soapsuds, many stains. Ironmold, mildew, or al- most any similar spot, can be taken out by dipping in diluted citric acid ; then cover with salt, and lay in the bright sun till the stain disappears. If of long standing, it may be necessary – 171 — to repeat the wetting and the sunlight. Be careful to rinse in several waters as soon as the stain is no longer visible. Ink, fruit, wine, and mildew stains must first be washed in clear, cold water, removing as much of the spots as can be ; then mix one teaspoonful of oxalic acid and half a pint of rain water. Dip the stain in this, and wipe off in clear water. Wash at once, if a fabric that will bear washing. A table- spoonful of white currant juice, if any can be had, is even bet- ter than lemon. This preparation may be used on the most delicate articles without injury. Shake it up before using it, and be careful and put out of the reach of meddlers or little folks, as it is poisonous. To Remove Grease Spots.-An excellent mixture to re- move grease spots from boys' and men's clothing particularly, is made of four parts alcohol to one part of ammonia' and about half as much ether as ammonia. Apply the liquid to the grease spot, and then rub diligently with a sponge and clear water. The chemistry of the operation seems to be that the alcohol and ether. dissolve the grease, and the ammonia forms a soap with it which is washed out with the water. The result is much more satisfactory than when something is used which only seems to spread the spot and make it fainter, but does not actually remove it. If oil is spilt on a carpet and you immediately scatter cornmeal over it, the oil will be ab- sorbed by it. Oil may also be removed from carpets on which you do not dare put ether and ammonia by laying thick blot- ting paper over it and pressing a hot flat-iron on it. Repeat the operation several times, using a clean paper each time. Stains on Marble.-Iron-rust stains on marble can usually be removed by rubbing with lemon juice. Almost all other stains may be taken off by mixing one ounce of finely pow- dered chalk, one of pumice-stone, and two ounces of common soda. Sift these together through a fine sieve, and mix with water. When thoroughly mixed, rub this mixture over the stains faithfully, and the stains will disappear. Wash the marble after this with soap and water, dry and polish with a chamois skin, and the marble will look like new. To keep starch from sticking to irons rub the irons with a little piece of wax or sperm. -172 — Paint or Varnish.-Oil of turpentine or benzine will remove spots of paint, varnish, or pitch from white or colored cotton or woolen goods. After using it they should be washed in soapsuds. To Remove Ink from Carpets.-When freshly spilled, ink can be removed from carpets by wetting in milk. Take cotton hatting and soak up all of the ink that it will receive, being careful not to let it spread. Then take fresh cotton, wet in milk, and sop it up carefully. Repeat this operation, chang- ing cotton and milk each time. After most of the ink has been taken up in this way, with fresh cotton and clean, rub the spot. Continue till all disappears; then wash the spot in clean warm water and a little soap; rinse in clear water, and rub till nearly dry. If the ink is dried in, we know of no way that will not take the color from the carpet as well as the ink, un- less the ink is on a white spot. In that case salts of lemon, or soft soap, starch, and lemon juice will remove the ink as easily as if on cotton. To Remove Ink from Paper.-Put one pound of chloride of lime to four quarts of water. Shake well together and let it stand twenty-four hours; then strain through a clean cot- ton cloth. Add one teaspoonful of acetic acid to an ounce of this prepared lime water, and apply to the blot, and the ink will disappear. Absorb the moisture with blotting-paper. The remainder may be bottled, closely corked, and set aside for future use. Ink on Rosewood or Mahogany,-If ink has been unfor- tunately spilled on mahogany, rosewood, or black walnut furniture, put half a dozen drops of spirits of nitre into a spoonful of water, and touch the stain with a feather wet in this ; as soon as the ink disappears, rub the place immediately with a cloth ready wet in cold water, or the nitre will leave a white spot very difficult to remove. If after washing off the nitre the ink spot still lingers, make the mixture a little stronger and use the second time, and never forget to wash it off at once. A thin coating of three parts lard melted with one part rosin applied to stoves and grates will prevent their rusting in sumnier. -174 - Mice. -Pumpkin seeds are very attractive to mice, and traps baited with them will soon destroy this little pest. Camphor.–Placed in trunks or drawers will prevent mice from doing them injury. For Cleaning Jewelry.-For cleaning jewelry there is noth- ing better than ammonia and water. If very dull or dirty, rub a little soap on a soft brush and brush them in this wash, rinse in cold water, dry first in an old handkerchief, and then rub with buck or chamois skin. Their freshness and brilliancy when thus cleaned cannot be surpassed by any compound used by jewelers. For Washing Silver and Silverware.-For washing silver, put half a teaspoonful ammonia into the suds; have the water hot; wash quickly, using a small brush, rinse in hot water, and dry with a clean linen towel; then rub very dry with a chamois skin. Washed in this manner, silver becomes very brilliant, requires no polishing with any of the powders or whiting usually employed, and does not wear out. Silver- plate, jewelry, and door-plates can be beautifully cleaned and made to look like new by dropping a soft cloth or chamois skin in a weak preparation of ammonia water, and rubbing the articles with it. Put half a teaspoonful into clear water to wash tumblers or glass of any kind, rinse and dry well, and they will be beautifully clear. For Washing Glass and Glassware. -For washing win- dows, looking-glasses, etc., a little ammonia in the water saves much labor, aside from giving a better polish than anything else; and for general house-cleaning it removes dirt, smoke and grease, most effectually. Insects and Vermin.-Dissolve two pounds of alum in three or four quarts of water. Let it remain over night, till all the alum is dissolved. Then, with a brush, apply, boiling hot, to every joint or crevice in the closet or shelves where Croton bugs, ante, cockroaches, etc., intrude; also to the joints and crevices of bedsteads, as bedbugs dislike it as much as Croton bugs, roaches, or ants. Brush all the cracks in the floor and mop-boards. Keep it boiling hot while using. To keep woolens and furs from moths, two things are to be observed-first, to see that none are in the articles when they are put away, and second, to put them where the parent moth — 175 — cannot enter. Tin cases, soldered tight, whiskey barrels headed so that not even a liquid can get in or out, have been used to. keep out moths. A piece of strong brown paper, with not a hole through which even a large pin can enter, is just as good. Put the articles in a close box and cover every joint with pa- per, or resort to whatever will be a complete covering. A wrapper of common cotton cloth, so put around and secured, is often used. Wherever a knitting needle will pass the parent moth can enter. Carefully exclude the insect and the articles will be safe. Moths in Carpets.-Persons troubled with carpet moths may get rid of them by scrubbing the floor with strong hot salt and water before laying the carpet, and sprinkling the carpet with salt once a week before sweeping. Smooth Sad-Irons.—To have your sad-irons clean and smooth rub them first with a piece of wax tied in a cloth, and afterward scour them on a paper on thick cloth strewn with ccarse salt. To Cleanse the Inside of Jars.—This can be done in a few minutes by filling up the jars with hot water (it need not be scalding hot), and then stirring in a teaspoonful or more of baking soda. Shake well, then empty the jar at once, and if any of the former odor remains about it, fill again with water and soda; shake well, and rinse out in cold water. Furniture Polish.-Equal proportions of linseed oil, turpen- tine, vinegar, and spirits of wine. Mode: When used, shake the mixture well, and rub on the furniture with a piece of linen rag, and polish with a clean duster. Vinegar and oil, rubbed in with flannel, and the fur- niture rubbed with a clean duster, produce a very good polish. Squeaking doors ought to have the hinges oiled by a feather dipped in some linseed oil. A soft cloth, wetted in alcohol, is excellent to wipe off French plate-glass and mirrors. A red-hot iron will soften old putty so that it can be easily removed. - 179 — much soiled; then rinse thoroughly in clean, weak suds, wring, and hang up; but do not take flannels out of warm water and hang out in a freezing air, as that certainly tends to shrink them. It is better to dry them in the house, unless the sun shines. In washing worsted goods, such as men's panta- loons, pursue the same course, only do not wring them, but hang them up and let them drain ; while a little damp bring in and press smoothly with as hot an iron as you can use with- out scorching the goods. The reason for not wringing them is to prevent wrinkles. Cleaning Lace.-Cream-colored Spanish lace can be cleaned and made to look like new by rubbing it in dry flour; rub as if you were washing in water. Then take it outdoors and shake all the flour out; if not perfectly clean, repeat the rub- bing in a little more clean flour. The flour must be very thor- oughly shaken from the lace, or the result will be far from sat- isfactory. White knitted hoods can be cleaned in this way ; babies' socks also, if only slightly soiled. New Kettles.—The best way to prepare a new iron kettle for use is to fill it with clean potato peelings, boil them for an hour or more, then wash the kettle with hot water; wipe it dry, and rub it with a little lard ; repeat the rubbing for half a dozen times after using. In this way you will prevent rust and all the annoyances liable to occur in the use of a new kettle. To Keep Flies off Gilt Frames.-Boil three or four onions in a pint of water and apply with a soft brush. To prevent Knives from Rusting-In laying aside knives, or other steel implements, they should be slightly oiled and wrapped in tissue paper to prevent their rusting. A salty at- mosphere will, in a short time, ruin all steel articles, unless some such precaution is taken. Cement for Glassware. For mending valuable glass od- jects, which would be disfigured by common cement, chrome cement may be used. This is a mixture of five parts of gela- tine to one of a solution of acid chromate of lime. The broken edges are covered with this, pressed together and exposed to sunlight, the effect of the latter being to render the compound insoluble even in boiling water. Waterproof Paper.—Excellent paper for packing may be made of old newspapers ; the tougher the paper of course the - 178 — better. A mixture is made of copal varnish, boiled linseed oil and turpentine, in equal parts. It is painted on the paper with a flat varnish brush an inch and a half wide, and the sheets are laid out to dry for a few minutes. This paper has been very successfully used for packing plants for sending long distances, and is probably equal to the paper commonly used by nurserymen. Perspiration.—The unpleasant odor produced by perspira- tion is frequently the source of vexation to persons who are subject to it. Nothing is simpler than to remove this odor much more effectually than by the application of such costly unguents and perfumes as are in use. It is only necessary to procure some of the compound spirits of ammonia, and place about two tablespoonsful in a basin of water. Washing the face, hands, and arms with this leaves the skin as clean, sweet, and fresh as one could wish. The wash is perfectly harmless and very cheap. It is recommended on the author- ity of an experienced physician. Renewing Old Kid Gloves.- Make a thick mucilage by boiling a handful of flaxseed; add a little dissolved toilet soap; then, when the mixture cools, put the gloves on the hands and rub them with a piece of white flannel wet with the mixture. Do not wet the gloves through. Cologne Water.—Take a pint of alcohol and put in thirty drops of oil of lemon, thirty of bergamot, and half a gill of water. If musk or lavender is desired, add the same quantity of each. The oils should be put in the alcohol and shaken well before the water is added. Bottle it for use. To Cleanse Sponge.-By rubbing a fresh lemon thoroughly into a soured sponge and rinsing it several times in lukewarm water, it will become as sweet as when new. Icy Windows.-Windows may be kept free from ice and polished by rubbing the glass with a sponge dipped in al- cohol. Blood Stains.—To remove blood stains from cloth, saturate with kerosene, and after standing a little wash in warm water. Camphor Ice.-One ounce of lard, one ounce of spermaceti, one ounce of camphor, one ounce of almond oil, one-half cake of white wax; melt, and turn into moulds. - 179 Starch Polish.—Take one ounce of spermaceti and one ounce of white wax; melt, and run it into a thin cake on a plate. A piece the size of a quarter dollar, added to a quart of pre- pared starch, gives a beautiful lustre to the clothes, and pre- vents the iron from sticking. To Clean Feathers.—Cover the feathers with a paste made of pipe-clay and water, rubbing them one way only. When quite dry, shake off all the powder, and curl with a knife. Grebe feathers may be washed with white soap in soft water. To Test Nutmegs.- To test nutmegs, prick them with a pin, and if they are good, the oil will instantly spread around the puncture. To Clean Mica.—Mica in stoves, when smoked, is readily cleaned by taking it out, and thoroughly washing with vine- gar a little diluted. If the black does not come off at once, let it soak a little. . To Destroy Vermin in the Hair.-Powdered cevadilla one ounce, powdered staves-acre, one ounce, powdered panby seed, one ounce, powdered tobacco, one ounce. Mix well. and rub among the roots of the hair thoroughly. To Remove Bruises from Furniture.—Wet the bruised spot with warm water. Soak a piece of brown paper, of several thicknesses, in warm water, and lay over the place. Then apply a warm flat iron until the moisture is gone. Repeat the process if needful, and the bruise will disappear Pearl Smelling Salts.-Powdered carbonate of ammonia, one ounce; strong solution of ammonia, half a fluid ounce; oil of rosemary, ten drops; oil of bergamot, ten drops. Mix, and while moist, put in a wide-mouthed bottle, which is to be well closed. Pounded Glass for Rats.-Pounded glass, mixed with dry corn-meal, and placed within the reach of rats, it is said, will banish them from the premises ; or, sprinkle cayenne pepper in their holes. Polish for Boots.—Take of ivory-black and treacle, each four ounces; sulphuric acid, one ounce; best olive oil, two spoonfuls; best white-wine vinegar, three half-pints; mix the ivory-black and treacle well in an earthen jar; then add the sulphuric acid, continuing to stir the mixture ; next pour in - 180 — the oil; and, lastly, add the vinegar, stirring it in by degrees, until thoroughly incorporated. To Clean Plate.—Wash the plate well, to remove all grease, in a strong lather of common yellow soap and boiling water, and wipe it quite dry; then mix as much hartshorn powder as will be required, into a thick paste, with cold water or spirits of wine; smear this lightly over the plate, with a piece of soft rag, and leave it for some little time to dry. When per- fectly dry, brush it off quite clean with a soft plate-brush, and polish the plate with a dry leather. If the plate be very dirty, or much tarnished, spirits of wine will be found to answer better than the water for mixing the paste. To Clean Decanters.—Roll up, in small pieces, some soft brown, or blotting, paper; wet them, and soap them well.. Put them into the decanters, about one-quarter full of warm water; shake them well for a few moments, then rinse with clear cold water; wipe the outsides with a nice dry cloth, put the decanters to drain, and when dry, they will be almost as bright as new ones. Spots on Towels and Hosiery.-Spots on towels and hosiery will disappear with little trouble if a little ammonia is put into enough water to soak the articles, and they are left in it an hour or two before washing; and if a cupful is put into the water in which white clothes are soaked, the night before washing, the ease with which the articles can be washed, and their great whiteness and clearness when dried, will be very gratifying. Remembering the small sum paid for three quarts of ammonia of common strength, one can easily see that no bleaching preparation can be more cheaply obtained. No articles in kitchen use are so likely to be neglected and abused as the dishcloths and dish towels, and in washing these, ammonia, if properly used, is a greater comfort than anywhere else. Put a teaspoonful into the water in which these cloths are, or should be, washed every day; rub soap on the towels. Put them in the water, let them stand a half hour or so, then rub them out thoroughly, rinse faithfully, and dry outdoors, in clear air and sun, and dishcloths and towels need never look gray and dingy-a perpetual discomfort to all housekeepers. - 181 — Croup.--Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is to take a knife or grater, and shave off, in small particles, about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its amount of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almost instantaneous relief will follow. Poison Ivy or Oak.-In the summer season, it is not an un- common thing for persons going into the woods, to be poi. soned by contact with dogwood, ivy, or the poison oak. The severe itching and smarting, which is thus produced, may be relieved by first washing the parts with a solution of salera- tus, two teaspoonfuls to the pint of water, and then applying cloths wet with extract of hamammellis. Take a dose of Ep- som salts internally, or a double Rochelle powder. Convulsion Fits. -. Convulsion fits sometimes follow the fe- verish restlessness produced by these causes ; in which case a hot bath should be administered without delay, and the lower parts of the body rubbed, the bath being as hot as it can be without scalding the tender skin. Burns and Scalds.—A burn or scald is always painful , but the pain can be instantly relieved by the use of bi-carbonate of soda, or common baking soda (saleratus). Put two table- spoonfuls of soda in a half cup of water. Wet a piece of linen cloth in the solution, and lay it on the burn. The pain will disappear as if by magic. If the burn is so deep that the skin has peeled off, dredge the dry soda directly on the part affected. Cuts.-For slight cuts, there is nothing better to control the hemorrhage than common unglazed brown wrapping paper, such as is used by marketmen and grocers ; a piece to be bound over the wound. Cold on the Chest —A flannel dipped in boiling water, and sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the chest, as quickly as pos- sible, will relieve the most severe cold or hoarseness. Bleeding from the Nose.—Many children, especially those of a sanguinous temperament, are subject to sudden dis- charges of blood from some part of the body; and as all such fluxes are in general the result of an effort of nature to relieve the system from some overload or pressure, such discharges, unless in excess, and when likely to produce debility, should - 182 — not be rashly or too abruptly checked. In general, these dis. charges are confined to the summer or spring months of the year, and follow pains in the head, a sense of drowsiness, lan- guor, or oppression; and as such symptoms are relieved by the loss of blood, the hemorrhage should, to a certain extent. be encouraged. When, however, the bleeding is excessive, or returns too frequently, it becomes necessary to apply means to subdue or mitigate the amount. For this purpose the sud- den and unexpected application of cold is itself sufficient, in most cases, to arrest the most active hemorrhage. A wet towel laid suddenly on the back, between the shoulders, and placing the child in a recumbent posture, is often sufficient to effect the object; where, however, the effusion resists such simple means, napkins rung out of cold water must be laid across the forehead and nose, the hands dipped in cold water, and a bottle of hot water applied to the feet. If, in spite of these means, the bleeding continues, a little fine wool or a few folds of lint, tied together by a piece of thread, must be pushed up the nostril from which the blood flows, to act as a plug and pressure on the bleeding vessel. When the discharge has entirely ceased, the plug is to be pulled out by means of the thread. To prevent a repetition of the hemorrhage, the body should be sponged every morning with cold water, and the child put under a course of steel wine, have open air exercise, and, if possible, salt-water bathing. For children, a key sud. denly dropped down the back between the skin and clothes, will often immediately arrest a copious bleeding. Chilblains.-Chilblains are most irritating to children. The following is an infallible cure for unbroken chilblains: Hydrochloric acid, diluted, one-quarter ounce; hydrocyanic acid, diluted, 30 drops; camphor-water, six ounces. This chil. blain lotion cures mild cases by one application. It is a deadly poison, and should be kept under lock and key. A responsi- ble person should apply it to the feet of children. This must not be applied to broken chilblains. To Cure a Sting of Bee or Wasp.-Mix common earth with water to about the consistency of mud. Apply at once. For Toothache.-Alum reduced to an impalpable powder, two drachms; nitrous spirit of ether, seven drachms; mix and apply to the tooth. - 183 — Choking.–A piece of food lodged in the throat may some times be pushed down with the finger, or removed with a hair- pin quickly straightened and hooked at the end, or by two or three vigorous blows on the back between the shoulders. Cramps in Infants.—A very excellent carminative powder for flatulent infants may be kept in the house, and employed with advantage, whenever the child is in pain or griped, by dropping five grains of oil of aniseed and two of peppermint on half an ounce of lump sugar, and rubbing it in a mortar, with a drachm of magnesia, into a fine powder. A small quantity of this may be given in a little water at any time and always with benefit. Cubeb Berries for Catarrh.—A new remedy for catarrh is crushed cubeb berries smoked in a pipe, emitting the smoke through the nose; after a few trials this will be easy to do. If the nose is stopped up so that it is almost impossible to breathe, one pipeful will make the head as clear as a bell. For sore throat, asthma and bronchitis, swallowing the smoke effects immediate relief. It is the best remedy in the world for offensive breath, and will make the most foul breath pure and sweet. Sufferers from that horrid disease, ulcerated catarrh, will find this remedy unequaled, and a month's use will cure the most obstinate case. A single trial will convince anyone. Eating the uncrushed berries is also good for sore throat and all bronchial complaints. After smoking, do not expose yourself to cold air for at least fifteen minutes. Diarrhea.-For any form of diarrhoea that, by excessive action, demands a speedy correction, the most efficacious remedy that can be employed in all ages and conditions of childhood is the tincture of kino, of which from ten to thirty drops, mixed with a little sugar and water in a spoon, are to be given every two or three hours till the undue action has been checked. Often the change of diet to rice, milk, eggs, or the substitution of animal for vegetable food, vice versa, will correct an unpleasant and almost chronic state of diarrhoea. If it is not convenient to fill flannel bags for the sick room with sand, bran will answer the purpose very well, and will retain the heat a long time. -185 - For Constipation.-One or two figs eaten fasting is suffi- cient for some, and they are especially good in the case of children, as there is no trouble in getting them to take them. A spoonful of wheaten bran in a glass of water is a simple remedy and quite effective. Leanness.—Is caused generally by lack of power in the di- gestive organs to digest and assimilate the fat-producing ele. ments of food. First restore digestion, take plenty of sleep, drink all the water the stomach will bear in the morning on rising, take moderate exercise in the open air, eat oatmeal, cracked wheat, Graham mush, baked sweet apples, roasted and broiled beef, cultivate jolly people, and bathe daily. Superfluous Hairs. — Are best left alone. Shaving only in- creases the strength of the hair, and all depilatories are dan- gerous and sometimes disfigure the face. The only sure plan is to spread on a piece of leather equal parts of galbanum and pitch plaster, lay it on the hair as smoothly as possible, let it remain three or four minutes, then remove it with the hairs, root and branch. This is severe but effective. Kerosene will also remove them. If sore after using, rub on sweet oil. The Breath.-Nothing makes one so disagreeable to others as a bad breath. It is caused by bad teeth, diseased stomach, or disease of the nostrils. Neatness and care of the health will prevent and cure it. The Quinine Cure for Drunkenness.-Pulverize one pound of fresh quill-red Peruvian bark, and soak it in one pint of diluted alcohol. Strain and evaporate down to one-half pint. For the first and second days give a teaspoonful every three hours. If too much is taken, headache will result, and in that case the doses should be diminished. On the third day give one-half a teaspoonful; on the fourth reduce the dose to fifteen drops, then to ten, and then to five. Seven days, it is said, will cure average cases, though some require a whole month. For Sore Throat.-Cut slices of salt pork or fat bacon ; simmer a few moments in hot vinegar, and apply to throat as hot as possible. When this is taken off, as the throat is re- lieved, put around a bandage of soft flannel. A gargle of equal · parts of borax and alum, dissolved in water, is also excellent. To be used frequently. - 186 — A Good Cure for Colds.—Boil two ounces of flaxseed in one quart of water; strain and add two ounces of rock candy, one-half pint of honey, juice of three lemons ; mix, and let all boil well ; let cool, and bottle. Dose : One cupful on going to bed, one-half cupful before meals. The hotter you drink it the better. To Stop Bleeding.–A handful of flour bound on the cut. A Healthful Appetizer.—How often we hear women who do their own cooking say that by the time they have prepared a meal, and it is ready for the table, they are too tired to eat. One way to mitigate this is to take, about half an hour before dinner, a raw egg, beat it until light, put in a little sugar and milk, flavor it, and “drink it down ;" it will remove the faint, tired-out feeling, and will not spoil your appetite for dinner. To Remove Discoloration from Bruises.-Apply a cloth wrung out in very hot water, and renew frequently until the pain ceases. Or apply raw beefsteak. Earache. —There is scarcely any ache to which children are subject so hard to bear and difficult to cure as the earache; but there is a remedy never known to fail. Take a bit of cot- ton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip in sweet oil and insert into the ear; put a flan- nel bandage over the head to keep it warm. It will give im- mediate relief. As soon as any soreness is felt in the ear, let three or four drops of the tincture of arnica be poured in and the orifice be filled with a little cotton wool to exclude the air. If the arnica be not resorted to until there is actual pain, then the cure may not be as speedy, but it is just as certain, al- though it may be necessary to repeat the operation. It is a sure preventive against gathering in the ear, which is the usual cause of earache. To Cure Toothache.—The worst toothache, or neuralgia coming from the teeth, may be speedily and delightfully ended by the application of a bit of clean cotton, saturated in a solution of ammonia, to the defective tooth. Sometimes the late sufferer is prompted to momentary laughter by the appli. ocation, but the pain will disappear. For Felon.—Take common rock salt, as used for salting down pork or beef, dry in an oven, then pound it fine and mix with spirits of turpentine in equal parts; put it in a rag - 188 – ter washing and drying them thoroughly. It will also pre vent the needle, in sewing, from sticking and becoming rusty. It is therefore advisable to have a small box of it in the work box or basket, and near your wash basin. Lunar Caustic for Warts.-Lunar caustic, carefully applied so as not to touch the skin, will destroy warts. Cure for Rheumatism and Bilious Headache.-Finest Tur- key rhubarb, half an ounce ; carbonate magnesia, one ounce, mix intimately; keep well corked in glass bottle. Dose : One teaspoonful, in milk and sugar, the first thing in the morning; repeat till cured. Tried with success. Fever and Ague.-Four ounces galangal root, in a quart of gin, steeped in a warm place; take often. Fainting.–For a simple fainting fit, a horizontal position and fresh air will usually suffice. If a person received a se- vere shock, caused by a fall or blow, handle carefully with- out jarring. A horizontal position is best. Loosen all' tight clothing from the throat, chest and waist. If the patient can swallow, give half teaspoonful aromatic spirits of ammonia in a little water. If that cannot be procured, give whiskey, or brandy and water. Apply warmth to the feet and bowels. To Restore from Stroke of Lightnir, ..... hower with cold water for two hours ; if the patiente. Est show signs of life, put salt in the water, and continre to shower an horir longer. Relief for Inflamed Feet.—The first thing to be done, is to take off and throw away tight-fitting boo-s, which hurt the ten- der feet as much as if they were put into. press. Then take one pint of wheat bran and one ounce of sal-ratus, and put it into a foot-bath, and add one gallon of hot vater. When it has become cool enough, put in the feet, soak them for fifteen minutes, and the relief will be almost immediate. Repeat this every night for a week, and the cure will be complete. The burning, prickly sensation, is caused by the pores of the skin being closed up so tightly by the pressure of the boots that they cannot perspire freely.. Warm Water as a Drink.—Warm water is preferable to cold water, as a drink, to persons who are subject to dys. peptic and bilious complaints, and it may be taken more freely — 189 than cold water, and, consequently, answers better, as a dilu- ent, for carrying off bile, and removing obstructions in the urinary secretion, in cases of stone and gravel. When water of a temperature equal to that of the human body is used for drink, it proves considerably stimulant, and is particularly suited to dyspeptic, bilious, gouty, and chlorotic subjects. Cleaning House-SITTING AND DINING ROOMS.—By the time the upper part of the house is well cleaned and in good order, if it has been taken one room at a time, and leisurely, proba- bly, the dining room can be torn up on a warm and pleasant day, and unless the alterations are to be extensive, scoured, and gotten to rights again before nightfall, and the sitting room on another day. House cleaning, unless conducted on some plan which occasions little, if any, disturbance, in the general domestic arrangement, is a nuisance, particularly to the males of the household. Nothing can be (next to a miser- able dinner) more exasperating to a tired man, than to come home, and find the house topsy-turvy. And it certainly raises his opinion of his wife's executive ability, to find everything freshened and brightened, and that, without his having been annoyed by the odor of the soapsuds, or yet having been obliged to betake himself to the kitchen for his meals. But if the order of work is well laid out the night before. hand, the breakfast as leisurely eaten as usual, and the fam. ily dispersed in their various ways before commencing opera- tions, then, by working with a will, wonders can be accom- plished in a very short time. It is not worth while to under- take a thorough cleaning of all extra china, silver and glass- ware, which may be stored in the china closet, in addition to the room itself. They can readily wait over until another morning, as can the examination of table linen. In cleaning any room, after the furniture and carpets have been taken out and the dust swept out with a damp broom, the proper order is to begin with the ceiling, then take the walls and windows, and, lastly, the floor. Kalsomine or whitewash dries most quickly exposed to free draughts of air, the win- dows being thrown wide open for the purpose ; this process can also be aided by lighting a fire in the room, either in the stove left for the purpose, or in the grate. These means are equally good for drying a freshly-scoured floor. – 192 — viands, day after day, and they will need medicine to make them well. Let all girls have a share in housekeeping at home before they marry; let each superintend some department by turns. It need not occupy half the time to see that the house has been properly swept, dusted, and put in order, to prepare pud- dings and make dishes, that many young ladies spend in read- ing novels which enervate both mind and body and unfit them for every-day life. Women do not, as a general rule, get pale faces doing housework. Their sedentary habits, in overheated rooms, combined with ill-chosen food, are to blame for bad health. Our mothers used to pride themselves on their housekeeping and fine needlework. Let the present genera- tion add to its list of real accomplishments the art of properly preparing food for the human body. Children Love Games. – Take advantage of this to give them physical training. Furnish them the apparatus for games which requires a good deal of muscular exercise. Those curious little affairs which require them to sit on the floor or gather about the table and remain in a cramped posi- tion, are not advisable. It is particularly desirable that the games should call them into the open air and sunshine. In this way children lay in a stock of health and strength. Remember that, particularly in our early years, this is infinitely more important than all adornments of the person or study of books. Let it not be forgotten that the symmetrical development of the body is of the utmost importance. A child, for example, is weak and round-shouldered. It is important that he should be made strong. It is not less important that he should be made straight. Every conceivable exercise may tend to in- crease the strength, but only special exercises tend to draw the shoulders back, and thus secure the rectitude which is the basis of spinal and visceral tone. It is not difficult to give children such games and sports as will have this special tendency. Teach Your Own Children. - Some parents allow their chil. dren to acquire the very rude and unmannerly habit of break- ing in upon their conversation and those of older persons with questions and remarks of their own. It is very uncivil to - 193 - allow them to do so. So, even among their own brothers and sisters and schoolmates, of their own age, let them speak without interrupting. If one begins to tell a story or bit of news, teach them to let him finish it; and if he makes mis- takes that ought to be corrected, do it afterwards. Don't allow them to acquire the habit of being interrupters. Most of those who allow their own children to form this disagree- able habit will be exceedingly annoyed at the same conduct in other folks' children. The fault is that of the parents in not teaching their children. If they interrupt at home, tell them to wait till they can converse without annoying, and see that they do it. Packing away Furs.-All furs should be well switched and beaten lightly, free from dust and loose hairs, well wrapped in newspaper, with bits of camphor laid about them and in them, and put away in a cool dark place. If a cedar closet or chest is to be had, laid into that. In lieu of that, new cedar chips may be scattered about. It is never well to delay pack- ing furs away until quite late in the season, for the moth will very early commence depredations. In packing them they should not be rolled so tightly as to be crushed and damaged. All About Kitchen Work. A lady who for a time was com- pelled to do all of her own kitchen work says: “If every iron pot, pan, kettle, or any utensil used in the cooking of food, be washed as soon as emptied, and while still hot, half the labor will be saved.” It is a simple habit to acquire, and the wash- ing of pots and kettles by this means loses some of its distaste- ful aspects. No lady seriously objects to washing and wiping the crystal and silver ; but to tackle the black, greasy, and formidable-looking ironware of thy kitchen takes a good deal of sturdy brawn and.muscle as well as common-sense. If the range be wiped carefully with brown paper, after cook- ing greasy food, it can be kept bright with little difficulty. Stoves and ranges should be kept free from soot in all com- partments. A clogged hot-air passage will prevent any oven from baking well. When the draught is imperfect the defect frequently arises from the chimney being too low. To remedy the evil the chimney should be built up, or a chimney-pot added. It is an excellent plan for the mistress to acquaint herself - 194 — with the practical workings of her range, unless her servants are exceptionally good, for many hindrances to well.cooked food arise from some misunderstanding of, or imperfection in, this article. A clean, tidy kitchen can only be secured by having a place for everything and everything in its place, and by frequent scourings of the room and utensils. A hand-towel and basin are needed in every kitchen for the use of the cook or house-worker. Unless dish-towels are washed, scalded and thoroughly dried daily, they become musty and unfit for use, as does also the dishcloth. Cinders make a very hot fire—one particularly good for ironing days. Milk keeps from souring longer in a shallow pan than in a milk pitcher. Deep pans make an equal amount of cream. Hash smoothly plastered down will sour more readily than if left in broken masses in the chopping bowl, each mass be- ing well exposed to the air. Sauce, plain, and for immediate use, should not be put into a jar and covered while warm, else it will change and ferment very quickly. It will keep some days with care in the putting up. Let it stand until perfectly cold, then put into a stone jar. To scatter the Philadelphia brick over the scouring board and on the floor, to leave the soap in the bottom of the scrub- bing pail, the sapolio in the basin of water, and to spatter the black lead or stove polish on the floor are wasteful, slatternly habits. A clock in the kitchen is both useful and necessary. A Nice Clothes Frame.-Our kitchen is very small; too small, in fact, to be very comfortable in, and, moreover, has to serve the double purpose of kitchen and laundry. There was no room to spare for the large clothes-horse we had been accus- tomed to use, nor even for a smaller clothes-screen we thought of purchasing. In this emergency we happened upon a nice frame, which consists of bars of wood secured at one end in an iron clamp, which screws on to the side of the window frame. These bars move freely around, and quite a respecta. ble sized ironing can be aired upon them. We found they were invented and made by a dealer in the country who had : - 195 — no patent upon them, and so, of course, his sales must be lim. ited, yet they are very convenient. The clothes are hung quite out of the way, and yet can be well aired. Keep the Cellar Clean. – A great deal of the sickness fam- ilies suffer could be easily traced to the cellar. The cellar not unusually opens into the kitchen, the kitchen is heated, and the cellar is not. Following natural laws, the colder air of the cellar will rush to take the place of the warmer, and there- fore, lighter air of the kitchen. This would be well enough if: the cellar air was pure, but often it is not ; partly decayed vegetables may be there, or rotten wood, etc. A day should be taken to throw out and carry away all dirt, rotten woods, decaying vegetables, and other accumulations that have gath- ered there. Brush down the cobwebs, and with a bucket of lime give the walls and ceiling a good coat of whitewash. If a whitewash brush is not at hand take an old broom that the good wife has worn out, and spread the whitewash on thick and strong. It will sweeten up the air in the cellar, the par- lor, and the bedrooms, and it may save the family from the afflictions of fevers, diphtheria and doctors. Sunlit Rooms.-No article of furniture should be put in a room that will not stand sunlight, for every room in a dwell- ing should have the windows so arranged that some time dur- ing the day a flood of sunlight will force itself into the apart- ments. The importance of admitting the light of the sun freely to all parts of our dwellings cannot be too highly esti- mated. Indeed, perfect health is nearly as much dependent on pure sunlight as it is on pure air. Sunlight should never be excluded except when so bright as to be uncomfortable to the eyes. And walks should be in bright sunlight, so that the eyes are protected by veil or parasol when inconven- iently intense. A sun-bath is of more importance in pre- serving a healthful condition of the body than is generally understood. A sun-bath costs nothing, and that is a misfortune, for peo- ple are deluded with the idea that those things only can be good or useful which cost money. But remember that pure water, fresh air and sunlit homes kept free from dampness, will secure you from many heavy bills of the doctors, and give you health and vigor, which no money can procure. It is a – 196 - well-established fact that people who live much in the sun are usually stronger and more healthy than those whose occupa- tions deprive them of sunlight. And certainly there is noth- ing strange in the result, since the same law applies with nearly equal force to every animate thing in nature. It is quite easy to arrange an isolated dwelling so that every room may be flooded with sunlight some time in the day, and it is possible many town houses could be so built as to admit more light than they now receive. Pleasant Homes.-Handsome furniture will not, unaided, make rooms cheerful. The charm of a cosy home rests prin- cipally with its mistress. If she is fortunate enough to have sunny rooms, her task is half done. In apartments into which the sun never shines recourse must be had to various devices to make up, so far as may be, for this grave lack. A sunless room should have bright and joyous color in its furnishings. The walls should be warmly tinted, the curtains give a roseate glow to the light that passes through them. An open fire may diffuse the sunshine but lately imprisoned in oak or hickory, or ages ago locked up in anthracite. Ferneries and shade-loving plants may contribute their gentle cheer to the room and suggest quiet forest nooks. An attractive room need not be too orderly. A book left lying on the table, a bit of needle-work on the window-sill, an open piano, may indi- cate the tastes and occupations of the inmates without sug- gesting that there is not a place for everything in that room. There is such a thing as being too neat and nice to take com- fort in everyday life, and this is anything but cheerful. And then there is such a thing as being so disorderly and negligent that comfort and cheer are impossible. If the house-mother cannot rest while there is a finger-mark on the paint or a spot on the window-panes, she may make a neat room, but her splint will keep it from ever being cheerful. If she has no care for the “looks of things” her failure will be equally sure. A bird singing in the window, an aquarium on the table in some corner, plants growing and blooming, domestic pets moving about as if at home, these give life and brightness to an apartment, and afford constant opportunities for the pleas- antest occupation and companionship. Books people a room, and pictures on the walls, if selected with taste, are ever fresh - 197 — sources of enjoyment. You may gauge the refinement and cultivation of a family by these infallible tests, unless they have been selected by some outsider. Bits of embroidery, of scroll-work, and a thousand tasteful devices may con- tribute to the charm of a room and make it irresistibly at- tractive. How to be Handsome. - Where is the woman who would not be beautiful ? If such there be-but no, she does not exist. From that memorable day when the Queen of Sheba made a formal call on the late lamented King Solomon until the re- cent advent of the Jersey Lily, the power of beauty has con- trolled the fate of dynasties and the lives of men. How to be beautiful, and consequently powerful, is a question of far greater importance to the feminine mind than predestination or any other abstract subject. If women are to govern, con- trol, manage, influence, and retain the adoration of husbands, fathers, brothers, lovers, or even cousins, they must look their prettiest at all times. All women cannot have good features, but they can look well, and it is possible to a great extent to correct deformity and develop much of the figure. The first step to good looks is good health, and the first element of health is cleanliness. Keep clean-wash freely, bathe regularly. All the skin wants is leave to act, and it takes care of itself. In the matter of baths we do not strongly advocate a plunge in ice-cold water; it takes a woman with some of the clear grit that Robert Collyer loves to dilate on and a strong constitution to endure it. If a hot bath be used, let it come before retiring, as there is less danger of taking cold afterward; and, besides, the body is weakened by the ablution and needs immediate rest. It is well to use a flesh brush, and afterwards rinse off the soap- suds by brisklý rubbing the body with a pair of coarse toilet gloves. The most important part of a bath is the drying. Every part of the body should be rubbed to a glowing redness, using a coarse crash towel at the finish. If sufficient friction cannot be given, a small amount of bay rum applied with the palm of the hand will be found efficacious. Ladies who have ample leisure and who lead methodical lives take a plunge or sponge bath three times a week, and a vapor or sun bath every day. To facilitate this very beneficial practice a south - 198— or east apartment is desirable. The lady denudes herself, takes a seat near the window, and takes in the warm rays of the sun. The effect is both beneficial and delightful. If, however, she be of a restless disposition, she may dance, instead of basking, in the sunlight. Or, if she be not fond of dancing, she may improve the shining hours by taking down her hair and brushing it, using sulphur water, pulverized borax dis- solved in alcohol, or some similar dressing. It would be sur- prising to many ladies to see her carefully wiping the sepa. rate locks on a clean, white towel until the dust of the pre- vious day is entirely removed. With such care it is not neces- sary to wash the head, and the hair under this treatment is in. variably good. One of the most useful articles of the toilet is a bottle of ammonia, and any lady who has once learned its value will never be without it. A few drops in the water takes the place of the usual amount of soap, and cleans out the pores of the skin as well as a bleach will do. Wash the face with a flesh brush, and rub the lips well to tone their color. It is well to bathe the eyes before putting in the spirits, and if it is desira. ble to increase their brightness, this may be done by dashing soapsuds into them. Always rub the eyes, in washing, toward the nose. If the eyebrows are inclined to spread irregularly, pinch the hairs together where thickest. If they show a tend. ency to meet, this contact may be avoided by pulling out the hairs every morning before the toilet. The dash of Orientalism in costume and lace now turns a lady's attention to her eyelashes, which are worthless if not long and drooping. Indeed, so prevalent is the desire for this beautiful feature that hair-dressers and ladies' artists have scores of customers under treatment for invigorating their stunted eyelashes and eyebrows. To obtain these fringed curtains, anoint the roots with a balsam made of two drachms of nitric oxide of mercury mixed with one of leaf lard. After an application wash the roots with a camel's-hair brush dipped in warm milk. Tiny scissors are used, with which the lashes are carefully but slightly trimmed every other day. When once obtained, refrain from rubbing or even touching the lids with the finger-nails. There is more beauty in a pair of well- kept eyebrows and full, sweeping eyelashes than people are - 199 aware of, and a very inattractive and lustreless eye assumes new beauty when it looks out from beneath elongated fringes. Many ladies have a habit of rubbing the corners of their eyes to remove the dust that will frequently accumulate there. Unless this operation is done with little friction it will be found that the growth of hair is very spare, and in that case it will become necessary to pencil the barren corners. In- stead of putting cologne water on the handkerchief, which has come to be considered a vulgarism among ladies of correct taste, the perfume is spent on the eyebrows and lobes of the ears. If commenced in youth, thick lips may be reduced by com- pression, and thin linear ones are easily modified by suction. This draws the blood to the surfaces, and produces at first a temporary and, later, a permanent inflation. It is a mistaken belief that biting the lips reddens them. The skin of the lips is very thin, rendering them extremely susceptible to organic derangement, and if the atmosphere does not cause chaps or parchment, the result of such harsh treatment will develop into swelling or the formation of scars. Above all things, keep a sweet breath. Everybody cannot have beautiful hands, but there is no plausible reason for their being ill-kept. Red hands may be overcome by soaking the feet in hot water as often as possi- ble. If the skin is hard and dry, use tar or oatmeal soap, saturate them with glycerine, and wear gloves in bed. Never bathe them in hot water, and wash no oftener than is neces- sary. There are dozens of women with soft, white hands who do not put them in water once a month. Rubber gloves are worn in making the toilet, and they are cared for by an oint- ment of glycerine and rubbed dry with chamois skin or cotton flannel. The same treatment is not unfrequently applied to the face with the most successful results. If such methods are used, it would be just as well to keep the knowledge of it from the gentlemen. We know of one beautiful lady who has not washed her face for three years, yet it is always clean, rosy, sweet, and kissable. With some of her other secrets she gave it to her lover for safe keeping. Unfortunately, it proved to be her last gift to that gentleman, who declared in a subsequent note that “I cannot reconcile my heart and my – 200 — manhood to a woman who can get along without washing her face.” Some of the Secrets of Beauty.—There is as much a “fashion” in complexions as there is in bonnets or boots. Sometimes nature is the mode, sometimes art. Just now the latter is in the ascendant, though, as a rule, only in that infe- rior phase which has not reached the “ concealment of art”-.- the point where extremes meet and the perfection of artifice presents all the appearance of artlessness. No one of an ob- servant turn of mind, who is accustomed to the sight of English maids and matrons, can deny that making-up, as at present practiced, partakes of the amateurish element. Impossible reds and whites grow still more impossibly red and white from week to week, under the unskilled hands of the wearer of “false colors,” who does not like to ask for advice on so deli. cate a subject, for, even were she willing to confess to the practice, the imputation of experience conveyed in the asking for counsel might be badly received, and would scarcly be in good taste. The prevalent and increasing short-sightedness of our times is, perhaps, partly the cause of the excessive use of rouge and powder. The wielder of the powder-puff sees her- self afar off, as it were. She knows that she cannot judge of the effect of her complexion with her face almost touching its reflection in the glass, and, standing about a yard off, she nat- urally accentuates her roses and lilies in a way that looks very pleasing to her, but is rather startling to any one with longer sight. Nor can she tone down her rouge with the powdered hair that softened the artificial coloring of her grandmother when she had her day. Powder is only occasionally worn with evening dress, and it is by daylight that those dreadful bluish reds and whites look their worst. On the other hand, there are some women so clever at mak- ing up their faces that one almost feels inclined to condone the practice in admiration of the result. These are the small minority, and are likely to remain so, for their secret is of a kind unlikely to be shared. The closest inspection of these cleverly managed complexions reveals no trace of art. Notwithstanding the reticence of these skilled artists, an occasional burst of confidence has revealed a few of their - 201 — means of accomplishing the great end of looking pretty. "Do you often do that?” said one of these clever ones, a matron of thirty-seven, who looked like a girl of nineteen, to a friend who was vigorously rubbing her cheeks with a coarse towel after a plentiful application of cold water. “Yes, every time I come in from a walk, ride, or drive. Why?” “Well, no wonder you look older than you are. You are simply wearing your face out!" “But I must wash?” “Certainly, but not like that. Take a leaf out of my book; never wash your face just before going out into the fresh air, or just after coming in. Nothing is more injurious to the skin. Come to the glass. Do you notice a drawn look about your eyes and a general streakiness in the cheeks? That is the result of your violent assault upon your complexion just now. You look at this moment ten years older than you did twenty min- utes ago in the park.” “Well, I really do. I look old enough to be your mother; but then, you are wonderful. You always look so young and fresh." "Because I never treat my poor face so badly as you do yours. I use rain-water, and if I cannot get that, I have the water filtered. When I dress for dinner I always wash my face with milk, adding just enough hot water to make it pleasant to use. A very soft sponge and very fine towel take the place of your terrible huckaback arrangement.” Two or three years ago a lady of Oriental parentage on her father's side spent a season in London society. Her complex- ion was brown, relieved by yellow, her features large and irregular, but redeemed by a pair of lovely and expressive eyes. So perfect was her taste in dress that she always attracted admiration wherever she went. Dressed in rich dark browns or dullest crimsons or russets, so that no one ever noticed much what she wore, she so managed that sug- gestions and hints—no more-of brilliant amber or pomegran- ate scarlet should appear just where they imparted brilliancy to her deep coloring, and abstract all the yellow from her skin. A knot of old gold satin under the rim of her bonnet, another at her throat, and others in among the lace at her - 203 — one common pattern, a mistake that may be accounted for by the fact that the Arabs believe kohol to be a sovereign specific against ophthalmia. Their English sisters often make the same mistake without the same excuse. A hairpin steeped in lampblack is the usual method of darkening the eyes in Eng- land, retribution following sooner or later in the shape of a total loss of the eyelashes. Eau de Cologne is occasionally dropped into the eyes, with the effect of making them brighter. The operation is painful, and it is said that half-a-dozen drops of whiskey, and the same quantity of Eau de Cologne, eaten on a lump of sugar, is quite as effective. Headache.-One of our English contemporaries has wisely been devoting some thought and space to the common and dis- tressing fact that a great many English women suffer from headache. The same trouble prevails in America, and men, no matter how selfish they may be, are deeply concerned about it, for a wife with a headache cannot be companionable; the best of sweethearts with a headache is sure to be unrea- sonable, while a lady who has neither husband or other spe- cial cavalier to engross her attention, can ruin the peace of mind of every one she meets while she has a headache of per- ceptible size. No amount of masculine grumbling is likely to change all this, but women themselves might change it if they would comprehend the causes of the malady, and then apply their nimble wits to the work of prevention or cure. The trouble is that all American women who have head- aches live indoors, where the best air is never good and the worst is poison, and they have none of the exercise which saves man from the popular feminine malady. Were a strong man to eat breakfast at any ordinary American table and then sit down at a work-table or even move about briskly from one room to another, he would have a splitting headache before noon, and the chatter of his innocent children would seem to be the jargon of fiends. The midday meal would increase his wretchedness, and by dusk he would be stretched in misery upon his bed, with one hand mopping his forehead with ice- water, while the other would threaten with a club or pistol any one who dared to enter the room or make a noise outside. There is no reason why women should not suffer just as se- – 204 verely for similar transgressions of physical law. True, in door life is compulsory for a large portion every day, but spe- cial physical exercise in a well-aired room is within the reach of almost every woman, and so is a brisk walk in garments not so tight as to prevent free respiration. There is very lit- tle complaint at summer resorts, where windows are always. open and games and excursions continually tempt women who do not value complexion more than health. Girls who ride, row, sail, and shoot, seldom have headaches ; neither do those unfortunate enough to be compelled to hoe potatoes or play Maud Muller in hay-fields. Let women of all social grades remember that the human machine must have reasonable treatment, and be kept at work or play to keep it from rust- ing, then headaches will be rare enough to be interesting. High-Heeled Boots Must Go.-A lady looks infinitely taller and slimmer in a long dress than she does in a short costume, and there is always a way of showing the feet, if desired, by making the front quite short, which gives, indeed, a more youthful appearance to a train dress. The greatest attention must, of course, be paid to the feet with these short dresses, and I may here at once state that high heels are absolutely forbidden by fashion. Doctors, are you content? Only on cheap shoes and boots are they now made, and are only worn by common people. A good bootmaker will not make high heels now, even if paid double price to do so. Ladies—that is, real ladies-now wear flat soled shoes and boots, à la Cinder- ella. For morning walking, boots or high Molière shoes are worn. If you wear boots you may wear any stockings you like, for no one sees them. But if you wear shoes you must adapt your stockings to your dress. Floss silk, Scotch thread, and even cotton stockings are worn for walking, silk stockings having returned into exclusively evening wear. Day stock- ings should be of the same color as the dress, but they may be shaded, or striped, or dotted, just as you please. White stock- ings are absolutely forbidden for day wear-no one wears them-no one dares wear them under fashion's interdiction. Don't Stoop.-Grandmother has noticed that some of her boys lately have acquired a very bad habit. They go about - 205 — with their backs bent, as if they were fifty years old, and were bearing the responsibilities of age on their shoulders. This is all wrong. Stand up straight, boys; don't go around with a “stoop in your back," as if you had a curvature of the spine. If you do, depend upon it, you will have it sure enough long before you get to be old. Always stand erect, and when you walk, throw back your shoulders, and take that kink out of your backbone. This is easier said than done, isn't it? Grandma will tell you just how you can do it, and remember every word she says, for she has been through it all herself, and has straightened up many a grandchild in more respects than one. Here is her rule: .' "THROW UP YOUR CHIN!” The whole secret of standing and walking erect consists in keeping the chin well away from the breast. This throws the head upward and backward, and the shoulders will naturally settle backward and in their true position. Those who stoop in walking generally look downward. The proper way is wo look straight ahead, upon the same level with your eyes, or if you are inclined to stoop, until that tendency is overcome, look rather above than below the level. Mountaineers are said to be as “ straight as an arrow," and the reason is be- cause they are obliged to look upward so much. It is simply impossible to stoop in walking if you will heed and practice this rule. You will notice that all round-shouldered persons carry the chin near the breast and pointed downward. Take warning in time, and heed grandmother's advice, for a bad habit is more easily prevented than cured. The habit of stooping when one walks or stands is a bad habit and espec- ially hard to cure, · Make Home Pleasant.-A cheerful, happy home is the greatest safeguard against temptations for the young. Parents should spare no pains to make home a cheerful spot. There should be pictures to adorn the walls, flowers to cultivate the finer sensibilities, dominoes, checkers, and other games, enter- taining books and instructive newspapers and periodicals. These things, no doubt, cost money, but not a tithe the amount that one of the lesser vices will cost-vices which are sure to be acquired away from home, but seldom there. Then there - 206 — should be social pleasures-a gathering of young and old around the hearthstone, a warm welcome to the neighbor who drops in to pass a pleasant hour. There should be music and amusements and reading. The tastes of all should be con- sulted, until each member of the family looks forward to the hour of reunion around the hearth as the brightest one in the twenty-four. Wherever there is found a pleasant, cheerful, neat, attractive, inexpensive home, there you may be sure to find the abode of the domesic virtues; there will be no dis- sipated husbands, no discontented or discouraged wives, no “fast” sons or frivolous daughters ! Laughter.-“The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the most delightful sounds of earth.” Truly there is nothing sweeter or pleasanter to the ear than the merry laugh of a happy, joyous girl, and nothing dissipates gloom and sadness quicker, and drives dull care away like a good, hearty laugh. We do not laugh enough; nature should teach us this lesson, it is true: the earth needs the showers, but if it did not catch and hold the sunshine too where would be the brightness and beauty it lavishes upon us ? Laugh heartily, laugh often, girls ; not boisterously, but let the gladness of your hearts bubble up once in a while, and overflow in a glal, mirthful laugh. Items Worth Remembering.–A sun bath is of more worth than much warming by the fire. Books exposed to the atmosphere keep in better condition than if confined in a bookcase. Pictures are both for use and ornament. They serve to re- call pleasant memories and scenes ; they harmonize with the furnishing of the rooms. If they serve neither of these pur- poses they are worse than useless; they only help fill space which would look better empty, or gather dust and make work to keep them clean. A room filled with quantities of trifling ornaments have the look of a bazaar, and displays neither good taste or good sense. Artistic excellence aims to have all the furnishings of a high order of workmanship combined with simplicity, while good sense understands the folly of dusting a lot of rubbish. - 207 - A poor book had best be burned to give place to a better, or even to an empty shelf, for the fire destroys its poison, and puts it out of the way of doing harm. Better economize in the purchasing of furniture or carpets, than scrimp in buying good books or papers. Our sitting-rooms need never be empty of guests or our libraries of society, if the company of good books is admitted to them. Those Ungraceful Habits.-A public conveyance brings one awkwardly near the faces of strangers. Perhaps from sheer inanity one is apt to take undue notice of his fellow-pas- sengers. When glances meet, the gaze is lowered to the flounces of the lady seated near, or to the trim, polished boot of a gent at the far end of the car. There are nice people everywhere, and if one is artistic in taste there will ever be a looking for beauty of face or form, in dress, or carriage, or manner, or speech ; but “why is the fresh girl face so often marred by the ugly habit of cribbing ?” “ A beautiful woman," whispered a friend, and the eye was attracted toward a grand looking lady with wide, white forehead, from which the brown glossy hair was smoothed away without the ghost of a crimp; there were pretty arching brows, shading lashes, shapely nose, but, alas! for the ruby lips bitten and moistened'so often as to prevent the possibility of catching the outline—the profile so needful to the sketcher of beauty. A poet has somewhere said that « affectation begins with the mouth,” but “who would charge the gentle sex with vanity.” What! To redden by biting, or brighten by wetting; that folly could not be. Let us rather suppose the fair one had by some mishap forgotten to lunch, and all this is due to the gnawings of hunger. While thus seeking to palliate the fair cribber, a young man becomes noticeable by persistently pull- ing at the ends of his moustache, chewing them in a hungry way, now changing the exercise by twisting them to needle- like points which he seemed to be coaxing upward. “From whence has come this ugly habit ?” one is fain to ask. Certainly not from pride. A fine flowing beard and full moustache ought not to be a cause of folly to the owner. The hairs of the face, given to protect the throat and lungs, never — 208 - to be shorn in the cold seasons, can it be that there is nutri- ment in them? While thus questioning, the writer's two hands were suddenly jerked from his side pockets, where they had been comfortably resting. The wife's gentle remonstrance had been brought to mind by the entrance of an awkward fel- 'low, with hands deeply thrust in the pockets of his torn pants. A caricature of one's self is often a tacit reproof. That very morning the dear wife had said: “Those torn side-pockets are the most difficult of tears to mend.” And the inward monitor asked : “From whence has come this indolent habit?. From love of ease or want of mittens, which ? Perhaps indifference of the patient mender's.” And again the monitor asked: . “What of that habit not comparable to weeds for growth ?” “What mean you ?” was meekly asked. “ That of looking well to one's own faults, that lesson the hardest and latest learned : to know thyself.” Then the writer realized that he, too, was not quite perfect. BE ONGEA 本人 ​Kry . 7 中​。 上​,并在 ​AIKA- 以上是13 一年 ​