... the case that handsome marble (*comes almost hopelessly soiled and stained, and there is a demand for a simple, practical recipe for restoring it. The following, from an excellent authority, is highly commended: Take equal parts of ox gall, powdered soap ...

... SOME CHRISTMAS RECIPES. MINCEMEAT —Chop two pounds suet very finely. Stone and chop two and a half pounds raisins, clean one and a half pounds currants, peel and finely chop two pounds of apples and a quarter of a pound of lemon-peel. Put all these i ...

... divided into the acid, sweet, astringent, oily and mealy classes. To the first belong all such fruits as the lemons, oranges, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and peaches. They are good for people of a bilious temperament, but too many are ...

... carefully together, and met The chickens had rebelled away. A cement equally good is cherry gum, or the Instead of going to roost at their proper time sap which is found on the cherry tree. Rub the with their older and wiser relations, they had gum on the edges ...

... such delicacies are generally too costly for family use. For the benefit of thrifty housewives we append a few excellent recipes obtained from a famous French Chef• Tomato Pulp for Made Dishes.—Select sound ripe tomatoes+, drop them into boiling water ...

... basin with slices of slaw bread, cut balf an inch thick, remove the crusts and shape to basin. Stew sufficient raspberries, cherries,or red currants to fill the basin, awtt'ten to :ante and well supply with brice which the duet..! will absorb. Cover with ...

... CHERRY COOKERY. CHERRY Pis au Riz.—Boil some rice till tender, snd sweeten it. Remove the atalks from some 40 cherries, dip the fruit in sugar, and arrange it in a pie -dish, with alternate layers of the Het.. ailing the rice and cherries in the centre ...

... SOME CHRISTMAS RECIPES. ros ROAST TURKEY —Boil forty chestnuts for a quarter of an hour, let them cool. and then remove the outer and inner skins. Place the nuts in a stewpan with sufficient milk to cover them, add seasoning, and let them simmer until ...

... not wisely but too well. It is also per. feetly safe and harmless. and can be made so large quantities for a few pence. Recip: Bicarbonate of soda Tartaric acid Powdered sugar 11,xthelle salts Mix all the ingredients thorough ly, and rep a glass-stoppered ...

... water and dry them in the open air. Hot Corn Flour Souffles Sweet and Savoury, are mail} made and dainty to eat. Here is the Recipe : 'Brown & Poison's Patent Corn Flour 3 oz. Butter. 3 large Eggs. 3 oz. fine White Sugar. pint Milk. Just melt the butter ...

... cakes, use a little more flour, so that they will roll out well without sticking to the board. Add flour as desired. This recipe also makes a good gingerbread. Rt,ecrnaat FL MERV. Simmer together a pint of ripe blackberries and a pint of water. Do not ...

... plan. Any cookery-book gives the recipe for making sponge, which can be turned into jam roll, small cakes with burnt almonds on the top, or large size which can be iced and decorated with cubes of angelica and glace cherries. A home-made ginger cake i also ...