The Household

Roasted or boiled chestnuts mako a delicious stuffing for roasted poultry or game. Creatn Sauce - Half a cupful oí butter, one cupful of powderedsugar, oncfourth of a cup of cream or milk, ono teaspoonful of vanillaor lenion oxtract. Beat the butter toa cream; add sugai gradually, beating all the while. When light and creamy, add extract and cream a little at a time. This is a delicious I sauce, and when well boaten will be white and foamy all through. Cream - To foui cupfuls of sugar put half a pint of boiliug water; boíl until clear, and ít will candy in cold water; ihen pour it over tho beatón whites of four eggs, beating until they aro cold and to a stiff cream, but add to it befora it is quite cold one teaspoonful of pulverizud citric aeid, and two teaspoonfuls of extract of ranilla. When cold, spread between the cakes as thick as the cakes. Coffee Custard - Make a rich custard at least half cream; to a quart of cream and milk allow four eggs if they are large, live if small; sweeten to your taste; cook in a fariña kettle; when done stir in two thirds of a cupful of cold cofiee and one teaspoonful of corn starch; the cofieo should be strained through a cloth, so that there will be no dark colored ppecks in the custard. Pepper Sauce. - The following excellent recipe is from the Germantown Telegraph: Threo large cabbage heais; 18 green pippers; 18 red peppers: onehalt pound mustard seed; ono ounce celery seed; one-half pound ground niustard; twopounds brown sugar; one tablespoouful ground cloves;fivequartg good vinegar. Chop cabbage and peppers very tíne and pack the mixture in a stone jar, with three handfuls of salt well stired through it. Boil the vinegar with the spices and sugar ten minutes and pour the boiling mixture over the cabbage, etc. Next day pour oS the liquor, boil it agaiu anu pour over. üo tlus the third time when the picule will be fit for use. Tie up tijfht and keep in a cool place. Christmas Pudding. - Sfir three-quarten of a cup of uutter and the yolks of four eggs together. Add one cup of molasseü and two cups of warm uiilk with two teaspoonfuls of soda dissolvei in a tablespoonful of boiling water and added 10 the milk. Season with a teaspoouful of cinnamon, half a teaspoonlul of cloves, a little nutmeg and salt. Add Uuur to make t as stiff as pound cake, aud lastly two pouuds ot raisins stoned and chopped tíne, one quarter of a pound of cilrou üid the wlules of tour eggj beatón to a stiff froth, Tie in a tloured bag, leaving room for the pudding to swell, aud bteam six hours Serve with wine sauce. Butter Cookies. - Ono cup sugar, one cup butter, two egg.s, one and one-half teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one tablespoonfulof soda. Flavor%ith lemon. Ginger Cookies. - If. ustead of acupful of water, a cupful of good sweet milk be used in ginger cookies, they will be mueh lighter and more tender. A good formula is: Two cupfuls of New Orleans niolasses, one cupful of lard, one teaspoonful each ot ginger and of soda, and half a teaspoonful of salt. The lard, instead of being melted, should be rubbed wilh the flour the same as for pie-crust. Housekneping Hint, A gargle of 3ulphur is a sure curo for diphtheria, and buruing sulphur in the bouse asure preventiye. If a teaspoonful of turpantiuo is T)ut into the vvashboiler and 'boiled with "tho clothes it will whiten themperceptibly. Ste'el knives which are not in daily use may be kept from rusting if they are dipped in a strong solution of soda -one part of water to four of soda; then wipe dry, roll in flanne) and keep in a dry placo. After the dust has been thorougly beaten out of carpets and they are tacked down again, they can be brightened very nnich by scattering cornmeal mixed with eoarse salt over them, and then sweeping it all off. Mix the salt and meal in eijual proportions. -tíu cauühuul uiiLU'jrjiy in meuioine rccommends a littlo common sugar as a remody for a dry, hacking cough, and gve3 scjentiSc reasons forit. ]{ troubied at night or on tint waking in the morning, have a little uip on a stand close by the bed, and tako half a teaspoenful; thij will bo of benefit when cough syrups fail. The flavor of coffeo may be greatly improved and its delicate aroma inereased by adding a litóle carbonate of soda to the water with wkich it is mado. This is the reason why the coffee ob'.iuned at Vichy, Carlsruhe, acd othcr Germán watering places is of such superior excellence, the walcr in these loealities contaiaing a certain percentage of soda. Ia Eacland man persons habiüialíy use carbonata o soda in niaking tea; a pincii to a pint o water beiög the regulated quantity. One rule must be observed in al} cold meat cookery, which is simple enough. and yet usually ncglected. No cöJd mcatpoultry or game ought ever to be allow'd to boil. It it does it must inevitably becomo tough, because it has already been thoroughjy cooked once, and the boíling proct-ss repeated hardei)8 all the tissues. Tho best way to warm anything, even pudding, is to steam it either over boiüng water or by placing it ia a pot within a larger one Hashes of all kinds, miuce, and even sausage meat, are all far better prepared in this way. An excellent way to cook up co'd beef, espeuially if rare, is by making a potatopie Cut up the meatinto small pieces, flour it well. pepper and salt it, and place it in apiedinh with a lit Ie good grav or water and then cover it with well mashed potatoes and bako lor half an hour in a good oven. Mr. Timothy Colé, the most widely known of Amorican wood-engravers, was a passenger by the Canada, which recently sailud for Havre. He goes abroad in the interest of the C'entury Co , to engrave for publication in the Century tho masterpieees of Europe. He expects to worK in the galleries of Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and perhaps Russia (St. Petersburg), and will remain abroad about three jeard. ïhis is an entirelv new departure on the part of the magazine, for althougli it has become by no ineans uncomni'jn in the search for new and interesting material to send American artists and writers abroad, and even to fit out expeditions to distant places, Mr. Cole is the fit engraver who has been sent across the Atlantic for the express purpose of engraving the masterpieces of art. I am not alone in the belief that the result will be a series of wood-engravings surpassing anything of the kind in existenco -The Lounger, in "The Critic." In a horse a good aud stronp, but quiet, pulso beats forty times a minute, in an o.x (ifty to flfty-tive, in sheep and pigs not less than seventv or more than eighty for ordinary health. It may be feit vvhenever a largo artery crosses a bone. A rapid, hard and full pulso in stock denotes hiüfh fever; a rapid, small, and weak pulse also feer, cnused by a weakjnd poor state of the subjert. A very s,uw pulse indicates brain disease. while un irregular one indicates heart trouble. One day when Whittier was hoeing in tho corn field in tho suminer of 1826J word oamo that a cairiago had driven up to th ) house, and tho visitor had inquired lor one John Greenleaf Whhtior. l'he youth hastened toward tho house in great astonishment, and entered the back door because ho was not presentable, having neither coat, waistcoat nor shoes- only a shirt, pantaloons and straw hat. Who could havo diiven out 'o see him? After beinsf shod and apparalled, his heart still in a fluttcr, he tppeared beforo, the stranerr, who roved to bo (VVilliam Loyd) Garrison 'hs good jister Alary, it appeared, had evealed the authorship of the poems, nd the generous young editor had ome from Newburyport on frioattly TUit.