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Day
18
Month
December
Year
1874
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Public Domain
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Croquets. - ïake any cold meat, minee it fine ; put in an onion chopped fine. Moisten with gravy, mako into balls with yelk of an egg rad flour, and f ry in liot fat. Boiled Onions. - Slice them fine (after paring), boil until tender in enough water to cover. When tender, season with butter, pepper aad Balt. They are rauch better than when boiled whole. A hot lenionade is one of the best remedies in the world for a cold. It acts promptly and effectively, and has no unpleasant after-effeets. One lenion properly squeezed, cut into slices, put in sugar, and cover with half a pint of boiling water. Drink jnsfc befor goiEg to bed, and do not expose yourself on the following day. íhis remedy will ward off an attackof the chillsand f ever if used promptly. SOFTENING HARD WaTEB. - This 18 usually done with sal soda, but the effect is to hurt the clothes that are washed in the water thus prepared, and the hands also. It is because there is an excess of the soda, more than unites with the acid of the water which makes it hard. The remedy is easy. Uso enough of the salt to take up the acid, and no more. Ia this way both acid and soda disappear, leaving a neutral salt which is harmless. The water will be soft. Test a oertain amonnt of I ter, beginning with a very little soda, and adding more if you find you need it. With our own spring water, which is hard, a lump of soda the size of a large pea to a pint of water is about the right proportion. Of course the amount of the salt should be according to the degree of hardness of the water. - Oor. Country Gentleman. Ten drops of ammonia to a pint of water is enough for the ordinary washing of the skin of the head, and is a sufficient dressing, used once a week, provided the subject is in a natura] and healthy conditiou. But it -will not cure weakness caused by illness, nor the drj rot which makes the hair fall out. The best way is to let it come out, and as a dressing, twice or three times a week, use a preparation made according to the following formula : A teaspoonful of powdered bórax, a teaspoonful of ammonia, two of pure glycerine, in half a pint of good bay rum. Shake this well every time it is used, keep it corked, and in addition wash the skin of the head ín water in which only a few drops of ammonia have been put. In a short time, if the general health improves, the hair will cease to come out ; then the simple wat r and ammonia dressing is sufficient. Soüp Making. - In the flrst place, observe always to lay your meatin the bottom of the pan or pot, cutting the meat up, or, if a bone, cracking it weli. A lump of butter adds richness, but it is not necessary. Select such herbs and vegetables as you prefer, cut them up very small and lay over the meat, with a very little water, and a cautiously small piece of salt. Cover the vessel with a close-fitting lid and set it by a slow fire. This will draw out all the herbs and roots, giving the soup a different flavor from what is imparted by putting the full quantity of water in at first. Turn the meat frequently. When the gravy produced is almost dried up, fill your pot with a suffleient quantity of water to make soup enough for your family. To a large shank bone of beef three quarts, or even one gallon is not too much to allow. When your soup is done tako it off the fire to cool, and skim thoroughly. Put it on again, and be sure not to dish it up unless boiling hot. Be careful to add salt and other high flavored condimenta sparingly ; every table is provided with sult-cellar and casters, so that a deficiency in these respects may be easily reetified ; not so an over quantity. If other thickening than the vegetables used is deemed advisable, brown the flour for all soups save chicken, veal and oyster soups."

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