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, small teaspoonful of baking soda, a ablespoonful each of sugar and butter, , half teaoup of Graham flour, and corn aeal to make a stiíf batter. Bake half jq hour in a quick oven. IIow to Clean a Tea or Copfbe Pot. - If the inside of your tea or coffee pot 8 black f rom long use, fillitwith water, hrow in a piece of hard soap, set on the itove and let it boil from half an hour o an hour. It will clean as bright as a ïew dollar and eosts no work. "M. L. C." wishes to find what will ake away freckles. Some physicians lay it is a sort of disease of the skin. Purify the blood. A wash of sour inilk mVk scraped horseradish, will help renove them, but tte face must be pro;ected from the sun or they will come jack. Never use chemicals. Mangy Oats.- Often these household pets become mangy when they are old. !V. carbolic acid bath is a sure cure, and feeding the animal with fresh beef. You must bind the cat's paws so that it may iiot scratch you, and look out for its teeth, as its horror of the acid is extreme. A diet of fresh beef and milk will often euro the cat without the wash, if it is scurvy. Let the creature roll in the dirt whenever it will. Summer Sandwiches.- Take half a pound of butter, three tablespoonfuls of mixed mustard, three tablespoonfuls of uice sweet oil, a little white or red pepper, a little salt and the yelk of an egg ; braid these together very smoothly, and let it cool. Ohop very fine some tongue and ham. Out the bread fchin ; spread over the the meat, then the bread, and press it together very hard. Trim off the edges, that the sandwiches may all be one size. The sirloin or porterhouse steak is the only proper one for broiling. The gridiron should be perfectly clean and sinooth, and the flre hot. Never salt er season a steak while cooking, but watch constantly, and when one side is sufficiently cooked, turn and broil the other. Have'ready a hot platter, well sprinkled with salt and pepper, also a liberal allowance of pieces of butter ; on this lay the steak from the gridirou ; then iipon the steak sprinkle more salt and pepper and place more butter. Serve hot. Blackberrt Wine.- The following is said to be an excellent recipo for the manufacture of superior wine from blackberries. Measure your blackberries and bruise them, to every gallon adding one quart of boiling water ; let the mixture stand twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally ; then strain off tho üquor intoacask, to every gallon adding two pounds of sugp; cork tightand let stand till the following October, and you will have wine ready for use without any further straining or boiliug, that will make üps smack as they uever smaoked under similar influenoo bofore,