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Show CRUSHED hemp seed is recommended as a good substitute for ants' eggs in feeding young birds. TO clean a sponge take three ounces of carbonate of salt or potash, dissolve in 2 ½ pints of water and soak the sponge in this for 2 hours. Then wash it in water with a little muriatic acid. A LITTLE dry sand sprinkled over the potatoes in the fall, will destroy any unpleasant odor they may have, and air slacked lime? used sparingly, will prevent rotting. SAUCE FOR PUDDINGS-One cupful sugar, half cupful butter whipped to a cream; add one cupful boiling water, and scald, but not boil; thicken with two teaspoonfuls of corn starch, add one wineglass of wine, (brandy is best) and a well-beaten egg.-P. M., Passaic, N. J. PEACHES IN CANS.-Peel ripe peaches; cut them in halves; put them in a preserving-kettle, with a little sugar sprinkled over them. Let them heat thoroughly in a pan of hot water on the range. When the peaches are scalding hot put them in glass jars and seal them up.-C***. THEY make cucumber pickles in Minnesota by adding one pint of molasses to every gallon of rain-water. The cucumbers are carefully washed and placed in the sweetened water, a little vinegar being added to hasten matters. The keg is put in a cool place, and the sediment which gathers upon the pickles is removed by occasional washing. APPLE CUSTARD PIE.-Scald the milk and let it cool; grate some sweet apples; to each cupful of apple have two thirds cupful of powdered sugar, four well-beaten eggs, one cupful milk, one-fourth of a nutmeg, line an earthen pie-dish with a rich crust, and let it bake; then fill with the custard and let it bake for half and hour. To be eaten cold.-M. A. Mo. THE COST OF IT.-Lord Derby to the workingmen: "We have heard a great deal recently about the peasantry becoming owners of land and having gardens, fields and farms of their own. Now, an acre of good agricultural land is worth, on an average, about sixty pounds, or, as nearly as possible, three pence for every square yard. I wonder how many workingmen consider that when they order threepenny worth of beer or spirits they are swallowing down a square yard of good agricultural land." To prevent citron from getting to the bottom of a cake or pudding, rub the citron well with flour after cutting, and it will neither sink nor mass together; the same applies to other fruit.-P. M. After mixing the cake to the proper consistency, which must be stiffer than for plain cake, put a layer of the mixture in the pan, then a layer of citron cut in thin pieces, then another layer of the mixture, and one of citron, and so on until the pan is two thirds full; I have never found this to fail; it distributes the citron evenly through the cake, and looks very pretty when cut in slices for the table.-Mattie. |