A SOOTY CHIMNEY COSTS MANY A BEEF STEAK. the age of the bird is the chief point to be attended to. An old turkey has rough and reddish legs; a young one smooth and black. Fresh killed, the eyes are full and clear, and the feet moist. When it has been kept too long, the parts about the vent begin to wear a greenish, discoloured appearance. 20. COMMON DOMESTIC FOWLS, when young, have the legs and combs smooth; when old, they are rough, and on the breast long hairs are found instead of feathers. Fowls and chickens should be plump on the breast, fat on the back, and white legged. 21. GEESE.-The bills and feet are red when old, yellow when young. Fresh killed, the feet are pliable, stiff when too long kept. Geese are called green while they are only two or three months old. 22. DUCKS.-Choose them with supple feet and hard, plump breasts. Tame ducks have yellow fect, wild ones red. 23. PIGEONS are very indifferent food when they are too long kept. Sup pleness of the feet show them to be young; the state of the flesh is flaccid when they are getting bad from keeping. Tame pigeons are larger than the wild. 24. RABBITS, when old, have the haunches thick, the ears dry and tough, and the claws blunt and ragged. A young hare has claws smooth and sharp, ears that easily tear, and a narrow cleft in the lip. A leveret is distinguished from a hare by a knob or small bone near the foot. 25. PARTRIDGES, when young, have yellow legs and dark-coloured bills. Old partridges are very indifferent eating 26. WOODCOCKS AND SNIPES, when old, have the feet thick and hard; when these are soft and tender, they are both young and fresh killed. When their bills become moist, and their throats muddy, they have been too long killed. (See FOOD IN SEASON, 48 to 59.) 27. TO CLEAN BLACK CLOTH CLOTHES.. Clean the garments 33 in a boiler or copper containing two or three gallons of water, for half an hour. Dip the clothes in warm water, and squeeze dry; then put them into the copper and boil for half an hour. Take them out, and add three drachms of sulphate of iron; boil for half an hour, then take them out, and hang them up for an hour or two; take them down, rinse them in three cold waters, dry well and rub with a soft brush which has had a few drops of olive oil rubbed on its surface. If the clothes are threadbare about the elbows, cuffs, &c., raise the nap with a teazel or half worn hatter's card, filled with flocks, and when sufficiently raised, lay the nap the right way with a hard brush. We have seen our old coats come out with a wonderful dash of respectability after this operation. 28. PREVENTION OF FIRES. -The following simple suggestions are worthy of observation: Add one ounce of alum to the last water used to rinse children's dresses, and they will be rendered uninflammable, or so slightly combustible that they would take fire very slowly, if at all, and would not flame. This is a simple precaution which may be adopted in families of children. Bed curtains, and linen in general, may also be treated in the same way. 29. CAMPHOR BALLS TO PREVENT CHAPS.-Melt three drachnis of spermaceti, four drachms of white wax, with one ounce of almond oil and stir in three drachms of camphot (previously powdered by moistening it with a little spirits of wine); pour small quantities into small gallipots, so as to turn out in the form of cakes. 30. CASTOR OIL POMADE.-Castor oil, four ounces; prepared lard, two ounces; white wax, two drachms bergamot, two drachms; oil of laven den, twenty drops. Melt the fat together, and on cooling, add the scents, and stir till cold. 31. MUTTON PIE.-The follow ing is a capital family dish:-Cut mut wel then boil four ounces of logwood ten into pieces about two inches square 34 A CRACKED PLATE WILL LAST AS LONG AS A SOUND ONE. centre, or dropping it in just before the grease sets. If a little white wax be melted with the grease, all the better In this manner, the ends and drippings of candles may be used up. When set to burn, place in a saucer, with sufficient water to rise to the extent of the 16th of an ach around the base of the night lignt. and half an inch thick; mix pepper, stir in gradually twelve ounces of rose pounded allspice, and salt together; water.-No. 2. White wax and per dip the pieces in this; sprinkle stale maceti, of each half an ounce; oil of bread crumbs at the bottor of the dish: almonds, four ounces; orange flower lay in the pieces, strewing the crumbs water, two ounces. Mix as directed over each layer; put a piece of butter for No. 1. the size of a hen's egg at the top; add 35. NIGHT LIGHTS.-Field's and wineglassful of water, and cover in, Child's night lights are generally known and bake in a moderate oven rather and are easily obtainable. But under better than an hour. Take an onion, circumstances where they cannot be chop fine; a faggot of herbs; and add procured, the waste of candles may be to it a little beef stock, or gravy; sim-thus applied: Make a fine cotton, and mer for a quarter of an hour; raise wax it with white wax. Then cut the crust at one end, and pour in the into the requisite lengths. Melt the liquor-not the thick part. (See 135.) grease, and pour into pill boxes, pre32. MOTHS (to get rid of them).-viously either fixing the cotton in the 1. Procure shavings of cedar-wood, and enclose in muslin bags, which should be distributed freely among the clothes.-2. Procure shavings of camphor-wood, and enclose in bags.-3. Sprinkle pimento (allspice) berries among the clothes-4. Sprinkle the clothes with the seeds of the musk plant.-5. To destroy the eggs when deposited in woollen cloth, &c., use a solution of acetate of potash in spirits of rosemary, fifteen grains to the pint. 33. PAINS IN THE HEAD AND FACE.-A friend assures us that he was cured of a severe attack of tic doloreux by the following simple remedy:-Take half a pint of rose water, add two teaspoonfuls of white vinegar, to form a lotion. Apply it to the part affected three or four times a day. It requires fresh linen and lotion each application; this will, in two or three days, gradually take the pain away. The above receipt I feel desireus of being made known to the public, as I have before mentioned the relief I have experienced, and others, whose names I could give. The last remark is our friend's own. We doubt the cure of real tic doloreux by these means; but in many cases of nervous pains the above would be useful, and may easily be triea. 34. COLD CREAM.-No. 1. Oil of almonds, one pound; white wax, four ounces. Melt together gently in an earthen vessel, and when nearly cold, 36. GINGER CAKES.-To two pounds of flour add three-quarters of a pound of good moist sugar, one ounce best Jamaica ginger well mixed in the flour; have ready three-quarters of a pound of lard, melted, and four egga well beaten; mix the lard and eggs together, and stir into the flour, which will form a paste; roll out in thin cakes, and bake in a moderately-heated oven. Lemon biscuits may be made the same way, by substituting essence of lemon instead of ginger. 37. THE HANDS.-Take a wineglassful of eau de Cologne, and another of lemon-juice: then scrape two cakes of brown Windsor soap to a powder and mix well in a mould. When hard, it will be an excellent soap for whiten. ing the hands. 38. To WHITEN THE NAILS.--Di luted sulphuric acid, two drachms tincture of myrrh, one drachm; spring water, four ounces; mix. First cleanse with white soap, and then dip the fin gers into the mixture.. A good hand is one of the chief points of beauty; and these applications are really effective BETTER PAY THE COOK THAN THE DOCTOR. 35 39. RHUBARB TO PRESERVE. thing unless she is furnished with prime -Peel one pound of the finest rhubarb, provisions. The best way to procure and cut it into pieces of two inches in these is to deal with shops of establish length, and three-quarters of a pound ed character: you may appear to pay, of white sugar, and the rind and juice perhaps, ten per cent. more than you of one lemon-the rind to be cut into would were you to deal with those who narrow strips. Put all into a preserv- pretend to sell cheap, but you would ing kettle, and simmer gently until the be much more than in that proportion rhubarb is quite soft, take it out care- better served. Every trade has its fully with a silver spoon, and put it into tricks and deceptions; those who foljars: then boil the syrup a sufficient low them can deceive you if they please. time to make it keep well, say one and they are too apt to do so, if you hour, and pour it over the fruit. When provoke the exercise of their overcold put a paper soaked in brandy over reaching talent. Challenge them to a it, and tie the jars down with a blad-game at "Catch who can," by entirely der to exclude the air. This is a very relying on your own judgment, and you good receipt, and should be taken ad- will soon find nothing but very long vantage of in the spring. experience can make you equal to the 40. HALF-PAY PUDDING.-An combat of marketing to the utmost ad officer's wife is the contributor of the vantage. If you think a tradesman following:-Four ounces of each of the has imposed upon you, never use a following ingredients, viz., suet, flour, second word, if the first will not do currants, raisins, and bread crumbs; nor drop the least hint of an impositwo tablespoonfuls of treacle, half a pint tion; the only method to induce him of milk-all of which must be well to make an abatement is the hope of mixed together, and boiled in a mould, future favours, pay the demand, and for four hours. To be served up with deal with the gentleman no more; but wine or brandy sauce, if half-pay per- do not let him see that you are dismit. From two to three hours we pleased, or as soon as you are out of find sufficient; it is an excellent sub- sight your reputation will suffer as stitute for Christmas plum pudding, at much as your pocket has. Before you small expense. go to market, look over your larder. 41. DR. KITCHENER'S RULES and consider well what things are FOR MARKETING.-The best rule wanting - especially on a Saturday. for marketing is to pay ready money No well-regulated family can suffer a for everything, and to deal with the most disorderly caterer to be jumping in and respectable tradesmen in your neigh out to make purchases on a Sunday bourhood. If you leave it to their in- morning. You will be enabled to mantegrity to supply you with a good arti-age much better if you will make out cle, at the fair market price, you will a bill of fare for the week on the Satur be supplied with better provisions, and day before; for example, for a family at as reasonable a rate as those bargain- of half a dozenhunters, who trot "around, around, around about" a market till they are trapped to buy some unchewable old poultry, tough tup-mutton, stringy cowbeef, or stale fish, at a very little less than the price of prime and proper food. With savings like these they toddle home in triumph, cackling all the way, Sunday-Roast beef and pudding. Friday-Fish, pudding. Saturday-Fish, or eggs and bacon. like a goose that has got ancle-deep It is an excellent plan to have certain into good luck. All the skill of the things on certain days. When your most accomplished ccok wi1 rail no-butcher and poulterer knows what you 36 DISEASE IS SOON SHAKEN BY PHYSIC SOON TAKEN. will want, he has a better chance of an unhealthy effect upon the skin. doing his best for you; and never think Where there is too little ventilating of ordering beef for roasting except for escape, insensible perspiration is check Sunday When you order meat, poul-ed, and something analogous to fever try, or fish, tell the tradesman when supervenes; foul tongue, ill taste, and you intend to dress it: he will then lack of morning appetite betray the have it in his power to serve you with evil. provision that will do him credit, which the finest meat, &c., in the world will never do, unless it has been kept proper time to be ripe and tender. 45. ORANGE MARMALADE.Choose the largest Seville oranges, as they usually contain the greatest quantity of juice, and choose them with clear 42. CLEANING SILKS, SATINS, skins, as the skins form the largest part COLOURED WOOLEN DRESSES, of the marmalade. Weigh the oranges, &c.-Four ounces of soft soap, four and weigh also an equal quantity of ounces of honey, the white of an egg, loaf-sugar. Skin the oranges, dividing and a wine-glassful of gin; mix well the skins into quarters, and put them together, and the article to be scoured into a preserving-pan; cover them well with a rather hard brush thoroughly, with water, and set them on the fire to afterwards rinse it in cold water, leave boil: in the meantime prepare your to drain, and iron whilst quite damp. oranges; divide them into gores, then A friend informs us that she believes scrape with a teaspoon all the pulp this receipt has never been made public; she finds it an excellent one, having used it for a length of time, and recommended it to friends with perfect success. from the white skin; or, instead of skinning the oranges, cut a hole in the orange and scoop out the pulp: remove carefully all the pips, of which there are innumerable small ones in the Se43. SPONGE CAKE.-A lady, or, ville orange, which will escape observas the newspapers say, a "correspond- ation unless they are very minutely exent upon whom we can confidently amined. Have a large basin near you rely," favours us with the following with some cold water in it, to throw simple receipt, which, she says, gives the pips and skins into-a pint is suffi less trouble than any other, and has never been known to fail:-Take five eggs, and half a pound of loaf-sugar sifted; break the eggs upon the sugar, and beat all together with a steel fork for half an hour. Previously take the weight of two eggs and a-half in their shells, of flour. After you have beaten the eggs and sugar the time specified, grate in the rind of a lemon (the juice may be added at pleasure), stir in the flour, and immediately pour it into a tin lined with buttered paper, and let it be instantly put into rather a cool oven. 44. BED CLOTHES.-The perfection of dress, for day or night, where is broken into small pieces, and boiled warmth is the purpose, is that which with the fruit, it will answer the purconfines around the body sufficient of pose of clarifying, but it must be well its own warmth, while it allows escape skimmed when it boils. Marmalade to the exhalations of the skin. Where should be made at the end of March the body is allowed to bathe protract- or the beginning of April, as Sevil edly in its own vapore we must expect anges are then in their best state cient for a dozen oranges. ECONOMY IS THE EASY CHAIR OF OLD AGE. 46. IMPRESSIONS FROM PRINTS.-The print is soaked first 37 MEAT.-Beef, house-lamb, mutton pork, veal POULTRY AND GAME.-Capons, chickens, ducklings, fowl (wild), green geese, partridges, pheasants, pigeons, (tame and wild), pullets, rabbits, snipes, turkeys, woodcocks. 49. FEBRUARY. FISH.-Cod, crabs, flounders, her in a solution of potash, and then in one rings, oysters, perch, pike, sturgeon. of tartaric acid. This produces a per-porgies. fect diffusion of crystals in bi-tartrate of potash, through the texture of the unprinted part of the paper. As this salt repels the oil, the ink-roller may now be passed over the surface, withut transferring any of its contents to the paper, except in those parts to which the ink had been originally applied. The ink of the print prevents the saline matter from penetrating wherever it is present, and wherever there is no saline matter present the ink adheres; so that many impressions may be taken, as in lithography. VEGETABLES.-Beet, cabbage, carrots, celery, mushrooms, onions, parsnips, potatoes, turnips. FRUIT.-Apples, chestnuts, oranges. 50. MARCH. FISH.-Eels, crabs, flounders, lobsters, mackerel, oysters, perch, pike. shrimps, smelts, sturgeon, porgies. MEAT.-Beef, house-lamb, mutton, pork, veal. POULTRY AND GAME.-Capons, chickens, ducklings, fowls, green-geese, pigeons, rabbits, snipes, turkeys, woodcocks. 47. HOOPING-COUGH.-Dissolve a scruple of salt of tartar in a quarter pint of water; add to it ten grains of cochineal; sweeten it with sugar. Give to an infant a fourth part of a tablespoonful four times a day; two years old half a spoonful; from four years a tablespoonful. Great care is required in the administration of medicines to infants. We can assure paternal in-nip-tops. quirers that the foregoing may be depended upon. FOOD IN SEASON. There is an old maxim, "A place for everything, and everything in its place." To which we beg to add another, "A season for everything, and everything in season. 48. JANUARY. [Those Fish, Poultry, &c., distinguished by Italics are to be had in the highest perfection] FISH.-Cod, crabs, eels, flounders, herrings, lobsters, oysters, perch, pike, sturgeon, porgies. MEAT.-Beef, house-lamb, mutton, pork, veal, and doe venison. POULTRY AND GAME.-Capons, chickens, ducks, wild-ducks, fowls, geese, partridges, pheasants, pigeons (tame), pullets, rabbits, snipes, turkeys (hen), woodcocks VEGETABLES.-Beet, sprouts, cabvage, cardoons, carrots, celery, onions, parsnips, potatoes, turnips. FRUIT-Almonds. Apples. VEGETABLES.-Beet, carrots, celery cresses, onions, parsnips, potatoes tur FRUIT.-Apples, chestnuts, oranges 51. APRIL. FISH.-Shad, cod, crabs, eels, floun ders, halibut, herrings, lobsters, mackerel, oysters, perch, pike, salmon, shrimps, smelts, sturgeon, trout, porgies. MEAT.-Beef, house-lamb, mutton, pork, veal. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens, ducklings, fowls, green-geese, leverets, pigeons, pullets, rabbits, turkey-poults, wood-pigeons. VEGETABLES. Onions, parsnips, spinach, small salad, turnip tops, and rhubarb. FRUIT.-Apples, nuts, oranges, pears 52. MAY. FISH.-Shad, cod, crabs, eels, floun ders, halibut, herring, lobsters, mackerel, mullet, perch, pike, salmon, shrimps, smelts, sturgeon, trout, clame. MEAT. Beef, grass - lamb, house, lamb, mutton, pork, veal. POULTRY AND GAME Chickens |