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ORIGINAL DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



Contributed to the Genesee Farmer. 



Soyer's Pudding. — Take slices of bread and spread 

 them with butter, and lay them in a pudding dish with 

 layers of any kind of fruit or preserves, and then cover 

 with a nice custard, and eat with a sauce. 



Baked Eggs. — Put half an ounce of butter into a small 

 tin pan ; break four eggs in it, keeping the yolks whole. 

 Throw a little pepper and bits of butter and salt over. 

 Put into the oven till set, and serve. They will take 

 about six minutes doing. 



Rhubarb or Pie Plant Pie. — Every one does not know 

 ■what a very great improvement a little molasses is to a 

 pie-plant pie, but any one who will make the experiment 

 will be pleased with the result. Currants or gooseberries 

 mixed with the pie-plant add to the flavor very much. 



Green Peas and Pork. — Put a piece of salt pork of 

 about two lbs. into a pan with a quart of peas. Fill up 

 with water, add two teaspooufuls of salt, one of pepper, 

 one of sugar and two onions. Bake for three hours. A 

 little mint might be added. Three pints of large peas 

 aloue, with a little dripping, is as good as above. — Soyer. 



Gooseberry Fool. — Put in a pan a quart of green 

 gooseberries, with a wineglass of water and half lb. of 

 sugar. Stew on a slow fire for twenty minutes ; keep 

 stirring. Put in a basin and whip a pint of cream. 

 "VTheu tbe-fruit is cold, mix with the cream and serve in 

 cups or a hollow dish with pastry round it. Rhubarb 

 and any of the small fruits may be done in the same way. 



Salad Sauce (French). — Boil one egg hard. When 

 cold, remove the yolk, put it into a basin and bruise it to 

 pulp with a wooden spoon. Then add a raw yolk and a 

 teaspoonful of flour, a small teaspoonful ofsalt, a quarter 

 of pepper; then add half a spoonful of vinegar, stir it 

 round, pour over a tablespoonful of oil by degrees, then a 

 little more vinegar, and two more of oil, until eight tea- 

 spoonsful of oil aud three of vinegar are used. Season 

 with half a teaspoonful of chopped onions, two of pars- 

 ley and a pinch of cayenne. It will keep sometime if 

 properly cooked. 



Strawberry Short Cake. — This is an exceedingly de- 

 licious dish, although a little like painting the lily, for 

 the strawberry is too luscious in itself to require any of 

 the aids of cookery. We give it, not for the benefit of 

 Our dyspeptic readers, — for we warn them against it — but 

 for those who can eat hot cakes for tea, and can not dis- 

 pense with strawberries while they are in season. The 

 cake should be made like soda biscuit, rather richer, but 

 very light, and baked in a round tin about the size of a 

 dinner plate. Immediately upon taking it out of the oven 

 split it in three parts, aud spread them with butter very 

 thinly. Have your strawberries prepared by covering 

 them with sugar. Spread a thick layer of these upon one 

 of the slices of the cake, and pour over them the richest 

 cream that you can procure ; then add another layer of 

 the shortcake and another of strawberries, as before. 



Cover the whole with the remaining slice of the cake, i 

 some cream and powdered sugar, and you have a i 

 which would tickle the palate of an epicure. 



Timothy Titcomb on Women. — Women, in my apa 

 hension, is the mistress, not alone of the melody ot nnJ 

 but of the melody of life. Whatever it may be possij 

 to do by cultivation and a long course of development 

 is doubtful whether a woman would ever sing bass Wf 

 I am aware that she has the right, and the organs, bu 

 question whether her bass would amount to anything 

 whether it would be worth singing. When women ts 

 with me about their right to vote, and their right to pp 

 tice law, and their right to engage in any business \vh! 

 usage has assigned to man, I say "yes— you have 

 those rights." 1 never dispute with them at all. Iude 

 you see how I have put myself forward as the defeni 

 of these same rights ; yet I should be sorry to see tb 

 exercised by the women I admire and love. It is all v 

 well to say that the presence of woman at the ballot-1 

 would purify it ; but I have seen enough of the world 

 learn that all human influence is reciprocal and reacti 

 ary. Mau and the ballot-box might gain, but won 

 would lose, and men aud the ballot-box themselves wo 

 lose in the long run. The ballot-box is the bass, am 

 should be man's business to sing it, while woman sho 

 give him home melody with which it should harmoni: 



Baby's Shoe Sock. — Use four needles. Cast 22 stitt 

 on each needle of white split zephyr or the finest Sax 

 two-threaded yarn. Knit 7 shells deep ; put in the ct 

 cast on 12 stitches and rib back across 4 shells, mal 

 one row of holes through the centre for strings. I 

 off' 12 stitches on each end to complete the straps, li 

 instep 7 shells in white; 7 double ribs for heel in c«i 

 Narrow off" and take up on side 120 stitches ; knit 7 doi 

 ribs to toe; continue to knit in the color all aroui 

 double ribs, narrowing like a stocking and bind off. 



Shells. — Seam three stitches; widen 8 at once ten 

 Each time after the seaming, narrow the 2 first of tht 

 and slip and bind the last 2, until the number is redi 

 to the original 8. Repeat this seaming 3 between. 



'Good Cooking not Inconsistent with Piety.— 

 nothin' to say agin' her piety, my dear, but I know 1 

 well I shouldn't like her to cook my victuals. Wh< 

 man comes in hungry an' tired, piety wont feed hii 

 reckon. I called in one day when she was dishin' up 

 Truman's dinner, an' I could see that the potatoes v 

 as watery as water. It's right enough to be speretiu 

 I'm no enemy to that; but I like my potatoes mealjj 

 don't see as anybody 'ull go to heaven sooner for my 

 gestiu' their dinner — providin' they don't die the sooi 

 as mayhap Mr. Truman will, poor dear man ! — jk 

 Bede. 



The Paris women are excited about an electric h« 

 dress invented for the Empress Eugenie. It is a en 

 formed of globules of glass lighted by electric light, i 

 set with diamonds, rubies and emeralds. It emits si 

 an effulgence as to light up of itself a dark room, an« 

 ever put into general use will supersede the necessity 

 gas jets or wax candles. Every lady will be her o 

 chandelier. 



