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sweet milk, one teaspoon cream of tartar, half 
teaspoon of soda. Eat with butter; or, put 
in a handful of currants or raisins and eat 
with sweetened cream for pudding. 
E. R. Hart. 
DR. C. W. BENSON’S 
ters instead. These are pleasant and good, 
with a fragrance of clover meadows, that can 
never be found in *' farmerine.” 
Among the different ways of using pork 
when other meat is scarce is a very savory 
soup of beans and corn. Of course, it is taken 
for granted that all housekeepers dry sweet 
corn, and if any reader has not done so here¬ 
tofore, I advise her not to neglect it in any 
coming September. The soup is as follows: 
Soak over night a quart of beans (or less if the 
family is small), and about the same of corn. 
Be sure to have soft water for this purpose. 
Cut into shreds one pound of streaked salt 
pork next morning, and use five quarts of 
water, put in two stalks of minced celery, one 
small minced onion, a little chopped parsley, 
and a pint of stock from beef soup. Cook the 
corn tender in a separate pan with water just 
enough to cover it. Pepper to taste and add 
the corn half an hour before serving. Some 
people tbiuk it an improvement to add two 
tablespoonfuls of butter rolled in two of flour. 
In country places where these ingredients are 
easily procured, this is a very palatable soup. 
After this season of the year potatoes are 
not generally so good cooked in the ordinary 
way, and a very pleasant change came to the 
table the other day. They were boiled as 
usual, mashed with milk and butter, seasoned, 
and heaped carefully upon a greased pie dish. 
Then they were browned in the oven, glazed 
with butter, slipped carefully to a hot dish, 
and served. We tried,on Sunday last, a can of 
French asparagus, put up in nice, long tins; it 
looked beautiful, but bad little left of the 
peculiar asparagus flavor, and only left us 
sighing for this favorite Spring vegetable. 
Canned fruits or vegetables, should stand 
half an hour before using, after being opened. 
This takes away any atom of mustiuess or the 
“airless” taste that they have when first 
opened. When possil ie I prefer to dry rather 
than to depend on bought canned vegetables, 
but those that can be successfully put up at 
home are the best. 
SKIN CURE 
WATERMELON CAKE. 
White part; two cups white sugar, one cup 
butter, one cup sweet milk, three-and-one-half 
cups flour, white of eight eggs (well beaten), 
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Red 
part: One cup red sugar, ons-half cup butter, 
one-third cup sweet milk, two cups flour, 
white of four eggs (well beaten), one tea¬ 
spoonful of baking powder, one teacup raisins 
(to represent the seed in the core of the melon 
which is the red). This is to be put in the 
middle of the pan, and the white part outside 
for the rind. This makes a cake which will be 
admired by all, and is not bad to taste. I 
think it is a good plan always to grease the 
pan, then cut a paper (light brown) and put it 
in tde bottom of the pan; it will prevent the 
cake from burning on the bottom. 
FRUIT CAKF- 
Four cups light dough, three eggs, three cups 
sugar, one cup butter, mix with the hands 
until it becomes a batter, then beat with a 
spoon, after which add one heaping table¬ 
spoon of ground cinnamon, a little ground 
cloves, t hree pints raisins and three pints cur¬ 
rants. (The light dough should be ready to 
mold into loaves.) Let raise a short time be¬ 
fore placing in the oven. Add flour enough 
to raise nicely. Mrs. Anderson. 
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A COFFEE NOTE FROM DR. HOSKINS, 
Though not intended for publication, it 
seems tome what I said about coffee was plain 
enough as printed. Of course, if anything ta¬ 
ken as food or drink is injurious to health, the 
more impure it is (the adulterants beiug harm¬ 
less) the lesj injurious it will be. And besides 
that, as regards coffee, pure, well made coffee 
tastes better and exhilarates more than adul¬ 
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and the harm is proportional. Vigorous men, 
living and working iu the open air can use 
coffee, whisky and tobacco moderately, and 
suffer little inconvenience. The healthy hu¬ 
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against injurious influences. But, once 
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by people who are “ hard sick,” however 
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been used before. Physicians are sometimes 
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well, instead of waiting until they are sick 
and then trying to cure them. But accord¬ 
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or women will listen to hygienic advice. And 
even when they get sick their desire is far 
more often “ to he saved in thoir sins than to 
be saved from them.” 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES, 
FRIED TOMATOES. 
Slice ripe tomatoes quite thick, salt and 
pepper them, roll in flour; fry in equal parts 
of butter and lard, and keep hot until served. 
Mix a little flour and butter and stir iu with a 
cup of milk. Boil until thickened, then pour 
over tomatoes. 
BAKED TOMATOES. 
Tomatoes, bread, butter; a little sugar, 
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LARS sent on application 
pepper and salt. Bake. 
TEA CAKE. 
One pint of flour, three tablespoonfuls of 
butter, three of sugar, one egg, one cup of 
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Middletown, Conn. 
