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ner of the parlor to receive the gifts. China 
and glassware that are to he borrowed should 
be in place before the guests arrive. 
Although the bride’s dress is foreign to the 
subject, I cannot refrain from saying a few 
words with regard to it. Let it be of some 
dark silk, if silk can be afforded. If not, 
some of the all -wool goods make up very rich 
and handsome,and are very reasonable in price. 
Let the color and style of making become t he 
wearer. Unless in a very wealthy family, 
I think light silks and satins are very unbe¬ 
coming for country brides. A handsome dress, 
of which no bride need lie ashamed, can bo 
made of dark American cashmere with plush 
to match. “b.” 
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CRAB SALAD. 
BEEFSTEAK SPANISH STYLE, AND SUNDRY 
GOOD THINGS. 
At a wedding breakfast where the follow¬ 
ing salad was served, the pretty bride laugh¬ 
ingly remarked that usually the bride was the 
principal attraction at a wedding, but that in 
her case it was the salad. Wo will not, there¬ 
fore, advise its use on such occasions, but in 
the case of staid married people, where wives 
have learned to subordinate themselves to a 
good dinner and to be content with 
such crumbs of affectiou as may fall to them 
after their lords have boon well fed, it is al¬ 
ways policy to spread an attractive board. 
To make this wonderful salad, then, pick 
out a pint bowlful of crab-meat.—one of the 
mammoth crabs of the Pacific Coast is suffi¬ 
cient—chop it fine and mix with a small onion 
that has been grated or chopped very line,and 
season the whole with pepper and salt. Put 
this iu a neat mound in the center of a flat, 
dish, place around it a circle of the small in¬ 
ner leaves of crisp lettuce, that have been 
washed and shaken dry in a towel. Take the 
larger leaves,pile them oueou top of the other, 
and with a keen kuife cut them across several 
times each way, and put them around outside 
the small leaves. Cutting the lettuce in this 
way will not bruise and wilt it as chopping 
would. Now* for the very poetry of dressing: 
beat light the yelksol' two eggs; add seven 
tablespoonfuls of good vinegar (a few drops at 
a time so as not to curdle the eggs), uud one 
of sugar; mix with a tittle of the vinegar, 
two thirds of a teaspoouful of mustard, half 
one of salt and a quarter of pepper, and put 
all In n small saucepan set within another 
containing hot water; add butter the size of 
au egg, and st ir constantly until the mixture 
thickens like very thick cream. Remove 
from the lire, and when cold stir in a cup of 
rich cream that has been whipped until just 
ready to turn to butter ; it must be beaten 
longer than for Charlotte Russe. Pour this 
over the crab und lettuce, and garnish with 
nasturtium leaves and blossoms, or with cres¬ 
ses if tli** nasturtiums are not iu bloom. 
The following recipe for beefsteak cooked 
Spanish style is from the note-book of a cel¬ 
ebrated caterer, and although a somewhat pe¬ 
culiar dish, is remarkably good as well as 
cheap:—Take a slice of round steak an inch 
thick, lay on a ple-plato, add a little water to 
baste it with, and bake for 80 minutes, take 
out and cover with a layer of si iced onions, anil 
bake until the onions are tender; cover with a 
layer of sliced tomatoes and bake L'n min¬ 
ute's; sprinkle ou two tablespoonfuls of grated 
cheese and place in the oven long enough to 
molt the cheese. During the baking it should 
be basted every 10 minutes. 
In answer for a request for a recipe for 
pineapple pie I give the following, with this 
bit of unasked ad vice:—unless you are Indiffer¬ 
ent to the expense, wait until pineapples and 
eggs are cheap. (Irate a pineapple, take its 
weight in sugar uud half its weight in butter; 
cream the butter and beat it with the sugar 
and the yelks of five eggs, that have been 
whipped light; add a cupful of cream, the 
pineapple and the whites of five eggs beaten to 
a froth. Line pie-plates with paste aud till 
with this mixture, bake uud eat cold. 
Let anyone who is inclined to sneer at hash, 
try it made as below, aud see if he does uot. 
find it a nice breakfast relish. Use the thin 
part of a cold rib roast where streaks of fat in¬ 
tersect the loan, ami chop very fine three 
parts of meat with one of potatoes and a small 
white onion; season with stilt and Cayenne 
pepper. Put in a frying-pan a hit of butter 
and a little gravy if you have it, if not, u gill 
of boiling water this for a dish of hash for 
six jiersons stir iu a teaspoouful of Hour wet 
with cold water add the hash, and stir with a 
broad blade* 1 knife until smoking hot. Trim 
the crust from six thin squares of toast, butter 
them and mound up the hash on ouch piece; 
lay around a delicately poached egg for each 
person, alternated with sprigs of parsley, and 
in the words of a olmraiing writer on culinary 
subjects, “There’s poetry in such a dish, and 
he who would decline it, ‘is fit for treasons, 
strategoms aud spoils. Let no such man be 
trusted.’” PALMETTO, 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
OYSTER PIE. 
I would like the readers of the Rural to 
try the following for a delicious oyster "pate. 
It may be made in one large or several small 
pies. Line a deep dish hokliug about a quart 
aud a pint, with a rich paste. It is most im¬ 
portant that, this should be good, so if you do 
not happen to have a well-tried recipe of your 
own, I give a few suggestions that will insure 
success. For anything approaching puff 
paste, never use lard or even a mixture of it. 
Butter, in the proportion of half a pound to 
a scant pound ®f flour, will give a very nice 
article of puff paste. Sift and weigh t he flour 
and put it in an earthen bowl: sprinkle over 
it. a teaspoouful of sugar, and stir in the yelk 
of a beaten egg mixed with a few teaspoonfuls 
of ice-water. Do this slowly, working it mean¬ 
while with the tips of the lingers until you 
have a firm, smooth paste. Enough ice-water 
must be added for this pu rpose, but very grad¬ 
ually, lest the mass lieconie too soft. Now 
roll out into au elongated square as evenly as 
possible, spread over it half or one-third of 
the butter as smoothly and evenly as possible; 
fold it from right to left, and repeat this 
process three times, the last, time folding and 
rolling it without the addition of butter. The 
great secret, of success iu making puff paste 
dojiemLs upon having the oven very hot and 
the paste very cold, so you may put the latter 
on the ice or in a cold place, while you attend 
to the heating of the former. 
Having lined vour dish, fill it with stale 
bread, which may afterwards be used for 
breading, or if you have none ou hand, lay in 
a clean folded towel. Butter the edges and tit 
ou u neat cover of paste, pinclung it down 
very lightly in several places. It should not 
require more than 15 miuutes’ baking; cover 
with a piece of paper to prevent burning. 
While it is iu the oven, prepare the filling; 
put over the fire m their own liquor a quart 
of oysters, and just as they are beginning to 
simmer, skim them out quickly with a per¬ 
forated ladle. In another sauce-pan, melt a 
lump of butter size of au egg. and stir in a 
heaping tablespoonful of flour, add to this, 
pouring slowly, a cup of boiling milk and tbe 
juice from which you have just, lifted the 
oysters, season with salt uud Cayenne pepper, 
add the beaten yelks of two eggs and the 
oysters, and when they are well heated, lift 
the top crust from the dish, fill and send to 
table. If there is too much, to fill the dish, 
send part of the sauce to the table in a boat. 
A few words will finish these somewhat 
prolix directions. In adding the yelks of 
eggs to any hot soup or sauce it is always best 
in order to prevent curdling, to pour a little 
of the hot liquid slowly into the bowl contain¬ 
ing the beaten eggs aud then to pour this 
gradually into the remainder. If by any 
mischance your dinner is kept waiting, do not 
rill the crust or put the oysters into the sauce 
until your guests or family are ready. A few 
seconds will suffice to reheat both oysters aud 
crust. This recipe cannot be excelled, and I 
am quite sure that any of your readers w ho 
try it will give it a place among them standard 
recipes. mrs. l. m. c. 
New York City. 
WATERMELON CAKE. 
One cup of white sugar, one-half cup of 
butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, whites of 
four eggs, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one 
of cream-of-tartar, two scant cups of flour, 
one-fourth cup of sour milk, two-thirds cup 
of pink sugar, one-fourth cup of butter, one- 
half teaspoon of soda, whites of two eggs, one 
teacup of raisins, flour enough to make rather 
stiff. First and second half of recipe to lie 
made up separately, and mixed like marble 
cake before baking. 
MOLASSES CAKE. 
One cup of sugar, one of molasses, to lie 
warmed a little, two eggs, one cup of milk, 
two teaspoonfuls of halving powder and four 
or five cups of flour. 
YELLOW FILLED CAKE. 
Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one-half cup 
of butter, two-thirds cup of sweet milk, two 
cups of flour, one teaspoouful of baking 
powder. 
WHITE. 
O.NE-and-one-half cup of sugar, one-half 
cup of butter, two-tliinls cup of sweet milk, 
whites of five eggs, two cups of flour, two toa- 
spoonfuls of baking powder. 
FROSTING. 
ONE-and-n-half cup of sugar, five table- 
spoonfuls of water boiled to a sirup. Beat 
the yelks of five eggs lift minutes, add to the 
sirup while boiling and stir rapidly until 
smooth. Flavor with vanilla. 
MRS. W.’s COOKIES. 
One teacupful of sugar, one-half cup of 
butter, two eggs, about one teaspoonful of sal 
eratus. Mix hard enough to roll out. 
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