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Ginger Cake.—I send you a receipt for ginger 
cake which I know to be excellent : One cup of but¬ 
ter, one cup of sugar, two cups of butt’SPmilk, three cups 
of molasses, seven spoonfuls of ginger, one spoonful 
of soda. Mix soft. Libbie. 
Cockroaches.—I noticed in the April number a very 
goodrecipe for bed-bugs, and thelady concludes with : 
‘ ‘ Roaches can never be exterminated from a building 
where there are hot water pipes.” Please publish for 
her benefit and the rest of your readers, my experience. 
1 recently moved into a house that lias hot water pipes. 
It was infested with those nasty red roaches; so much 
so as to render the kitchen closets useless. I procured 
ten cents worth of pulverised borax. First, having the 
closets thoroughly cleansed, I sprinkled the borax 
where they mostly frequented. In one week’s time they 
were entirely gone. I never see one now. This receipt 
came from a baker, who told me they could not go ou 
with their business from those nasty pests. He rid the 
pilaco entirely by the same process. Mrs. (I. 
Bread.—I would like some lady to tell me through 
the Cabinet how to make nice bread, the texture of 
which will he like baker’s bread. I am a farmer’s 
daughter and can make uice sweet bread, hut father 
says it is not spongey. Emily Beals. 
Lemon Sponge Cake— Whites of ten eggs, one 
grated lemon, one and one-quarter cup of flour, one 
and one-half cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of baking 
powder. 
Lemon Pudding. —To a pint of new boiled milk, 
add two spoonfuls of flour, and boil until smooth, then 
stir in a quarter of a pound of flutter, and four well- 
beaten eggs, add the peel of a lemon, shred very fine 
and sweeten to your taste, line a dish with very light 
puff paste, pour in the mixture and hake half an hour. 
Excellent Remedy for Burns. —Two tablespoon¬ 
fuls lard and one of soot rubbed together is au excellent 
ointment for burns. 
Indian Bread. —This receipt was received from a 
lady friend in South Carolina. I have eaten of the 
bread, and unhesitatingly pronounce it the very ne plus 
ultra of Indian bread: Beat two eggs very light, mix 
alternately with them one pint of sour milk or butter¬ 
milk and one pint of fine Indian meal; melt one table- 
spoonful of butter and add to the mixture; dissolve one 
tablespoonful of soda or saleratus, etc., in a small por¬ 
tion of the milk and add to the mixture the last thing; 
heat very hard and hake in a pan in a quick oven. 
To Clean Zinc. - Dip a cloth in soft soap and rub 
it all over the zinc, after letting it remain on a lew 
minutes, wash off and the zinc looks fresh and clean. 
Bean Soup.— Bean soup is a dish that many chil¬ 
dren would relish, if properly made. It requires about 
half a pint of cooked beans for a quart ol soup. 
Mash and boil until well diffused in the water, and 
then run through a colander to take out the skins. 
Thicken with about one gill of wheat meal, and add 
a sprig of thyme if desired. Boil five minutes and 
salt to the taste. The wheat meal makes it much 
richer than a thickening of fine flour. 
Cracked Hands. —Linseed oil tor cracked hands is 
far better than any sticking salve. Apply the oil as 
often as convenient; it will make the hands white and 
as soft as silk; it is good for fanner girls to use, to re¬ 
move tan and callouses and keep their bauds white and 
soft while “helping Ma every day, ’ out doors and in, 
sleeves up or down. 
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Plum Pudding. —Beat four eggs. Stir in them half 
a pound of flour and half a pint of new milk ; and half 
a pound of beef suet chopped line, half a pound of 
stoned raisins well floured and a few currants, with a 
teaspoonful of salt,. Boil this pudding four hours briskly, 
and serve with wine sauce. 
Tooth-Ache Cure. —All who suffer from tooth-ache 
or neuralgic affections arising from teeth m any state 
of decay, may experience relief instantaneous and per¬ 
manent, by saturating a small bit of clean cotton or 
wool with a strong solution of ammonia, and applying 
it immediately to the affected tooth. The pleasing con - 
trast instantaneously produces in some cases a fit of 
laughter, although a, moment before extreme suffering 
and anguish prevailed. 
How to Remove Grease Spots. —Mix calcined 
magnesia or carbonate of magnesia with water to a 
paste, and place it on the spiot with a brush. Let it 
dry in a warm place, and remove the dried mass care¬ 
fully with a knife and clean brush. If necessary, re¬ 
peat the operation till the spot disappears. The use of 
Benzole-magnesia is still more active. Take fresh cal¬ 
cined magnesia, free from moisture, and add pure ben¬ 
zole, so that it is just moist—not sufficiently wet to 
flow like a thin paste, hut a rather granular mass, 
which by pressure shows some liquid benzole. Keep 
it in a wide-mouthed bottle ready for use. This is first 
rubbed over the oil spot, which, when fresh, will at 
once disappear; if old, a new quantity is pressed upon 
the spot, and left to dry till the benzole evaporates, 
when the magnesia is cleared away as above. Fabrics 
which can hear moisture may then he cleaned with 
water; delicate material, like silk, is cleaned with al¬ 
cohol or ether.— Boston Journal of Chemistry. 
To Curl Hair. —Take two < ranees of borax, one 
drachm powdered gum Senegal, one quart hot water, 
(not boiling); mix, and as soon as the ingredients are 
dissolved, add two ounces of spirits of wine strongly ; 
impregnated with camphor; on retiring to rest wet the 
hair with the above mixtures and roil it in papers as 
usual; leave them till morning, when untwist and form 
into ringlets. So the Drug Circular says. 
Soft Gingerbread.— Six cups of flour, two cups of 
sugar, two cups of milk, two cups of butter, two cups j 
of molasses, four eggs, one tablespoonful < if ginger and 
one teaspoonful of baking powder.' Melt the butter ; 
and molasses together, mix in the sugar, ginger, milk ; 
and eggs in the above order, and stir in the flour; and 
lastly the baking powder. Dissolve one teaspoouful j 
o + ‘ soda in the milk if sour. 
Lemon Jelly. —Two cups of sugar, yolks of three 
eggs, juice of two lemons. Cook till thickened by 
setting in boiling water, then add the well-beaten 
whites of three eggs; spread between the layers of the 
cake, and trim off the rough edges. 
Furniture Oil. —Mix half a piut of olive oil with 
one pound of soft soap. Boil them well, and apply 
the mixture to your oiled furniture with a piece of dry { 
cotton wool. Polish with a soft, dry flannel. 
Bruises On Furniture.— Wet the part with warm 
water; double a piece of "brown paper five or six 
times, soak in warm water and lay it on the place; 
apply mi that a warm, hut not hot, flat-iron till the 
moisture is evaporated. If the bruise he not gone, 
repeat the process. After two or three applications 
the dent or bruise will he raised to the surface. II 
the bruise be small, merely soak it with warm water, 
and hold a red-hot iron near the surface, keeping the 
| surface continually wet—the bruise will soon dis- 
I appear. 
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Icing.—Into the white of an egg, beaten till very 
light, stir six tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and 
spread over the cake while warm. 
Cleaning Silver by the use of soap destroys the 
lustre of the ware, and makes it look like pewter. 
Soap should never be used on silver. 1 The best 
method of cleaning it is to rub it hard with soft leather, 
using a little whiting. 
Lie Down and Rest.—Dr. Hall says the best 
medicine in the world, more efficient than all the pota¬ 
tions of the materia medica, are warmth, rest, cleanli¬ 
ness and pure air. Some persons make it a virtue to 
brave disease, to “keep up” as long as they can move 
a foot or wiggle a finger, and it sometimes succeeds; 
hut in others the powers of life are thereby so com¬ 
pletely exhausted that the system has lost all ability 
to recuperate, and slow and typhoid fever sets in and 
carries the patient to a premature grave. Whenever 
walking or work is an effort, a warm bed and a cool 
room are the first indispensables to a sure and speedy 
recovery. Instinct leads all birds and beasts to quiet¬ 
ude and rest the very moment disease or wounds assail 
the system. 
Maryland Bread Pudding.—The following com¬ 
munication has been sent us, in answer to the request 
of “ Three People ” in our columns for a recipe of the 
kind: “ Take about eight slices of stale light bread, 
put it in a pan, and pour over it sufficient cold water 
to cover it; when quite soft, pour the water off and 
squeeze the bread quite dry, first removing the brown 
crust; then take one quart of sweet milk and add it 
gradually to the bread, stirring it well, that no lumps 
remain; add one teaspoonful of salt; then take six 
eggs, heat them up light, and stir them in the mixture 
last; pour it into a well buttered pan, and hake three- 
quarters cf an hour in a hot oven. Make a rich sauce 
of butter, sugar and cream, flavored with nutmeg. 
This is an excellent recipe.” 
Food for Canaries.—I have kept birds a good 
many years, and never lost a bird or had one show 
the least symptom of sickness. I keep canary seed, 
rape seed, and a dish of soaked or pounded cracker by 
them all the time, and I give them a piece of apple, 
and orange, and figs whenever I have them, and a 
piece of sponge cake and boiled egg, and occasionally 
a very few hemp seed and flax seed. In the summer 
I give them all the duckweed, plantain seed, different 
kinds of grass seed, and mustard seed that they will 
eat, and they are very fond of lettuce leaves and dan¬ 
delion leaves "when they first come up in the spiring, 
and in the winter I always give them cabbage. I supi- 
piose some would think if they should give them all 
those kinds that they would kill their birds sure, hut 
it don’t kill mine, and I never want to see healthier 
birds. I don’t know hut that it is a good plan to prat 
a rusty nail in their drinking cupi, I never tried it; I 
give them fresh water twice a day, and always keep 
the floor of the cage covered with sand. It is a hard 
life for them at best, and I want to do all I can for 
their comfort, and I hope that some that have kept 
then’ birds on seed and water will try my way.— Ex. 
Sauce for Graham Pudding.—One-half cup> of 
sugar, one egg heat up> together; oue pint milk, nut¬ 
meg. 
To Mend and Clean Kid Gloves.—Turn them 
ou the wrong side and sew them over and over in the 
ordinary way. They will last longer aud look better 
if mended on the wrong side. Turn them hack again, 
aud go over them with a clean towel dipped in skim 
milk, wearing them during the pirocess and until they 
are quite dry. 
