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To Make Crumpets.-Set two pounds of flour, with a little { Beef-Tea for Infants.-Take one pound and a half of the salt, before the fire till quite warm. Then mix it with best beef-steak, cut it into very small pieces, and put them warm milk and water till it is as stiff as it can be stirred ; into an earthenware jar, with enough cold water to cover the let the milk be as warm as it can be borne with the finger ; meat ; tie the top of the jar on, and put it into a sauce-pan put a cupful of this with three eggs well beaten and mixed full of hot water ; place the sauce-pan on the fire, and allow with three spoonfuls of very thick yeast ; then put this to the it to boil for three hours, by which time all the goodness of batter and beat them all together in a large pan or bowl; the meat will be extracted. This is the pure essence ofbeef. add as much milk and water as will make it into a thick No vegetables, or seasoning of any kind, should be used for batter; cover it close, and put it before the fire to rise ; put babies ; a little salt only should be added. a bit of butter in a piece of thin muslin, tie it up and rub To Make a Candle Burn all Night.-When, as in case of it lightly over the frying-pan ; pour on a sufficient quantity sickness, a dull light is wished, or when matches are misof batter at a time to make one crumpet ; let it do slowly, laid, put finely-powdered salt on the candle, till it reaches and it will be very light. Bake them all the same way. the black part of the wick. In this way a mild and steady They should not be brown, but of a fine yellow color. light may be kept through the night by a small piece of a Ormskirk Gingerbread.-Two and a half pounds of flour, candle. one pound of butter, one pound of molasses, one pound of Hiccup.-It is not generally known that taking a teasugar, a quarter of a pound of candied lemon, cut fine ; spoonful of vinegar will often cure hiccup. ground ginger to taste ; a very little required . It is an improvement to sprinkle a little flour and sugar, mixed dry, over the surface of the paste before cutting out the cakes, FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. as it gives them a roughness on the top when baked. They should be baked in a moderate oven. Keep in a tin canister. FIG. 1.- EVENING-DRESS OF GOLD-COLORED SILK, with a Cream Biscuits.-Rub one pound of fresh butter into one white organdy over-dress opening in front, trimmed with pound of flour, make a hole in the center, into which put black velvet, and looped back with tabs of the organdy, half a pound of powdered sugar, upon which the rind of a trimmed with black velvet and blond lace. Body of spotted lemon was rubbed previously to pounding, and three whole net, cut square in the neck, trimmed with black velvet, eggs ; mix the eggs well with the sugar, and then mix all and a band of falling jets around the waist. Long, puffed together, forming a flexible paste ; cut it into round pieces, sleeves. FIG. II.- WALKING OR HOUSE-DRESS.-The under-skirt is of each nearly as large as a walnut, stamp them flat with a black silk, trimmed with fine ruffles of the same ; the upperbutter-stamp, and bake them in a slack oven. Dough-Nuts.-Take three pounds of flour, one pound of skirt is of rich brown poplin, perfectly plain ; over this is a butter, one pound and a half of sugar ; cut the butter fine polonaise, trimmed with a pleating of poplin, made deep into the flour ; beat six eggs light, and put them in ; add enough in front to reach to the black ruffles, having a full two wineglasses of yeast, one pint of milk, some cinna- panier at the back, and looped at the sides with bows of mon, mace, and nutmeg ; make it up into a light dough, and ribbon. Marie Antoinette sleeves. FIG. III.-EVENING-DRESS OF WHITE ORGANDY.-The lowerput it to rise. When it is light enough, roll out the paste, cut it in small pieces, and boil them in lard. skirt has a deep flounce headed by two puffings ; the skirt is Rice Pound-Cake.-One pound of butter, one pound of quite plain, and looped up at each side by bunches of pink powdered loaf-sugar, twelve ounces of flour, half a pound of roses. From the neck, at the back, depends a princess or ground rice, and twelve eggs. Mix as Italian bread, and court train ; this is a straight piece of organdy, fastened by bake it in a papered hoop. If it is required with fruit, put rows at each plait at the neck, and when allowed to fall two pounds of currants, three-quarters of a pound of peel, down, reaches to the bottom of the dress. FIG. IV.- HOUSE OR CARRIAGE-DRESS OF BLUE SILK.- The one nutmeg, grated, and a little pounded mace. Biscuit Cakes.-One pound of flour, five eggs, beaten and long, lower-skirt is perfectly plain ; the upper-skirt is cut strained, eight ounces of sugar, a little rose or orange-flower in a point at the back, and trimmed with a narrow puffing water; beat the whole well together, and bake it one hour. of black satin, edged with yellow. The " Petit Versailles" casaque is also confined by a similar trimming, and is caught together on the back by two butterfly bows. SANITARY. FIG. V.- WALKING-DRESS OF BLACK SILK, looped up quite To Avoid Catching Cold.-Accustom yourselfto the use of sponging with cold water every morning on first getting out high at the sides over a striped petticoat of crimson and striped silk. Low, square neck over a red silk underof bed. It should be followed with a good deal of rubbing black waist. with a wet towel. It has considerable effect in giving tone FIG. VI.-WALKING-DRESS.-The under-skirt is of rich to the skin, and maintaining a proper action in it, and thus proves a safeguard to the injurious influence of cold and sud- fawn-colored silk, with a deep plaited flounce ; the second den changes of temperature. Sir Astley Cooper said, " The skirt is deep in front, slopes up at the back, and is trimmed methods by which I have preserved my own health are- with two puffings of silk, headed by pipings of satin ; the upper-dress is of brown velvet, cut in points, looped up with temperance, early rising, and sponging the body every velvet bows, and trimmed with black lace. morning with cold water immediately after getting out of FIG. VII.-WALKING-DRESS.-The under-skirt is made of bed-a practice which I have adopted thirty years without blue and gray striped poplin ; the upper-skirt is of gray ever catching cold." with an apron front, and ornamented with blue ribFor Chapped Hands.-A wash of bran-water is very sim- poplin, ple and good. Place about a quart of bran în a large basin ; bons. VIII.- HOUSE-DRESS OF GREEN AND BLUE WOOLEN FIG. pour on it half a gallon of boiling rain-water ; when lukewarm, or nearly so, soak the hands in it half an hour before PLAID. This dress is buttoned down the front, and ornagoing to bed, or when they will not immediately be exposed mented with bias bands of the material, edged with narrow to external air. This must be repeated every alternate black velvet. FIG. IX.-CARRIAGE-DRESS OF BLACK SILK, trimmed with night. To Strengthen Vinegar.-Freeze it, and remove the ice bands of fur. GENERAL REMARKS.-In addition to the hats, collars, fichus, which forms on the surface. The water of the vinegar alone freezes, leaving the acetic acid in solution in the re- etc., we give two very pretty full-dress hats, either of which { is suitable for wedding receptions, opera, or any other occamaining water.
