RECIPES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

RECIPES.

Cheese Straws. — Mix together two )unces of grated cheese, two ouncet> of >utter, and two ounces of flour, and a good nnch of cayeane. Knead into a paste, and •oil out to about a quarter of an inch thick. 3ut in narrow strips about four inches ong, and bake a nice golden brown. Meat Patties. — Line some patty-pans with pastry. Fill with any scraps of cold neat chopped small, season with pepper >nd salt. Wet the edges of the pastry, add i little water to the meat ; cover over the patties with a piece of thin pastry, press the edges together with a fork, make a little hole in the top. Bake in a moderate oven for from twenty to thirty minutes. Fried Habicot Beans ant> Bacon are far more nourishing than fried bacon and potatoes, and equally cheap, I believe. Soak ono pound of harirot beans in cold water over night, without salt. Next morning, drain them dry, plane in a saucepan, add enough cold water to cover them, and boil for two hour*, or a little longer if necessary ; drain. Fry some slices of bacon in a frying-pan, place them on a hot dish, then fry the beans and a very little chopped onion in the bacon fat left in the pan. Add pepper and salt. Arrange the beans on a dibh with the bacon on the top. The water the beans were boiled in should be kept for broth, with the addition of any bones and bits of vegetable, etc. Apple Wateb is a good siok-room drink, and very refreshing. Sl ; o3 two or three upples. After peeling them, place them in a jug with a few bits of lemon rind and a clove ; add about a pint of boiling water. Cover the jug closely, and when cold strain off the water to drink. White sugar or saccharine may be used to sweeten. This I have found a useful drink when young people are feverish. The medical treatment of a sore throat varies. If it is of slight character, a gargle made bj" adding a few dropß of vinegnr of squills to a little water, and used three or four times daily, will do good. Gargling with port wine is an oldfashioned but good remedy, as also is a solution of black-currant jam, which ia acid and astringent. A good gargle is made of tanniD, one drachm, and camphorated water, six ounces; this may be used as frequently as need he Remember that the essence of success in gargling is not to tako top much of the gurgle into the mouth. A little is all that is required, and, the head being thrown back, the gargling can be effectually carried out without any of the fluid coming down the nose or being swallowed.

The Shah of Persia is exceedingly super- ] stitious. Ho always carries with him when he travels a circle of amber, which is said to have fallen from heaven in Mohammed's time, and which renders the wearer invulnerable ; a casket of gold, which makes him invisible at will ; and a star, which is potent to make conspirators instaiitantly confess their crime. The oldest lighthouse in the world is at Gjrunna, Spain. It was originally built daring the reign of the Emperor Trajan. -