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Otago Witness, Issue 1589, 6 May 1882, Page 28

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Honey-comb Pudding.— To one pint of. molasses add one cup of brown sugar ; beat , them well together. Melt a piece of butter the I size of an egg in a teacup of milk, add one teaspoonful of saleratus and pour it into the molasses. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth: add' the yolks to the molasses j stir in 6ne teacup of flour; add a, little mace and cloves. Stir in the whites, and bake one, hour in a moderate oven. Serve with.a rich'sauce. Cube fob 'Ringworm.— lt is said that a sure cure for ringworms is found in the use of a wash, prepared by [soaking 1 a bit of chewing tobacco ' the size of a raisin, 1 with tnd same quantity of saleratus, in a Spoonful of vinegar. Apply the wash*' faithfully for several days, until the skin is restored, to its natural state. c This remedy never fails, even in cases of open sores of enormous proportion. 1 Brawn.— Take a 'pig's head and feet and a-half pound shin of beef, boil together for two hours and a-half in as much' water as will cover the meat when done. Take out of the water, remove all the bones, cut .up the meat, put pepper and salt and some mixed spice to your taste, mix all thoroughly together, and put into a mould that has 'been previously wetted) with cold water, with just as much liquor as. will cover it. f -When cold, it will be asiirm and cut like a cheese ;> the remainder of the liquor will make fine pease soup, but reduce it. > ! A' delicate -pudding. is made of three table-, spoonfuls of' corn 1 starch dissolved' m a little cold water. Have one pint of water boiling on the stove ; in this stir- the corn starch and, the well-beaten whites of three eggs; let it. boil up once ; pour it into an earthenware' pudv ding dish which will hold three pints ; steam the pudding for ten minutes. For the sauce .use the yolk of three eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of -sweet milk; and, a small piece of butter ; boil for a few minutes ; wh.en cool, flavour it with lemon or vanilla. ,The pudding also is to be eaten cold. . i '' ' Boys Smoking.— Mothers have; a duty to perform toward their .boys in teaching them to avoid tobacco. Some investigations by lmcaisne, of Paris, may: help them in the dis- ( charge of this duty." Ducaishe examined a darge number of young' smokers, and found' the 'following symptoms evidently due to thiS T habit : Palpitation, intermittent pulse, chloroiansemia—besides this, the children showed impaired intelligence', became lazy, and were dis-, 'posed" to. take alchohc stimulants., The latter effects are worse than the 'first, and no doubt' grow out of them. • ' Apple Tapioca Pudding.— One large cupful of- tapioca, 1 cupful sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful essence of lemon, or a httje, ; nutmeg, 3 pints cold water, 2 pints pared and; quartered apples. Wash- the tapioca, and soak it overnight in the water, (three hours will do it there is no.more time). ■ v Oook the tapioca in a; saucepan, with the water, until it looks clear.: Stir often to present burning. It will, take . from 20 minutes 'tq half -an hour: ,At the end of this time add the sugar, salt, and lemon flavouring, and'then the apples. Turn into a buttered dish, 1 and bakoan h^urarida quarter, ."L'et'it's'tairdin a cool room ''half an 'hour before serving. ' Serve with sugar -and milk .• # ( "■Warm Milk as 'A r Beverage: that is heated to much above -100 de'grF.^ loses for a time a degree of its sweetness: and density. No one who, fatigued by over^exertion of body and mind, has ever experienced the reviving influence of a tumbler of this beverage, heated as hot as it can be sipped, will willingly forego a resort to it because of its having thus been rendered J somewhat less , acceptable to the palate. The .promptness with which its tome influence is felt is indeed' surprising. Some portion of it seems to be digested and appropriated, almost' immediately ; and many., who fancy they need alcoholic stimulants when e'xnausted by fatigue; will 'find' 'in this simple draft an equivalent that will be abundantly satisfying'ancl more' enduring in 'its effects. Cold Draughts' v. Cold' Baths.— Dr Dio Lewis aaVs cold baths of the skin are good, but it is 1 doubtful if flooding the 'stomach' on going to 1 bed and on rising is not, on the whole, the most profitable form bf 'cold bathing. Costive* ness,' piles, ' and indigestion are uniformly relieved 'by this - morning' " 'and evening cold douche. The quantity must be determined by each one for himself. Two" or three swallows will do to begin with; ; but the quantity will soon grow to a tumblerful ;* and I have known persons to use much more with marked beneftt. If advisably managed every dyspeptic will be greatly improved by this cold stomach' bath.