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Otago Witness, Issue 1652, 21 July 1883, Page 27

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To temper a glass jar so that it can beat once filled with anything hot put into it a siiver spoon. A feverish thirst that cannot be quenched by water may be thus allayed : Throw a slice of bread upon burning coals, and when it iB all aflame throw it into a tumbler of water and drink of the water. This remedy has been tested and proven good. Drops. — Sponge drops are nice to mix with other cake in the basket. Beat four eggs to a stiff froth, then stir in one heaping cup of sugar and one cup and a third of flour. One teaspoonful of baking-powder should be thoroughly mixed with the flour. Flavour with lemon and drop from a dessertspoon on buttered paper spread on tin plates. The oven should be hot, and the cakes will bake in a few ininuteß. They require watching, as they are very likely to brown too much.

Mutton Oollops. — Cut some very thin slices from a leg or the chump end of a loin of mutton, sprinkle them with pepper, salt, pounded mace, a, small bunch of minced savoury herbs, and minced shalot. Fry them in butter, stir in a dessertspoonful of flour, add half a pint of flour, and a tablespoonful of lemon juice ; simmer very gently about five or seven minutes and serve immediately.

Rick Dujipmngs. — One pound lice, boiled without stirring until soft, and at the top dry ; twelve apples pared and cored ; strawberry marmalade or crab-apple jelly. Let the rice cool upon a sieve or coarse cloth that it may dry at the same time. Dip your dumpling 1 cloths in. hot water, wring them out nnd flour well inside. Put a handful of cold rice upon each, spreading it out into a smooth sheet. Lay in the centre an apple ; fill the hole left by the core with marmalade or jelly ; draw up the cloth carefully to enclose the apple with a coating of rice ; tie and boil one hour. Turn over with care ; pour sweet sauce or rich sweetened cream over them, and send around more with them. — Harland.

Fricassee of Rabbit.— Cut up a young rabbit into neat pieces, and soak it in lukewarm water. Drain and put into a stewpan, with a quarter of a pound of streaky bacon, an onion stuck with two cloves, a little mace and parsley. Cover with water, and simmer for half an hour, skimming well ; strain the stock, and take out the rabbit and bacon. Into another saucepan put a couple of ounces of butter, mel<;, and add a tablespoonful of flour. Moisten with stock, and stir until it boils. Trim the rabbit neatly, and out it with the bacon into the sauce ; add to it the yolks of two egga beaten up with a gill of cream, and let it almost come to a boil. Pour over the rabbit and serve.

Cooling And Kbfuksiiing are the effects of Rowlands' Kalydor on ttio /ace, hands, and arraa ot ladies aad all exposed to the scorching raya or tho sum and haatod particles ol cUM ; it eradicates all freckles, tan, sunburn, stings of insects, &c , and produces a beautiful and delicate complexion. Ro wlands' MacaaBit Oil prevtmta tha hair falling off, or boconrog dry during hot weather, and renders it beautifully softpliable, and glossy. KowlandB 1 Odonto is tho purest, movt fragrant, and non-gritty tooih powder ever made, it whitens the teeth, prevents decay, anJ gives a pleasing hagratico to tho breath. Ask any dealer in perfumery for Rowlands' articles, of 20 Hatton Garden, London, and avoid spurious, worthless imita-tiona.-<-Airenta Kwnpthorne, Proassr, arid Co. Dunodm, Auckland, and Chriitcmirca.