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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 34

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Paekins.— Half a pound treacle, lib oatmeal, 2oz butter, 2oz sugar. Melt the treacle and butter together, put them into a basin, and add the oatmeal and sugar. Pour into buttered tins and bake slowly for two hours or longer. Wood Worms in Furniture.— Rub the parts affected well with turpentine and then with paraffin, letting it run into the holes which the worms have made. Drops put in with a feather are more effectual, but. a somewhat tedious process. Let this be done weekly at least.

Bird's Nest.— Dissolve three tablespoonfuls of corn starch in a pint of cold milk, add a pint of boiling milk, flavour and cook. Pour into some egg shells that have been emptied through a hole in one end. When firm remove the shell, lay the mock egg in a dish and cover them with custard made of a pint of milk, yolks of three eggs and a cup of sugar, boiled and flavoured.

Cream Pudding.— Stir together one pint cream, 3oz sugar, the yolks of three eggs, and a little grated nutmeg ; add the wellbeaten whites, stirring lightly, and pour into a buttered pie plate on which has been sprinkled the crumbs of stale bread to about the thickness of an ordinary crust ; sprinkle over the top a layer of bread crumbs and bake.

Onion lovers have two sources of consolation in enjoyment of their appetising food. If they make up their potato salads with plenty of fresh parsley, no trace of the animating atoms will be perceived after eating of this dish. When they choose the Spanish onion, to be baked or properly boiled as a vegetable, is also quite inodorous.

To Cure Damp Walls.— Boil 2oz grease with two quarts of tar for nearly 20 minutes in an iron vessel, having ready pounded glass lib, slaked lime 21b, well dried in an iron pot and sifted through a flour sieve. Add some of the lime to the tar and glass, to form a thin paste only sufficient to cover a square foot at a time about an eighth of an inch thick.

Carpets and Moths.— ln all carpetbrushing great care must be taken to sweep well round the skirting board. This is the favourite spot for the moths to breed. Should you suspect their existence, lay a wet cloth, folded about J3in wide, on the carpet round the skirting board, <md on this press a very hot iron. The steam thus caused will kill both moth and eggs, but leave the carpet uninjured. The cloth must not be. drippingwet.

Barley Water for Invalids. — Barley water is most nourishing and soothing. It gives much relief to the suffering from sore throat in any form. Wash the barley well, and the first water poured over and brought to the boil should be thrown away. Then add 2oz of pearl barley, three pints of cold water; bring again slowly to the boil, and simmer for two hours. A little lemon juice and sugar to taste should be added after it is strained.

To Remove Paint from Glass.— An exchange says : " Ten cents' worth of oxalic acid dissolved in a pint of hot water will remove paint spots from the windows. Pour a little into a cup, and apply to the spots with a swab ; but be sure not to allow the acid to touch the hands. Brasses may be quickly cleaned with it. Great care must be exercised in labelling the bottle and putting it out of the reach of children, as it is deadly poison." The cooling influence of acids should always be remembered in times of high temperature. With regard to iced drinks, it must be borne in mind that the pleasant coolness resulting from an iced draught is speedily followed by reaction. Cold tea is a safe drink, but it must not cool upon the leaves, and if taken at night is liable to produce wakefulness. Lemons are most valuable dietary articles, and the juice of half a lemon taken in half a pint of water is to be advised, but the less fluid taken the less is the inconvenience suffered from thirst.

—At the Club.— Fatthedde : "I say, Chawlia— aw — why do all the fcllaws— aw — call you — aw — Balaam 1 " Charlie : " Mayb? it's because I'm riding around with you all the time."

Advice to SJCothIjRS {— Age you broken In your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go a,t once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs Winslow'B Soothing Sybup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to the taste; it prod,ute« natural qufct sleep, by relieving the child, fy-ora pitn ; and the little cherub awake 3 " *v? t^fght as a button." It soothes tho cniia x '» softens tue guma, sllaya all pain, relieve wind regulates the bowels, and' is the best known remedy for dysentery an& dityrrhcea whether arising from teething or o&ct causes. Ms? Winslow'B Sooynwa Sray? In «jld by medi-jine-dealeri evervwh.^9 &fc U IJd. jxsr bottle.—