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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 9, 28 February 1891, Page 14

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‘ Milly ’ (Tomato Sauce).—To eight pounds of tomatoes add three pints of vinegar, 11b salt, 2oz black pepper, joz cayenne, 4oz allspice, loz cloves, 21bs brown sugar, 6 large ■onions. The whole to be boiled for three hours, and frequently stirred. When cool strain and rub through a hair sieve. The author of this recipe particularly requests that •only the exact quantities given be used, as it is in its present form an excellent and greatly approved sauce. * Lottie.’—l am glad that I happen to have a recipe which I hope is the one you want. For buttermilk muffins use one quart of buttermilk, two well-beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water, a little salt and flour as required. Add the eggs to the buttermilk, beating it quite hard for a few moments, then stir in the other ingredients, using sufficient flour to make a good batter. Bake in a quick oven. Remember that a good oven is absolutely necessary for soda bread of all kinds. • Traveller.’—Many remedies have been advocated for seasickness, but as to which is best that would be difficult to say. A surgeon, who was in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, after experimenting with most of the remedies recommended for this trouble, found the following method most successful: —A tumbler of tepid water is first administered to the patient. This, of course, is generally returned, but soothes the stomach. Then a warm mustard and linseed poultice, in the proportion of one part of mustard to two of linseed, is applied to the epigastric region, and the following draught given a quarter of an hour after the tepid water Chloral hydrate, twenty grains ; simple syrup, one drachm ; watei, to make up an ounce. If this is rejected the process is repeated ; and when the draught has been taken and retained, the patient is ordered to lie in his berth, and sleep usually follows. On waking the patient is able to go on deck. < Ither people recommend a good meal with plenty of champagne, also a cold water compress after the food is partly digested. Eno’s Fruit Salt rs sometimes wonderfully efficacious, but it must be remembered that what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and what will soothe one sufferer from mal-de-mer, will only irritate another. rose leaf pattern. Cast on any number of stitches that can be divided by 10, and add 3 extra stitclies. Commence with one purled row. Then —First row : Knit 1, purl lA, knit 2 together, knit 2, make 1, knit 1, make 1 knit 2, knit 2 together. Repeat from A ; finish with purl 1, knit 1. Second row : Knit 18, knit 1, purl 2 together, purl 1, make 1, purl 3, make 1, purl 1, purl 2 together. Repeat from n. Finish with knit 2. Third row : Knit IC, purl 1, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 5, make 1, knit 2 together c. Finish with purl 1, knit 1. Fourth row : Knit 1, purl 2 together D, make 1, purl 7, make 1, purl 3 together D. Finish with make 1, pnrl 2 together, knit. Fifth row : Knit 2, make 1, knit 2, knit 2 together, re|>eat

as in the Ist row from A. Finish with make 1, knit 2. Sixth row : “Knit 1, purl 2, make 1, purl 1, pari 2 together, repeat as in second row from B. Finish with make 1, purl 2, knit 1. Seventh row : Knit 4, make 1, knit 2 together : repeat as in third row from c. Finish with make 1, knit 4. Eighth row : Knit 1, purl 4, make 1, purl 3 together; repeat as in fourth row from D. Finish with make 1, purl 4, knit 1. Commence again as at first row.