Celery-Salt

Save the root of the celery plant; dry and grate it, mixing it with one-third as much salt. Keep in a bottle well corked. It is delicious for soups, oysters, gravies, and hashes.

Bran Cake For Diabetes

Take one quart of wheat bran; boil it in two successive waters for fifteen minutes, each, time straining it through a sieve; then wash it well with cold water on the sieve until the water runs off perfectly clear; squeeze the bran in a cloth as dry as you can, then spread it thinly on a dish and place it in a slow oven; if put in at night, let it remain until morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground in a fine mill and sifted through a wire sieve of such fineness as to require a brush to pass it through. That which remains in the sieve must be ground again, until it becomes quite soft and fine. Take of this bran three ounces, some use four, and other ingredients as follows : Three new laid eggs, two ounces of butter, and one-half pint of milk; mix the eggs with a little of the milk, warm the butter with the other portion, then stir the whole together, adding a little nutmeg, or ginger, or any other kind of spice; bake in small tin pans, which must be well buttered, in a quick oven for about half an hour. The cakes when baked shonld be a little thicker than a captain's biscuit. To be eaten with butter or a curd of any of the soft cheeses.

Camphor Ice

One-half ounce gum camphor with alcohol enough to dissolve it, one-half ounce white wax, one-half ounce vassaline jelly. Put all together in a tin cup; heat enough to melt thoroughly.

Note. The following is a table of measures and weights which will be found useful in connection with the recipes:

One quart of flour..............................one pound

Two coffee cups of butter.........................."

One generous pint of liquid........................"

Two cupfuls of granulated sugar ..................."

Two heaping cupfuls of powdered sugar.............."

One pint finely-chopped meat, packed solidly.......... "

The cup used is the common kitchen cup, holding half a pint.

Recipe For Housekeeping

Take one part self-control, one part discipline, five parts patience, and sweeten all with charity. Keep constantly on hand, and the domestic wheels will run smoothly.

Coffee

Select good coffee, according to one's taste; "Old Government Java," if it can be procured. Roast to a chestnut brown, so that it will grind readily; roast evenly, and discard all grains burned black. When almost cold (before grinding) stir the white of one egg into a pound of coffee, thoroughly.

Keep it from exposure to the air, thus preserving the aroma as much as possible. Grind the coffee moderately fine; put a teacupful in the pot, which must be hot; pour on a quart of boiling water, and let it stand, say ten minutes, before using. Clarify it by pouring in a few tablespoonsful of cold water. It can be adapted to one's taste by adding sugar, cream, milk, or hot water. It must not be boiled a moment; and pots in whieh coffee has been boiled must not be used without a thorough purification by scalding water.

Such coffee, a life insurance policy in the "Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company," and a conscience "void of offense toward God and man," will conduce greatly to the peace, comfort and happiness of any family.