Paulet A La Creme

Boil a chicken, chop the flesh to a fine powder, rub through a wire sieve; mix with a little cream and 2 or 3 beaten eggs. Season with salt and a little pepper if allowable. Put in a mold, press down, steam and serve, cut in slices hot or cold. A dainty dish for an invalid.

Buttermilk

The virtues of buttermilk are claimed to be manifold. Among other advantages it possesses a large share of the acid which destroys the incrustations that form on the arteries, cartilages and valves of the heart, and it is asserted that a constant use of it would free the system from troubles which inevitably cause death between the 75th and 100th years of man's life. It may be used freely and to advantage by every one.

Another point in its favor; - in churning, the first process of digestion is gone through with, making it. one of the easiest and quickest of all things to digest. It makes gastric juice, and contains properties that readily assimilate with the digestive organs.

Blackberry Cordial

To ½ bushel of blackberries, well mashed, add ¼ pound of allspice, 2 ounces of cinnamon and 2 ounces of cloves, all ground. Mix and boil slowly until properly done. Strain, or squeeze the juice through flannel, and add to each pint 1 pound of loaf sugar. Boil once more, slowly, for one half hour. Remove from the stove, and while cooling add 1 quart of the best brandy. Some take 2 quarts of brandy to this amount of cordial. Cognac is the best. This is an almost infallible specific for all summer diseases.

Dose

For an adult, 1 wineglassful; for a child, 1 teaspoon-ful, or more, according to age.