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HOUSEWIFE.
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Instead of covering up your glasses and
pictures with muslin, cover the frames only
with cheap yellow cambric, neatly put on,
and as near the colour of the gilt as you can
procure it. This looks better; leaves the
glasses open for use, and the pictures for
ornament: and is an effectual harrier to
dust as well as flies. It can easily be re¬
coloured with saffron tea when it is faded.
Have a bottle full of brandy, with as large
a mouth as any bottle you have, into which
cut your lemon and orange peel when they
are fresh and sweet. This brandy gives a
delicious flavour to all sorts of pies, pud¬
dings, and cakes. Lemon is the pleasanter
spice of the two ; therefore they should be
kept in separate bottles. It is a good plan
to preserve rose-leaves in brandy. The
flavour is pleasanter than rose-water ; and
there are few people who have the utensils
for distilling. Peach-leaves steeped in
brandy make excellent spice for custards
and puddings.
It is easy to have a supply of horse-radish
all the winter. Have a quantity grated while
the root is in perfection, put it in bottles,
fill it with strong vinegar, and keep it corked
tight.
It is thought to be a preventive to the
unhealthy influence of cucumbers to cut
the slices very thin, and drop each one into
cold water as you cut it. A few minutes