the earth, and consider how small a space of it will soon be all that I can occupy or want. I then look round me, and think how many are far more wretched than I am." BP. HORNE. Receipts for Cheap Cookery. WE have received from a Correspondent the following Receipts for cheap Cookery. The quantities used in most of them, are, of course, much too large for single families; but if some good, clean, honest person were to make the soups for sale, this would give a warm, nourishing, and cheap dinner to many poor families, and allow sufficient profit to pay for the trouble of the preparation. No. 1. Two pounds of beef, four onions, ten turnips, half a pound of rice, a large handful of parsley, thyme, and savory; some pepper and salt; eight quarts of water. Cut the beef in slices; and, after it has boiled some time, cut it still smaller. The whole should boil gently about two hours, on a slow fire. If fuel be scarce, it may be stewed all night in an oven, and warmed up next day. You may add oatmeal and potatoes. No. 2. Half a pound of beef, mutton, or pork, cut into small pieces, half a pint of pease, four sliced turnips, six potatoes, cut very small, two onions, and seven quarts of water. Let the whole boil gently over a very slow fire, two hours and a half. Thicken it with a quarter of a pound of oatmeal. After the oatmeal is put in, boil it a quarter of an hour, stirring it all the time. Then season it with salt and pepper. No. 3. Take two pounds of salt beef or pork, cut it into very small bits, and put it into a pot with six quarts of water, letting it boil on a slow fire for three quarters of an hour; then put a few carrots, parsnips, or turnips, all cut small, or a few potatoes sliced, and a cabbage,. Thicken the whole with a pint of oatmeal. All these to be well seasoned with salt and pepper. No. 4. An ox cheek, two pecks of potatoes, a quarter of a peck of onions, one ounce of pepper, half a pound of salt, boiled together in ninety pints of war till it is reduced to sixty: any garden stuff may be town in. A pint of soup and a bit of meat is a dinner for a grown person. When not made for sale, the quantities must be lessened in proportion to the number of the family. N.B. The difference between eating bread new, and stale, is one loaf in five. Meat made into broth, goes much farther than when it is roasted or baked. No. 5. Take two gallons and a half of water, a quart of split pease, first soaked in cold water for twenty-four hours, two pounds of potatoes that have been well boiled the day before, skinned and mashed, herbs, salt, pepper, and two onions; boil them very gently for five hours, covering it close up to allow as little steam from it as may be. Set it to cool. It will produce rather more than two gallons of soup; and, if well made, there will be no settling; but the whole will be mixed together when warmed up for use. No. 6. Two quarts of skim milk, half a pound of rice, two ounces of treacle. These either baked or boiled, will make four pounds of pudding. No. 7. Boil a quarter of a pound of rice till soft; put it on the back of a sieve to drain, and when cold mix it with three quarters of a pound of flour, a teacup full of milk, and a small table spoon full of salt. Let it stand three hours, then knead it up, and roll it in a handful of flour, to make the outside dry enough to put into the oven. Let it bake about an hour and a quarter. It will produce about one pound fourteen ounces of good bread. It should not be eaten till it is two days old. N.B. Carolina rice, bakes well without preparation. East India rice, boils and stews well; but, for baking, it should be soaked a day or two in cold water. THE PILGRIM. 1. Poor Pilgrim, why seek every fleeting shade II. O fix your wand'ring eye upon the Star That guides you to your distant, real, home; III. Turn not aside, 'twill lead you safely here, M. H. Hints sent by Correspondents. If you have a garden, make the most of it.-A bit of leak, or an onion, makes all dishes savory at small expence. Keep a little Scotch barley, rice, dry pease, and oatmeal in the house. They are all cheap, and do not spoil: keep also pepper and ginger. "Pay your debts, serve God, and love your neighbour." An informer is generally .hated; but sometimes without reason. If he informs from malice, or to get money, he is wrong: but if he informs for the sake of doing good and preventing evil, he ought to be praised. People who act dishonestly, dread an informer. Which is in the wrong?-the man who commits an offence, or the man who informs against it? Let the saddle be put upon the right horse. To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. RECEIPT TO CURE WORMS IN CHILDREN. Twenty grains of rhubarb, and 20 grains of pounded wormseed, mixed and well stirred together in a tea-cup full of treacle.-Give the child a table spoonful every morning, for a week, before breakfast, fasting; then leave off a week and begin again. The dose for a grown-up person is 40 grains of rhubarb, and 40 of wormseed. I beg leave to observe that I have been in the constant habit of giving this receipt with the greatest success, I remain, Sir, Your sincere well-wisher, C. A Correspondent tells us that the following is a simple and effectual Remedy for Chilblains. A RAW turnip pared and sliced; sprinkled with salt between each slice, and piled up in a plate. Put the juice which runs out into a bottle for use. On the first appearance of chilblains, rub the part with the juice, before the fire, night and morning, or oftener if required. If it can be kept on, a piece of soft chamois leather preserves the skin from chafing with the stocking. BLIND MARY. To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. SIR, I WAS much struck with an interesting article which appeared in your Number for November last; and, in reading it, I could not but recal to my mind another "Poor Old Mary," whose little history might teach a similar lesson of submission and contentment under every affliction of mind, body, or estate; and shew us the naturc and the value of an inheritance in that kingdom, which, to use the emphatic language of the Apostle, "is not meat and drink; but righte ousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." It was in the Summer of 1814, that I first became acquainted with Mary. My friend, the Curate of the village in which she lived, pointed her out to me as one of the happiest Christians that he had ever known; yet she was weak in bodily health, was dependent on the parish for her support, and had been entirely blind for nearly forty years. During the different conversations which I afterwards held with her, however, I can truly say, that not a murmur or complaint escaped her lips. The many mercies which she had met with in the course of her pilgrimage, was the subject on which she most delighted to dwell; and there was in her animated and happy countenance, a striking expression of the extreme tranquillity and holy joy of her mind, without the slightest tincture of presumption or enthusiasm. Mary had learnt to read in her childhood; and, at an early age, took great delight in her Bible; but before she had entered her eighteenth year, her sight began to fail her, and in a very short time she became totally blind. This, it will be thought, must have been a severe trial, at such an age, under any circumstances, but more especially to one who had always derived her chief source of enjoyment from her little stock of books. Mary however had learnt from her Bible |