FRUIT TART.— Spread puff paste with a rolling pin ; cut a piece the size of the dish, and out of the trimmings cut some strips ; brush the edge of the dish with egg-wash and stick the strips on it ; then put the fruit into the dish with sugar and a little water ; roll the paste on the rolling pin and lay it over the fruit. Before you put the paste on brush the strips with egg-wash to make them stick. When you have trimmed the dish all round brash white of egg over the tart and sift sugar over it✪ Fruit Tart ; then dip the paste brush into water and shake it over the tart. Bake it properly and serve up cold. ; FRUMENTY.— To a quart of ready boiled wheat put 3 quarts of new milk, and a % lb. of currants, or raisins, boll and stir til) dons ; beat the yolks of 3 eggs, a little nutmeg, with 4 spoon- fuls of milk✪ Frumenty ; add this to the wheat ; Stir over the fire a little ; then sweeten. FUEL, Cheap. — One bushel of small coal or saw-dust, or both mixed together, 2 bushels of sand, 1 % bushels of clay, made into balls, or bricks, and allowed to set firmly, will supply an excellent fuel, and effect a great saving in coals. FUEL, to Save. — Take 4 lbs. of chalk in lumps, not above % lb. each. Make a clear fire of coal, and place the lumps of chalk in the grate, as coal is laid. The chalk becomes red hot, so as to be scarcely distinguish- able from burning cinders. A few ashes or small coal tnrown lightly on from time to time, will keep up a clear bright fire all day. The same chalk may be used 3 or 4 days, when it becomes lime, and manure for gardens or allotments, or for whitewashing. Half-a-peck of coal used thus with chalk, will give a capital fire for 14 hours. The saving in coal is 1%. In grates the chalk should be kept behind, and coals in front ; because chalk will not bum un- less in has coal or heat on all sides of it. FULMINATING SILVER. — Put into a small-necked bottle, rest- ing on a little sand, one part of fine silver filings and 3 parts of nitro-muria- tic-acid. When the silver is dissolved, pour the solution into a glass, add 5 times the quantity of water, then take spirit of sal-ammoniac, and pour it into the solution drop by drop, until the silver is precipitated to the bottom ; decant the clear liquor, and wash it several times in warm waters, dry and place it on paper, to absorb the mois- ture. If a grain of this powder is put into an iron spoon, and exposed to the flame of a candle, it will explode with a loud report. The crackers are made with this powder, a small quantity be- ing placed in a bit of paper with a pea and a bit of sand twisted up. FUNERAL BISCUITS.— Take 8 eggs, 3 lbs. of flour, and 3 lbs. of lump sugar grated✪ Funeral Biscuits, which will make 48 finger biscuits for a funeral. FUNERAL BUNS.- Take 2 stones of flour, 1 lb. of butter, and 1 lb. of sugar, rubbed together, 3 lbs. of cur- rants, ginger, seeds, cinnamon, and a little rose-water mixed up with milk. The above will make 48 cakes, at three- pence per cake, each weighing 1 lb. be- fore they are baked. Make them round, and bake them a fine brown. They will take 1 pint of yeast✪ Funeral Buns. FURNITURE CREAM.— Linseed oil, 1 pint ; spirits of wine, 3 ozs. ; vinegar, 1 oz. ; butter of antimony XA oz. FURNITURE POLISH.— The cheapest is a mixture of linseed oil and turpentine, laid on in a thin coat, rubbed off with a soft cloth and pol- ished.

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FRUIT TART.— Spread puff paste with a rolling pin ; cut a piece the size of the dish, and out of the trimmings cut some strips ; brush the edge of the dish with egg-wash and stick the strips on it ; then put the fruit into the dish with sugar and a little water ; roll the paste on the rolling pin and lay it over the fruit. Before you put the paste on brush the strips with egg-wash to make them stick. When you have trimmed the dish all round brash white of egg over the tart and sift sugar over it ; then dip the paste brush into water and shake it over the tart. Bake it properly and serve up cold. ; FRUMENTY.— To a quart of ready boiled wheat put 3 quarts of new milk, and a % lb. of currants, or raisins, boil and stir till done ; beat the yolks of 3 eggs, a little nutmeg, with 4 spoonfuls of milk ; add this to the wheat ; Stir over the fire a little ; then sweeten. FUEL, Cheap. — One bushel of small coal or saw-dust, or both mixed together, 2 bushels of sand, 1 % bushels of clay, made into balls, or bricks, and allowed to set firmly, will supply an excellent fuel, and effect a great saving in coals. FUEL, to Save. — Take 4 lbs. of chalk in lumps, not above % lb. each. Make a clear fire of coal, and place the lumps of chalk in the grate, as coal is laid. The chalk becomes red hot, so as to be scarcely distinguishable from burning cinders. A few ashes or small coal thrown lightly on from time to time, will keep up a clear bright fire all day. The same chalk may be used 3 or 4 days, when it becomes lime, and manure for gardens or allotments, or for whitewashing. Half-a-peck of coal used thus with chalk, will give a capital fire for 14 hours. The saving in coal is 50%. In grates the chalk should be kept behind, and coals in front ; because chalk will not bum unless in has coal or heat on all sides of it. FULMINATING SILVER. — Put into a small-necked bottle, resting on a little sand, one part of fine silver filings and 3 parts of nitro-muriatic-acid. When the silver is dissolved, pour the solution into a glass, add 5 times the quantity of water, then take spirit of sal-ammoniac, and pour it into the solution drop by drop, until the silver is precipitated to the bottom ; decant the clear liquor, and wash it several times in warm waters, dry and place it on paper, to absorb the moisture. If a grain of this powder is put into an iron spoon, and exposed to the flame of a candle, it will explode with a loud report. The crackers are made with this powder, a small quantity being placed in a bit of paper with a pea and a bit of sand twisted up. FUNERAL BISCUITS.— Take 8 eggs, 3 lbs. of flour, and 3 lbs. of lump sugar grated, which will make 48 finger biscuits for a funeral. FUNERAL BUNS.- Take 2 stones of flour, 1 lb. of butter, and 1 lb. of sugar, rubbed together, 3 lbs. of currants, ginger, seeds, cinnamon, and a little rose-water mixed up with milk. The above will make 48 cakes, at threepence per cake, each weighing 1 lb. before they are baked. Make them round, and bake them a fine brown. They will take 1 pint of yeast. FURNITURE CREAM.— Linseed oil, 1 pint ; spirits of wine, 3 ozs. ; vinegar, 1 oz. ; butter of antimony XA oz. FURNITURE POLISH.— The cheapest is a mixture of linseed oil and turpentine, laid on in a thin coat, rubbed off with a soft cloth and polished.

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