The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c

Crystallised raspberries are a very delicious fruit, and form a very nice addition to a dish of mixed crystallised fruits. They can be used like cherries to fill up the chinks in a dish of fruits, which fruits should always be piled up in a pyramid form, green being the predominant colour round the base. For this purpose crystallised greengages or crystallised almonds will be found best. RASPBERRIES IN SYRUP. — Raspberries in syrup will make an excellent raspberry tart, and they do not require the addition of any sugar. They can be piled up in a pie-dish, covered with puff paste, and baked at once. Raspberries in syrup form a very nice dish by themselves. The bottles simply require to be opened and the raspberries turned out on to a dish. Devonshire cream is a very nice addition. Over the dish can be placed some whipped cream when cream can be obtained. When the dish of raspberries in syrup is covered with whipped cream it can be ornamented by adding a little pink sugar. Pinlc sugar is made by taking some rather coarsely pounded sugar and placing it in a saucer with a little cochineal or any red vegetable colouring. The sugar should be as much as possible of one size. It may be first of all shaken through a coarse sieve and then sifted in a finer sieve. The sugar can be sprinkled on the top of the whipped cream, but not until the last moment, as it has a tendency to break through the cream and destroy its consistency. RASPBERRY VINEGAR. —Raspberry vinegar is probably the oldest of all syrups (if it may be so called) known. It forms a most delicious drink on a hot day, mixed with a bottle of iced soda-water, or it can be mixed with plain water, ice of course being always an improvement. Raspberry vinegar, owing to its slight acidity, forms, in addition to being a delicious drink, a most valuable medicine. It is often used with great success in cases of j sore throat, and is very efficacious in remedying hoarseness of speech brought j on by over-exertion in public. Probably there is no remedy for that wellknown complaint known as the clerical throat equal to raspberry vinegar. RASPBERRY JAM. — Raspberry jam j is extremely popular, especially with | children. Indeed, with many persons j perhaps one of their earliest recollec- j tions will be the oval raspberry jam | tart, which is in nearly every one’s j mind the first thing they can recol- j lect in connection with cooking. Rasp- j berry jam can of course be eaten alone, | and is one of the most popular jams | served at any time, either at supper j or breakfast. It can also be used for i making every kind of open tart. There is one use, however, to which raspberry jam can he put, which is not so generally known, and that is for making ices. There are few ices nicer than j raspberry, and in the present day refri- i gerators or ice-making machines are so j exceedingly cheap that they are within the reach of every housekeeper. A receipt for making raspberry ice from jam is well worth remembering. _ Housekeepers will do well to bear in mind how very cheaply ices are now sold in the streets. It is perfectly ridiculous to regard ices as an expensive luxury, when the very fact is brought before our eyes that they are sold for a | penny and the sellers make a living out of it. In making cheap ice of course it is impossible to use cream.