The household (of the Detroit free press)

Three pounds sugar, three ounces tartaric acid, one ounce cream of tartar, one ounce flour, one ounce essence sarsaparilla, three quarts water ; strain and bottle, then let stand ten days before using. CREAM OF TARTAR DRINK. Two spoonfuls of cream of tartar, the grated rind of a lemon, half a cup of loaf sugar and one pint of boiling water. This is a good summer drink for invalids, and is cleansing to the blood. ICED BUTTERMILK. There is no healthier drink than buttermilk, but it must be creamy, rich buttermilk to be good. It should stand on the ice to cool, though if very rich and thick a little ice in it is an improvement. BERRY SHERBET. Crush one pound of berries, add them to one quart of water, one lemon sliced, and one teaspoonful of orange flavor, if you have it. Let these ingredients stand in an earthen bowl for three hours, then strain, squeezing all the juice out of the fruit. Dissolve one pound of powdered sugar in it, strain again and put on the ice until ready to serve. JELLY DRINKS. A little jelly or fruit syrup dissolved in a goblet of water with a little sugar is a refreshing drink. Lime juice squeezed into lemonade gives it a tart but pleasing flavor. A little orange juice is also an improvement in nearly all summer drinks. WELSH NECTAR Ingredients : One pound of raisins, three lemons, two pounds of loaf sugar, two gallons of boiling water. Mode : Cut the peel off the lemons very thin, pour upon it the boiling water, and when cool, add the strained juice of the lemons, the sugar and the raisins, stoned and chopped very fine. Let it stand four or five days, stirring it every day ; then strain it through a jelly-bag and bottle it for immediate use. EFFERVESCING SODA. Mix half a teaspoonful of powdered bicarbonate of soda thoroughly with two tablespoonfuls of syrup of any flavor to suit the taste. Then add six or eight times as much cold water ; while stirring it mix in half a teaspoonful of powdered tartaric acid and drink at once. This is for immediate consumption. For bottling — Mix the syrup, flavor and water in the usual proportions and fill into bottles ; put in each bottle half a drachm each of crystallized bicarbonate of potassa and crystallized tartaric acid and cork immediately. The above quantity is for soda bottles ; wine bottles will require double the quantity. ORCEAT. Ingredients: Half ounce of bitter almonds, half pound of Jorden almonds, one tablespoonful of orange flower water, three pints of rose water, half pint of cold water that has been boiled, one and a half pints of clarified sugar. Mode : Blanche the almonds, and, after having put them into a mortar with the orange flower water, bruise them to a paste, adding from time to time the rose water and boiled water until the whole of these ingredients are blended together; strain the mixture through a coarse sieve, add the clarified sugar and put the whole into a saucepan which must be removed from the fire as soon as the contents boil, then bottle and cork well. A tablespoonful of this mixture in a tumbler of cold water makes a delicious and refreshing summer drink. CLARET CUP.