Miss Parloa's kitchen companion

The amount of sugar given is less than is used for icecream when made for the table, and yet may be too much for some patients. Orange Sherbet. Mix together two gills of orange juice, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one gill and a half of sugar, and one pint of cold water. Strain, and freeze the same as ice-cream. Lemon Sherbet. Mix one gill of lemon juice, a gill and a half of sugar, and one pint of water. Strain and freeze. Any kind of fruit juice may be sweetened, diluted with water, and frozen. * Oatmeal Mush. Put one cupful of boiling water into a small stew-pan. Stir into it one-fourth of a cupful of oatmeal, sprinkling in a little at a time. Add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt. Stir three times in the first ten minutes that the mush is cooking ; then put the stew-pan back where the mush will just bubble for two hours. Serve with cream or milk. If the steamed oatmeal be used, half an hour's cooking will be sufficient. The mush must not be stirred after the first ten minutes. * Burnt Brandy. In giving brandy to a patient it is sometimes necessary to mellow it, and eliminate the greater part of the alcohol. This is done by burning the liquor. Put the brandy in a warm deep plate, and place on top of the stove for a few minutes. Light a match, and when the sulphur has burned off, touch the match to the warm brandy, which will blaze until the alcohol is exhausted. A Simple Cure for Indigestion and Constipation. After each meal slowly masticate three pinches of wheat bran. This is a very effective remedy if faith fully tried. WHAT ALL HOUSEKEEPERS SHOULD KNOW. Equivalents of Weights in Measure. One rounded table-spoonful of butter One ounce. One rounded table-spoonful of granulated sugar . . . One ounce. One heaping table-spoonful of powdered sugar .... One ounce. Two rounded table-spoonfuls of flour One ounce. Two rounded table-spoonfuls of ground spice .... One ounce. Five medium-sized nutmegs One ounce. One quart of sifted pastry flour One pound. One quart of sifted new- process flour, less one gill . . . One pound. One pint of granulated sugar One pound. One pint of butter One pound. One pint of ordinary liquid One pound. One solid pint of chopped meat One pound. One cupful of rice Half a pound. One cupful of Indian meal Six ounces. One cupful of stemmed raisins Six ounces. One cupful of cleaned and dried English currants . . . Six ounces. One cupful of grated bread crumbs Two ounces. How to Measure Fractions of a Cupful. When dividing a receipt in order to make a small quantity of something, it is frequently difficult to learn the fractional parts of a cupful. In such cases the following table will be helpful. The cup used is supposed to hold half a pint. Eight rounding table-spoonfuls of flour One cupful. Eight rounding table-spoonfuls of sugar One cupful. Eight rounding table-spoonfuls of butter , , . , , One cupful. Sixteen table-spoonfuls of liquid One cupful. Two gills One cupful. A common tumblerful One cupful. Points about the Use of the Oven.