m of a fine light brown, with sliced
onions. Lay the steaks into a stewpan, and pour over them as much
boiling water as will serve for sauce. Stew them very gently for half an
hour, and add a spoonful of ketchup or walnut liquor, before they are
served up.

STAFFORDSHIRE SYLLABUB. Put into a bowl a pint of cider, and a glass of
brandy, with sugar and nutmeg. Pour into it some warm milk, from a large
tea-pot, held up high, and moved over it.

STAINS BY ACIDS. Wet the injured part, and lay on some salt of wormwood;
then rub it, without diluting it with more water. Or let the cloth
imbibe a little water without dipping, and hold the part over a lighted
match at a due distance. The spots will be removed by the sulphureous
gas. Another way is to tie up some pearl ash in the stained part, then
scrape some soap into cold soft water to make a lather, and boil the
linen till the stain disappears.

STAINS IN MAHOGANY. If any kind of furniture get stained with ink,
dilute half a tea-spoonful of oil of vitriol with a large spoonful of
water, and touch the stained part with a feather dipped in the liquid.
It must be watched, and not suffered to remain too long, or it will
leave a white mark. It is better to rub it quick, and to moisten it
again, if the stain be not entirely removed.

STAINING OF BONE. This article must first be prepared, by being steeped
for several days in a mixture of roche alum, vitriol, verdigris, and
copper filings, infused in white wine vinegar. When the ingredients are
dissolved, the mixture may be boiled with the bone in it, and it will
take a fine green colour. By infusing brazil wood, French berries, or
indigo in the vinegar, with a little roche alum, either red, yellow, or
blue may be produced. Either bone, ivory, or wood, may be coloured in
this manner.

STAINING OF PARCHMENT. Paper or parchment may be stained of a green
colour, by gradually dissolving some copper filings in aqua-fortis, or
the spirits of salt, putting in the filings till the ebullition ceases.
A solution of verdigris in vinegar, or the crystals of verdigris in
water, will answer the same purpose. A fine crimson stain may be
produced by a tincture of the Indian lake, made by infusing the lake
several days in spirits of wine, and pouring off the tincture from the
dregs. A beautiful yellow may be formed from the tincture of turmeric,
made in the same way. If the colours be wanted of a deeper cast, arnatto
or dragon's blood