ut them
to some thin peas-soup. Boil them up, add three spoonfuls of onion
juice, with salt and pepper. When done enough, serve them up in a
tureen, with sippets of toasted bread at the bottom.

HORSERADISH POWDER. In November or December, slice some horseradish the
thickness of a shilling, and lay it to dry very gradually in a Dutch
oven, for a strong heat would very soon evaporate its flavour. When
quite dry, pound it fine, and bottle it.

HORSERADISH VINEGAR. Pour a quart of the best vinegar on three ounces of
scraped horseradish, an ounce of minced shalot, and a dram of cayenne.
Let it stand a week, and it will give an excellent relish to cold beef,
or other articles. A little black pepper and mustard, celery or cress
seed, may be added to the above.

HOUSE DRAINS. The smell of house drains is oftentimes exceedingly
offensive, but may be completely prevented by pouring down them a
mixture of lime water, and the ley of wood ashes, or suds that have been
used in washing. An article known by the name of a sink trap may be had
at the ironmongers, which is a cheap and simple apparatus, for carrying
off the waste water and other offensive matter from sinks and drains.
But as the diffusion of any collection of filth tends to produce disease
and mortality, it should not be suffered to settle and stagnate near our
dwellings, and every possible care should be taken to render them sweet
and wholesome.

HOUSE TAX. As the present system of taxation involves so important a
part of the annual expenditure, and is in many instances attended with
so much vexation and trouble, it concerns every housekeeper to be
acquainted with the extent of his own liability, and of course to
regulate his conveniences accordingly. It appears then, that every
inhabited dwellinghouse, containing not more than six windows or lights,
is subject to the yearly sum of six shillings and six-pence, if under
the value of five pounds a year. But every dwellinghouse worth five
pounds and under twenty pounds rent by the year, pays the yearly sum of
one shilling and six-pence in the pound; every house worth twenty pounds
and under forty pounds a year, two shillings and three-pence in the
pound; and for every house worth forty pounds and upwards, the yearly
sum of two shillings and ten-pence in the pound. These rents however are
to be taken from the rates in which they are charged, and not from the
rents which are actually paid.

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