x with
a spoon. Add one cup of cold water to each tablespoon of coffee. Cook
till it starts to boil. Don't let it boil. Serve at once.--Mrs.
Creaser.

COCOA WITH WHIPPED CREAM.--Heat one quart of milk with a pinch of
cinnamon. Mix four level tablespoons of cocoa with as much sugar and
add one cupful of hot water. Stir until smooth. Add to the hot milk and
simmer five to ten minutes, stirring often. Whip one cupful of cream
stiff, add one teaspoonful of sugar and half a teaspoonful of vanilla
extract to it. Whip lightly and serve a generous tablespoonful in each
cup of cocoa. Chocolate is made by shaving one ounce of chocolate,
mixing it with two large tablespoons of sugar and then heating over the
fire with one tablespoonful of boiling water until smooth and glossy.
Add to hot milk as directed above. Marshmallows added to a cup of cocoa
or chocolate give a delicious flavor.--Contributed.

KENTUCKY PUNCH.--Put into punch bowl one cup sugar, juice of six lemons
and stir. Add three peeled lemons, sliced thin, and at least one dozen
large sprigs of mint and one quart of pounded ice, stir and let stand
several moments and then pour in from a good height two or three
bottles of imported ginger ale.

A DELICIOUS CREOLE RECIPE.--Select fine oranges. Cut through the skin
around the orange and loosen the skin from the orange, turning it back,
wrong side out, into a cup. Now cut the orange into halves, leaving a
cup on top of each half. Place the orange, face down, on a dainty
plate, acting as a standard for the skin cup as it were. Into the cup
put one whole clove, a bit of bay leaf, small piece of stick cinnamon,
one lump of sugar and pour over the sugar two tablespoons of brandy.
Bring to the table with the after dinner coffee and place in front of
each guest. Touch a match to the brandy, and let each guest baste the
sugar with the brandy until the alcohol has burned away, then pour the
remaining liquor and spices into the coffee. The burning of the brandy
and spices in the orange skin gives a very delicious flavor and a
pungent, agreeable perfume.

STRAWBERRY PUNCH.--Crush two quarts of strawberries and pour over them
three quarts of cold water. Set in the ice for three hours before
straining through a cheesecloth bag, pressing hard. Add then the
strained juice of two lemons and two cups of granulated sugar. Stir
until the sugar is fully dissolved and set in the ice until you are
ready to serve. Fill each tumbler halfway