excellent staple commodity? I am teaching these girls the art of industry and good management.It is little encouragement to an honeft man to work hard all the week, if his wages are wafted by a flattern at home. Most of these girls will probably become wives to the poor, or fervants to the rich; to fuch the common arts of life are of great value; now as there is little opportunity for learning these at the school house, I intend to propofe that fuch gentry as have fober fervants, fhall allow one of thefe girls to come and work in their families one day in a week, when the housekeeper, the cook, the housemaid, or the laundry-maid, fhall be required to inftruct them in their feveral departments. This I conceive to be the best way of training good fervants. What have you got on the fire, madam? faid the Squire, for your pot really smells as favory as if Sir John's French cook had filled it. Sir, replied Mrs. Jones, I have lately got acquainted with Mrs. White, who has given us an account of her cheap difhes, and nice cookery, in one of the Cheap Repofitory little books*. Mrs. Betty and I have made all her dishes, and very good they are, and we have got feveral others of our own. Every Friday we come here and drefs one. Thefe good women see how it is done, and learn to dress it at their own houses. I take home part of my own dinner, and what is left I give to each in turn. I hope I have opened their eyes on a fad mistake they had got into, that we think any thing is good

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* See "The Way to Plenty," fold by T. Evans, Long Lane, Weft Smithfield, Price 14d.

enough for the poor. Now I do not think any thing good enough for the poor which is not clean, wholesome, and palatable, and what I myself would not cheerfully eat if my circumstances required it.

Pray, Mrs. Betty, faid the Squire, oblige me with a bason of your foup. The Squire found it fo good after his walk, that he was almost forry he had promised to buy no more legs of beef, and declared, that not one fheep's head fhould ever go to his kennel again. He begged his cook might have the receipt, and Mrs. Jones wrote it out for her. She has also been fo obliging as to favour me with a copy of all her receipts. And as I hate all monopoly, and fee no reason why fuch cheap, nourishing, and favory dishes should be confined to the parish of Wefton, I print them, that all other parishes may have the fame advantage. Not only the poor, but all perfons with small incomes may be glad of them. Well, Madam, faid Mr. Simpfon, who came in foon after, which is beft, to fit down and cry over our misfortunes, or to beftir ourselves to do our duty to the world?-Sir, replied Mrs, Jones, I thank you for the ufeful leffon you have given me. You have taught me, that our time and talents are to be employed with zeal in God's fervice, if we wifh for his favour here or hereafter; and that one great employment of them, which he requires is the promotion of the prefent, and much more the future happinefs of all around us. You have taught me that much good may be done with little money; and that the heart, the head, and the hands are of fome ufe as well as the purfe.

May all who read this account of Mrs. Jones, go and do likewife!

RECEIPT I.

Two pounds of beef, four onions, ten turnips, half a pound of rice, a large handful of parfley, thyme, and favory; fome pepper and salt; eight quarts of water. Cut the beef in flices, and after it has boiled fome time, cut it ftill fmaller. The whole fhould boil gently about two hours, on a flow fire. If fuel be fcarce, it may be ftewed all night in an oven, and warmed up next day. You may add oatmeal and potatoes.

RECEIPT II.

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Take half a pound of beef, mutton, or pork, cut it into small pieces; half a pint of peafe, four fliced turnips, fix potatoes cut very fmall, two onions; put to them feven pints of water. the whole boil gently over a very flow fire two hours and a half. Then thicken it with a quarter of a pound of oatmeal. After the thickening is put in, boil it a quarter of an hour, ftirring it all the time; then season it with falt and pepper.

RECEIPT III.

Take two pounds of falt beef, or pork, cut it into very small bits, and put it into a pot with fix quarts of water, letting it boil on a flow fire for three quarters of an hour; then put a few carrots, parfnips, or turnips, all cut fmall; or a few potatoes fliced; a cabbage, and a couple of creffe.

Thicken the whole with a pint of oatmeal. All these to be well feafoned with falt and

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pepper.

The following foups Mrs. Sparks fold every Saturday in small quantities: a pint of the foup, with a bit of the meat warmed up on a Sunday, made a dinner for a grown perfon.

An ox cheek, two pecks of potatoes, a quarter of a peck of onions, one ounce of pepper, half a pound of falt, boiled all together in ninety pints of water till reduced to fixty; any garden.stuff may be thrown in.

FRIENDLY HINTS.

The difference between eating bread new and ftale, is one loaf in five.

If you turn your meat into broth it will go much farther than if you roaft or bake it.

If you have a garden make the most of it. A bit of leek, or an onion, makes all dishes favoury at fmall expence.

If the money fpent on fresh butter were spent on meat, poor families would be much better fed than they are.

If the money spent on tea were spent on homebrewed beer, the wife would be better fed, the husband better pleafed, and both would be healthier.

Keep a little Scotch barley, rice, dry pease, and oatmeal in the house. They are all cheap, and don't spoil. Keep alfo pepper and ginger,

Pay your debts, ferve God, and love your neighbour.

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Promifed, in the Cottage Cook, to give fome account of the manner in which Mrs. Jones fet up her fchool. She did not much fear being able to raife the money; but money is of little ufe, unlefs fome perfons of fenfe and piety can be found to direct thefe inftitutions. Not that I would difcourage thofe who let them up, even in the most ordinary manner, and from mere views of worldly policy. It is fomething gained to refcue children from idling away their Sabbath in the fields or the ftreets. It is no fmall thing to keep them from thofe tricks to which a day of leifure tempts the idle and the ignorant. It is