KOUMYSS.

Dissolve a third of a cake of compressed yeast in
a little tepid water ; take a quart of milk, fresh from
the cow, or warmed to blood heat, and add to it a
tablespoonful of sugar and the dissolved yeast. Put
the mixture immediately in beer bottles with patent
stoppers, filling to the neck, and let them stand for
twelve hours where bread would be set to rise that
is, in a temperature of 68 or 70 degrees then stand
the bottles upside down on ice until wanted.

HOME-MADE BAKING POWDER.

Procure from a reliable druggist one-half pound
of the best bicarbonate of soda, one pound of cream
of tartar and one-half pound of Kingsford’s corn-
starch. Mix thoroughly and sift three times, put up
in small tins. The best baking powder.

VANILLA EXTRACT.

One ounce of Mexican vanilla bean, two ounces
of loaf sugar, eight ounces of French rose water,
twenty-four ounces of alcohol 95 per cent. Cut up
the bean and pound with the sugar in a mortar, sift
and pound again until all is a fine powder. Mix the
alcohol and rose water; put the vanilla in a paper
filter, pour over it a little of the liquid at a time until
all is used ; filter again if not all is dissolved. Paper
filters may be obtained at any of the large drug
stores. The extract may be darkened by using a
little caramel.

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