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[CARE IN SUMMER, COMFORT IN WINTER.] 2091. My Wife's Little Tea Parties. My wife is celebrated for her little parties,--not tea parties alone, but dinner parties, pic-nic parties, music parties, supper parties--in fact, she is vhe life and soul of ALL PARTIES, which is more than any leading politician of the day can boast. But her great forte is her little tea parties--praised and enjoyed by everybody. A constant visitor at these little parties is Mrs. Hitching (spoken of elsewhere), and before a certain epoch in her life (See par. 215) she was wont to remark that she "never knew hany one who understood the hart of bringing so many helegancies together" as my wife. Nobody makes tea like her, and how she makes it she will impart at a future time. But for her little "nick nacks," as she calls them, which give a variety and a charm to the tea-table without trenching too deeply upon our own pocket, she has been kind enough to give a few receipts upon the present occasion. 2092. Good Plum Cake. One pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound of currants, three eggs, half a pint of milk, and a small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda or baking powder. The above is excellent. The cakes are always baked in a common earthen flower-pot saucer, which is a very good plan. 2093. Gingerbread Snaps. One pound of flour, half a pound of treacle, half a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound of butter, half an ounce of best prepared ginger, sixteen drops of essence of lemon, potash the size of a nut dissolved in a tablespoonful of hot water.