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CINNAMON CAKE.— Put 6 eggs, and 3 table-spoonfuls of rosewater into a pan ; whisk well together ; add 1 lb. of fine sugar, a large spoonful of ground cinnamon, and flour to make it into paste ; roll, form, and bake on white paper. CINNAMON SOAP. — Good tallow soap, 10 lbs. ; palm-oil soap, 7 lbs. ; essence of cinnamon, 3 ozs. ; essence of sassafras, 1 oz. ; bergamot, % oz. ; colour, 4 ozs. of yeilow ochre. CINNAMON WATER.— Take of cinnamon bark, one pound ; proof spirit and common water, of each one gallon. Steep the cinnamon in the liquor for two days, then distil off one gallon. Or, cinnamon, 2 ozs. in 3 qrts. of brandy, with a quart of water, the rind of two lemons, and 2 or 3 ozs. of liquorice root ; infuse five days, distil, and add 2 lbs. of fine sugar, and 3 pints of water. - CISTERNS, to Measure. Multiply the diameter of the bottom in inches by the diameter of the top ; then multiply that, product by the height in inches, and that product by 7, 854 ; divide the last obtained number by 231, cut off four figures at the right hand, and the quotient will be the answer in gallons. CITRIC ACID.— It Is cooling, allays inflammation, and is a substitute for lemon juice ; in fact, it is the same. CLARIFIED SUGAR.— Put 2 lbs. of finest sugar into a tinned stewpan with a pint of cold spring water to CLE COD dissolve. Beat half the white of an egg ; put it to the sugar, and stir : put on the fire, and boil gently till no scum rises, and it is perfectly clear ; strain through a cloth, and closely bottle. CLEAVERS. — The American plant is the best. It is a good diuretic, perhaps one of the best for curing all suppressions of urine, and gravelly complaints, scurvy and spitting of blood. Infuse 2 ounces in a pint of cold water, and drink a wine-glassful occasionally, See Robinson’s Family Herbal. CLOTH, to Raise the Nap on. — When woollens are worn threadbare the part of the dress must be soaked in cold water for half an hour, then put on a board, and the threadbare parts rubbed with a half-wom hatter’s “card” filled with flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a sufficient nap be raised. If faded, apply the Black Reviver, which see. Then hang the coat to dry, and with a brush lay the nap the right way. COCKIE LEEKIE.— A favourite Scotch dish. Take scrag of mutton or knuckle of veal, and 3 quarts of liquor in which some meat has been boiled. Get a fowl, and a fine leek cut in pieces, with salt and pepper. Boil an hour and a half, then add five more leeks, and boil one hour more. Beef liquor is the best. COCKLE KETCHUP.— Open the cockles, scald them in their own liquor ; add a little water when the liquor settles ; strain ; season with pepper, mace, cloves, and other spices ; if for brown sauce, add port, anchovies, and garlick. COCKROACHES, to Destroy. — Mix bread crumbs, sugar, and corrosive sublimate, and place it near their haunts. — Or mix sugar, laudanum, and water together. — They are very fond of beer, which might be substituted for 'Vater. — Some persons have found a mixture of plaster of Paris, sugar, and oatmeal, effectual. Powdered phosphorous, oatmeal, and sugar, form a sure remedy. COCOA SAUCE. — Scrape a portion of the kernel of a cocoa nut, adding the juice of three lemons, a teaspoonful of the tincture of cayenne pepper, a tea-spoonful of shallot vinegar, and half a cupful of water. Gently sim mer for a few hours.