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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



For the New England Farmer, 

 DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



Ketchup. — I notice by your paper of Sept. 29, 

 that "A Mechanic" wishes to know the best way 

 of making tomato ketchup. . I will give you my 

 receipt. 



Take one gallon of skinned tomatoes, fully ripe, 

 one pint of sharp vinegar, two table spoonfuls of 

 salt, one of black pepper, two of mustard, all 

 ground hne, simmered slowly three hours in a 

 porcelain kettle. Strain through a sieve. It may 

 be used in three weeks, but improves by age. I 

 have some now, that was made one year ago, and 

 it is much better than when new. 



Cream Cake.— Three eggs, one cup of thick 

 cream, one of sugar, flour enough to make it as 

 hard as pound cake, soda and spice as you like. 



Fruit Cake. — Three eggs, two and one-half 

 cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one of but- 

 ter, four of flour, a little soda, spice and fruit as 

 any one wishes. 



White Cake. — Three eggs, two cups of white 

 sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup of new milk, 

 three of flour, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 

 one of soda, a teaspoonful of extract of lemon or 

 rose ; dissolve the soda in water. 



You may find better receipts, but these are 

 good. A Subscriber, 



Prescott, Mass., Oct., 1860. 



WOMAN'S COUBAGE. 

 No one can have read the statement of the 

 clerk of the steamer, which went down on Fri- 

 day night, without being struck by his descrip- 

 tion of the bearing of the ladies. "They were 

 pale, but silent ; there was not a cry or a shriek." 

 The fortitude and resignation of men may have 

 failed, but theirs failed not. So is it always in the 

 great exigencies which women are called to meet. 

 When troubles or dangers are but slight, they are 

 more excited and more alarmed than men. But 

 let an overvvhehning calamity bury the fortunes 

 and hopes of the husband, or lather, or brother, in 

 sudden night, let disease or accident strike him 

 down and stretch him on the bed of keenest suf- 

 fering, then when strong men's hearts fail them, 

 when their nerves are unstrung, when quaking 

 fear or hopeless despondency takes possession of 

 their souls, the frail, weak woman rises with elas- 

 ticity and calm determination to the demands of 

 the terrible emergency, and with untrembling 

 hand and cheerful voice hastens to perform those 

 blessed ministrations, for which the might of men 

 was inadequate. Hovv many scenes of danger 

 have we heard described, conflagrations, assassi- 

 nations, shipwrecks, in which women have with 

 heroic patience and submission bowed meekly to 

 their fate, and have taught the sublime lesson of 

 Christian resignation to the husbands and fathers 

 who were with them. In the hour of trial her 

 weakness becomes strength, her sensibility is 

 swallowed up in faith. There were men of re- 

 nown in the Lady Elgin, men whose names are 

 known through the Avide world, but none of them 

 ever did a lu-aver or more heroic deed than was 

 achieved by those noble women who sat in silence 

 awaiting their death. — Providence Journal. 



EEABINQ CHILDREN-. 



1. Children should not go to school until six 

 years old. 



2. Should not learn at home during that time 

 more than the alphabet, religious teachings ex- 

 cepted. 



3. Should be fed with plain, substantial food, 

 at regular intervals of not less than four hours. 



4. Should not^ be allowed to eat anything with- 

 in two hours of bed-time. 



5. Should have nothing for supper but a sin- 

 gle cup of warm drink, such as very weak tea of 

 some kind, or warm milk and water, with one 

 slice of cold bread and butter — nothing else. 



6. Should sleep in separate beds, on hair mat- 

 tresses, without caps, feet first well warmed by the 

 fire or rubbed with the hands until perfectly dry; 

 extra covering on the lower limbs, but little on 

 the body. 



7. Should be compelled to be out of doors for 

 the greater part of daylight, from after breakfast 

 until half an hour before sundown, unless in 

 damp, x-aw weather, when they should not be al- 

 lowed to go outside the door. 



8. Never limit a healthy child as to sleeping or 

 eating, except at supper ; but compel regularity as 

 to both ; it is of great importance. 



9. Never compel a child to sit still, nor inter- 

 fere with its enjoyment, as long as it is not ac- 

 tually injurious to person or property, or against 

 good morals. 



10. Never threaten a child ; it is cruel, unjust 

 and dangerous. What you have to do, do it, and 

 be done with it. 



11. Never speak harshly or angrily, but mildly, 

 kindly, and, when really needed, firmly — no more. 



12. By all means arrange it so that the last 

 words between you and your children at bed-time, 

 espcially the younger ones, shall be words of un- 

 mixed lovingness and affection. — Hall's Journal 

 of Health. 



Elderberry Wine. — The quantity of fruit re- 

 quired, is one gallon of ripe elderberries for every 

 two gallons of wine. For ten gallons wine take 

 five gallons berries, boil them in five or six gallons 

 of water, then strain the liquor, and M'halever the 

 liquor proves short of ten gallons, make up as 

 follows : Add water to the pulp, stir it about and 

 strain to the rest. Add thirty pounds sugar and 

 two or three ounces hops. Then take three-quar- 

 ters of a pound of ginger-root bruised, five oun- 

 ces cloves, one of cinnamon, and put them to- 

 gether in a bag and tie loosely. Put the bag with 

 its contents into the previous mixture, and boil 

 two hours ; when quite cool, ferment with yeast as 

 you do beer. In two or three days draw the li- 

 quor off" into a cask, suspend the bag of spices by 

 a string not long enough to reach the bottom ; 

 paste over stiff' brown paper. It will be fit for use 

 in two months. — Boston Cultivator. 



It is well for us that we are born babies in in- 

 tellect. Could we understand half what most 

 mothers say and do to their infants, we should be 

 filled with a conceit of our own importance, which 

 would render us insupportable through life. Hap- 

 py the boy whose mother is tired of talking non- 

 sense to him before he is old enough to know tb« 

 sense of it ! 



