1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
775 
I think the plants are a clear gain. Caution 
to my sisters who are trying a like experi¬ 
ment: Watch such plants as scarlet sage 
and verbena lest they should be attacked by 
aphis or red spider. I applied a weak solu¬ 
tion of kerosene and soap with good effect. 
Many of our plants were carried to the cel¬ 
lar, such as oleanders, chrysanthemums, 
fuchsias and large geraniums. Do not set 
callas in the cellar, I lost a fine lot of them 
in this way last winter. 
Tender bulbs such as tuberoses were dried 
off aDd put in a warm place for winter. We 
expect to heat up the greenhouse in March 
in time to plant seeds for early tomatoes, 
peppers and cabbage for the garden and 
some flower seeds for the lawn ; then we 
shall carry all our plants except the vines 
and agaves to the greenhouse, where they 
will get more sunshine and a more congen¬ 
ial atmosphere. When we brought the 
plants from the greenhouse we left a grape 
and two tender rose bushes there; these we 
covered well with litter from the horse 
stable. If these do as well as they did last 
winter we shall have lovely white and red 
ros' s in May, and grapes in August. 
For the past two years we have saved our 
beef suet clean, moulding it into crocks, 
one of which we keep beside the lard crock ; 
but we prefer the suet for frying the mush 
and potatoes. It may also be mixed and 
rubbed with the other ingredients into any¬ 
thing that requires lard, and is not half so 
expensive. 
My family is fond of corn, which we pre¬ 
pare in many ways, one of which is to bake 
a loaf, or pone as it is usually called; for¬ 
merly we added two or three eggs, now I 
make it as good without. My rule is one 
cupful of buttermilk, the same of sour 
cream, one tablespoonful of sugar, one tea¬ 
spoonful each of salt and soda; then thick¬ 
en with Indian meal, adding half a cupful 
of white flour. When in the well buttered 
pan, I pour a half cupful sweet milk on and 
around it; this insures a delicate crust, x. 
WAYS OF COOKING SOME LESS 
COMMON VEGETABLES. 
OILED KALE —Wash thoroughly, 
cover with water, adding a pinch of 
soda to preserve the green color, and boil 
until nearly done. Drain, add hot salted 
water, and boil again; when quite tender 
drain again, and chop fine, adding pepper, 
nutmeg and butter. It may also be cooked 
after the same manner as cabbage is boiled, 
with pork, ham, or corned beef, leaving the 
kale entire. 
Kohl kabi.— This is a member of the cab¬ 
bage family in which the development has 
been in the stalk, rather than in the leaf 
as in cabbage, the flower as in cauliflower, 
or the root a3 in the turnip. It perhaps re¬ 
sembles the last more nearly than the 
others. One method of cooking kohl-rabi 
is to remove the skin, cut in quarters, and 
boil in salted water. It is thqn to be drained 
and stirred a few minutes over the fire, 
first with melted butter and pepper, then 
with espagnole sauce, or any sauce that 
might accompany turnips. 
Jerusalem Artichokes —After being 
washed, these are often peeled and cut into 
round or oval forms. They are to be boiled 
in salted water in the proportion of two 
large spoonfuls of salt to thegallon of water. 
After 30 minutes’ boiling, they are drained 
an served with melted butter. 
Spinach.—A lthough this is one of the 
most common vegetables in the cities, it is 
much less so on our farm tables, possibly 
because its relative, which furnishes beet 
greens, takes its place. After thoroughly 
washing the leaves to free them from sand 
and fiom possible Insects, cook them in a 
small quantity of boiling water. Drain, 
chop fine, and return to the fire with but¬ 
ter, flour, salt, pepper, a bit of nutmeg and 
cream. Heat thoroughly, but do not boil 
after adding the cream. Spinach may also 
form part of the “ boiled diuner” so well 
liked In some families. 
Salsify Patties.— This pleasant vege¬ 
table may be used at any time when the 
grouna is open from now until it begins to 
grow in the spring. The Mammoth Sand- 
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
wich Island is almost universally preferred 
where known, although the flavor is per¬ 
haps not so good as that of the older va¬ 
riety. The Landretbs in their catalogue 
for last spring, give a recipe for patties 
which is rather new. Trim and scrape the 
roots and boil until tender in salted water 
whitened with flour ; drain, cool and cut in 
small dice; cook for two minutes in a good 
cream sauce, with salt, pepper and nut¬ 
meg. Fill patty shells, bake brown and 
serve hot, garnished with parsley. 
Salsify Croquettes.— Trim and scrape 
the roots and boll as above ; drain, and when 
cold, mash, removing all fibers; add mashed 
potatoes and put in a stew pan with butter* 
Stir them over the fire until very dry. Add 
a little salt, pepper and one or two yolks of 
eggs. When cold, form in cakes, roll them 
in bread crumbs, then in a batter of eggs 
and bread crumbs. Fry in hot lard until 
brown on both sides, but not greasy. Serve 
hot. 
The Calla industry—regarding it as a 
vegetable—is yet too new, we think, for our 
subscribers to need recipes for cooking the 
roots. We even fear that it will seem 
almost like sacrilege to some worshippers 
of this stately plant to speak of cooking it 
like the potato. And some one will have 
to grow a “new and improved” variety 
with perfectly smooth roots before even 
the ordinary housewife will be satisfied 
with the new vegetable as a vegetable. 
A GIRL’S LOOK AT THE DARK SIDE. 
HILE Prudence Primrose's cat 
book proved to be a fine thing as 
far as interesting the small boy was con¬ 
cerned, it is upon her settlement of the 
Melinda question that I feel called to ex¬ 
press myself. 
Prudence says: “Farm life needs a gentle 
hand and a dainty touch to lend grace and 
prettiness to its workaday aspect.” Yes, 
that is very well; then Melinda or whoever 
the farmer’s daughter may be, is to open 
the parlor windows every morning and fix 
the shutters “just right.” Question, what 
shall Melinda do if there are no shutters to 
fix? 
Then Melinda is to have a heap of bright 
colored cushions under the maple trees in 
the front yard. It doesn’t make any differ¬ 
ence I suppose whether there are any trees 
there or not; probably Melinda’s papa will 
be willing to leave cutting corn and set out 
some for her this afternoon. Another 
needful thing is the clink of croquet balls ; 
but does Prudence know that trees inter¬ 
fere with a good croquet ground ? And of 
course croquet without the accompaniment 
of bright colored cushions is not to be 
thought of. 
Then Melinda Is to put fresh flowers In 
the parlor vases, and to keep the shutters 
properly arranged all day. Is Miss Melinda 
to blame if she asks what the use of all 
this is? No one will come; there is no one to 
see it. Do it for herself? for the family ? 
Yes, that sounds nice; but Pa and Ma in¬ 
sist on “ settin’ in the kitchen; they are 
more to home there ” and if Melinda arrays 
herself in her new cambric dress and coils 
her hair to the best of her ability and fas¬ 
tens it with her new 10 cent yellow cellu¬ 
loid hair pin and goes down to recline on 
the red and yellow cushions (provided she 
has the cushions and the trees to put them 
under) her smill brother, or a brother that 
isn’t small, greets her with “ Hello! M’iin, 
guess you think somebody’s goin’ to see 
you, don’t you ? ” Melinda may persevere 
in spite of this, but when Ma comes to the 
door, and says : “ Melindy wny on earth 
did you go and put on that dress ? There 
ain’t nobody cornin’ an’ you ain’t going no¬ 
where, you’ll get it ail dirt,” she will begin 
to feel Love’s labor lost. 
Then the fresh flowers in the vases, may¬ 
be Melinda has time for picking flowers, 
but tiiey will all wilt by to-morrow and she 
must get new ones. No one will see them 
but herself, and ten to one Ma will object 
and say she won’t have the parlor used 
every day ; that room is for company. 
Miss Prudence, peruaps I exaggerate. I 
know your idea is for girls to make the 
best of things and to make it pleasant, but 
what shall we do wheu we have notning to 
do with? “ Farmers’ wives and daughters 
are above their husbands and fathers,” 
some one says, and in a certain sense it is 
true; but the wives quickly descend to 
their husbands’ levels, and the only way 
for a daughter to escape is to get away io 
do for h rself. It may be that there is an 
ideal side to farm life, but I have never 
seen it, and I have spent 19 years of my 
life on a farm, except two spent in a neigh¬ 
boring high school, and they were a curse, 
almost: they taught me to have longings 
and aspirations that could never be real¬ 
ized; and had 1 known just what they 
would have done for me, i would never 
have left the farm unless I had left it never 
to come back. Scold me if you want to ; I 
am afraid you can’t help me. K. B. m. 
Naugatuck, Conn. 
SOME LABOR-SAVING TRIFLES. 
NE of the most useful little imple¬ 
ments which has come under my eye 
in a long time is a “ricer.” It is a metal 
cup with a handle. A follower, pierced 
with numberless holes, is hinged to it, and 
the amount of squeezing which the little 
affair is capable of doing is wonderful. Po 
tatoes boiled in their “jackets” may be 
mashed perfectly with it, and nothing is 
left in the cup but the potato skin. It Is 
said that the juice may be extracted from 
fruit by it, and I can readily believe it, but 
I have not yet tested it for anything but 
uotatoes. They come out light and deli¬ 
cious, but no butter or cream must be added 
to them, as it spoils their rice-like appear¬ 
ance. Drawn butter should be served with 
them. 
I am, also, the happy owner of a set of 
wire frames to hold fruit cans, when can¬ 
ning delicate fruits. The can may be filled 
with fruit, set into the frame and the whole 
put in a kettle of water. The frame Is 
raised a little so that no straw or nails are 
required in the kettle. There are wire 
loops at the side into which a lifter is fitted 
when the can is ready to come out, and 
there Is no danger of burning the fingers or 
dropping the can. 
The frames are made to fit two-quart, 
quart and pint cans. 
I suppose both of the foregoing articles 
are patented, but here is something which 
is not, and its convenience for drying towels 
will be readily understood. Cut two 28- 
inch lengths from an inch board 14 inches 
wide. Mark the middle of the boards on 
one edge and draw a line from that point 
to the opposite upper and lower corners. 
Now bore a hole at each of 
the dots (Fig. 275) with a 
three-quarter inch bit. 
Measure the space which 
the frame is to occupy, and 
prepare rods of suitable 
length and fitted to the 
holes. Saw the boards away 
just outside the holes so 
the brackets shall look like 
Fig. 276. Fasten the rods 
into the brackets and the 
brackets to strips of half¬ 
inch board at the back, and attach to the 
wall where the studding will hold them se¬ 
curely. The wood should be sand papered, 
painted and varnished, and the rack be 
put in a place where the towels will dry 
rapidly. s A. little. 
New York. 
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