THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
77 1 
1893 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Peppers as a Relish. —Large green pep¬ 
pers are delicious eaten with salt and 
bread and butter. Nellie. 
Cider With Elderberries.— Boiled cider 
is a nice addition to either fresh or dried 
elderberry pies ; a tablespoonful, if thick 
as syrup, to each pie. m. a. f. 
A Smooth Griddle. —If your pancake 
griddle gets rough and uneven, put it m 
the stove on a good bed of coals, and it 
will burn off smooth and be like new. 
^ mks. w. II. N. 
Uses for Milk. —Sweet milk will remove 
iodine spots and ink stains from linen. 
It will also remove ink from a carpet if 
the spots are washed often and rinsed 
with warm water. nellie. 
I Made a Book-case. —I painted a shal¬ 
low dry-goods box white, papered the 
inside back with wall paper of light 
color and pretty design, put in shelves, 
put a brass rod at the top, and shirred 
on it silkoline for curtains. I set it cn a 
stool also painted white, whose legs 
come just under the corners of the book¬ 
case. It was set across the corner of the 
room, with a vase and a picture on top. 
Total cost, 70 cents. A. B. r. 
Quilted Comforters. —Instead of tying 
our comforters, we quilt them in six-inch 
squares or diamonds, so that they may 
be washed. It takes but little longer 
than tying; two persons can quilt a 
three-pound comforter in half a day. 
Old cotton dresses make good comforters, 
provided the dresses were made of good 
substantial cloth. I wish some one who 
has tried both calico and cheese-cloth 
comforters would report as to their com¬ 
parative durability. Cheese-cloth is cer¬ 
tainly nicer. A country girl. 
Jellied Broth. —“Gather up the frag¬ 
ments that nothing be lost.” In making 
chicken broth it is greatly improved by 
adding the feet. See that your fowl has 
smooth legs. Scald the feet, peel, wash 
thoroughly, cut off and put in the kettle 
to cook with the rest of the fowl. They 
help form a clear jeily, and make the 
broth very rich. When cooking chicken 
for the table, it is a great addition to 
cook the feet with the rest, though they 
should never come to the table. One 
mother seats the twins at a table and 
lets them pick the bones, which they 
count and place in order. This diverts 
them while she is busy, olive branch. 
Pumpkin Pie. —Choose a nice, firm- 
fleshed pumpkin, wash clean, cut it open 
and remove tfle inside. Cut in slices like 
dice, perhaps an inch square. Fill a ket¬ 
tle with the pumpkin, add a quart or 
more of water, cover and boil until very 
tender, keeping watch that it does not 
scorch. If the water boils off before the 
pumpkin is tender, add more. When the 
vegetable is tender pass it through a 
colander. Allow one egg for a pie, 
sweeten to taste, flavor with vanilla and 
nutmeg, or ginger and cinnamon. Add 
a piece of butter to the pumpkin, also 
salt to taste. Stir all together, then 
pour in rich milk until of the thickness 
of batter ; bake with one crust. N. m. h. 
A Lamp Stand. —One can easily make a 
pretty little lamp stand from four boards 
each 12 or 13 inches square, and four 
thin, tough and well curved barrel staves, 
each about two inches wide. The staves 
are for the legs. Saw off the four corners 
of each of the square boards and screw 
the staves to the corners, putting the top 
shelf at the very top of the legs and the 
bottom shelf about six inches from the 
floor. Make the middle shelves slightly 
smaller than the others to suit the incurv¬ 
ing of the staves. Fasten upon the tOD, 
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 
a round or square board, somewhat 
larger than the shelves. Sandpaper and 
paint, stain or varnish to suit your taste. 
I am sure you will like it. A nickle’s 
worth of permanganate of potash dis¬ 
solved in water will furnish the staining 
material; more or less water is used as 
one wishes the stain light or dark. Apply 
this with a rag fastened to the end of a 
stick. When dry, oil with boiled linseed 
oil rubbed on with a flannel cloth. s. 
Mixed Meats. —When there is need of 
economy, the chicken you have cooked 
for broth may be made very good in this 
way : Boil a piece of beef—bony or flabby 
pieces will do. When very tender, re¬ 
move from the liquor and set the latter 
to cool that you may remove the fat. 
Chop the meat lightly. Take the meat 
of the chicken after pressing out the 
broth, chop very fine, pick out all bones 
and gristle and mix this meat with the 
beef. Take the fat from the stock ; add 
butter, season well with salt and pepper, 
then pour the stock over the meat and 
set it to cool. This is a good dish for 
supper, and sometimes, “ If ignorance is 
bliss, ’tis folly to”—inform the whole 
family of our methods, olive branch. 
The Best Brown Bread. — One lady 
vouches for the following as the only 
good brown bread she ever ate: Two 
cupfuls of meal, one cupful of flour, one- 
half cupful of molasses, one cupful of 
sour milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda, salt. 
Scald the meal, molasses and salt; mix 
very soft, and steam four hours. Raisins 
may be added. Another says that broAii 
bread, to be rich, light and delicious, 
must be made thus : Two cupfuls of corn 
meal, one cupfui of Graham flour, one- 
third cupful of best molasses, two cup¬ 
fuls milk (slightly sour), one (rounding) 
teaspoonful of soda, one teaspjonful of 
salt. Mix thoroughly, pour into a but¬ 
tered mold (with cover), place in a bath 
of boiling water, and boil steadily for 
five hours, refilling the kettle with boil¬ 
ing water as needed. This is real Boston 
brown bread. 
Our Old Reliable. —On my handiest shelf 
is a wide-mouthed bottle with a good 
cork, that has not been refilled for nearly 
a year, and I don’t think 10 days have 
passed at a time without a bit of the con¬ 
tents being used. What is it ? Simply 
paste, and made as follows it will not 
spoil. Stir together in a saucepan until 
like thick cream, two ounces of common 
starch and two ounces of water; add 
slowly to this one pint of hot water and 
about a tablespoonful of sheet gelatine, 
cut into small pieces. Stir thoroughly 
and let boil eight or ten minutes, then 
set it to cool. Add to the paste before it 
is entirely cold, one ounce of alcohol and 
10 drops of carbolic acid. It is best to 
keep it tightly corked in a wide-mouthed 
bottle and in a cool place. For labeling 
bottles, putting scraps in books, mend¬ 
ing papers, etc., it is invaluable. It is 
said that oil of cloves instead of the car¬ 
bolic acid is fully as good. » m. w. 
Bread Making Made Easy.— It is the 
ambition of most housewives to make 
good bread. I venture to give this recipe, 
for I have never seen it in print, and one 
cannot fail to have good bread if the 
directions are carefully followed. Bread 
can be made in three hours: To make the 
yeast, dissolve two yeast cakes in one 
pint of warm water ; add one-half cupful 
of sugar, one-fourth cupful of salt, one 
and one-half cup of flour; stir briskly a 
minute and keep in a warm place until 
light. Add it and one quart of warm 
water to about one quart of mashed po¬ 
tato that has been mixed with one quart 
of boiling water and cooled until milk 
warm. Keep it warm until it looks 
foamy, then cover with something to ad¬ 
mit air, and place in the cellar Use one 
pint of the yeast for a loaf of bread, with 
as little flour as necessary to knead 
smoothly ; knead 20 minutes, adding a 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— A<Jw. 
little shortening, which will keep the 
bread from getting dry. The kneading 
is made easier by cutting the dough often 
with a sharp knife and kneading it 
smooth again. Let it rise in a large loaf, 
then mold into small ones, let rise, and 
bake in an oven that is hottest when you 
put the bread in. I let the bread rise 
each time until it is as large again as 
when put to rise. Bake one hour in a 
baker. Nellie. 
What You Want to Know.— A first glaz¬ 
ing for hams, tongues, etc., may be made 
by boiling a good sized shin of beef and 
knuckle o f veal in about seven quarts of 
water. * It must be seasoned to taste, and 
boiled until the whole is reduced to about 
one quart. 
To clean tripe it should first be well 
washed with plenty of clean water ; then 
placed in a tub of clean water, to every 
gallon of which should be added half a 
pound of quickstone lime. The tripe 
should be allowed to remain in this 
liquor for 12 hours, and should then be 
scraped to remove black specks and 
should also be well rinsed in cold water. 
A good pickle for tongues may be made 
with 12 gallons of water, 3 % pounds of 
raw sugar, 13 pounds of coarse salt, half 
a pound of saltpeter and three-quarters 
of a pound of icehone. This pickle should 
be well boiled and all scum removed as 
it rises to top of boiler. It should be re¬ 
boiled about every seven weeks and a 
quantity of new salt added to it. The 
tongues to be cured should be allowed to 
remain in this preparation from 14 to 21 
days, according to size. The I’rovisioner 
vouches for the excellence of these re¬ 
cipes. 
A Year of Loving Thought.— The home¬ 
made calendar, with appropriate quota¬ 
tions for every day in the year is an inex¬ 
pensive holiday gift seldom surpassed in 
loving thoughtfulness. It is also a source 
of constant inspiration and encourage¬ 
ment to the recipient, especially if absent 
from the home circle. It is made thus : 
Prepare 305 slips of writing paper of the 
same size and texture, divide them into 
12 packages. Each month of the coming 
year, fill out the slips for the correspond¬ 
ing month of the following year, as illus¬ 
trated by the following example : 
Januaru 1, 189-1. 
MONDAY. 
Look forward bravely, without a fear; 
Fond angels whisper, “Be of good cheer. 
Whate’er your trials, your path will clear— 
Welcome the glad New Year I" 
Use Scripture texts for Sundays. While 
reading you will find many helpful 
thoughts for a calendar, and the task 
soon becomes fascinaUng. Keep the slips 
in convenient pasteboard boxes, and 
when all are prepared fasten together on 
whatever back-ground best suits your 
taste and resources—mine is a hand- 
painted card hung with a silver chain 
purloined from an old Prang calendar. 
This is a gift which says beautiful things 
and wins kind thoughts for the giver 
every day in the year and often benefits 
many. w. w. f. 
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may 
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You can buy a chimney to 
fit your lamp that will last till 
some accident happens to it. 
Macbeth’s “pearl top” or 
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You can have it—your dealer will get it—if you 
insist on it. He may tell you it costs him three 
times as much as some others. That is true. He 
may say they are just as good. Don’t you believe 
it—they may be better for him; he may like the 
breaking. 
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