1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
801 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Grape Pie.— Pop the pulps out of the 
skins into one dish and put the skins 
in another. Then simmer the pulp a 
little and run it through a colander to 
separate the seeds. Then put the skins 
and pulps together and sweeten to taste, 
and they are ready for the pies. 
Preventing Mold on Pickle Vinegar. —A 
small piece of horse radish put in the 
vinegar of pickles will prevent it from 
turning white or molding. In using 
cloves for seasoning, if the heads are 
taken out, they will not discolor the 
fruit so much. crocus. 
Keeping Flour. —Four, like butter, ab¬ 
sorbs odors readily, and should not be 
kept in a place where there are onions, 
fish, vegetables or other odorous sub¬ 
stances, nor in a damp room or cellar, 
says Good Housekeeping. Keep it in a 
cool, airy, dry room where it will not be 
exposed to a freezing temperature nor to 
one above 70 degrees. Always sift before 
using. 
Mush Gems, as served in the Model 
Kitchen at the Columbian Exposition, 
were made as follows : Into a saucepan, 
put 1% pint each of milk and boiling 
water, and place over a moderate fire. 
When boiling hot, add slowly about one 
cupful of yellow granulated meal, and 
cook five minutes. Take from the fire, 
add one teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of butter and, when cool, three eggs 
beaten and one teaspoonful of baking 
powder. Bake in greased gem pans in a 
moderate oven 20 minutes. Serve at 
once. 
A Pie for Dyspeptics.— Pie is generally 
considered very bad for dyspeptics, but 
one suitable for individuals thus afflicted 
is given by the Michigan Farmer House¬ 
hold. Add four tablespoonfuls of oat¬ 
meal to one pint of water ; let it stand 
for a few hours until the meal is swelled. 
Then add two large apples pared and 
sliced, one cupful of sugar, one table¬ 
spoonful of flour and a little salt. Mix 
all well together and bake in a buttered 
dish. This may, perhaps, be relished by 
those who make no pretensions to dys¬ 
pepsia. 
The White House Kitchen. —The family 
kitchen where the cooking for the house¬ 
hold is done, has a floor of black agate 
and walls tiled in white to the height of 
four feet. Above the tiling on all sides 
are shelves, othe upper and lower ones 
protected by glass doors. There are ecru 
shades at the window, two tables, a 
range and a dozen light wood chairs in 
the room. The other kitchen is a mam¬ 
moth affair, in which the state dinners are 
cooked. There are also big pantries, 
store-rooms of ample dimensions, zinc- 
lined refrigerators and all the appurten¬ 
ances dear to the heart of ccoks. 
Snow Trousers. —For the small boy in 
knickerbockers, who has to go through 
the snow banks to school, gets enow in 
his boots and then sits with wet feet, 
make a pair of long pants, leaving them 
open six or eight inches at the bottom of 
the leg on the outside seam. Have them 
lap over two or three inches here, and 
button them closely outside of the boots 
so that they cannot slip up. Put the 
buttons about one inch apart, and, if 
made of rubber cloth and faced with 
silesia, they will not tear out and are a 
perfect protection. My boy was very 
happy when he got a pair. They are, of 
course, only to be worn out-of-doors, and 
being open so far up the leg, easily slip 
off or on over the boots. F. e. b. 
To Mend Earthen or Glassware.— Put 
the broken edges together and tie them 
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 
so that they will stay in place; do not 
wash or wet them after they are broken. 
Put them in a flat kettle and pour over 
them skim-milk till they are covered. 
Set the kettle on the stove where the 
milk will simmer two hours or more ; 
then remove, and, when cold, take the 
ware out carefully and put it away 
where it will not be disturbed for a 
month. Another way is to prepare the 
broken vessels the same as before and 
cover them with the first milking from 
a new milch cow. Set them away for 
a week or two without boiling, then 
take out and dry as before. Neither 
way costs anything but the labor. I re¬ 
member that in the olden time my 
mother mended a glass salt cellar that 
she prized very highly—they had few 
such things in those days—it was broken 
crosswise. After using it two or three 
years subsequent to its being mended, 
some one dropped it and broke it length¬ 
wise, directly across the mending, c. R. D. 
Paper as a Cold Weather Comforter.—A 
recently read advertisement setting forth 
the warmth and comfort of paper vests, 
was so attractive that I exclaimed during 
the reading, “ I must have a paper 
vest!” But the price! Money is not as 
plentiful with me as some other things, 
and my flat purse said decidedly, “No 
paper vests for you at that price.” The 
idea haunted me all through the day’s 
work, and, after the baby was asleep, I 
hunted up an old-fashioned basque pat¬ 
tern, (chosen because it had fewer seams 
than the more recent issues), a partly 
worn skirt of light calico, and a pile of 
old newspapers. Two calico and three 
newspaper waists were quickly cut, and 
one calico stitched. Then I made the 
stitch very long to avoid cutting the 
paper, and stitched the three paper waists 
and the other calico together. The lining 
was quickly put in by catching at the 
seams and stitching around neck and 
bottom. Buttons and buttonholes com¬ 
pleted my experimental vest. It is a 
success and, best of all, is not patented. 
G M K. 
Spice Grapes.—According to the Tri¬ 
bune, a delicious way to prepare grapes 
to be eaten with meats is in “a spice.” 
Remove the skins from several pounds 
of grapes, being careful to save every 
particle of juice with the pulp. Lay the 
skins one side. Put the pulp a,nd juice 
oyer the fire to cook, and when they 
have cooked long enough to separate the 
seeds well from the pulp, which will be 
10 or 15 minutes, strain the pulp through 
a sieve. Every particle of pulp should 
go through the sieve, leaving the seeds 
behind. Throw away the seeds. Add 
the grape skins to the pulp with a cupful 
of grape juice, obtained in the same way 
as for grape jelly ; a cupful of vinegar, 
3 % pounds of sugar, an ounce of whole 
cloves and two ounces of stick cinnamon. 
The spices should be crushed a little 
with a hammer and tied in two bags of 
gauze. Cook the spiced grapes until 
they are thick enough to mold; then 
pour them into little marmalade jars, 
put a brandied paper over them, tie a 
cover of cotton batting over them and 
over this a cover of paper. 
Clear Complexions. —The first thing for 
a woman to do who is complexion dis¬ 
turbed is to find out what her skin 
needs, writes Kate Kensington in the 
Recorder. A woman’s complexion is 
peculiar to herself, and it is not wise to 
use everything that is “good for the 
complexion ” regardless of what good it 
is to her. If the skin is sick, it should 
be doctored just as well as any other 
organ that needs attention. When it is 
filled with blackheads or covered with a 
surface eruption of pimp es, is too oily 
or has a generel unclean look, it needs 
purging. As a remedy, sweat the face 
by taking a Russian or Turkish bath, 
use a face mask, hold the face over boil- 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
ing water or take exercise that gives a 
flow of perspiration. When the pores 
have given a free discharge, wash the 
face thoroughly in warm water, using 
good soap ; then rinse in cooler water, 
in which are a few drops of the tincture 
of benzoin. Such treatment will con¬ 
vert any dirty, overfed-looking com¬ 
plexion into clear and clean skin, with 
the bloom of a face 10 years younger. 
Guard against the popular error of wash¬ 
ing in hot water, as the pores in time 
will become relaxed and give the skin a 
coarse, ugly appearance. If a complexion 
is faulty, beauty’s chief charm is gone, 
every woman knows that; yet how few 
there are who have not to contend with 
freckles, sal.owness, pimples, rough¬ 
ness, etc, 
Salads.—Green vegetables and salads 
of all kinds are, according to the Phila¬ 
delphia Record, the best complexion 
beautifiers; a daintily-made salad is like¬ 
wise a beautifier of the luncheon or din¬ 
ner table, as all experienced hostesses will 
admit. Tomatoes iced and evenly sliced 
and served with a dressing of salt, pep¬ 
per, vinegar and sugar make a delicious 
salad. An excellent lettuce salad is 
made thus : Rub the yolks of two hard- 
boiled eggs to a powder, add one tea¬ 
spoonful each of sugar and pepper, one- 
half teaspoonfnl each of salt and made 
mustard, and two teaspoonfuls of salad 
oil. Let it stand five minutes, then beat 
in four tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Cut up 
two or three heads of white lettuce with 
a knife and fork, and pour the dressing 
over it. 
Russian salad is made by mixing cold 
vegetables, as carrots, peas, string beans, 
potatoes, corn, beets, etc., cut in small 
pieces and served with a dressing con¬ 
taining red pepper and vinegar. 
Carrot salad is made by cutting cold, 
boiled carrots into very thin slices, and 
sprinkling with sugar; then add the 
juice of a large lemon and a wineglassful 
of salad oil. 
Cauliflower Salad.—Prepare and boil 
the cauliflowers, drain, and let them 
cool; cut them in pieces; season them 
with salt, pepper, vinegar and oil, and 
serve and eat them as any other salad. 
Salmon Salad. — Mince cooked sal¬ 
mon and pour over it the following 
dressing : Mix one teaspeonful each of 
salt and pepper and one teaspoonful of 
grated onion; then add three table¬ 
spoonfuls of vinegar and one tablespoon¬ 
ful of oil. 
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