1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
43 
A COASTING SONG 
Hurry, scurry I through the snow, 
Bobby’s sled and Bobby go. 
In the storm or pleasant weather, 
Bobby and his sled together. 
Blow your Bngers, stamp your toes. 
Don’t let Jack Frost nip your nose 1 
Up the hill, and down again ! 
Dots of fun for little men 1 —St. mchoUu. 
POP-CORN CONFECIIONS. 
To Make Pop-Corn Balls.—How are pop¬ 
corn balls made ? w. c. J. 
Ans.—F or eight quarts of corn take 
one cupful of molasses and one-half cup¬ 
ful of sugar. No water will be needed. 
Boil the syrup until it hardens in water, 
but is not brittle, and then add one- 
quarter teaspoonful of soda. Pour this 
over the corn, mix all together thor¬ 
oughly and form into balls. The hands 
should be greased to prevent sticking. 
Instead of the molasses, two cupfuls of 
sugar with water to dissolve, may be 
used. 
Sugared Corn.—This is very nice, and is 
preferred by many to the pop-corn balls. 
For eight quarts of corn, one pound of 
granulated sugar and one quart of water 
are required. Boil until the syrup is 
stringy, or forms a soft ball in cold 
water. Pour over the corn and stir until 
the syrup hardens. Any desired flavor 
may be added to this syrup. 
Chocolate Corn.—This may be made by 
adding to the above syrup four ounces of 
the best chocolate. Or grated cocoanut 
may be added instead if one prefer. 
Pop-Corn Candy.—Put two cupfuls of 
sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter and 
a cupful of water in a kettle to boil until 
the syrup threads. Mix in four quarts 
of popped corn, stir, take from the Are, 
and stir until cool; make into balls or 
little flat cakes. 
CANNING MEATS. 
HE article on canning corn which 
appeared in The R. N.-Y. a few 
weeks since, reminds me of an experi¬ 
ment of my own in the canning line 
which was such a success that I feel that 
I ought to make it public for the beneflt 
of other housekeepers. I had long known 
that meat, fish and vegetables could be 
canned as well as fruit, but had supposed 
that for anything except the latter it 
must be by a process not easily followed 
by the ordinary housekeeper. Indeed, 
so far as vegetables go, we have so many 
kinds that will keep through the winter 
simply by placing them in the cellar, 
that we feel little need of such a process 
for them, but with meats it is far differ¬ 
ent. Few farm houses have any facili¬ 
ties for keeping meat fresh in warm 
weather, and the farmer often sells his 
veal calves or other fat stock at hardly 
the cost of production, when he would 
gladly kill and cat them but for the 
fact that a large part of every animal 
slaughtered would certainly spoil before 
it could be consumed. So the family 
usually regale themselves with fat salt 
pork, or turn vegetarians through the 
heated term—at least that was the cus¬ 
tom at our house until I found out that 
I could can meat. 
We had a number of veal calves for 
sale. They were very nice, having had 
the whole milk and would weigh from 
95 to 100 pounds each, yet the best offer 
we had for them was only 83.50 per head, 
and we finally sold all but two at that 
price. 
Happening to be in town a day or two 
after, I thought I would buy a piece of 
veal; it could not be very dear, I rea¬ 
soned, since calves were so cheap. I was 
a little surprised to find that not a pound 
could be bought for less than 10 cents, 
choicer portions selling as high as 12. In 
short, it was altogether too dear for one 
who had to sell calves for the money to 
A Good Pointer. 
Why Bhould you be Idle for one hour? No use 
In the world for It. Every moment of the working 
part of each day ought to be employed. The busy 
people are the happy people. B. F. Johnson & Co., 
of Klchmond, Ya., are offering In to-day’s paper to 
show you how to turn every hour Into solid 
cash.—.ddu. 
pay for it, and, after a talk with my hus¬ 
band, he agreed to have a butcher come 
and kill those we had left, even if part 
of the meat should become spoiled. It 
was a very warm day when it was done, 
and the meat was put in the cellar, and 
left till thoroughly cool. I then boiled 
all not needed for immediate use, until 
nearly done, when it was seasoned with 
salt and pepper. I cut all I could from 
the bones in neat slices and packed it 
piping hot into my Mason fruit cans. I 
was careful to leave no spaces for air, 
filling the cans with broth as I put in the 
meat, and taking care that everything 
should be at boiling heat when it was 
put in the cans. I filled them brim full 
and screwed on the covers as tightly as 
possible. Then they were set away in 
a cool, dark place till wanted. The bones 
were boiled till the meat left on them 
would slip off, and this with the broth 
was put in cans and came in very handy 
for soups, stews, etc. Helen tavlok. 
ITEMS OF INTEREST. 
Ham Toast.—Mix with one tablespoon¬ 
ful of finely chopped or grated ham, the 
beaten yolk of an egg, and a little cream 
and pepper. Heat over the fire, and then 
spread on hot buttered toast or on slices 
of bread fried quite crisp in butter. 
Apple Snow.—Peel and grate one large, 
sour apple, and sprinkle over it as grated, 
one cupful of powdered sugar. Add the 
whites of two eggs, and beat constantly 
for half an hour. Make a custard of two 
cupfuls of sweet milk, and the yolks of 
the two eggs; sweeten and flavor to the 
taste. Put the apple snow in a glass 
dish, pour the custard around it, and 
serve. 
Bresikfast Crackers.—Warm a cup of 
milk, season with salt, pepper, and but¬ 
ter, split six crackers, pour the milk over 
them and let them soak. When the milk 
is all taken up, lay half the crackers crust 
down in a dish which will hold a quart. 
Put a piece of butter, some salt and pep¬ 
per on each piece, then put in the rest of 
the crackers, seasoning the same way. 
Beat two eggs into two cupfuls of milk, 
pour over the crackers and bake 20 
minutes. F. ir. 
Beauty by Competition.—Who would not 
rather be beautiful than ugly ? Great 
efforts have been made in all ages to ac¬ 
quire it. Charlatans fatten on the cred¬ 
ulity that prompts vain persons—not al¬ 
ways of the female persuasion, either—to 
seek thei*" aid. Yet it remains for a 
nineteenth century traveler and author 
to discover that beauty is acquired by 
competition. Mr. Grant Allen, 25 years 
ago, traveled through England and 
France, and took particular note of the 
women. Recently he has traversed the 
same route, and discovered that, while 
the French women are no prettier, there 
has been great imnrovement among the 
English women of the middle class. Mr. 
Allen says that the change may partly be 
due to the development of athletics 
among English women, but he credits 
this improvement mainly to the advent 
into England of the American girl. For 
the last two decades the American girl 
has notoriously set the pace for the Eng¬ 
lish maidens, who, it seems, have made a 
gallant and not altogether unsuccessful 
effort to keep up with it; while the French 
women, being comparatively free from 
American competition, show no appre¬ 
ciable progress. Mr. Allen further says 
that further inquiry will u ndoubtedly dis¬ 
close the fact that the beautiful Ameri¬ 
can girl is herself an evolution of com¬ 
petitive effort. For many decades the 
typical American beauty has been ex¬ 
posed to the competition of the inflowing 
tide of beauties fiom all the ends of the 
earth. She has been impelled to adopt 
efforts to distance the buxom charms of 
the German and Scandinavian “ mad- 
Mothers.—Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
chen,” to outrival the strawberries and 
cream complexion of the daughters of 
Erin, and the bonny blue eyes of the 
lasses of Scotland. Furthermore, much 
must be attributed to domestic competi¬ 
tion between the relative charms of the 
unadorned but entrancing beauty of the 
fair Quakeress, the irresistible languor 
of the Creole, the spirituelle comeliness 
of the Yankee maiden and the radiant 
brilliancy of the daughters of the plains. 
The rivalry between all of these Hebes 
and Graces and Peris necessarily resulted 
in a superior type, that crown of womanly 
loveliness—the American girl. 
Sugared Chestnuts.—We find directions 
for preparing these which will give a 
party of young people on some long win¬ 
ter evening as much enjoyment as the 
eating of them afterwards. Take off the 
outer brown shell of as many chestnuts 
as it is proposed to operate upon, and 
put them, when peeled, into boiling 
water, allowing them to boil quickly for 
a few minutes. Take them out, drain 
and skin them. Have ready a number of 
small wooden splints about the thick¬ 
ness of lucifer matches and about twice 
as long. Sharpen the points well and 
stick one into each chestnut. Boil the 
sugar to the crack, and when this is 
ready, dip each chestnut into the sugar, 
and turn it round and round by means of 
the splint, so that as the sugar cools it 
may be spread evenly over the nut. When 
the sugar begins to set, lay the chestnuts 
on a buttered slab, and remove the 
splints. Wrap waxed paper around each 
and they will keep well for some time. 
Sometimes it is advisable to dip the chest¬ 
nuts a second time into the sugar, which 
should be kept warm, but not boiling, 
while the dipping is going on. Another 
plan of sugaring chestnuts is to prepare 
them as before, or roast them without 
burning or scorching them, then dip them 
in white of egg and roll in powdered 
white sugar. Lay then on a baking 
sheet and put them in a slow oven to set. 
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