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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 21, 1922 
such as bakers put on top of cookies, and 
which can bo bought at the large bak¬ 
eries, may be worker! in, and a lovely 
red or pink candy made. 
Condensed Milk Fondant.-— '1' h r e e 
tablespoons heavy condensed milk, 
warmed, two cups confectioners’ sugar. 
Stir milk slowly into (lie sugar until a 
paste is made. Then work with the 
bands ns with the other fondant. This 
makes n rich fondant that may be worked 
up into candies like the other fondant. 
The condensed milk must tie one of the 
heavy kinds, ns a thin milk will not make 
a good fondant. 
Chocolate Creams.— May be made as 
delicious as any you can buy. Take a 
ittle piece of the fondant, preferably that 
mode from condensed milk, roll into a 
ball mid slick on the end of a toothpick. 
I>ip into a little vessel of melted choco¬ 
late (the unsweetened kind), turn so as 
to cover fondant, entirely and drop onto 
oiled paper or a cold platter. A little 
paraffin melted with the chocolate makes 
it more firm, and there is nothing in¬ 
jurious about paraffin ns a food. It is 
Well to keep the vessel of melted choco¬ 
late sitting in a pan of hot water, for it 
firms very quickly. If a nut kernel or u 
bit of citron or pineapple is first rolled 
into the center of the fondant ball before 
flipping into the chocolate the bonbon is 
even more delicious. MRS. E. E. L. 
More About Painted Carpet 
I made a waterproof floor covering 
from an old rag carpet. First I cleaned 
the carpet and tacked it down on the 
•floor, stretching well, then went over it 
all with a cooked paste, not too thick, 
made of flour and water. I let it get dry 
and gave one or two more coals of paste, 
drying well each time. Then I took yel¬ 
low ochre and linseed oil. such as used 
by painters, and gave it. three coats. One 
must use her judgment as to the thick¬ 
ness of the paint, and if a coat of var¬ 
nish is put on it improves it. A coat of 
varnish once a year will help it wear. 
One could use a good floor paint, ready- 
mixed. but I used the ochre and oil. If 
the floor is not. smooth it is well to put 
several thicknesses of paper under the 
carpet. I have painted old hinder canvas 
also, only it was stretched on the side of 
the barn or some building. 
MRS. J. II. P. 
Frankfurt Sausage 
Will you give recipe for making frank¬ 
furters? H. O. D. 
The following is the Department of 
Agriculture recipe for Frankfurt sausage: 
Seventy pounds beef. 80 lbs. pork (not 
too leant. 20 lbs. water. DA or 2 lbs. 
salt, 2 o'/., nutmeg, \\ oz. black pepper. 1 
oz. red pepper. Cut the beef in small 
pieces, salt it, and allow It to cure -IS 
hours in a cool place. Cut the pork info 
small pieces, and put the beef and pork 
through the grinder together. Put into 
a container and add the water and spices. 
After it is all mixed put it through the 
grinder again, using the fine plate. Stuff 
itlto sheep casings. After the sausage is 
stuffed into the cusings, press the casing 
together at about 1-in. intervals. Twist 
the first link two or three times, then 
twist the next link in the opposite direc¬ 
tion, to avoid untwisting. After twisting 
hang in the smokehouse for two hours, 
at a temperature not above 128 degrees. 
After it is smoked, boil for five or 10 
minutes, then plunge into cold water, and 
hang in a cool place. 
Winter Canning 
The empty fruit cans are beginning to 
accumulate, and nnr fruit shelves to look 
correspondingly empty. Why not fill 
some of these cans, and thus insure plen¬ 
ty of fruit and vegetables to last until 
next Fall? How? Well, there are many 
surplus produels that may well he taken 
care of Winter days, and there are ninny 
things in favor of doing cunning now. 
Summer is so short, and there are so 
many, many things that must he done 
while the sun shines, and cannot be put 
off. Winter canning may la* done more 
leisurely, and just ns effectively as .Slim¬ 
mer canning. 
First, there is the moat. What a Hod- 
send cold-pack canning is to farmer folks! 
Every year I can cold pack the spnreribs 
at butchering time. There is other fresh 
meat for table use just then, and sparmbs 
are mighty good the next Fall. They 
come out of the can as fresh as when put 
in, and T have never lost a can. I used 
to "fry down" gpareriba and pat away in 
crocks, covered with lard. Usually the 
meat kept all right, hut occasionally a 
crock would spoil, and a whole crock of 
spnreribs 1 considered quite a loss. 
There is no doubt as to the keeping 
when doing it cold jvick. I cut the ribs 
in pieces that will go into the top of the 
can easily, then fill my large aluminum 
roaster with the meat, put it in the oven 
and hake it until almost tender, well sea¬ 
soned of course. Next I fill the cans, 
pour the hot broth over the meat, and put 
into the boiler and boil one hour. A 
steam pressure cooker would do the work 
more quickly, and 1 am hoping to have 
one some day. The ribs need only brown¬ 
ing in the oven when taken from the < 1111 , 
and tin' broth makes good gravy. A fa¬ 
vorite way of ours of serving the ribs is 
in a meat pie. 
Farmer folk simply cannot afford to 
buy beef from the butcher at current 
meat-shop prices, but wc can buy a quar¬ 
ter of beef from a farmer at farmers’ 
prices, and cold-pack the beef in quart 
cans for next Summer. If friend hus¬ 
band can be induced to cut the beef in 
pieces that will go into the can. it really 
i not Rich a bard task to cold-pack a 
quarter of beef. Of course it. does not 
need all to be done the same day. The 
meat will keep iu freezing weather for a 
week or longer, and the meat can be 
canned piecemeal. 
If one does not have ice in the Summer 
if is impossible to buy beef from the 
wagons, which come once or twice a week, 
with any satisfaction. There is always 
danger of its spoiling. So one fee!/* pret¬ 
ty good to have a supply of canned beef, 
ready to open and use at a few momenta’ 
notice. 
Then there arc the Winter apples.-They 
must be sorted out frequently now, and 
the ones- that are showing decay should 
he canned. Canned ajjple sauce comes in 
pretty good just before apples begin to 
ripen next Summer. At our house we do 
get tired of other canned fruits, hut never 
do we tire of apple sauce. 
Some of the apples may be made into 
butter. T have the children pare a basket 
of apples on Saturday morning on the 
purer, and make a large kettle of sauce. 
I save out enough of the sauce for over 
Sunday, and put the rest into the oven in 
the roaster seasoned with cinnamon and 
vanilla—and at supper time 1 take it 
out of the oven and can the butter. 
We are fond of mince pies, so I fre¬ 
quently make a kettle of mincemeat, and 
keep adding to my supply. We like mince 
pies until late in the .Spring, and when 
we have mince pies we have no other 
meat for that meal. 
The Baldwin apples make delicious 
jelly, ami if I fear that ui.v jams nnd 
jellies will run low, T make an occasional 
kettle of jelly in the Winter time. 
Spring usually finds a whole shelf of 
canned pumpkin on my fruit shelves, and 
pumpkin pies are just as good in the 
Spring as the Winter. In housechaning 
time it comes pretty handy to open a 
can of pumpkin and make a pie in a hur¬ 
ry in the morning while doing the break¬ 
fast dishes. 
I have two small racks that hold a pint 
can each, and it is no extra work at all 
to can a couple of pint cans of pumpkin 
when I stew a pumpkin in the Fall or 
Winter. By canning a couple of cans 
each time I stpw a pumpkin. I reach 
Spring with quite a number of cans. I 
do the same when I cook a squash b>r the 
table. A whole squash is usually too 
much for a meal, so I put a couple of 
pint cans iu the big kettle nnd cold-pack 
them. 
The root vegetables may be cold-packed 
also, if one is fearful the supply of veg¬ 
etables will not Inst until garden time. 1 
never do a boiler full—that would look 
like quite a day’s work, hut it docs not 
make much extra work to put a couple of 
cans of the vegetable I am preparing for 
a meal into the big kettle. 
Winter canning gets to be a habit it 
has with mo—nnd a pretty good habit. 
Tt gives one a feeling of assurance to 
reach Spring with n goodly supply of 
canned foods on the cellar shelves, for tile 
last stretch before canning time comes 
again draws on the reserve food supplies 
pretty heavily. 
Verily now, as in days of old, the house¬ 
wife looketh well to the ways of her 
household, and enteth not. of the bread of 
idleness: nay. not even when snows do 
cover the earth, and the Winter days are 
upon tis- for still site provides the food 
which mnketh her family to rise up and 
call her blessed, may hoover mttmaw. 
Tennessee Notes 
I’ve had the most desirous day, nnd 
now that one long desire of my heart has 
been gratified. T am in hopes that others 
will be, too. No, not a fortune, hut the 
best trip! I had been talking of going 
on a coverlet hunting expedition, and the 
eldest sou said this morning: ‘‘What 
about the trip today? Do you feel able 
to make it?” ‘‘Sure,” I replied, “but it’s 
a bit cold.” “Well, wrap up well,” he 
said. So they brought out ‘‘Liza Jane,” 
their name for their ear. She appeared 
to be in a fine humor. Lee. Charles «ud 
a neighbor’s lad and myself started. 
I had worked this part of the country 
pretty thoroughly, so we drove several 
miles before beginning the quest. Per¬ 
haps you have played the old game of 
’‘■bread and butter come to supper,” first 
“hot” and then “cold." so it went. "Yes, 
we have them.” “No, we would not part 
with them at. any price.” Then they 
would tell me where T might locate some 
others, and often I found almost ac¬ 
quaintances, sisters or cousins of some 
old-time friend. O 11 and on we went, 
“Liza Jane" just eating up the space on 
the rock road. One place there were six 
beautiful bed covers, two of the double 
weave. The Bible says it is wrong to 
he covetous, but I did surely wish 1 had 
one of them, and naught but stern neces¬ 
sity would make me turn it loose! 
Already we had passed our limit of 
distance. We looked toward the west 
and could see the rocks on the mountain. 
You know for years I have wanted to go 
to the mountains; not one of us had 
over been. We inquired and were told 
that road would lead us right to the foot 
of the mountain peak, known as Chimney 
Top, on whose crest rests a large hoar¬ 
der, more than (10 ft. high. Steps lead 
up one side, and those who climb to the 
top can see into Virginia, Kentucky, and 
are. of course, in Tennessee, On we 
went, and ere long we could get no 
further with the car. For me the trip 
was too late for mountain climbing; all 
T could do was to stand and look with 
wistful eyes towards the much-desired 
goal, but here, as elsewhere, one found 
the best of kindly people, who made me 
welcome until the hoys returned. Only 
one of them reached the tip top of the 
rock, nnd he seems yet. a hit shaky in his 
knees, but it surely was a joy to be so 
near one could touch the feet of the vast 
heights, look away above, beyond to the 
gray granite monsters, jutting out over 
the sides. But 1 tell you I should hate 
to sleep in their pathway. If one should 
break loose nnd come tearing down the 
mountainside it would be the end of any¬ 
one in its way. 
. <>ne surprising thing was the many 
little sehoolhouses. The children have 
hotter access to school than those out in 
the more open country. Wherever you 
find one large showy school building you 
will find no more for miles, but when you 
pass a little sehoolhouse in just a short 
time you pass another. 
The only old-fashioned work I saw go¬ 
ing on was a dear old white-haired dame 
spinning wool. She had a great buneli 
of hanks of the nicest, smoothest yarn, 
doubled and twisted, all ready for knit¬ 
ting, but back there along the mountains 
not a coverlet was to be found. The boys 
returned in about three hours, tired and 
ready for home, and within about four 
miles of home I found what I had been 
searching for nil day—a lovely blue and 
white counterpane, a beauty, in perfect 
condition, so we arrived home tired but 
contented. 
Such trips arc my delight, and they 
are not so expensive; fiO cents’ worth of 
cheese and crackers and a hit of gas. 
And I am glad that my appetite for 
pleasure is not jaded; that a few simple 
things will bring to me the same amount 
of gladness that perhaps a t lorn sand-dol¬ 
lar^ trip would not give the more ex¬ 
perienced. So many of us fail to grasp 
the opportunities near at baud by look¬ 
ing away beyond for something better. 
When the sameness of life begins to pall, 
and we feel nerves beginning to jangle 
in discord like someone beating a tin pun, 
it’s time to stop, get out of yourself, take 
a little rest jaunt. MRS. D. B. P. 
Handling the Household Wash 
We all have our own ways of doing the 
various household duties, and, generally 
speaking, like ottr own way the best. 
Still it does no harm to air our pot the¬ 
ories. even to so menial a task as doing 
the family wash, for if may, perchance, 
help someone who finds the ' -,isk too diffi¬ 
cult by following her present wav of ac¬ 
complishing it. In our own household the 
laundry paraphernalia is limited First 
of nil, there is no washing machine. Some 
of you no doubt will raise your hands in 
horror that such a necessity in the present 
day is lacking; however. 1 have yet. failed 
to sec one that I wanted in preference to 
my washboard and elbows. We have a 
good wringer—the best—and the wash 
bench is the correct height fur the user. 
We also have a good sized copper boiler. 
First thing after breakfast is out of the 
way the boiler is brought in and set over 
the fire and filled two-thirds full with 
water from the reservoir One bar of good 
soap is shaved in (not especially fine) 
and one-third bar of parawax is added. 
As soon ns the soap is dissolved fine 
pieces are pul in. including tablecloths, 
napkins, doilies, white waists, dish towels, 
collars, best shirts, etc. If they are 
stained of course they are treated, also 
pins removed and dust shaken out if nec¬ 
essary : otherwise put iu the hot water 
dry. When boiled upwards of half an 
hour these are removed to a tub half full 
of clear warm water, thoroughly rinsed, 
blued and wrung: however, before rinsing 
them prepare the second boiler; under¬ 
wear. sheets, light aprons in fact, ar¬ 
ranged according to soil. Handkerchiefs 
if too soiled may be soaked in salt and 
cold water. 
Later come band towels, and, the last 
fioiler, diapers or other pieces, if such 
there are. Diapers are first covered with 
hot water, soaked, then washed out. rins¬ 
ing if too soiled. Work in lightcolored 
waists, etc., under the washboard to soak 
a few minutes, nnd after the boiled 
clothes are out put the boiler across two 
sticks and use this water to soak the 
woolen underwear if it be Winter, or 
aprons or hosiery if Summer. 
This suds is especially nice when cool 
enough for house dresses, blouses, in fact 
all articles of similar nature. Only the 
very soiled parts of the dirtiest garments 
will need much rubbing, nnd wc try to 
avoid getting any garment, very dirty. It 
is SO much easier to let the soap and heat 
do the work than for us to do it. When 
the clothes are dry wo sort and fold as 
they come from the line, airing well if 
necessary. We only starch the curtains 
and best shirts, and fold the towels, bed 
linen and table linen for everyday use. 
neatly, and put away without ironing. 
They scarcely show the difference if they 
were hung straight on the line, dried 
without whipping and are taken care of 
at once. 
Too much bluing is as had on the looks 
of the clothes as if none were used. 
She washed the clothes on Mouday, 
And hung them up to dry— 
She brought them in and ironed them, 
And mended them. Oh, my ! 
And when the task was over, 
It seemed the work was done; 
For don’t the week seem longer 
When on Monday the wash gets done? 
patsy's wife. 
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