MARCH 26 
216 
THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
have poor bread while it is a common diet with 
others. If one has reasonably good flour and a 
good oven, it is quite unnecessary to have poor 
bread, provided no biscuit-dough or pie-crust 
has been put into the flour barrel for safe 
keeping from one baking to another; for, as 
“ a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump,” so 
will a little piece of dough sour a large quan¬ 
tity of flour, aud this is the reason why many a 
housewife '‘loses her luck " in bread-making. 
To make the rising, I put a half-teaspoonful 
each of soda and salt into an earthen bowl and 
then fill the dish half full of boiling water ; 
when this has cooled till the finger can be 
borne in it without scalding, stir in flour to 
make a thick batter. This is kept warm by 
putting it into a kettle of warm—not hot— 
water. The dish, which lacked nearly or 
quite an inch of being full at first, should be 
filled to the brim iu from six to eight bourn 
with light, foamy “emptyings,” or “ris¬ 
ing.” To make three good loaves, I use two 
quarts of warm milk or warm water, for the 
wettiBg. I make a hole in the flour, which in 
Winter I often warm, and put in the wetting 
first aud then the rising, stirring in enough of 
the flour to make a stiff batter; cover well 
with flour; Bet in a warm place to rise for an 
hour; then mix into loaves and let them rise 
three-fourths of an hour. Bake in a moderate¬ 
ly hot oven from 45 to <50 miuutes. Of course, 
the housekeeper must use her own judgment 
as regards baking. Some ovens bake much 
more quickly than others ; sometimes the wood 
is slow to burn, and then more time is re¬ 
quired. Old cooks scarcely need directions, 
but many a young matron needs the plainest 
demonstrations, and some time in the far-off 
future Alicia may find this Scrap Journal of as 
much importance to her happiness and com¬ 
fort as a mine of gold. 
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POUND CAKE. 
CHIEF COOK. 
Pound cake is so called because it is made 
of a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound 
of eggs and a ponnd of flour. There should be 
absolutely nothing else in it, ail flavor is a dam¬ 
age, whether in the cake or the icing. Let ihe 
butter be just solt enough to beat easily, but 
beware of the slightest approach to oilinese. 
Use pulverized sugar only. Break the eggs 
into a basin, ready for instant use, and sift the 
flour. When all this is done, begin by putting 
the butter and sugar into a basin, aud with a 
large, heavy tinned, iron spoon beat the two 
till perfectly homogeneous. At once add all 
the eggs, and if you are a woman beat till you 
are tired; then call your stoutest help aud let 
her tire herself out, and then tire yourself over 
again thorough y. When this is done add the 
flour and mix it in as quickly and as lightly as 
possible. You now have a perfect poundcake 
batter. Batter the sides of a pan, cut a sheet 
of letter paper to fit in the bottom; pour in the 
batter and bake at once. Try with a clean 
splinter, and when it cames out perfectly clean 
from doughiness it is done. Lay a plate over 
the cake; turn both together upBide dowu ; 
lift off the pan, let cool, and you will have a 
cake perfectly light in eveiy part. 
To Ice a Pound Cake. 
Beat well together till pretty dry, the whites 
of five eggs; then add white, pulverized sugar 
a little at a time, till you have put in one 
pound, beating all the time. Uoat the cake all 
over the top and sides with this for the first 
coat, using a broad case-knife. Set in a cool 
oven till dry, then apply a second coat thinned 
slightly with a little rose-water; when this ia 
dried In the oven, it is ready for ornamenta¬ 
tion. Make a cone of stiff wi iting paper about 
five inches long and one and u-half inch broad 
at the open end. Fill it with icing, and fold 
down the open end, closing it up entirely. 
Now with a pair of scissors cut tit the point of 
the cone, till you can squeeze out the icing 
through the hole iu ihe point by pressure of 
the thumb on the closed end. Hold the cone 
point down between the fore and middle finger 
with the thumb on the closed end. Now use 
the point of the cone as you would a pencil in 
drawing; point it to the part of the cake you 
wish to ornament, but not quite touching it; 
press the icing out with the thumb, and draw 
it over the cake at the dictate of your fancy. 
If you cut the point of the eone square across, 
you will produce a round thread of icing; If 
cut like a star, a star like thread will result, 
and by various ways of cutting off the point 
yon can produce an endless variety of pattern 
and of all required sizes. When the cone is 
half emptied All it up again. If you wish to 
build the icing in a fence around the edge, or 
as a castle in the middle, don’t build iaster 
than it will set, or your work will fall, but flat 
work can bo rushed through at once. Notice 
the following essentials for a perfect pound 
cake:—sweet butter, fresh eggs, pulverized 
6ugar, and the best flour finely sifted, long- 
continued and thorough beating of the three 
first, and as little as possible of the last; thor¬ 
ough baking aud neat chaste icing ; no color 
in the Icing; no ornaments that cannot be 
eaten, and, above all, no bungling in cutting it 
up on the table (just prior to serving, not be. 
fore.) The best cake in the world will not taste 
well in chunks. To cut a cake well UBe a knife 
made for that especial purpose. It has a long 
extremely thin blade, must be very sbarp 
and used wltb a steady downward pressure; 
no drawing out, or the Icing will skin off. I 
have Baid nothing about how t,o bake this cake; 
let no one undertake a pound cake till she can 
bake other sorts well; it is an art. The oven 
must he hot enough to set the batter, before it 
falls; and after that, don’t let it be less than a 
deep brown on the top, when done. Keep a 
pound cake three days before it is cut. A fresh 
pound-cake, is poor stuff. 
DISH-WASHING AGAIN. 
“ What work will the little hands do first 
for mamma?” I asked, as Bright-eyes tired of 
her play crept into my lap. “Wash dishes; 
girls always do that first," said sage seven- 
year-old from his perch in baby’s high chair. 
The little fellow has gone through his few 
SummerB with his eyes open. First, last and 
all the time it seems to be the little girl’s place 
to wash the dishes. No wonder she comes to 
hate it, as nine times out of ten, she will tell 
you she does, when she is a grown women. 
She knows, too, that her mother hated it be¬ 
fore her, aud for the same reason She was 
proud enough to be allowed to clear away 
the tea things the first time. 1 doubt if, up to 
her tenth year, there has ever come to any 
girl a prouder moment than that when she 
first heard her mother say to an admiring vis¬ 
itor. “She washes the dishes for me." The 
change in her feelings comes with the constant 
—I had almost said everlasting—washing of 
those same dishes. Morning, noon midnight! 
Night, morning and noon ! Noon, night and 
morning! for, once let the deluded daughter 
of the house make it manifest that she can do 
the dishes and do them well, and that becomes 
her task thenceforth. Her mother has been 
looking forward to this time ever since she 
was born. “ If I only had some one to wash 
dishes, I could get along with the rest,” has been 
the burden of her thoughts these many yearB. 
So the little daughter is chained fast to the 
treadmill and the mother's hands are free to 
do something that will tell— washing dishes 
never does. All the beauties of Summer 
flowers, waving grass and singing birds, may 
invite the child forth into the sunshine, but 
the sink standing in the corner with Us load 
of dirty disbeB holds her fast, so, mayhap she 
“ slights” the plates and cries over the pots 
aud kettles. Those dreadful pots and kettles! 
How little she thought in the da;s when she 
triumphantly mounted her short self on a stool, 
to thrust her arms in the dish-pan, that there 
was but a Btep between the china and glass 
of the tea-table and the pots and kettles 
of the kitchen. Now, I do not mean to say 
that little girls should not be allowed to 
wash dishes. They should not only be 
taught but encouraged to do it, as some¬ 
thing necessary to be done. But I do protest 
agaiust the practice of putting all, or even 
the bulk, of the family dish-washiug on a 
young girl, thus making drudgery of what 
might be a not unpleasant task. 
Adeline E. Story. 
BED QUILTS. 
As the days begin to lengthen and the chil¬ 
dren are at home during the Spring vacation, 
it is a good time to look after the well-being of 
the bedding for another year’s demand. The 
odds and ends of chintz and prints can be 
pieced up by the little girls in chains and 
blocks, and two useful ends be accomplished— 
the scraps be worked into use, and the chil¬ 
dren taught how to sew. A nice way to make 
a bed-quilt or comfortable is after this wise : 
make for the center a star of eight diamond 
pieces, cut out to be two inches long, with 
squares and half squares for the corners and 
sides of the star, so that the block when fin¬ 
ished will be just square; then cut a strip of 
print or of bordering and sew around the 
squares. Next have a row of squares and 
half-squares pieced into u strip and sew 
around; theu auother strip of print, the block- 
work strip can be made wider, each row to 
alternate, a stilp of patchwork aud one of 
plain, till the quilt is as large as desired. One 
advantage in piecing in ibis way is that the 
quilt can be turned around, there being no top 
or bottom to it, and the wear will be equalized 
all around. I never should try uew goods to 
piece up, but really it is economical to work 
up remnants of garments and turn them to use. 
I have seen very pretty quilts made by piecing 
up blocks all stars aud setting them together 
with a sash four inches wide, or alternate 
blocks of plain. There is no way that a child 
will learn Lhe use of the needle so easily as in 
patchwork; there is a fasciuaiion in the work 
that little girls like ; besides it seems to estab¬ 
lish industrious habits aud that is a great item 
in education. Any employment that will keep 
a child busy is better than idleness for “ Satan 
alwsys finds mischief for idle bands to do.” 
Gran dmothbr. 
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No Costiveness, Diarrhoea or any bowel com¬ 
plaints where Hop Bitters are used. 
anil Patftittery. 
AN OLD FASHIONED HAND FORGED RAZOR STEEL KNIFE. 
MAHER A Rltosfl, 
'JO Monroe S(., Tole- 
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their brand of cutlerv 
* (every blade warranted 
a and replaced Free if 
la softer flawy), will send 
S postjwid. knife like cut, 
igjj strong bUrtcs and ebony 
W0 hail dlo for 75c., or with 3 
W blades. $i- Wft have 1 
~ blade knife. 86c.; extra 
beavv 1 Wade, 50c.; medi¬ 
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Ladles' 1 blade. 25c.; 2 blade, 50c.; Gents fine3 blade $1. Bruners, oil temper and tested, $1. Buddimr kmfe, 
6oc.: Hunting knife- $1. Cattle knife. $1.; Sample 6-incb, hand forged, Butcher knife, poBt paid, 50c. Illustra¬ 
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H ampden W atches 
Are acknowledged by competent and Scientific 
Jmixes, and by all who have critically tested 
their time-keeping qualities by using, to be 
The Best Finished and Most Accurate¬ 
ly Adjusted 
WATCHES 
Manufactured in this country, for equal price. 
HAMPDEN WATCH COMPANY, 
Springfield, Mass. 
Factories and General Office, Springfield, Mass. 
New York Office, 12 Maiden Lane, C. S. A. 
CHA8. D. HOOD, Treaa. and Manager. 
Manure Spreader, 
Pulverizer and Cart Combined 
A new Farm Implement equaling the Mowing* Ma¬ 
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dr-s KEMP & BURPEE M’F’G CO., 
_ SYRACUSE, N. V. 
MEADOW KING 
SULKY HAY RAKE. 
Tills rake is very simple in its plan, aud durable in 
nil its parts. It has no ratchets, springs, or friction 
devicus for dumping, wliieb are liable to break or get, 
out of order; aud for ease of handling. and for doing 
S ood work, is unequaled by any baud dump Sulky 
ake in the market Send for circulars. Address 
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TriiuiHnsbiirK, N. A. 
Also Manufacturers of Lawn Mowers, Plows, Sic. 
White’s Patent 
Lightning Churn Dash 
Will chum cream in from no seconds to 3 minutes and 
uew milk in from 3 to 5 minute?., and produces 9 per 
cent.more nice-grained butter than »in other dash ever 
invented. Does not cut the cream, bill beats it like the 
old-fashioned da»U. it te made luseveral me*, aud fits 
all the nld-f'ishimied round tub nr crock churns. Can 
also bo used in an ordinary creamery pall. It Is the beBt 
and cheapest intho market. Oount.v rights lor sale. 
M. J. NEWHOUSE, 
Sole Manufacturer and Agenti. 
for New York State. 
ONEIDA, N. Y. 
SKistcUmitous. 
THE NEW SHEEP DIP. 
Little’s Chemical Fluid- 
Non-Poison ous. Non-Corrosive. 
Specific cure for Scab. Mamie and any skin disease. 
Ticks and Lice on all animals. Fleas on Dogs, Worms 
iu the Throat, and internally, ns well as sore eyes in 
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It ia before all other dips In the simplicity of its 
preparation. It mixes at once with cold water, and a 
single trial will prove that on coming Into contact with 
the water the whole l* ohanxud into a milk.white Dip, 
which is dixtinctly not (be case with anr other 
mat rrinl. Dispenses entirely with fires ana boilers, 
which are necessary with Tobacco and other Dips. 
The sheep may bo dipped with perfect safety in the 
which are necessary with Tobacco and Other Dips, 
i. dn ep may ‘ 
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No.296 K. Lbu.se fit., Baltimore, Aid. 
Wanted.. 
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putting rip canned Roods, such as Tomatoes, Corn, etc. 
To one who can xlve good recommendations and testi¬ 
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^00 KENTUCKY MULEST 
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From all the varieties-of Prtnltry—Brahmas. Cochins 
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FLOWERS 
tr« millsend postpaul .tjaurA 
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condition. our choice of torts: 
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F |3 Honor, 18 I: 20 Verbenas, $ 
. 17 , Basket or Beil J mg Plants, S 
10 Geraniums.# I; 10 Tuberoaes.s; 
R Hardy Flowering Shrubs, SI { and| 
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Over 1500 distinct vnrielicM, All nrrnug Plants, 
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HOOPES, BROTHER & THOMAS, 
Chjsuby Hill Nurseries, West Chester, Pa. 
M 
Ton 1881 
wm run to til iq>pllo*nw 
Ordering H. ft contain* firn color* 
About ?00 page7, Ami full de»cripUom, prices And directions 
piloting 1500 vArlittceof Vegetable tnd Flower Seeds, Pianu* 
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. And tocmtwnm without 
t* n.ilnrod jiIaUs, 6 U 0 «ngrmvhiie&, 
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EARLY AMBER 
SUGAR-CANE SEED. 
KENNEY & MILLER, 
Growers and dealers In the above variety of Seed, who, 
beinx the original introducers and improvers of the 
•• Minnesota Early Amber Cane,” can sell you the pure 
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grown. Our facilities are unparalleled for growing 
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SEND FOR OUR CIRCULAR. Address 
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SEEDS! Ksspa 
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they are home*irrown|they 
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Try them. Handsomelyl'lus- 
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mailed free. BE SI RE to 
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Market Gardener* write 
for Special Price List. 
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OATS 
RUSSIAN WHIT* 
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H bush, b v frelga cores press. 
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By mail, BEST, 35o. each; 3 for $L Cnttinxs. warrant- 
aa f 
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SMALL FRUITSir 
- irtoi's t* suit th© million. A 
CCESS WITH SMAUL 
E.P.R0E 
FRUITS."with » very liberal i 
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CIBUUUUUIC'U uaw 
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XJ None Out lasted Seeds sent out. 
Combined catalogues free upon application. 
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Office of Nursery and Seed Store, 386 and 387 Mam St. 
