FIS. 4 
a saucepan a small piece of butter, and 
when it boils add a tea spoonful of flour ; when 
it has been for a moment stirred, add a cup¬ 
ful of milk or cream, salt and pepper to taste. 
Stir all the time, and when it boils add the 
potato slices. Serve at once. 
Potato Salad. 
Small onions sliced and mixed with cold, 
boiled potatoes cut into dice. Pour over this 
a dressingof vinegar, olive oil (cream is better) 
pepper and salt. Mrs. Henderson gives an 
excellent recipe for Saratoga | totatoes, so good 
that I will transcribe it. She says “ It re¬ 
quires a little piano, or potato cutter, to 
properly cut these potatoes. Fine, large po¬ 
tatoes are best. They are cut by rubbing 
them over a plane into slices as thin as a 
wafer. These are placed in very cold 
water or on ice to get chilled : then thrown 
into hot lard—so as to brown quickly. Have 
a salt box, a tin dish to receive the potatoes 
and a perforated ladle at hand. The pieces 
should be kept separate by means of the ladle 
till of a delicate yellow. Skim them out on 
to the tin plate, sprinkle salt lightly over them 
and place on a warm dish. Pour back any 
grease that is on the tin plate, and do not at¬ 
tempt to fry too many slices at a time. Two 
potatoes fried make a large dishful. 
It is a convenient dish for a company dinner 
for if kept warm the potato slices will be crisp 
and nice five or six hours after being cooked. 
They are sometimes eaten cold and make a 
pretty garnish for game. 
A recipe well worth the time and trouble 
necessary for its preparation is 
Potato Eg-gs. 
Two cups of mashed potatoes—cold or hot— 
two cups of cold ham minced very fine, two 
eggs beaten lightly, one tablespoonful of 
melted butter, two tablespoonfuls of cream, 
one cup of gravy and pepperand salt. Work 
up the cream and butter, the seasoning and 
beaten eggs. Beat up lightly' ; then put in the 
ham. Flour your hands and make up into 
egg-shaped balls, roll in flour and fry in good 
hot lard. Turn them carefully' and pour 
over some hot gravy. They are very good. 
In so many ways can potatoes be used that 
a book might be made up of recipes on the sub¬ 
ject. 
Cheese. 
There is no article of housekeeping that it 
becomes greater economy to buy at whole¬ 
sale than cheese. I have tried both ways and 
find that a whole cheese is a treasure in a 
family to be used in so many way's, and al¬ 
ways handy, even necessary, to the table. No 
country has arrived at the excellence of the 
English in making a specialty of this article, 
naming it from whatever locality it is manu¬ 
factured in. This should be the case iu this 
country, but so far as I oau learn, whether it 
is made in one part of the continent or another, 
it is all alike called “ American” cheese, when 
not sailing under the false colors of some Eng¬ 
lish namesake of renown. The W elsh rare-bit 
(called sometimes rabbit) is made by melting 
a nice little rich cheese in the oven, and while 
it is there, toast carefully thin squares of 
bread, with crust removed. Butter slightly 
while hot, and dip into hot water sufficient to 
half cover, so as to moisten slightly. Place 
each slice on a separate hot plate, sprinkle a 
little salt, and pour the melted cheese over it. 
Serve at once. No morsel of cheese, if ever 
so dry, should be thrown away, as it can be 
used in this way, or grated for marearoni. 
At dinner it is customary to serve cheese just 
before dessert. English people always con¬ 
sider celery a necessity in this course. As an 
article of diet it is considered an aid to diges¬ 
tion, not, of course, if eaten in excess. 
KITCHEN OIL-CLOTH. 
MRS. C. S. JONES. 
Many persons who have used Brussels and 
tapestry carpeting until the surface has be 
come so entirely bare as to be no longer pre¬ 
sentable, look with regret upon the clean, 
heavy canvas of the wrong side, such a pity 
does it appear to the economical mind to cast 
aside such a durable-looking floor-covering. 
And so it is. For many years 1 have been in 
the habit of utilizing these carpets, not only 
for kitchen, but for hall and common chamber 
floor covers. A flour paste made by boiling 
Graham flour in water until as thick as mo¬ 
lasses and perfectly smooth; then adding to 
each gallon half a pint of dissolved glue (one- 
fourth pound to a pint of water) is kept hot 
and carefully applied to the surface with a 
white-wash brush, until the carpet is thor¬ 
oughly saturated. This will require several 
days to dry exposed constantly to the sun 
and air; and if the surface does not appear to 
be well filled in with the paste, a second coat 
is applied. 
On this surface apply two coats of any 
pretty colored paint, and when dry a coat of 
shellac varnish, followed by one of copal, will 
give an oil cloth of far better quality than any 
THE BUBAL 
you can purchase. In painting so large a sur¬ 
face it is much the most economical plan to 
purchase one or more kegs of white lead, the 
oil, turpentine and varnish from a wholesale 
dealer. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
GOOD MADE MUSTARD. 
Take three teaspoonfuls of ground mustard; 
a teaspoonful of flour and a teaspoonful of 
white sugar. Mix together, pour over boiling 
water and mix to a smooth, thick paste. 
When cold add a teaspoonful of salt and 
vinegar to make thin euough for use. 
FRIED SALT PORK. 
Cut into tbin slices, freshen by placing in 
milk or water for an hour or two, roil in flour 
and fry until crisp. Place the pork on a plat¬ 
ter, drain off most of the gravy from the fry¬ 
ing-pan, mix two teaspoonfuls of flour smooth 
in half a pint of milk and pour into the hot 
fai in the frying-pan. Add pepper and salt, 
if not salt enough from the fat. Let boil up 
and pour over the meat. This is a very nice 
gravy for potatoes or cakes. 
Farmer’s Wife. 
DRIED PEACH PIE. 
Stew the peaches until perfectly soft, mash 
fine, sweeten, add a small piece of butter to 
each pie, bake with4wo crusts and just before 
eating take off the top crust, pour over a half 
cup of thick, sweet cream, return the crust 
aud serve. Best eaten the same day baked. 
cabbage salad. 
Cut into shreds a small bead of cabbage- 
Put into a dish on the stove three-quarters of 
a cup of vinegar a tablespoonful of butter, a 
tablespoonful of white sugar, two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of salt aud half a teaspoonful of pepper. 
Wh n the vinegar boils, put in the cabbage, 
scald, but do not let boil. Have a cup of 
milk at the boiling point, into it stir two well 
beaten eggs, boil one minute after adding, 
turn the cabbage into the salad dish, pour 
over the eggs and milk, mix the ingredients 
well together, cover and set w here it is cold 
for three or four hours before serving. 
Mary B. 
POTATO AND BEET SALAD. 
Slice thin four medium-sized, cold, boiled po¬ 
tatoes. Chop fine a red beet, also boiled, but it 
should not be cold, and pour over it four 
tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Let stand w-hile 
you mix together a teaspoonful of salt, half a 
teaspoonful each of sugar, pepper and made 
mustard with a large tablespoonful of oil 
(melted butter w ill do.) When this is done 
take out a tablespoonful of the chopped beet 
and mix with the potatoes, turning into a 
salad bowl Squeeze the beets and vinegar 
through a cloth into the oil, etc., beat up well 
and pour over the potatoes aud beets, a. b. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
GRANITE IRON-WARE. 
Mrs. J. Bailey wishes to know what granite 
iron-ware is, and what it is colored with. 
Ans.—T his ware, which is in a measure 
taking the place not only of the heavy iron 
cooking utensils of the kitchen, but of tin¬ 
ware, britannia, porcelain and silver ware, is 
made of sheet-iron and coated with an insolu¬ 
ble glaze combined with a mixture of iron 
oxide which, when subjected to an intense 
heat, takes on a glass-like, mottled finish 
which is very pleasing in appearance. Besides 
being lighter, easier and pleasanter of man¬ 
agement than most cooking vessels, the 
manufacturers claim that it is the most whole- 
some and serviceable w'are made, and that it 
is subject to neither rust, breakage, nor inju¬ 
ry by fire. 
SOAP STONE GRIDDLE. 
Mrs. T. S. H. wishes to know what will 
prevent cakes from sticking to a soapstone 
griddle. 
Ans. —Rubhing the griddle thoroughly with 
fine salt before heating we have seen recom¬ 
mended, but we have had no personal experi¬ 
ence with this kind of griddle. Will some of 
our readers who have, please answer ? 
PICKLE FOR MARKET. 
D. Pierce wishes to know how the pickles 
are made that are sold in the Chicago mar¬ 
ket. 
Ans.—T he cucumbers when gathered are 
placed upon trays or tables, sprinkled with 
salt, and left to drain for a day. They are 
then sorted into sizes, put into casks and cov¬ 
ered with brine, where they are left until 
wanted for sale. They are then taken from 
the brine, put into fresh water and left to 
freshen. Afterwards they are put into glass 
bottles, jars or small kegs with spice and 
pieces of red pepper and covered with vine¬ 
gar, the best being pure cider vinegar of mod¬ 
erate strength. Such pickles are not green, 
but of a brownish tinge. The green pickles 
are “ coppered” and packed in diluted acetic 
acid. These last are not wholesome or desirable. 
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