THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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to he a noble woman. And when she expressed 
those sentiments in words, then she began to 
“scatter blessings. ” They are words of joy 
and of hope: and reading them, we feel a spark 
of inspiration stirring up our better nature 
and encouraging us to renewed effort in all 
good work. How much better than uselessly 
grumbling, hogging fancied ills and borrow¬ 
ing trouble; or braying over our neighbors’ 
ignorance! A chronic grumbler has to have 
a good many virtues and a gift of genius to 
be 00 a level with a cheerful spirit. Petty 
complainings and potty fault-findings are not 
characteristic of greatness or goodness, and if 
we must indulge in such little outbursts, let it 
lie “when and where’’ no sound eau reach a 
printer’s ear. 
A SUNDAY DINNER IN JURY. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
“ It is going to be very hot to morrow,” 
said the amateur cook, “and really I do not 
kuow how I shall get through the dinner.” 
“Suppose we cook it to-day,” I said, “ while 
we are canning those strawberries.” 
Eveiy one looked dubious as to making out 
anytbiug good, but I continued. 
“Get a ham instead of beef, and boil it to¬ 
day, allowing tweuty minutes to the pound, 
skin it and trim all ragged pieces off, then 
brush all over with beaten egg aud cover with 
a paste of rolled cracker wet up with milk, 
seasoned with pepjier, and bound with beaten 
egg; brown lightly in the oven and serve it 
cold to morrow, garnished with curled parsley; 
cook enough potatoes to day to serve for to¬ 
morrow's dinner as well, mush them tine and 
warm thoroughly with a little cream, just be¬ 
fore they are needed. Shell a few peas quiet¬ 
ly this evening. They will boil to-morrow 
while the potatoes get warm, and while the 
kettle ia boiling to make a cup of tea for the 
older memlterg of the family. If you have 
strawberries, and some duinty crackers aud 
good cheese, with a pitcher of milk—cold, but 
not iced—you will have enough variety to 
make what seems a lunch, but will make a 
very good dinner, especially if a choice salad 
is made, and some good pickles added.” 
This plan wusadopted, and might bo varied 
in any household. Cold lamb is a daintier 
dish than the hot roast, and so are cold fowls 
at this season of the year. It should be a 
housekeeper's study to cook two diuuers with 
the heat that is necessary for oue, making to¬ 
morrow’s pudding—to be eaten cold—when 
cooking the hot one for to day, 
A great many wives from a sense of duty 
make of themselves kitcheu martyrs all day 
Sunday. They say that during the busy week, 
the head of the family has not lime to enjoy a 
meal, but 1 am quite sure that if he is a wise 
man, and a good husband, ho will prefer a 
quiet, dainty meal, with fruit and flowers, and 
cool food, a well appointed table, and a happy 
rested wife, to the air of fatigue that pervades 
every one, when the fair Sunday morning has 
been spent over the glowing grate. To please 
the taste of the master of tbo household, 
women are to blame general'y for imposing 
this task on themselves, for need, there is 
none. A little extra forethought on Saturday, 
a little care and planning will insure for the 
tired wife and mo her, at least partially, a 
Sunday that proves a day of rest to body aud 
mind. 
WANTED—A CHARTER ON ORDER. 
I always turn to “Domestic Economy” 
first, as I like that part of the Rural best, 
but I am getting tired of hearing “Charity” 
und others complaining of their borne life. 
Home is just what we make it. Now, cau’t 
some oue tell us bow to make a home so at¬ 
tractive that our husbands will enjoy coming 
into it? Cuu we expect them to enjoy home, 
if it is not made pleasant for them? > y daily 
thought is, what can 1 do to make home more 
pleasant Will uot some old housekeeper give 
the LiPst methods of doing work, and in what 
order the work ought to toedoucf Please give 
a sketch of a day’s work. I have beea mar¬ 
ried three years, but only went to housekeep¬ 
ing this Spring, and there are many things 
that 1 would like to know. I have a large 
house, beautiful yard and surroundings, aud 
have a great deal of work to do, but 1 try to 
have a time and place for everything, and my 
work moves along better thau it would other¬ 
wise. 1 hope that some one will gratify my 
request. c f. h. 
[If C. F. H. continue iu the way she has 
commenced, she will become a successful 
housekeeper right soon. No one can give a 
better rule for good housekeeping “than a 
time aud place for everything.” The best 
method and the order of doing the work in 
one family, might not apply with the same fit¬ 
ness to another. To be sure there is the usual 
round to go through in every household, but 
even the common place dish washing is subject 
to great variation in different families. Again, 
what one woman would consider order, would 
be chaos to another. And so it is that elastic 
rules only can be laid down for housekeepers, 
rules that will stretch aud adapt themselves to 
the situations and circumstances of different 
persons. Still, of course, we are always 
happy to hear the views of our readers.— 
Ed. D. E.] _ _ 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
A GOOD CLAM SOUP. 
Select 30 good sized clams in the shell. Wash 
the shells perfectly clean, put in a kettle with 
a very little boiling water. As soon as the 
shells Open, take out the clams, remove shells, 
aud strain the liquid in the kettle through a 
thiu cloth. Chop the clams as fine as possible, 
press through a sieve, add to the strained 
liquor, with a finely chopped onion, a little 
minced parsley and a dash of pepper. Bring 
to a boil, add a pint of hot, rich milk, thicken 
with a little Hour tnailo smooth with butter, 
aud when ft boils up, remove from the fire, 
and stir in the beaten yelks of two eggs. Split 
a few butter crackers, place in the tureen, and 
pour in the soup. This is excellent and well 
repays oue for the trouble iu preparing. 
_ MRS. c. 
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS. 
Two pounds of granulated sugar, a pint of 
sweet crcurn, a tablespoonful of vauilla ex¬ 
tract, and four ounces of Baker’s chocolate. 
Rut into a bright tin dish, and cook slowly un¬ 
til it arrives at the brittle state, which can lie 
known by dropping a little into cold water. 
Roiir at once ou to fiat, greased tins or plates, 
and when almost cold cut into square tablets. 
Better for children than boughten candy. 
_ _ MRS. v. D. 
COOL DISHES FOR HOT WEATHER; GELATINE. 
Half a box of Cox’s gelatine souked two 
hours iu milk; add a little soda, then heat, 
stirring often. Beat the yelks of three eggs 
with a small teacopful of sugar, and pour 
over (stirring well) the scalded milk and gela 
tine. Return to the kettle and let it boil again 
a minute. Strain and flavor; then pour into 
a wot mold and set, ou ice till wanted. Eat 
with cream and sugar, or fruit. 
COLD CUSTARD. 
Heat a quart of milk, udd sugar to taste to 
the beaten yelks of live eggs, mix with this 
the hot milk, aud add the beaten whites of 
two. 8et stone china cups in a baking-pan of 
hot water, and, after filling them, put into 
the oven till “sot.” Then pour over them a 
meringue of the three other whites, whipped 
up stiff, with a trifle of sugar aud a little 
lemon juice. Flavor the custard before bak¬ 
ing, if preferred. When done, set. away to 
cool, and if placed in cold water with a little 
ice, it is a refreshing dessert. 
BLANC MANGE. 
One quart of milk heated and sugared, one 
package of Cox's gelatine, after being soak 
ed two hours in a cup of cold water. Cook 
aud straiu Bet away to cool on Saturday 
night. Turn out of the mold on Sunday, and 
if not loose, dip the mold for uu instant, in hot 
water, and it will turn out easily. Eat with 
cream aud sugar, or fruit. a. l. jack 
OREEN TOMATO SAUCE. 
Slice about two gallons of green tomatoes 
and Id large onions. Add to these, twojjllurts 
of vinegar, two pom ids of sugar, three table- 
spoonfuls of salt, two of black pepper, one 
each of allspice and cloves. Cook until tender, 
stirring constantly. Good with cold meat. 
PICKLED PEACHES. 
Prepare 10 pounds of peeled fruit. Strew 
4>,£ pounds of sugar over them and let stand 
oue hour. Theu drain off every particle of 
the sirup; add a cup of water, and boil until 
the scum coasos to rise. Rut in the fruit ami 
cook five minutes. Skim out the poaches; to 
the simp add a quart of good vinegar and a 
small bag of whole spice. Boil 10 or 1.5 min¬ 
utes longer, then pour over the fruit. Keep 
in glass. _ mus. c. b, 
HUCKLEBERRY CAKE. 
Two cups of sugar, a scant cup of butter, 
five eggs beaten separately, a cup of sweet 
milk, three cups of flour, a teaspoonful of 
soda dissolved iu warm water; cinnamon or 
nutmog to ta-te, and a quart of ri^e huckle¬ 
berries which have been dredged with flour. 
Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the 
yelks, theu the milk, flour, whites, spice, soda, 
and, last, the fruit. Bake slowly until a broom 
splint comes out clean fiom the thickest part. 
MRS. B, k. 
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Wonderful Success. 
Oue hundred and fifty milliou pounds of 
flour, or more than seven hundred aud fifty 
thousand bai rels, raised with it in 1833. 
Ilorsfonl’s 4eid IHios pli ate 
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pu.sccltanfousi gulvcrtteittg. 
Robust Health 
Is uot always enjoyed by those who seem 
to possess "it. The taint of corrupted 
blood may be secretly undermining the 
constitution. In time, the poison will cer¬ 
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virulence the longer it has been allowed 
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boil, skin disorder and sense ol' unnatural 
lassitude, or languor, is one of Nature’s 
warnings of the consequences of neglect. 
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