THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
people do. I believe in keeping clean rather 
than being forever making clean. 
Then in the same number the article headed 
“Little Tilings* 1 is so good. Mothers, there is 
no greater pleasure than entering into every 
little pleasure of your children. Some con¬ 
sider it frivolous to condescend to play with 
children, but not I; it keeps the heart young, 
and often eases and lightens sorrow; at least, 
I find it so. Ever since I passed the bounds of 
childhood myself, I have loved children; and 
since I have been a mother, how dear they are 
tome; and though lam now getting old, I 
can and do enjoy being with children, and 
add all I can to their enjoyment. My own 
think no excursion or picnic complete unless 
mamma goes. I only wish the children would 
not grow up so fast. My two youngest are 
girls 12 and 14 years of age, past childhood, 
but I mean to keep them girls as long as I 
can, nor are they in a hurry to become young 
ladies. 
Christmas—that time ever dear to my 
heart—is fast approaching. Each and every 
one should make the moat of it. Gifts, how¬ 
ever simple, if ouly wrought with loving 
hearts and fingers, should bo cherished. Try 
and let none in the home circle feel neglected. 
If you nave hired help, remember them too. 
There are so many acceptable articles which 
can be made with very little expense, that 
those with even the most moderate means 
can find some useful and necessary article 
which will be more prized if given as a Christ¬ 
mas present. aunt km. 
pepper and salt, add a little more water, cover 
and cook slowly'one hour, add the juice of a 
small lemon and serve. western cook. 
dmptcmfttttf and Pachinmi 
NEW YEARS CAKES. 
One pound and a quarter of sugar, a pound 
of butter, a half pint of cold water, two eggs, 
a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little 
warm water, four tablespoonfuls of caraway 
seed and ahout three and a quarter pounds of 
flour. A little more flour may be necessary 
in rolling out. Cut in square cakes about a 
quarter of an inch thick, and bake in a quick 
oven. mrs. c. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED 
KOUMISS. 
Will you please give directions for making 
the koumiss that was given to President 
Garfield? mrs. k. c. b. 
An'S.—T ake a champagne bottle and fill to 
the neck with pure now milk, add two table- 
spoonfuls of sugar—lump, that, has been 
crushed—dissolve in a little water over the 
fire; then add a quarter of a two cent cake of 
compressed yeast. Cork, tie down securely 
and shake thoroughly. Let stand for six 
hours In a temperature anywhere from 60 to 
00 degrees, then place In the ice box, or other 
cold place, over night. The virtue of this 
drink is, that it refreshes aud stimulates with¬ 
out bad after effects. The milk must be pure 
and new and the yeast fresh. Upon opening 
it, should you find the milk curdled and thick, 
do not, use it, as that shows that the fermen¬ 
tation has been prolonged beyond the proper 
time. Make fresh as needed. 
CANNED VEGETABLES, MEATS, ETC. 
In answer to several of our readers who 
have Inquired as to how they could detect 
unsound aud dangerous canned goods, we ap 
pend the following advice given to purchasers 
by Dr. J. O. Johnson, of Brooklyn, L I. : 
“Every can should be examined, and if two 
holes arc found to have been punched in it 
take the can immediately to the Board of 
Health with its contents and give the mime of 
the grocer from whom it was bought. Reject 
every can that does not show the golden line 
of resin around the edge of the solder of the 
cap. the same as is seen on the seam of the side 
of the can. Reject nuy and every can that 
shows any rust around the capon the inside of 
the head of the can. Reject any that does not 
l>ear the manufacturer’s name. Before buy¬ 
ing press the bottom of the can up, uud if the 
contents are decomposed, the tin will rattle 
like the bottom of the oiler of your sewing 
machine. If the contents are sound, the bot¬ 
tom will be solid and impossible to push up.” 
JELLY FROM CIDER. 
C/. M. H., Rich Hill , Knox Co., Ohio, wants 
a recipe tor making apple jelly from cider, 
such as is mode at the cider mills and sold at 
the stores. 
Ans.— The only requisite in making apple 
jelly is to have the cider perfectly fresh, 
boil but a little time and boll rapidly till 
finished. Great care should be taken to have 
the cider made from sound apples, and to 
have a proper proportion of sweet and sour, 
so that the jelly may be just right to suit the 
taste. Thoroughly ripe Roxbury Russets and 
Talraan Sweets—three fourths Russets—make 
a capital jelly; or one-half Russets and one 
fourth each Talmun Sweets and Hpitzouburgh 
make a splendid sort. The cider must be 
fresh from the press, and should he carefully 
strained through enough thicknesses of flannel 
cloth to free It from all pomace. Boil iu cop¬ 
per vessels, the shallower the better, When 
families desire to make much, it pays to have 
a copper pan made on purpose. It should be 
square and large enough to extend two or 
more inches beyond the top of the stove on 
each side. This projection affords room for 
the steam toescapeand allows of boiling much 
more rapidly without danger of the contents 
running over. Rut into the pan ouly as 
much cider as can be boiled in it; boil as 
rapidly as possible and boil till sufficiently re¬ 
duced to jelly to suit, keeping it well skimmed 
and being careful it does not burn. Its con¬ 
sistency can be ascertained by cooling a trifle 
in a dish. When done, pour into the dishes 
intended to contain it, and again fill the pan 
with fresh cider. If fresh cider be added as 
it boils away, the long continuance of ex¬ 
posure to heat, makes the product dark and 
waxy, rather than a jelly. If not sweet 
enough to suit, sugar may be added a short 
time before removing from the stove, first 
having dissolved it to the consistency of thick 
sirup in a little hot cider. 
The jelly sold at the stores is made in large 
pans so constructed that cider is continually 
admitted at one end and finished jelly drawn 
from the other. 
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ECONOMY NOTES. 
EMPIRE GRAIN DRILL 
E. thinks we should eat less of meat and more 
of beans. With beans as a foundation one can, 
it is true, make many palatable dishes. We 
have bean soup, bean stew, baked beans, hot 
and cold, favre beans, beans and potato pie 
and our latest addition to the bean bill of fare, 
is a sort of stew, made of beans, cabbage and 
onions. A piut of beans is cooked until almost 
tender,then two minced onions (medium-sized) 
are added and a pint of cabbage cut in shreds. 
Season with salt, pepper and butter size of an 
egg. Very good indeed you will find it. My 
bean soup I always pass through a colander. 
FAVRE BEANS. 
Beans and oysters form this dish. Cook the 
beans until tender and they must not be dry 
either. Put a layer of beans an inch thick 
into a tin basin, sprinkle with salt, pep¬ 
per and bits of butter, cover with a layer of 
raw oysters, then beans, seasoning aud oys¬ 
ters. Sprinkle racker dust thickly over the 
top, strew over bits of butter ami bake in a 
well heated oven three quarters of an hour. 
Do not let the top got too deep a brown. 
SMOKED HALIBUT. 
My family do not caro for this dried 
fish picked into shreds and eaten as a relish, 
so I cut it into pieces an inch or more in 
length, soak in cold water half a day, then 
put it over the fire in a stew-pan with a pint 
of sweet milk and a lump of butter. When at 
the boiling point, thicken the milk with a 
small spoonful of corn-starch. It proves an 
acceptable supper dish. mrs. economy. 
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VENISON STEAKS. 
Those cut from the loin are best. Have 
the fire clear aud hot, butter the bars of the 
gridiron, lay on the steak and broil rapidly, 
turning often. When done, pepper, salt and 
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BARBECUED RABBIT. 
Select a plump, young- rabbit. Skin, cut 
off the head, dress, opening all the way on the 
under side, and lay it flat in salted water for 
half- an hour; then wipe dry, cut several 
gashes in the thickest part and broil over a 
hot fire, turning often. When browned and 
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two spoonfuls of vinegar and a teaspoonful of 
made mustard mixed and rub over the hot 
rabbit, garnish with parsley aud serve at once. 
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Skin, dress aud quarter a pair of young 
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