OCT 43 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
679 
another time would hardly have been noticed. 
But you were tired, your head throbbed with 
pain, and the noise of Charlie or Susie went 
like a knife through your weary brain. 
Mothers, do you realize that in many cases 
to save the expense of suitable help, you are 
losing the precious trust and confidence of 
your boys and girls? You have no time to 
listen to your children’s prattle, much less 
have you time to sympathize with your grow¬ 
ing boys in their troubles or pleasures. No 
time to direct or advise, for “ mother is busy 
and she can’t be bothered.” The milk's to 
be strained, meals are to be prepared aud 
clothes to l*o washed; in fact, the housework is 
to be done. That is in your eyes of more import¬ 
ance than devoting your time to the children. 
They will get along wall enough and a sorv- 
ant girl would cost two or three dollars a 
week. You are saving money in going with¬ 
out help. By and by, as the years pass on, 
you wonder why your boys have so littlo am¬ 
bition to study; why they drink or smoke, 
and it grieves you that they pay so little heed 
to mother’s feelings. The years that you should 
have devoted to gaining their confidence have 
passed—never to return. The money you have 
saved to help your children along, gives you 
but small satisfaction now. You are old and 
careworn. Your daughters have grown away 
from you; iu their childhood you neglected the 
golden opportunities. 
“ Of all sad words of tongue or pen, 
The saddest are these, it might have been.’’ 
May Violet. 
-- 
FROM “AUNT MABBY’S” RECIPE 
BOOK. 
GRAPE PIES. 
Some of the writers to the Rural ask how 
grapes can be used besides as jelly. Mother 
used to make pies by slipping the pulp out of 
the skins, into one vessel, and the skins into 
another. Then simmer the pulp a little, and 
run it through a colander to separate the 
seeds. Then put the skins and pulp together, 
and they are ready for the pies, and are equal 
to those made with plums. 
TO COOK PARSNIPS. 
Wash, scrape, boil tender, then slice and 
brown on a griddle, with butter to prevent 
sticking. Carrots aro good cooked in the 
same way. 
scalloped oysters. 
Butter a pudding dish, and put in a thin 
layer of bread crumbs, or rolled cracker; then 
a layer of oysters, aud another of crumbs, till 
the dish is filled. The top layer must be 
crumbs. Put bits of butter aud a little pepper 
with each layer. Bake an hour. 
TO CLEAN A VERY GREASY KETTLE. 
Put ashes in it and a little water. In a few 
minutes scrape the contents all out with a 
stick aud rinse with water. Before this, 
soap is but wasted on it. 
pop corn. 
We used to pop corn by putting a spoonful 
of butter in a clean pan together with a pinch 
of salt and a handful of corn. Cover aud put 
on the fire. Shako gently, aud bo careful not 
to scorch. 
AN OLD-FASHIONED PIE. 
Grato a small cupful of maple sugar, and 
mix with it two eggs a little salt and as much 
cream as your pie plate will hold. It needs 
ouly an under crust. 
SAFE CAKES FOR CHILDREN. 
Take oqual parts of arrowroot aud wheat 
flour, a little salt, a small lump of butter; wot 
with sweet milk, roll thin, cut into fancy 
shapes and bake in u quick oveu. 
A GOOD REMEDY FOR HOARSENESS. 
Beat the white of ati ogg to a stiff froth, 
add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, the juice of 
a lemon and a glass of warm water. 
FROM ANOTHER FARMER’S WIFE. 
W ill some one tell me what to do with my 
Carnations? They were one year old last 
Spring, and have never blossomed. Will they 
live out-of-doors this Winter? 1 had them in 
the cellar last Winter. (They should have 
blossomed the past Summer. Perhaps the cel¬ 
lar treatment retarded them. They aro barely 
hardy here, and we fear they would uot live 
through your Winter.—E. M.) 
W ill some one who has tried carmiug green 
beans, jieas and sweet corn, tell me just how it 
is done? I pul up two cans of sweet corn last 
Summer, aud one of them exploded iu three 
days. 1 then emptied the other into the garb¬ 
age tub. I, too, am a poor farmer’s wife, and 
do my own work. I have throe small chil. 
dreu aud three men to cook, wash, make and 
mend for. 1 do not milk, but I have euuugh 
to do iu the morning iu skimming and strain¬ 
ing the n. ilk of six cows, getting breakfast 
ready and drwgjpg the phildreu, and very 
ofteq at HigUt fuy little four-year. oU| bov and 
two-year-old girl will lie down on the carpet 
or lounge and go to sleep with their clothes on 
while I wash the dishes, strain the milk and 
get the baby to sleep. But when Sunday 
comes I have a day of rest. What a blessing 
it is to have one day out of the seven to spend 
with the little ones and in reading God’s 
Word. Christian people I think should try 
and enforce the law- in regard to breaking the 
Sabbath more than they do. Here in the West 
every Sunday there are loads of men with 
their guns and dogs from the towns and cities; 
scouring the prairies for prairie chickens and 
ducks. 
Here are some recipes for my easy dishes, 
which may be different from what the others 
may give. Pudding made by stirring Graham 
flour into boiline water with a little salt and 
boiling 20 minutes, makes a nice dessert eaten 
with sugar and cream. For supper a boiled 
custard is nice. This hot weather if made in 
the morning and set in the cellar, it will be 
more palatable. I set about two quarts of 
milk on the stove in a pan, break eight eggs 
into a dish, putting the whites of five on a 
plate; these I beat stiff and flavor with lemon, 
vanilla, or rose-water, and add a spoonful of 
sugar, then drop a spoonful in a place on the 
hot milk. Let it remain on the milk while 
you beat the yelks and three w bites. Take off 
on a plate with a skimmer, stir in the yelks 
and remaining whites, add a tablespoonful 
of sugar and a tablespoonful of corn¬ 
starch dissolved in a little milk. Let 
it boil but not too long or it will curdle, pour 
into a dish, slip on the whites, and you have a 
handsome as well a very delicious dish. 
Another dessert dish I make is a shorteeake 
made by taking a teacupful of cream, three 
cupfuls of butter-milk and a teaspoonful of 
soda. Stir in flour enough to make a stiff bat¬ 
ter, and pour into a baking tin. When done, 
spread with berries, green apple sauce or even 
pie-plant stewed aud sweetened, anil eat with 
sugar and cream for dinner. I sometimes boil 
a small piece of beef, a tough chicken, or some 
lean, salt pork in plenty of water; when nearly 
done put in potatoes, salt and pepper. Stir 
up a short-cake, bake it, when done break in 
small pieces put into a deep dish, pour your 
stew over it, and you will have a dish that 
will satisfy hungry men. 
MRS. JENNIE JONES. 
TWO HINTS. 
Apples make excellent tea cakes when 
baked on an under crust, with egg custard or 
sweet cream poured over them. 
Pickled beets are much nicer if a little 
ground cloves is sprinkled over them before 
pouring on the vinegar. m. a. p. 
PijfjeHanfoust gulmtiusing, 
WORTHY 
Of Confidence. 
A VF R’Q S’dXHpurilh i> a medicine that, 
m i Ln o during nearly 4n years, iu all 
parts of the world, has proved its effi¬ 
cacy as t lie hot blood alterative known 
to medical science. 
SARSAPARILLA Till! 
genuine lloudurus Sarsaparillai is its 
base, and its powers are enhanced by 
the extracts of Yellow Dock ami Stif- 
litight, the Iodides of Potassium and 
Iron, and other potent ingredients. 
I c your blood v itiated by derangements 
of the digestive and assiinflatory func¬ 
tions? is it tainted by Scrofula? or 
does it contain the poisuu of Mercury 
or Contagious Disease? 
Tur leadiug physicians of the United 
* States, who know the composition 
of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, say that 
nothing cl-o so good for the purifica¬ 
tion of the blood is within, the range of 
pharmacy. 
nui y by the use of this remedy is it 
UliL .1 possible for a person who has 
corrupted blood to attain sound health 
and prevent transmission of the de¬ 
structive taint to posterity. 
TUnDHIlPUl V effective renovation 
inunUUbnLY ottliesystcm must 
include not only Ihe remov al of cor¬ 
ruption from the blood,but its enrich¬ 
ment and the strengthening of the 
vital organs. 
DFI I ADI C witnesses, all over the 
••FLIMdLC. world, testify that this 
work is better accomplished hv Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla than by any other 
remedy. 
Rl nnn ’* ,at 1-4 corrupted through dis- 
DLUUU ease is made pun*, and blood 
weaken' d through diminution of the 
red corpuscles is made strong, by 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 
PIlRirVIMP ^°od ami building 
rUnlr Y 1 PIu up the system require 
time in serious eases, but benefit will 
be derived from tin* use of Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla more speedily than 
from anything else. 
MCniPIMr for which like effects are 
III L.U101 Pit falsely claimed, is abun¬ 
dant in the market^ under many names, 
but the onIv preparation that has stood 
the test of time, anti proved worthy of 
the world’s confidence, is 
A/er’s Sarsaparilla, 
PREPARED BY 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all druggists: Price 1: 
six bottles for S5. 
ismpimrnts nod 4#actua«ty 
GRATED TONGUE. 
The tip and outside parts of a tongue, 
which are usually wasted, can bo converted 
into an apprizing dish as follows: Set aside 
until thoroughly dry, then rub through a 
grater over thin shops of cucumbers placed 
on hot, well-buttered toast. mary b. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
ABOUT CUCUMBER PICKLES. 
Can cucumbers bo pickled in vinegar di¬ 
rectly after being picked without salting; if so, 
what kind of vinegar is used, and how much. 
“SUBSCRIBER.” 
Ans. —We have never heard of putting cu¬ 
cumbers into vinegar without first salting 
them. In the first place no one would care for 
pickles prepared in this way or eveu sliced cu¬ 
cumbers; aud, second, the pickles would uot 
keep without salt; the viuegar alone would 
softeu theui in a short time. 
BEEF BRINE. 
Will you, please, tell me how to make a brine 
that will keep beef, and not have it too salt/ I 
was told to make a brine strong enough to 
bear up a potato, but it did uot keep well. 
MRS. L. G. T. 
Ans.— To 100 pounds of beef take nine 
pounds of salt, four pounds of sugar or two 
quarts of good molasses, two ounce's of soda, 
oue ounce of powdered saltpeter, and water 
to just cover the meat—four or five gallons. 
Strew salt over the bottom of ban-el, mix a 
part of the sugar and salt together, aud rub 
each piece ot meat thoroughly with it be¬ 
fore placing in barrel. Dissolve the soda aud 
saltpeter iu hot water, add, with the re 
maiuder of salt aud sugar, to the water and 
pour over the beef. Place a board on top of 
the meat w ith a weight sufficient to keep it 
under the brine. 
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