NOV 24 
778 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Domestic Camottn) 
CONDUCTED BY EMII-Y MAPLE. 
PEN THOUGHTS FROM EVER. ^-D AY 
HOUSE. 
“ That’s the beauty of a reversible carpet,” 
I said, as the bright colors of the unused side 
of my parlor carpet stood out as fresh and 
clean as if new. I have never liked the other 
side, as long as the used side was good; but 
the colors are fading now, and I have deter¬ 
mined iu that, as in everything, that it is the 
better way “To take the {food when you lose the 
best ,and school yourself bill it ser/ms as good. ” I 
thought seriously of purchasing a new one, 
but the girls practice a good deal; the win¬ 
ter fires, and our constant use of the room, 
caused me to postpone it, and with the best 
side out and a new rug, it looks quite satis¬ 
factory. Some people advocate leaving a 
carpet two j r ears on the floor unshaken, but I 
prefer to take it up twice a year. It makes 
less dirt to grind out the threads, aud allays 
dust for a loug while. A little salt, sprinkled 
on before .sweeping, is very good to brighten 
the colors of a carpet. 
We have been trying mushrooms on toast 
lately, and as they were appreciated by those 
of the family wiio are fond of this edible, 
I will just tell how they were cooked. Peel 
aud place in a frying-pan, with butter, pep¬ 
per and salt; fry till tender; place a slice of 
hot toast on a hot dish, and pour over it the 
black-looking gravy in which the mushrooms 
were fried; then carefully place the mush¬ 
rooms on tot), and sene directly. 
A friend of mine slipped and sprained her 
ankle at the Boston Exposition, and she wishes 
me to tell the Rural readers that she cured 
it with “sal ammoniac.” It is a simple 
remedy, and trustworthy, as she pr oved by 
practical demonstration, which is the best 
kind of knowledge. 
I append the following recipes, which were 
sent me by Mrs. Marion Hat-laud: 
BAKED CALF’S HEAD, 
Have it cleaned by rubbing pounded resin 
well into tbe bait-, and then scaldiug it with 
boiling water, dipping it again and again 
until the hair can be rubbed off easily. I 
have know r n country butchers who would give 
a wag a culf’s head as they would offal for 
dog’s meat, in utter ignorance of its value. 
Even In towm, when the veal season is fairly 
“iu,” you can buy a head for a comparative 
trifle, provided you will take it undressed. It 
is well, therefore, to know how to dress it 
yourself. When cleaned, the head should be 
split down the middle. Take out the brains 
aud set them aside in a cold place. Wash the 
head carefully, and lay iu very cold salted 
water half an hour, to draw the blood. Wipe 
and plunge at once into boiling water, iu 
which leave it ten minutes. Theu lay it in a 
pot and pour in enough slightly salted cold 
water to cover it fully. Briug to a boil, and 
cook gently one hour from the time it begins 
to bubble. Take out the head, give it another 
cold water hath of five minutes’ duration, 
and it will bo firm aud white, yet tender. 
Wipe all over, put into a dripping pan, aud 
set in the oven until it is dry and slightly 
w'arrn. Have rqgdy a paste made of the 
brains, beaten up light, with an egg aud 
a very little flour, all salted and peppered 
seasonably. Cover the head thickly on the 
upper side with this, turn another pan over 
it, and hake, basting three times with a cup¬ 
ful of boiling w'uter, in which has been dis¬ 
solved a teaspooufnl of butter. At the aud 
of half an hour, uncover and brown nicely. 
In carving, slice the cheeks first, perpen¬ 
dicularly. To make the gravy, add to that 
in the pan a little boiliug water; heat to a 
boil, aud stir iu enough browned flour to 
thicken slightly. A little tornuto—stewed or 
Catsup—is an improvement. Strain and semi 
to table in a gravy bowl. 
The liquor iu which the head is boiled 
should go into the stock-pot. It makes ex¬ 
cellent soup. 
BKEAD-ANO MILK SOUP. 
Two caps of strained soup-stock or gravy, 
from which the fat has been removed; two 
cups of milk, two eggs, one scant cup of fine 
bread crumbs; salt, pepper, aud chopped 
parsley; one teaspoonful butter rolled in 
crumbs. 
Heat soup, which should have boon strained 
through a cloth, iu one vessel, the milk iu 
another, stirring into the latter a pinch of 
soda. When the milk is hot, mix with the 
beaten eggs, eook one minute, and pour into 
the tureen. Stir bread (or cracker) crumbs 
into the soup; also the butter. Season and 
boil two minutes before turning into tureen. 
Stir up well, and send to table. Serve grated 
cheese with this soup. 
" ■ 
Tuk Ritual New-Yorker will be scut 
from this date until January 1st, 1885, for 
$2.00. Tell your friends of this. 
CHATS WITH OUR GIRLS WHO EX¬ 
PECT TO BE HOUSEKEEPERS. 
Dear Girls : 1 must tell you what a nice 
visit I had with Tillissa the other day. She 
was just taking a batch of bread from the 
oven, and the odor of it was as sweet as the 
breath of flowers. I was sorry afterwards 
that I did not get her to tell me just how she 
made it for the benefit of some of our Rural 
girls, who may not always succeed in making 
the very best bread. I will learn of her yet, 
and write it all down. It was but little past 
the dinner hour when 1 made my call, and 
Tillissa had uot yet made her afternoon toilet; 
but her print dress had been made to (it her 
petit# form, and it was clean and tidy. She 
wore a ueat collar, and her hair was arranged 
in a plain yet becoming manner. She was so 
fair aud had such a dainty way of putting 
thingsto rights that you would hardly imagine 
that she was the main spoke in the wheel of 
the domestic machinery. There is a large 
family to cook anil care for, and her mother’s 
health is very poor: thus the body of the 
work falls to her share. Even the work of 
washing dishes, which so many of you think 
is the worst of drudgery, becomes as charming 
as a poem when performed by her dainty, 
skillful fingers. 
“What part of the housework do you like 
the best ?” I inquired. 41 Oh! I try to like it 
all best; for 1 know it must all be done, and 
one can do any work easier and bolter, T find, 
when one likes the work.” “Ob! no wonder 
the work is kept up systematically with such 
a spirit presiding over it,’’ thought 1. as we 
passed iuto the flower garden. Here ngaiu 
were the marks of her handiwork in taste¬ 
fully formed rockeries mid well kept borders. 
“ I fixed these when I did not feel much like 
work,” said the little hostess—she is very di¬ 
minutive in size, though she is nearly eighteen 
years of age. 44 It was a pleasant medicine to 
get out in the sunny ah- and near the ground. 
The boys helped me by bringing the stones 
aud placing tbe larger ones wherever I want¬ 
ed them. Here you see our river bed; it is 
dry now, but when it rains, and the water 
jyours off the eaves, it really looks like a mini¬ 
ature river with cascades and rapids, and the 
pebbles aud larger stones show their bright 
colors and pretty forms when the water is 
dashing over them. And here is our moun¬ 
tain peak, partly clothed in green.” This was 
a round heap of stones and rich mold, with 
various kinds of running vines climbing up 
aud down the sides. Home was made beauti¬ 
ful inside with prettv aud tasteful adornments 
of her own manufacture; and its outward 
surroundings were not forgotten. 
What a grand development of the domestic 
organs was here to be found. Wherever her 
presence was to be found, whether iu lordly 
mansion or lowly cabin, that would be oue of 
earth’s delightful places. 
“Well, 1 don’t propose to spend all my life 
doing household drudgery,” says Isabelle. 
Neither does Tillissa; for that reasou she 
does her work in the very best order as she 
goes along, aud she is sure it takes less time. 
She manages to have long hours for sowing 
and study besides her regular drill at the 
organ. Her ambition is to make a good 
housekeeper and at the same time to become 
a cultivated woman, with the accomplish¬ 
ments of the modern lady. Tu doiug this she 
is making herself worthy of the attention and 
love of some good tnau, und an ornament to 
the best society. May Maple. 
MORE ABOUT CUCUMBER PICKLES. 
A subscriber inquires in a late number of 
the Rural if cucumbers cau be pickled in 
vinegar directly after they are picked with¬ 
out salting. 1 reply: that is the best way to 
make the best pickles with the least labor, 
aud those who out them will “seek no fur¬ 
ther.’’ We make our vinegar with sugar and 
twin water. Take oue pound of sugar (cheap 
yellow) to one gallon of water. We make 
half a barrel atone time—more if required— 
when warm weather first comes iu the Spring, 
A little vinegar plant or “ mother” may be 
put in after a few days. Let it stand iu a 
sunny place with netting to cover the vent. 
This will make excellent vinegar. When 
your cucumbers are gathered and washed, 
place thorn, say, in a six-gallon stone jar, if 
for a small family, and cover each picking 
with vinegar. As the small cucumbers are 
picked every second day, the vinegar should 
lie increased to cover each picking. Add 
some green peppers if you please. A cloth 
cut to tit. tbe jar is placed over the pickles, 
ami on this the scum w ill settle. Care should 
be taken that the vinegar does not lose its 
strength. When needed, add a half cup of 
sugar or a little more as the jar is tilled. The 
cloth may lie removed every day and washed. 
If this method is observed there will bo uo 
soft pickles, aud they are good enough for a 
king. _ l. s. k. 
If “ Subscriber," who asks iu the last Rural 
if cucumbers cau be pickled in vinegar direct¬ 
ly after being picked, without salting, will 
follow T,he directions given for “Superior 
Pickles,” in a back number (one of the August 
numbers, I believe,) she will have the best of 
pickles without the use of salt. The alum 
prevents the pickles from becoming soft, and 
gives them a good color. More alum can be 
added at any time should the pickles show 
any signs of becoming soft. We bave used 
no other mode for making cucumber pickles 
for tbe last seventeen years, as this way gives 
us a much better pickle than when salt is 
used. a. L. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
LOAF CAKE. 
One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, four 
eggs, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of 
creain-of-tartar, and one-half teaspoonful of 
soda dissolved in one-third of a cupful of 
sweet milk. Sift the eream-of-tartar with 
the flour. Flavor with nutmeg. Currants or 
raisins may be added if liked. 
DRIED-APPLE CAKE. 
Two teacupfuls of dried apples, soaked over¬ 
night and chopped fine; stew them in two 
cupfuls of molasses (or sirup) until well 
cooked. Then take two eggs, one cup butter, 
one cup sugar, one of sour cream, a little salt, 
two teaspoonfuls of soda, three cups of flour; 
stir some flour with the fruit before mixing 
with the rest; spices to suit the taste; the 
more tbe better. This makes an excellent 
cake. 
silver cake. 
Beat one-lialf cup of butter and one-and- 
one-half cups of powdered sugar together: one 
teaspoouful of baking-powder sifted in two 
cups of flour: three-fourths cup of sweet 
milk: the whites of four eggs beaten to a 
cream; flavor with lemon; bake iu an evenly- 
heated oven. Florence b. 
Htirsford'n .Veld Pliowpliate. 
Utmnlmons Approval of Medical Staff. 
Dr. T. G. Comstock, Physician at Good 
Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., says: “For 
years we have used it in this hospital, in dys¬ 
pepsia and uervous diseases, and as a drink 
during the decline and in the convalescence of 
lingering fevers. It has the unanimous ap¬ 
proval of our medical staff.”—-4efr. 
pUrtUaiuous SMwettisiittfi, 
KING’S EVIL 
Was the name formerly given to Scrofula 
because of a superstition that it could be 
cured by a king's touch. The world Is 
wiser now, and kuows that 
SCROFULA 
can only he cured by a thorough purifica¬ 
tion of the blood. If this i> neglected, 
the disease perpetuates its taint through 
generation after generation. Among its 
earlier symptomatic developments are 
Eczema, Cutaneous Kruptlons, Tu¬ 
mors. Boils, Carbuncles, Krysipelas, 
Purulent Ulcers, Nervous ami Phy¬ 
sical Collapse, etc. If allowed to con¬ 
tinue. Rheumatism, Scrofulous Ca¬ 
tarrh, Kidney 'hud Liver Diseases, 
Tubercular Consumption, aud vari¬ 
ous other dangerous or fatal maladies, are 
produced by it, 
Ayer s Sarsaparilla 
Is the ontypoverful and always reliable 
blond-purifying medicine. It is so effect¬ 
ual an alterative that it eradicates from 
the system Hereditary Scrofula, and 
the kindred poisons of contagious diseases 
and mercury. At the same time it en¬ 
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Is composed of the genuine Honduras 
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to the medical profession, and the best 
physicians constantly prescribe Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla as an 
Absolute Cure 
For all diseases caused by the vitiation of 
the blood. It is concentrated to the high¬ 
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are claimed, and is therefore the cheapest, 
as well as the host blood [unifying medi¬ 
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Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 
PREPARED 11Y 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell , Mass. 
f Analytical Chemists.] 
Sold by all Druggists ■ price 21; six 
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Sales Stables, 148 East 24th 
St. 
New York, August 1st, 188a. 
Ei.i.lh Si*a v in Cttne Co.— 
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STAfifux Place Stock Farm, 
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ORATJQ"FORD OO., PA 
Meutlou Rural New-Yorker. 
Scotch cube. 
—w A few lVPFtEsof this wonderful breed of dogs uow 
for sale. Semi for illustrated circular and prices to 
W. A. JEFFREY, Ashland, Ohio. 
HOLSTEINS. 
Twenty very tine heifers to calve this Winter, just 
I Imported and for sale at fair prices. 
CHAS, W. WOLCOTT, Keadville, Mass. 
SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. 
C ASSIUS M. CLAY, breeder of pure SOUTH DOWN 
SHEEP, Whitk-Hall. Kentucky. 
GOTSWOLDS AND SOUTHDOWN 
Sheep and Lambs 
For Sale. Including some very choice Yearling Rams 
aud Ham Lambs of good pedigree. Prices very mod¬ 
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stating number wanted. We have also for sale sev¬ 
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W. After Burpee A Uo.. Philadelphia. Pa. 
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STOCK FARMS 
Near WEST CHESTER, Chester Co., Pn. 
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