DEC 8 
very complacently answer: “Ah! ten or fif¬ 
teen cents.” And if, after our elbows are 
through tbe third patch, we should muster 
up courage to ask for a new gown, he would 
coolly tell us to wait for the nest sale of but¬ 
ter, which we know will go to pay his hired 
help. Don’t we know 1 Haven’t we triedit? 
Ladies, why are we so foolish? Why do we 
submit to it all f Why not stand for our rights 
and if pudding is more convenient than 
pastry, make it. If they won’t eat it, that 
other animal—the dog—will. Let them grum¬ 
ble, growl, snarl if they must. They will 
get over that when they see we’re not afraid, 
and oh I don't feed pigs and calves, or do the 
milking. The men won’t come into the house 
and wash dishes or sweep for us when we get 
in a hurry. Farmer’s daughter, stick to your 
dessert. Your many cares are very heavy 
for young shoulders. My sympathy and I 
imagine a mother’s angelic face cheering you 
on, and awaiting you where my own little ones 
hold the “ gates ajar." I am weary, and have 
burdens, too. 14 Disgrace.” 
the cellar again, thanks to our Aunt Mab- 
bey’s advice. E. k. b. 
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THE STRONGEST AND REST 
AN APPLE VARIETY. 
Ensilage Cutter 
I wonder if any one thinks just in how 
many ways apples can be cooked without the 
necessity of paste-making for pies ? I cannot 
give more than a glance at the cook books on 
the subject; but will mention some of the 
favorite methods of cooking in our family. 
Take easily c ‘ cookable,” tart apples, and with 
a corer take out the center; place on a rather 
deep dish, blossom end down; fill the hole left 
by the core with sugar; drop just a trifle of 
butter on each, and bake. They make a nice 
dessert. Sweet apples, pared, cored and 
steamed, are about as nice as peaches. They 
are very good when served cold with cream 
and sugar; canned in the same way. A good 
apple pudding is made by rolling some bread 
crusts that have been made brittle in the oven; 
then take half-a-dozen tart apples and cut 
them up into pieces. Take five pints ot milk, 
three eggs well beaten, sugar, and a bit of 
butter the size of a hickory nut, and a little 
salt and spice. Beat and stir all together, and 
bake. It is good eaten hot or cold, and im¬ 
proved by a little beaten white of egg and 
sugar poured over before quite cooked, An . 
other nice pudding of this fruit is to pour a 
good batter over apple sauce in a deep dish, 
and bake. 
POTATO CHOWDER. 
For those who like pork, a very nice dish is 
made by slicing one pound very thin; boil ten 
minutes; peel six large potatoes; slice and 
wash. Fry the meat, cook the potatoes till 
tender, add a tablespoonful of flour rubbed 
smooth, to which has been added a pint of 
sweet cream. Put in the meat, and season 
to taste; cover a few minutes, and serve hot. 
LEMON PRESERVES. 
Put into a saucepan one pound of sugar, a 
quarter of a pound of butter, six eggs (leav¬ 
ing out the whites of two), and the juice 
and grated rinds of three lemons. Let 
these boil till they become as thick as 
honey, stirring gently all the while. Pour 
the mixture intosmall jars, and cover tightly. 
It makes delicious tartlets. 
MACAROONS. 
These expensive cakes, that are such great 
favorites with many, can be made much more 
cheaply at home. To a quarter of a pound of 
sweet almonds take four teaspoon fuls of orange 
flower water, the whites of six eggs, and one 
pound of sifted sugar. Blanch the almonds, 
and pound them with some of the white of an 
egg; then whisk the whites of the eggs, and 
add them gently to the almonds. Be careful 
that they do not oil or separate. Sift the sugar 
into the mixture till a paste is formed. Place 
white paper in a tin; drop on the mixture, and 
bake in a slow oven. mrs. a. l. jack. 
Are Indigestion and Constipation. 
Their primary symptoms are among the 
most distressing of minor human ailments, 
and a host of diseases, speedily resultant 
from them, mutually aggravate each other 
and assail at once the whole machinery 
of life. Nausea, Foul Breath, Sour 
Stomach, Dizziness, Headaches, 
Bilious Fever, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, 
Kidney Diseases, Piles, Rheumatism, 
Neuralgia, Dropsy, and various Skin 
Disorders, are among the symptoms 
and maladies caused by derangement of 
Of the. stomach and bowels. 
A Thorough Purgative 
medicine is the first necessity for cure. 
Then the cathartic effect must be main¬ 
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to prevent a recurrence of costiveness, 
and at the same time the liver, kidneys 
and stomach must be stimulated and 
strengthened. 
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Accomplish this restorative work better 
than any other medicine. They are 
searching and thorough, vet mild, in their 
purgative action. They do not gripe the 
patient, and do not induce a costive re¬ 
action, as is tbe effect of other cathartics. 
Withal, they possess special properties, 
diuretic, hepatic and tonic, of the highest 
Among our frequent visitors is a traveling 
friend who often speaks of the excellent 
doughnuts he gets at a hotel table in Detroit. 
(As I have forgotten the name of the hotel I 
cannot give it a puff in our Domestic co¬ 
lumns). Hearing 60 much about them, I at 
last begged of him to interview the cook and 
learn the secret of the wonderful doughnuts. 
On his last visit he did so, and to my surprise 
I found that the only difference betw een his 
way and mine is that, instead of using lard 
alone for frying them, she makes the frying 
fat of oue-third tallosv, to two-thirds lard. I 
ha ve lately tried her way and found it a de¬ 
cided improvement. Of course, the tallow 
must be, like the lard, of the very nicest and 
sweetest kind. I find good beef-drippings, 
such as one saves from roasts, etc., to be very 
nice for this purpose. Not only are the dough¬ 
nuts better flavored, when in this way, but 1 
find that it is also an advantage in the way of 
economy, as the lard and tallow so used to¬ 
gether will fry many more cakes than an 
equal quantity of lard will—as the latter pre¬ 
vents fat-soaking. 
Fat-soaked doughnuts have always been a 
great horror to mo, and I have noticed the 
making of them to be the failure of many in¬ 
experienced cooks. The great cause of the 
trouble is that the fat is not boiling-hot when 
the cakes are put in. When the cakes do not 
rise to the surface within a few seconds after 
they are put in, thou the fat is not hot enough 
and yet you never must let the fat be so hot 
as to emit a blue smoke or your cakes will be 
dark-colored and bitter. But in this, as in 
everything else under the sun, practice makes 
perfect. 
Lastly I have obtained rather the best re¬ 
sults from using baking powder, but some¬ 
times for a change we like better our oll-fash- 
ioned way. 
CREAM DOUGHNUTS. 
One tea-cup of sour cream, two of butter¬ 
milk, two of sugar, three eggs, one teaspoon 
each of salt, soda, and cinnamon. Flour to 
roll out rather soft, cut into strips and twist. 
Fry immediately. 
RAISED FRIED CAKES (GOOD AND SUBSTAN¬ 
TIAL). 
Into a pint of lukewarm milk 6tir one tea¬ 
cup of melted butter and flour until it is a 
thick battijj-. Then add one small cup of yeast 
and let stand until light. When light work 
in two-and-ono-half enps sugar, four eggs, 
one toaspoon salt and one of cinnamon or all¬ 
spice. Knead stiff enough to roll out and let 
it rise agaiu; then roll out one-half inch thick, 
cut into rings and let the u remain 15 or 20 
minutes before frying. Roll in powdered 
sugar when taken from the hot fat. 
CRULLERS. 
Four eggs, six heaping tablespoonfuls of 
flue sugar, four tablespooufuls each of melted 
butter uud sweet milk, one teaspoouful of 
baking-powder. Flavor with lemon. Mix 
those ingredleuts well, then add flour enough 
to roll soft, out into narrow strips, braid in 
fancy shape's aud fry immediately. If the 
whole is carefully done, the crullers will come 
out very light-colored and nice. 
KEEPING LARD. 
I have always been troubled mere or leas 
with moldy spots coming on the laid that 
was kept for Summer use. 1 have tried vari¬ 
ous remedies for the trouble; one year I 
sprinkled salt through it as it was turned hot 
into the jars, but nothing made any differ* 
enco—the mold still would come. Last year, 
acting on an old housekeeper's udvice, 1 did 
not keep the lard in the cellar, but through 
all the hot weather let it remain in the pantry 
cupboard, and it is now—what is left of it— 
just as good and free from mold as when 
made a year ago. I never shall keep lard in 
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