4SS5 
Trtl fiUfiAL fiEW-YORKElL 
for a binding. If your paste-board was not 
too stiff (as it should not have been), this can 
eggs were beaten, and when the milk had 
cooled, all the ingredients were stirred to¬ 
PtereUanfousi IpUwrtiStng. 
gether alternately, and well mixed, then 
poured into a strong cloth and boiled six 
hours. Bread crumbs of dry, light bread are 
an improvement used in place of so much 
flour, while a dessert of sweet Duchess 
grapes, with Fameuse apples, and the first 
fruits of our Mount Vernon Pears finished the 
Christmas repast. 
be done on the machine. Tie shut with a 
yard and a half of inch ribbon, fastened at the 
middle of the back. 
If there is a sofa at home badly in want of a 
cover, you can prepare a grateful surprise 
for the family by having it newly covered on 
Christmas morning. This you can do your¬ 
self with the very slightest expense. Choose 
from among the woolen blankets, one that, 
after many washings and much wear, has be¬ 
come so shrunken as to be of little service; 
weigh it, and buy as many packages of 
“Diamond Dye’’ as there are pounds. They 
cost 10 cents each. Old blue or dark red will ; 
either of them, be effective and wear well. 
Follow the directions, and, with very little 
trouble, you will have a beautifully-dyed 
blanket. Cut this to fit the sofa. Decorate it, 
if you have time, with flowers worked iu 
old gold and shaded olive crewels. Poppies 
or “black eyed Susans” work quickly, and 
may be scattered here and there singly or 
grouped. On Christmas eve, after the family 
have retired, the cover can he fastened on 
with an upholsterer’s needle and twine in a 
very short time. 1 have seen a lounge 
covered in this way and a table cover to 
match that gave an air of elegance to an 
otherwise shabby room. 
Two or three little soft hand knitted shirts, 
for a haby nephew or niece, form a present 
that the mother at least will appreciate. Buy 
half a pound of triple-thread, white Columbia 
knitting yarn, costing 75 cents. Use coarse 
bone or rubber knitting needles. Cast on 80 
stitches; knit, plain for four inches; ribbed 
for eight inches, and for the yoke knit plaid- 
ed for four inches more. This is done by 
reversing the rib when you have knitted as 
many rows as there are stitches iu the rib. 
Bind off and make another piece of the same 
size. Knit two stripes, four inches long and 
two wide, for shoulder bands. For the sleeves 
c »st on tiO stitches,narrow at each end and every 
third row until you have only 40 stitches. 
When the sleeve is within three inches of the 
desired length, narrow at once to 80 stitches 
and knit ribbed for a cuff. Crochet a scallop 
around the bottom and another at the neck, 
where a ribbon may be run in to tie in the 
fullness it any. This is large enough for a 
child of three years. 
A CHRISTMAS GIFT. 
A CANADIAN CHRISTMAS DINNER. 
ANNIE L JACK. 
I Stepped in to see my neighbor, Madame 
Bruult, early on Christmas uiorniug, to learn 
her method of usiug boiled chestnuts to stiiff 
a turkey. I found h«r busy preparing a wild 
goose that one of the sons had shot a day or 
two before. She made the dressing of sage 
and mealy potatoes, a finely chopped onion, 
suit and pepper, bound with the white of an 
egg. Then she maintained it should be cooked 
“/•ore,” aud said that she always added a 
little wme and a cup of grape jelly to the 
gravy. Chestnuts for turkey were used in¬ 
stead of bread crumbs, she said, aud bound 
with a little flour. The vegetables for dinner 
were boiled onions, stewed in milk till tender, 
and served whole, and salsify prepared as 
scalloped oysters, mashed potatoes and apple 
sauce made of the crisp little poiumts gris 
that are such favorites with Canadians. They 
use chocolate for breakfast aud diuuer, con¬ 
sidering it more nourishing than coffee, and 
they make it by dissolving six tablespooufuls 
of grated chocolate in a little cold water. 
Stir till a smooth paste, add a little boiling 
water and a quart of milk, boil a few minutes 
and serve bot. 
The children came in from early mass and 
asked frantically if the pudding was ready. 
They opened the oven door to show me a 
brown baked dishful of something 1 could not 
well make out. It proved to be a pudding of 
chopped figs and preserved citron peel, made 
like a baked plum pudding. I had to taste 
it aud found it to resemble very much a con 
fectiou called fig paste. There are plenty of 
rosy apples iu the hands of the little ones of 
our Canadian neighbors at all times, and 
there are hickory and butternuts in the gar¬ 
ret, so uo attempt at dessert is made by them, 
aud of the wild grapes they make wiue that 
is brought out on just such state occasions. 
Our own turkey turned out a very hand¬ 
some brown, and tbe chestnuts were a decided 
improvement. The turnips and crauberry 
sauce were worthy adjuncts, aud the plum 
pudding, made by u new recipe, was pro¬ 
nounced a success. It was made by grating 
a twelve-pound loaf, all but tbe crust, minc¬ 
ing three-quarters of a pouud of beef suet, 
aud grating among it two nutmegs, to which 
were added a little oinuamon aud candied 
peel; a pouud of currants and the same of 
raisins carefully prepared and dredged, and a 
pound of browu sugar were all the condi¬ 
ments. A quart of milk was boiled, aud in it 
a few peach kernels, or bitter alaiouda. Tea 
“Chbistmas is coming so soon and there 
are so many that I wish to remember!” How 
many women, old and young, have said this 
within the last few days! Ferhaps some of 
tbe “Rural” readers would like to know 
•how to make a chair—a chair of cushions! 
Any material may be used—from plush down 
to chintz or “furniture calico,”—as it is called 
in the stores, which costs seven cents a yard. 
Three cushions are needed to form the 
chair; 1% yards, 24 inches wide, will 
be tbe quantity of cloth required. (If 
chintz is used, a liniug of old cotton well- 
starched and smoothly ironed, will be 
necessary). One spool of strong thread and 
a quantity of husks for filling will also be 
ueeded. 
First cut six pieces, two feet square, and 
baste in the lining of the same size. Next tear 
strips, lengthwise of the cloth, 7>| inches 
wide—enough for the sides or boxing, which 
must also be lined. When all the boxing is 
ready, prepare the binding by tearing narrow 
strips, also lengthwise of the cloth, l 1 * inch 
wide for the bindings. Now, all is ready to 
put the cushions together, which is done 
exactly like a mattress, binding the edges to 
gether, leaving a small opening large enough 
to easily allow the insertion of the band. 
Husks, make a good filling, if well prepared, 
and this may be rapidly done, after a little 
practice. Reject all the coarse and stiff 
leaves and trim off the stem ends. Hold as 
many together as can be cut with strong, 
sharp shears, ami split each leaf into two or 
three pieces. [An old-fashioned flax hatcbel 
does the work admirably.— E. M] There is do 
fear of tilling the cushion too full. It must 
be stuffed full to look well. Great pains must 
be taken to till out the corners: this part of the 
work must be done faithfully. 
When the three cushions are completed, 
they must (and will if made carefully) be of 
exactly tbe same size. By placing two of the 
cushions together against the wall, and stand¬ 
ing the third upon tbe two for a back, you 
will have a very couirortable seat and one 
that looks surprisingly like an easy chair. If 
chintz is used the whole outlay will lie less 
than 60 cents. subscriber. 
SALT-RISING BREAD. 
For the benefit of those who feel obliged 
to make salt-rising bread, I send my way, 
which I consider very convenient for cold 
weather or for those who use roller flour, as 
that will not always rise in salt rising. In 
the morning I put three tablespoonfuls of 
fresh new Indian meal, one third of a tea¬ 
spoon each of salt, saleratus, sugar amt gioger 
into a bowl, and mix well by stirring. Then 
I pour on boiliug water, stirring all the time, 
and adding ouly enough to make a batter of 
medium thickness, as it thickens by standing. 
Keep it warm during the day, aud if the 
meal was really fresh and the day is long, it 
will be light at night, but if it is not, keep it 
only as warm as convenient during the night, 
aud, iu the morning, if it is not light, set into 
quite warm water. It it is not light at 10 
o’clock, the meal is not good. It will not rise 
much, but will get light aud fluffy. This I 
call “quick proof ” 
Wheu I wish to make bread, I take a teacup 
of milk (new is best) and put it iu a two quart 
pitcher with a quarter of a teaspoon of saler 
atus aud halt a teaspoon of salt. To this add 
a pint of boiling water, and let it stand until 
a little cooler than blood heat. Then stir iu 
tbe tlour, sifted and warmed, until you have 
a still - batter. To this batter add two heaping 
tablespooufuls of "quick proof’ stirred iu 
slightly. Cover aud keep quite warm. This 
makes the pitcher nearly two-third9 full. In 
an hour or two the eonteuts will begiu to rise, 
and when the pitcher is nearly full, stir the 
hatter into a pan of sifted tlour that baa been 
warming all the morning. Add a quart of 
new milk with nearly os much boiling water 
ami salt to suit the taste, bit ir iu tlour to make a 
u stiff sponge. Let staml in a warm place until 
quite light. Then mold iu loaves and keep iu 
a warm place until light. These do uot require 
baking as long as those of the same size leav¬ 
ened with hop yeast, but they must be baked 
well through. If these directions are followed 
and the flour is good, the bread will receive 
praise that will reward the cook. Elderly 
people, particularly meu, are apt to be quite 
fond of salt rising bread, and my papa insists 
that hop-yeast bread is aour. “B.” 
(Patented June 16,1885.) 
Made ol Clear White Class, 
With Glass Cover. 
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The Fight Renewed 
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the use of by taking Ayer’s Sar- 
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