1887 
THE RURAL (NEW-YORKER 
on tlie stove, would hoi] these vegetables in 
tlmt, thus saving trouble, and flavoring the 
soup at the same time. 
Cabbage & la Milanaise.—This may bean 
Italian dish, but I remember something very 
much like itthat we used to have in our little 
Jersey farm-house. Parboil a number of 
large leaves from a head of white cabbage, 
for live minutes. Drain, on a cloth, and re¬ 
move the large ribs, Boil a half teaeupful of 
rice for 15 minutes in a quart of salted 
boiling water, drain, add a tablespoonful each 
of minced parsley and young onions, and mix 
with an equal quantity of sausage meat. 
Take three thicknesses of the leaves and out 
them Into strips three inches wide: lay on a 
largo spoonful of the rice and sausage meat 
and roll up like a sausage. Place them side 
by side in a saucepan; season with salt and 
pepper; nearly cover with broth, place an in¬ 
verted plate on top to keep the rolls in shape, 
and stew gently for nti hour. Lift out care¬ 
fully, lay on u d:sh. thicken the sauce, which 
should bo reduced by boiling to one-half, 
strain and pour over the rolls. This is a first- 
rate family dinner in itself, and if rightly sea¬ 
soned is most appetizing, 
Surprise Cakes.—There wasn’t anything 
“queer” about these except the name, and 
they would have tasted just as well by any 
other. They are little more than marmalade 
turn-overs. Roll out some paste thin, and 
cut in rounds with a cake-cutter; put a 
a spoonful of orange marmalade in the center 
and fold over and pinch shut forall the world 
like the old-fashioned apple turn overs you 
used to carry to school in your lunch basket. 
Bake until the paste is done: take from the 
oven and baste with a sirup made by boiling 
a half teacup of sugar with a very little water 
until it gets stringy; sprinkle each one thick¬ 
ly with stale cake crumbs (sponge or maca¬ 
roons are the best) and serve with a very little 
melted raspberry jelly poured around each. 
They' are simply delicious morsels, and can be 
made with bits of paste leftover on baking 
day. PALMETTO. 
APRONS. 
The latest sweet thing in aprons is made 
from a towel. Choose either a towel with a 
fringe and a colored border, or one of those 
made of momie cloth. These last have a hand¬ 
some knotted fringe. Turn one end over at 
the top so that Imth borders and fringes will 
show. Stitch it about a third of an inch 
from the top. Iu this space run a simple 
white coni with teaselled ends which 
serve for a belt or band. Any design may be 
stamped on one corner, or across the bottom, 
and worked ou in outline stitch. 
A very pretty cover for an invalid’s tray, 
or to place under the tea service at table, is 
made from a very large napkin, damask or 
momie cloth, fringed all around, tin the up¬ 
per left hand comer was embroidered in out¬ 
line stitch iu antique letters “Sometimes 
counsel take,” and in the lower right-hand 
corner the remainder of the motto, “and some¬ 
times tea.” 
OPEN FIRES. 
Those who can indulge in the luxury of an 
open fire, should save* all the stones from 
peaches, cherries and plums, as well as the nut¬ 
shells, and when a frosty night makes a fire 
agreeable, throw a handful of these among 
the glowing coals. They will send up a brill¬ 
iant flame, and fill the whole room with a de¬ 
licious odor. 
CLEANSING FLUID. 
A bottle of really good cleaning fluid is an 
almost indispensable article in the household. 
The following us excellent for removing spots 
from the boys’ jackets, cleaning dirty coat- 
eollars, and drosses, and for washing any kind 
of woolen goods, camel’s bair and alpaca; for 
taking grease and dirt spots out of carpets and 
rugs, and removing spots from furniture. 
Four ounces each of white castile soap 
and ammonia; and two each of alcohol, glyc¬ 
erine and ether. Cut the soap fine and dis¬ 
solve in one quart of water over a slow fire; 
add one gallou of water, and when nearly cold 
the other ingredients. It will make nearly 
two gallons, must be kept in a tightly-corked 
demi john, and will keep good for any length 
of time. Fill a small bottle for convenience 
for daily use. 
To wash woolen dress goods, put a tcacupful 
in a pail of warm water, shake the goods well 
in this, rubbing it ligbtly between the bauds; 
rinse well, and iron while damp on the wrong 
side. 
For cleaning coat collars, add a gill to a pint 
of water; apply with a clean rag, and rub well 
w ifch a second rag. aunt elsik. 
ONE SUMMER—V. 
ANNE THRIFTY. 
CHILDREN’S GARDENS. A BLACKBERRY EX¬ 
PEDITION. 
i One side/)f the vegetable garden just back 
of our house had been given up to flower-beds 
for several years. Here we each had a bed, 
and raised our favorite flowers, tried new 
varieties and learned many things about 
weed-nature and flower-nature. After the 
ground was plowed and the beds shaped up 
roughly by father or the hired man, they were 
left wholly to our care. We usually hoed and 
weeded them when they needed the culture, 
after supper. The apple trees west of the 
garden cast a shadow over them by that time 
until the sun disappeared behind the woods 
that made our horizon in the West. We 
never worked very steadily when all four 
were in the garden at once, but we worked 
and talked, and compared our bits of ground, 
advised and criticized as we were impressed at 
the moment. 
Nell bad sweet pens iu her part of the gar¬ 
den and they needed little cure after reaching 
the top of the brush that supported them, so 
one evening she made bouquets while we 
worked, aud wu all contributed flowers. Pan¬ 
sies, asters, double daisies, verbenas, delicate 
gilias, white-throated wbitlavias, pinks and 
mourning brides with geranium leaves and 
blossoms, were arranged in saucers and v'ses 
brought from the house to l>e filled and car¬ 
ried back to their places, on mantels and 
shelves and in the center of the dining-table. 
We all had in common a bed of seedling gera¬ 
niums; tile seeds hud been started early iu 
March in the bouse aud the little plants kept, 
growing until they could bo put out in the 
open ground. Their vigorous growth and 
thick, fleshy stalks interested us, and now 
they were beginning to bloom, a few were 
very beautiful but many of them had narrow- 
petaled flowers of no great beauty. But our 
own efforts had brought these varied (lowers 
from the needs and we found iu them a little 
world of pleasure. 
“Here comes Aunt Helen and the twins,” 
exclaimed Gertie, and we stopped our work 
to greet them. Aunt Helen was a great 
favorite with all her nieces and nephews, for 
she interested herself in all our interests, aud 
gave us advice and instruction about every¬ 
thing we did from patching a torn apron to 
studying our Bibles. Now she had come to 
propose a blackberrying expedition. On the 
back of our own farm there were large 
patches of wild blackl<erries, where all who 
would pick them came and helped themselves, 
so as yet we hud not gathered any. Our 
plan was to start at four o’clock the next 
morning, dressed in clothes that would bear 
wetting, take 0U1 breakfast with us, aud eat 
it ut about the usual time. “Go to bed early, 
girls,” was Aunt Helen’s parting command, 
and after laying out old dresses and sun-bon¬ 
nets, and planning our breakfast, we did go 
to bed, but we were almost as wide-awake as 
Christmas eve always tiuds us, and were 
sleepy enough in the morning. Robbie and 
Fred were the first, to waken, and were soon 
hurrying us and running out to look for Auut 
Helen aud the boys. A little after four we 
were on our journey, the novelty und the 
morning air making us all as gay as we sup¬ 
pose young colts are. 
The blackberry patches were over half-a- 
milo away for our farm was long and narrow, 
and before we reached them we were wet to 
the knees with the dew we brushed from the 
grass and clover as we crossed the fields. We 
found several pickers there ahead of us,and we 
could not quite repress a feeling of auger that 
our berries were tukeu so freely by everyone; 
but from the time of the early settlers, wiki 
fruits had been held as common property, and 
we remembered gathering harries ou the laud 
ourselves before we owned it, so we greeted 
the pickers as pleasantly as we could. But 
the feeling, though we condemned it, made 
us avoid the patches already occupied and we 
were left undisturbed iu the patches we chose. 
We had consulted an almauac aud learned 
that the sun would rise at. about a quarter be¬ 
fore five, so when we thought an hour had 
passed after sunrise, we left, the bushes aud 
prepared for our breakfast. The boys had in¬ 
sisted upon bringing some eggs to be cooked 
over a fire they would build in a little stone 
furnace they had made in the spring when 
father was planting com in nu adjoiuiug 
field. The furnace needed a little repairing, 
but that was soon done ami a tire blazing 
under the pan, brought to fry the eggs in. 
We were very wet,even on our shoulders and 
Aunt Helen viewed her bedraggled company 
iu dismay. “You will catch your deaths 
children if you sit down iu those wot clothes,” 
so we ate our breakfast walking about in the 
sunshine and, though wo all protested, Aunt 
Helen would stay no longer. While busy 
filling our buckets with berries she hail uot 
noticed how wet we were getting having es¬ 
caped the worst of the dew herself, by gath¬ 
ering berries from the lowest bushes, she did 
not realize our plight and scoffed at the idea 
of a little clean water hurting us. It was our 
first experience in the dew, as we had always 
gone iu the afteruoou before or after a dew¬ 
less night. We found Aunt Helen right in 
thinking it unsafe to stay longer for a tired¬ 
ness and a general complaint of headache* for 
the next few days were the results, though we 
tried to believe our berrying bad not caused 
them. We had gathered a fine lot of berries, 
though, and mother let, us can them as jam, 
to be used only when we had visits from some 
of our special friends. We each had our 
sebool-girl friends and were careful never to 
monopolize each others’ though since then we 
have learned that wo can share our friendship 
with each other as well as other things and all 
be richer for it. 
We had gone blackberrying on Saturday 
morning so the study hour for the little bo/s 
might not be broken into. They were learn¬ 
ing faster than I had hoped, and though they 
often begged for holidays they would study 
with a real interest when the lesson hour 
used for the past 14 years. This trial has not 
found it wanting: One bushel of tomatoes, 
three large teaeupfuls of salt, two tablespoon- 
fuls of Cayenne pepper, four ounces of whole 
black pepper, four of grated nutmeg, two of 
whole allspice and two of whole cloves. Wash 
the tomatoes, careful to drain off all water, 
put into a kettle and rnnsh as fine as conven¬ 
ient. Add salt and spice ami boil two hours. 
Take from the lire aud when cool enough pass 
through a wire sieve, careful to press the pulp 
through. Then boll slowly four hours, stir¬ 
ring almost constantly. Bottle hot and seal. 
We vary the ketchup by adding onions to one 
lot aud Worcestershire sauce to another. 
We have found the juice of half a lemon in 
a glass of cold water a most, refreshing drink 
during the hot weather. We prefer this drink 
without sugar. 
came. 
CUCUMBER PICKLES. 
Select small cucumbers and soak them in 
salt-ami-water for 24 hours. Make a bag of 
spices, cinnamon bark and cloves, half a cup 
altogether, with more of the cinnamon than 
the cloves. Boil this in vinegar enough to 
cover the eucuraliers, pour the vinegar over 
them and let them stand until the next morn¬ 
ing, then] pour off the vinegar and heat it. 
again, repeat this for four mornings. On the 
fifth morning throw away this vinegar, sav¬ 
ing the spice-bag to boil in fresh vinegar. 
Put the pickles in glass cans, pour the fresh 
vinegar over them; they are then ready to 
seal. This method makes firm and crisp 
pickles. REBECCA BARBOUR. 
Salt sprinkled on grease or fruit juice 
spilled on a hot stove will prevent the smoke 
and odor such accidents cause. 
BAKED CORN. 
In cutting corn from the cob for baking’ 
cut off as little as possible of the grains, or if 
it, is getting a little old, simply split the rows, 
then iu either case scrape the cobs. In this 
way the best part of the corn is saved and the 
poorest—the skin c>f the grains—is left on the 
cob. To one quart of corn add one egg, one 
cup of milk, and butter, pepper ami salt to 
suit the taste. Bake iu a slow oven, or the 
custard formed by the milk and egg will 
separate, as in baking a sweet custard If 
field coru is used one tablespoonful of sugar 
improves it. mbs. w. f. brown. 
RICE WITH LEMON. 
Take one cup of rice, wash it. cover it with 
milk, and put it into a vessel of such size and 
shape that it can be set into a steamer. Put 
the steamer over u pot of boiling water and 
cook the rice until (soft. As a sauce for this, 
take one lemon, peel it and cut the peeling 
into half-inch pieces, boil these in water until 
tender. Throw away the water saving only 
the peeling. Squeeze out the juice of the 
lemon, add to it two ounces of white sugar, 
one teacup of water aud the bits of lemon 
peeling; stew gently for half an hour. When 
both rice and sauce are cold, pour the sauce 
over the rice. Jelly is very nice used with 
rice instead of a sauce; a spoonful placed in 
each little dish in the middle of the rice as it 
is served, is pretty as well as palatable. 
A very convenient pudding for unexpected 
company is made from dry pieces of any kind 
of loaf cake, fruit-cake being especially good, 
steamed and served with the following sauce: 
One cup of sugar, one pint of water, oue tea- 
spoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of flour 
mixed with water. Flavor with lemon and 
add one teaspoouful of vinegar just before re¬ 
moving from the fire. a. e. b. 
CUCUMBER KETCHUP. 
Take 18 large-sized cucumbers and half a 
dozen large onions. Peel, slice, put into a 
sieve aud stand over a crock or bowl. Strew 
a large haudfulof salt over the pieces. Cover 
and let stand in a cool place 34 hours. Then 
press out any remaining juice, and to the 
liquor in the dish add to each quart a pint of 
uot over-strong vinegar, white pepper, suit 
ami mace to taste. Simmer 20 minutes, 
strain aud bottle when cold. Cork tightly, 
and keep in a cool place. mbs. e. a. 
TOMATO KETCHUP. 
The following recipe is oue that we have 
If tea is to be saved for drinking cold or re¬ 
heating, pour it off from the leaves as soou as 
steeped and while hot. The astringent pro¬ 
perties are then uot so completely dissolved 
out and consequently the tea is more palat¬ 
able aud less injurious 
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