1888 
THE BUHAt NEW-YORKER. 
hence it did not become water-logged. The 
sauce-pans were of iron but made with inside 
kettles of block tin. There were sieves of all 
sizes. The back of the range had a long, 
open vessel that could be made to fit inside 
the hot-water boiler. In it were some stew- 
pans that were useful for keeping dishes hot 
if any delay occurred, and for many other 
purposes. There were little cutters for bread, 
and one for potatoes, turnips aud carrots, 
which cut them into twists or curls. A set 
of molds, a silver plated scallop shell, a broad 
pancake lifter, a Saratoga potato-cutter, a 
cream-whipper and dozens of other nick-nacks 
attracted my attention. I noticed a small 
scale fastened to the wall quite out of the way, 
and tins of different measurement hung 
beside it. These things lead to nicety of 
measurement which is a good habit with 
young housekeepers. There were silver skew¬ 
ers, and a knife for disjointing poultry. Mops 
and dishpans were of the best, and little 
bi usbes for rubbing the whites of eggs over 
crullers, etc , or for glazing meat with clear 
stock, were very handy. The chief interest 
attached to these things depended on the fact 
that they were presented to the young lady 
by her fellow classmates at a cooking school, 
instead of other things of less usefulness. 
WATER GRIDDLE CAKES: HYDRO¬ 
CHLORIC ACID IN COOKERY; SOL¬ 
DERING TINS. 
Perhaps it will be remembered by the 
readers of the Rural, that some weeks ago I 
suggested giviDg the Rural readers my “mix- 
up” for making griddle cakes, mixed with 
clear cold water, which are very light, sweet, 
and wholesome, and here it is: Take of flour 
the quantity that you would use if you were 
to mix it in your former way; for shortening 
use a little corn meal, a sixth or tenth part, or 
any quantity to suit the taste; put into the 
dry flour the amount of soda, not saleratus, 
that you would use were you to mix a batch 
of biscuit; add a little salt, put in the water 
and mix to the consistency for griddle cakes. 
Next, add to the batter hydrochloric acid, 
in bulk, the same as that of soda used. Stir 
in this acid with as little stirring as possible. 
This is important, if you use sour milk aud 
saleratus. Also put each one into the flour 
separately. 
It is a fact that the majority of cooks mix 
the sour milk and saleratus in a bowl, until it 
becomes a great foam and then -work it into 
the flour. By the time it is well worked in 
the rising is nearly all worked out of it; and 
fully three-fourths of your money is gone. 
This acid, hydrochloric, or the old-fash¬ 
ioned name—muriatic—is the cheapest, and 
most wholesome of any acid to be used in 
cooking, costing from 10 to 15 cents per pound, 
while cream-of-tartar is 40 cents aud tartaric 
acid is from 60 to 80 cents, and not nearly so 
sour as the hydrochloric. Don’t be afraid of it 
because it is a fluid, and in a bottle with a 
long, crooked name. It is not strictly a pois¬ 
on, though much less than a pint of it would 
kill a person. But, please, remember that just 
as soon as the soda is mixed with it, it ceases 
to be an acid, has lost all its corroding and 
dangerous qualities, has been decomposed. 
The chlorine of the hydrochloric has united 
with the sodium of the soda and made chlor¬ 
ide of sodium; while the liberated hydrogen 
of the hydrochloric has mixed with the liber¬ 
ated carbon of the carbonate of sodium (cook¬ 
ing soda is bi-carbonate of sodium—the wash¬ 
ing soda is carbonate of sodium: sodium is a 
metal looking like the pig-zinc or lead), and 
has made common street gas, and iu its effort 
to make its escape to the open air, raises the 
cake. And this is the fact with all bread or 
cake, no matter what the mixture is and so it 
is important to keep all the gas within the 
dough until the baking process. 
Saleratus is not the same as soda, as I have 
heard many say it is. Saleratus is bi-carbon¬ 
ate of potassium. Potassium is a metal some¬ 
thing like sodium. 
Saleratus will raise the cake just as well as 
soda, but it is not wholesome. Were saleratus 
used it would be decomposed the same as the 
soda, making chloride of potassium, a salt 
that is much used in fire- works, percussion 
priming for guns, and in the bombs used by 
the Anarchists; while if soda is used chloride 
of sodium is the result—common table salt, so 
all may judge for themselves, whether it be 
poison or not. 
This same hydrochloric acid is used by 
tinners in making the fluid used iu soldering 
tin-work, and bv them called “acid.” It is 
not an acid, or should not be, though there is 
more or less acid in most of that sold by ped¬ 
dlers. Very likely many of the Rural readers 
will like to know how this acid is made for 
soldering. Take of the acid as much bulk as 
you will need put it in a bottle that it will 
fill half full, or less, take some sheet zinc and 
cut in strips narrow enough to go through the 
mouth of the bottle, then feed them in slowly 
—if too fast the acid will boil over, caused by 
the decomposition of the acid and the escape 
of the hydrogen gas. Care must be used not 
to come near it with an open lamp, as the hy¬ 
drogen and atmosphere, mixed in equal parts, 
are fearfully explosive. In a half hour the 
boiling will be nearly done; but leave in a 
few scraps of zinc, that all the acid may be 
used up. Then add about one-third water to 
it — without the addition of the water, a 
white, dry froth will form between the solder¬ 
ing tool and the w T ork. To make your own 
solder, melt some bars of tin: then add lead, 
about one-third, and stir it well. Pour a half 
ounce on a board to cool. If it cools with a 
brilliant surface, add more lead and test again. 
It should cool with a dull surface. Cast it into 
such sized bars as you like.' 
To tin your soldering tool, heat it enough to 
work with, then file it brightand have already 
a small scrap of sheet tin, with a few drops of 
the soldering fluid (chloride of zinc), and a 
small scrap of solder on it; then apply the tool 
to the solder, and as soon as melted, make a 
few rubs with the soldering tool on it, turning 
the tool over until each side is coated. Three 
seconds are enough for each side. The solder¬ 
ing tool should be of wrought copper. Cast 
copper is but little better than iron, as the 
solder will not hang to it. a. g. bisbee. 
A BATCH OF GOODIES. 
Brilliant! 
Durable! 
Economical! 
33 COLORS. io cents each. 
The PUREST, STRONGEST and FASTEST 
of all Dyes. Warranted to Dye the most goods, and 
give the best colors. One package colors one to four 
pounds of Dress Goods, Carpet Rags, Yarns, etc. 
Unequalled for Feathers, Ribbons, and all fancy 
Dyeing. Any one can use them. 
The Only Safe and U nadulterated Dyes . 
Send postal for Dye Book, SampleCard, directions 
for coloring Photos., making the finest Ink or Bluing 
(io cts. a quart), etc. Sold by .Diuggists. Address 
WELLS. RICHARDSON & CO., Burlington, lit. 
For Gilding or Bronzing Fancy Articles, USE 
DIAMOND PAINTS. 
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper. Only IO Cents, 
Dr. S. Owens, of the firm of S. Owens <fc 
Co., druggists, Ashland, Pa., writing Sept. 
16,1887, says: “ Piso’s Cure for Consump¬ 
tion gives more satisfaction than any 
otherCough medicine. I prescribe it 
in my practice in all cases of Lung 
and Bronchial trouble.’’ 
Piso’s C 
fo: 
.SOME COOKING RECIPES FROM THE COOK-BOOK 
OF A LITTLE CALIFORNIA GIRL. 
MINCE MEAT: NICE. 
Three bowls of meat, three of apples, three 
of suet, oue bow) of citron or lemon peel and 
citron, one bowl of raisins chopped a little, 
two bowls of currants, one of vinegar, one of 
molasses, one of fruit sirup, four of sugar. 
Nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves to taste. Meat, 
suet and citron to be chopped fine. 
OYSTER SAUCE. 
One pint of oysters, one-half a lemon, two 
tablespoonfuls of butter rolled in flour,one tea¬ 
cupful of milk, cayenne pepper and nutmeg to 
taste. Heat the oyster liquor and when it boils 
skim and put in the oysters. As soon as they 
boil stir in the butter, well floured and cut up, 
spice and lemon juice. Boil five minutes. 
Then take from the fire and put with the milk, 
which has been heated in another vessel. 
Then stir up well. 
ORANGE MARMALADE. 
Select best Florida or Seville oranges. Cut 
them in two, take out all the pulp and juice 
into a basin aud pick out the seeds. Boil the 
rinds in hard water until tender, change the 
water two or three times while boiling. Then 
pound in a Wedgewood mortar, add to it the 
juice and pulp, the n put all in a preserving pan 
with double its weight of loaf sugar, and set 
over a slow fire. Boil one-half hour or more, 
put into pots and cover tightly with brandy 
paper. palmetto. 
the VOICE, when hoarse and husky 
from overstrain or irritation of the vocal 
organs, is improved and strengthened by the 
use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Clergy¬ 
men, Singers, Actors, and Public Speakers 
find great relief in the use of this prep¬ 
aration. A specific for throat affections. It 
relieves Croup and Whooping Cough, and is 
indispensable in every household. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, 
Prepared by Dr. ,T. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all Druggists. Price$l; six bottles, $5. 
BEOWN’S FRENCH DRESSING. 
The Original. Beware oi Imitations. 
AWARDED HIGHEST PRIZE AND ONLY 
MEDAL, PARiS EXPOSITION, 1878 
Highest Award New Orleans Exposition. 
PARKER’S 
HAIR BALSAM 
the popular favorite for dressing 
the hair, Restoring color when 
gray, and preventing Dandruff. 
It cleanses the scalp, stops the 
hair falling, and is sure to please. 
50c. and S1.00 at Druggists. 
HINDERCORNS. 
The safest, surest and best cure for Corns, Bunions,,Vo. 
Stops all pain. Ensures comfort to the feet. Never rails 
to cure. 10 cents at Druggists. Hiscox * Co., N. Y, 
& 
The cabinet organ was in¬ 
troduced in its present form 
by Mason & Ilamlin in 1861. 
I Other makers followed in 
t.he manufacture of these 
instruments, but the Mason & Hamlin Organs have 
always maintained their supremacy as the best in 
the world. 
t Mason & Hamlin offer, as demonstration of the 
nnequalcd excellence of their organs, the fact that 
it. all of ihe great World’s Exhibitions, since that of 
Paris, 1867, in competition wi li best makers of all 
countries, they have invariably taken the highest 
honors. Illustrated catalogues free. f 
Mason & Hamlin’s Piano 
Stringer was introduced by 
them in 1882, and has been 
pronounced by experts the 
“ greatest improvement in 
pianos in half a century.” 
A circular, containing testimonials from three 
hundred purchasers, musicians, and tuners, sent, 
together \\ itn descripi ivecatalogue, to any applicant. 
Pianos and Organs sold for cash or easy payments; 
also rented. 
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN & PIAN0C0. 
154Tremont St,, Boston. 46 E. 14th St. (Union Sq.)| N.Y. 
149 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 
GOLr MEDAL, PARIS, 187te 
BAKER’S 
Warranted absolutely pure 
Cocoa, from which the excess of 
Oil has been removed. It has t *• "t< 
times the strength of Cocoa mixec 
with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economS 
ca costing less than one cent a 
cu% It is delicious, nourishing, 
strengthening, easily digested, anc- 
admirably adapted for invalids a* 
well as for persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers eve rywhere, 
f. BAKER & CO.. Dorchester, Hass. 
NOVELTY SPOOL HOLDER, 
With Thread Cutter Attached. 
Fastens to dress button while knitting, 
crocheting, or sewing. Made of silvered 
spring wire. Fits any size spool. Every 
lady needs it. Sample 15c. 2 for 25, dozen 
75 cts. Stamps taken. Agents wanted. 
HOWARD MFG. (JO., PROVIDENCE, K.L 
TmNG HITCH 
Is an invention by which a horse 
be liitnicd and unhitch -J 
to and from a carriage almost 
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of Harness, doing away with long 
traces, breech straps fastening and unf»st“ning of 
buckles; pulls from whiffletree Stylish, simple, atiruyt 
fill. Comfortable to the horse. Thousands in use. Sells ut. 
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z FREE ! “©a 
W ewant an active and intelligent man 
or woman to represent us in each town. 
To those who are willing to work we 
promise lur#e profits. Cooker and 
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ON 30 DAYS’ TRIAL. 
THIS NEW 
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Has a l’ad different from all 
others, is cup shape, with Self- 
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itself to all positions of the 
body while the ball in the cup 
presses back the intes- 
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does With theflnger. with light pressure the Her¬ 
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corta-ln. It is easy, durable and cheap. Sent by mail Cir¬ 
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