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THE MEAL WEW-YOTilCER. 
and meat vexed her dainty “soul,” when they 
appeared upon the table. Like Oscar Wilde 
she cared only for the beautiful, feeling not 
quite equal to dining on “lilies,” but able to 
sustain life upon fruits and sweets. 
Coralie arose long after the breakfast hour, 
and did not often bathe, feeling too “delicate,” 
and informing me that Patti, seldom washed 
her face, using cold cream, instead of sweet, 
pure, soft water. For breakfast, Coralie drank 
very Olack coffee, with a little choice brandy 
as a stimulant, which was needed to warm 
tier, and she ate more sweets, with pickles, 
and a little toast. Too languid, to take down 
her frizzes, or don a walking suit, and accom¬ 
pany young friends “down town,” on a mission 
for the Old Ladies’ Home Committee that 
wanted some real work done, our Coralie read 
Ouit’.a’s last, played idly some of last year’s 
music, ate more caramels, chewed Colgate’s 
best tolu unweariedly until dinner, and still 
appetite did not come to her, which was the 
signal for a large dose of quinine to be meas¬ 
ured out by the mother, which was obediently 
swallowed by Coralie, who told me “she 
found it a wonderful tonic, and it took twice 
the quantity to have an elFeet upon her, that 
it did when she first commenced taking the 
drug.” She slept during the afternoon, and 
came down to lea looking very lady-like, 
pretty and relined in her tasteful dress, and 
ribbons, only my heart ached to see that com¬ 
plexion sallow and blotched, the slim waist 
and arms, the large eyes so sunken, the step so 
siow, andtne expression upon the young face 
so languid, and i heard her catching her 
breatn in little short gasps. 
Coralie always does ample justice to the 
tempting La spread before her, and as callers 
come in and the night advances, her spirits 
raise to gayety, she “could live on excite¬ 
ment.” Time wears on, and her complexion 
does not improve, neither does any degiee of 
strength or ambition to fill her rightlul place 
in the army of right noble workers, and the 
doses of quinine aie taken oftener, the coffee 
is made stronger and blacker, she feels less 
like taking exercise in the open air, nearly 
everything bores her nowadays; but her waist 
remains beautifully small, the shoes do not 
pinch so much now, as the plump feet are 
“tapering” off too, but that “horrid color,” 
still spoils our Coralie. ella guernsey. 
BAKED DEANS. 
The following appeared in the Kukal near¬ 
ly 20 ytars ago. After giving ear to these 
jingling directions (l came across them in look¬ 
ing over old papers) our baked beans were so 
much improved that 1 take the liberty of send¬ 
ing the recipe to you for republicatiou. 
"If, my dear Rural, you ever should wish 
For breakfast or dinner a tempting dish 
Of the beans so famous in Boston town, 
You must read the rules I here lay down : 
When the sun has set in golden light, 
And round you fall the shades of night, 
A large deep dish you first prepare — 
A quart of beans select with care; 
And pick them over until you find 
Not a speck or a mote Is left behind. 
A lot of cold water on them pour, 
’Till every beun is covered o’er, 
And they seem to your poetic eye 
l.ikc pearls In the dcoths of the sea to lie. 
Here, If you please, y >u may let tnem stay 
’Till just after breakfast the v> ry next day 
When a parboiling process must be gone through— 
(I mean for the beans, and not for you.; 
Then, if In your pantry there stl'l should be 
That bean-pot so famous In history, 
With all due deference bring it out, 
And, if there’s a skimmer lying about, 
Skim half of the beans from the boiling pan 
Into the bean pot as fust as you can ; 
Then turn to Biddy and calmly tell her 
To take a huge knife and go to the cellar ; 
For you must have, like Shyloek of old, 
"A pound of fiesh,” ere your beai.s grow cold 
Hut very unlike that aneleut Jew, 
Nothing but pork will do for you. 
Then tell once more your mutden fair 
in the choice of the piece to take great care 
For a streak of fat and a streak of lean 
Will give the right flavor to every bean. 
This you must wash and rinse and seore, 
Rut lmo the pot, and round it pour 
The rest, till the view presented S' ems 
bike an island of pork in an ocean of beans; 
Pour on boiling hot water enough to cover 
The tops of the beans completely over. 
Shove into the oven and bake till done, 
And the triumph of Yankee cookery’s won.” 
SI. B. B. 
— . . 
WASH DAY DINNERS. 
It is indeed an ai t to make a satisfactory 
“picked-up” dinner, and since a Monday din¬ 
ner from motives of economj must necessari¬ 
ly in most families be such an one, it becomes 
housekeepers to study the art of disposing of 
the odds and ends of a Suuday dinner to the 
satisfaction of the family palates. There is a 
sort of general antipathy on principle to 
hashes and stews, but if you call them minces 
and ragouts, much of the objection is removed. 
It is a case where a rose by scone other name 
smells sweeter. 
Let us suppose that the remains of Sunday’s 
roast of beef will not bear slicing, being too 
far gone; a “Toad- in-the-hole” will excite the 
curiosity of the younger members of your 
family, and the gratitude of the elder ones, if 
it be properly made. Cut the meat into small 
squares, and put it into a greased bake dish. 
Season it tastefully: beat one egg light, add to 
it a pint of milk; stir in gradually six table- 
spoonfuls of Hour beating rapidly the while. 
Strain through a sieve; add one-half teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt and a little pepper, and pour over the 
meat. Bake one hour, and serve with a gravy 
made from stewing the bones. 
Take the cold potatoes that are left, cut 
them into dice, place them in a large, shallow 
baking dish; cover with a cream sauce, 
sprinkle over a handful of bread crumbs, and 
bake until brown. A cream sauce is so simple 
that every oue should know bow to make it. 
Melt a tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan, 
stir in as much flour, add one pint of boiling 
milk, and season with salt and pepper. 
in warming over cold meats that may be 
sliced, never let them boil in the gravy, which 
makes them tasteless. Make a little gravy 
with butter and water, or with the bones 
stewed in the gravy that is left over, adding 
water; simmer in this until tender a carrot 
and an onion sliced thin, season with salt, 
pepper, and parsley; lay in the slices of meat 
just long enough to get hot through; in fact, if 
you pour over them the boiling gravy it is 
sullicient. Four on a hot dish containing 
points of buttered toast. 
There are a thousand ways in which a Mon¬ 
day dinner can be made attractive by a little 
management beforehand on the part of the 
mistress, and a little extra work on the day 
itself. It is hard on Jack to let him suffer 
because Bridget lias too heavy a wash to bother 
about diuner. He may go dining down town 
on that clay to avoid the inevitable poor diu¬ 
ner at home; so even on the ground of econo¬ 
my, putting sentiment aside, it will pay you 
to make his dinner so agreeable that he will 
not let anything short of absolute necessity 
keep him away. palmetto. 
NOTES FROM MY COOK-BOOK NO. II. 
A PUDDING OF LONG AGO. 
Pare, core and chop four large apples; mix 
with four ounces of bread crumbs (stale); beat 
four eggs, whites und yelks sepaiately, add¬ 
ing die yelks first to the minced apples and 
crumbs, then stir in the wuites carefully; add 
salt, nutmeg and cinnamon and the juice of a 
lemon, and boil for three hours. Serve hot 
with a foamy sauce. 
ORANGE CAKE PUDDING. 
Cream a cup of butter with one and a half 
cup of sugar; add oue cup of milk, four beaten 
eggs, three cups of flour with oue and a half 
teaspoonful of baking powder, and the rind 
and the juice of two orauges. Bake and servo 
with lemon sauce. Half of this quantity is 
enough for six persons. 
LEMON SAUCE. 
Put ouo tablespoonful of sugar, and one of 
corn-starch in a saucepan, and add slowly a 
pine of boiling water, a lablespoonf ul of butter 
and the juice of a lemon; boil until it thickens. 
CHICKEN CROQUETTES. 
Chop' finely one pound of cold boiled chicken 
seasoned with halt a teaspoonful each of pep¬ 
per and salt, and half a tablcspooful of butter. 
Mix this with a small cup of cream, and oue 
beaten egg, and stir over the fireinasnmll ves¬ 
sel set wiihiu another of boiling water until it 
thickens. Make into croquettes, either peur or 
sausage shaped, roll in crumbs,then in egg, and 
again in crumbs and fry in hot fat. Etock 
may be used 111 place of cream. 
VEAL LOAF. 
Chop two pounds of veal tine, season with 
half a tablespoonful each of popper, salt and 
sage aud four soda crackers rolled line; three 
tablespoonsfuls of cream, butter half the size 
of an egg, and bake two hours. Slice when 
cold. 
SALLY LUNN. 
One quart of flour sifted with three small 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat two eggs 
witn two tabletpioonluls of sugar; add three 
tablespoonfuls of melted butter ami one pint 
of milk; stir in the Hour and a teaspioonful of 
salt. Bake. susie f. 
STAINING WOODS. 
An old article of furniture of the light woods 
used in cottage furniture may be stained to 
represent either cherry or mahogany. For 
the latter boil eight ounces of fustic in one 
gallon of water. If you have a correct hand 
and steady eye you may successfully imitate 
the grainiug of the wood by dipping a small 
brush in blacK stain, and streaking the surface 
before it is quite dry. You must have some 
knowledge of the wood or you may spoil it by 
daubing, and the plain stain is very pretty 
and effective. For a cherry stain, mix togeth¬ 
er one quart of spirits of turpentine, one pint 
of japan, one pound of Venetian red ground 
in oil, and two ounces of dry burnt umber. 
Apply with a brush, and finish with one coat 
of shellac, and two of varnish. 
A good polish is boiled oil mixed with a little 
turpentine. a. g. 
FRICCASSEED CHICKEN. 
Cut a tender fowl into joints, making four 
pieces of the breast; cover with boiling water, 
season with salt, and pepper, and simmer un¬ 
til tender. Take it out and dredge with flour, 
salt, and pepper, and fry brown quickly in 
hot pork fat; lay it on toast, and pour over 
a cream sauce. Remove the fat from the 
chicken liquor, of which there should be about 
a pint; melt one tablespoonful of butter and 
two of flour, and pour on slowly the hot chick¬ 
en broth, and one cup of cream; season with 
a teaspoon ful of lemon juice, salt, pepper, and 
the beaten yelk of one egg. Cover the gravy 
closely after adding the butter and flour, and 
simmer very slowly for five minutes beforo 
adding the cream and egg. It should never 
boil after this is done. To have digestible and 
palatable toast, have the bread stale, and let 
it dry slowly over the fire until all the moist¬ 
ure is driven out of it, then brown more 
quickly. _ __ _ cook. 
A PLEA. 
Yes, Miss Willard, leave us the dollies. Or, 
what shall I say when three-year-old May 
comes to me with the oft-repeated child-ques. 
tion, “Mamma, what shall I do?” As the 
case now is, I answer, “ Oh, get your baby 
and come to visit me.” Soon I hear a gentle 
tapping, and a little figure carrying the loved 
doll is invited in and seated near me. I go on 
about the washing, or baking, or patching, or 
any of the hundred things pertaining to house¬ 
keeping, while my contented girlie tells me 
how sick the baby was; how she could not 
“ set dinner ” for her “ Levi ” because it cried, 
and much more like tulk. 
After she “goes home,” I take a little look 
to see her rocking it to sleep, and she says, 
“ I don’t bother you, do I, Mamma, because 
I’m a woman now ?” By all means, spare us 
the dolls. And with them, encourage the use 
of the jack-knife. After your boys are 
grown up and gone, you will never regret 
that you lot them whittle. The making of 
doll furniture and wagons and carts will oc¬ 
cupy many happy hours. Do you dislike the 
litter made by both knives and scissors? Does 
clearing it away make too much work ? 
ell, mother, do you expect to raise men and 
women, pure, honest, useful men and women, 
without patient, painstaking, real work 3 
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