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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JJomfstir <5rcitomg. 
OONDITOT ED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
THANKSGIVING. 
MRS. M. a. RAND. 
Bills of Fare 
for 
Thanksgiving Dinner. 
No. 1. 
First course. 
Oyster soup, crackers and celery. 
Second course. 
Roast turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes 
and turnips. 
Dessert. 
Coffee, cake, and fruits. 
No. a. 
First Course. 
Beef soup, with bread and celery. 
Second Course. 
Fresh fish, baked or boiled, stewed tomatoes and 
pickles. 
Third Course. 
Roast turkey, currant jelly, mashed potatoes, 
squash. 
Dessert. 
coffee, cake, pumpkin pie, cheese, fruits. 
We have just entered upon the month in 
which, according to a national custom, our 
annual Thanksgiving occurs. 
It is, to most of us, a day that is associated 
with-pleasant family re-unions but for those 
who have made new homes for themselves in 
the Far West, and are obliged to keep the 
“feast” alone, the day is full of sadness. 
With some families, especially New England¬ 
ers, the Thanksgiving dinner is the event of 
the season. The preparation of the meal calls 
for an undue amount of anxiety aud labor on 
the part of the housewife. She is so fatigued 
from working beyond her strength, that it is 
only with an apparent effort she Is able to en¬ 
tertain her guests—surely a more plainly pre¬ 
pared meal would be preferable. The din¬ 
ner too is generally an extravagant affair. 
Frequently the fanciful and untasted desserts 
cost as much as a substantial meal. 
The day is set apart as one of thauks to the 
“ Giver of all good for His mercies." Would 
it not be more in keeping with such an ap¬ 
pointment to give less attention to feasting ? 
Even then the family need not be deprived of 
the usual turkey aud its desirable accompani¬ 
ments. There are poor families iu almost 
every community, who have nothing where¬ 
with to keep the Thanksgiving feast. There 
are also persons in every neighborhood each 
of whom might, on such an occasion, spare 
enough from his own store, to provide, at 
least one meal, for one poor family, or person. 
The gratitude of the recipient, could scarcely 
equal the satisfaction of the douor, showing 
that “ it is more blessed to give than to re¬ 
ceive.” 
Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving. 
One quart of strained pumpkin (squash will 
answer); one quart of milk; one lea-cup of 
cream ; one tea-Bpoonful (scant) of salt; two 
teaspoonsful of powdered cinnamon; two of 
ginger; one grated nutmeg; two tablespoousful 
of dark molasses; sugar, according to taste; 
two large spoonsful_of liuur; live beaten eggs. 
To Make Put the stewed pumpkin into a 
large bowl: add the flour, molasses, salt aud 
spices, and beat thoroughly. Then add the 
eggs, milk, cream aud sugar, and beat again. 
If the mixture seems too thin, add more pump¬ 
kin ; if too thick, add milk. Bake in pie tins, 
lined with paste that is not very rich. Bake 
until solid in the center, and of a rich bronze 
color. 
Thanksgivlug Cake. 
Three cupB of very light bread dough ; three 
cups of sugar ; one cup of butter; three eggs; 
one small nutmeg; raisins 5 one teaspoouful 
(scant) of soda, dissolved iu a little hot water. 
To Make :—Hub the butter aud sugar to¬ 
gether ; add the eggs and spice; thou the 
dough, and mix all thoroughly. Add the soda 
and beat it well into the dough. Flour must 
be added to make a rather thick batter—if too 
thin, it will not bake well. Bake iu two loaves. 
Leave one plain. In the other, put two cups 
of stoned raisins which have been Bouked in 
brandy over night. The dough for this cake 
should be raised with potato yeast. The cake 
keepe well, especially if covered with a thin 
iciog. The cake can be baked as 6 oon as 
mixed, but will be lighter if allowed to stand 
in a warm place for half an hour before 
baking. 
Clinton Co., Iowa. 
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THANKSGIVING DESSERTS, 
Fruitu and ,\'ute. 
A raised center-piece of mixed fruits is an 
appropriate aud delicious dessert, as well as 
an indispensable ornament to an elegant din¬ 
ner-table. 
Apples and NuU. 
Folish the apples and crack the nuts. 
Snow Flakes. 
Grate the cocoa-nut into a glass dish, and 
serve with jellies or cream aud powdered sugar. 
Grapes, Chestnuts nnd Apples. 
Arrange the grapes aud apples in fruit dish¬ 
es. Boil the chestnuts iu 6 alted water for ten 
or fifteen minutes, drain, stir a little butter 
into them, tos 6 up till dry aud serve in a deep 
dish. 
Fried Bananas. 
Peel off the skin, slice lengthwise, fry in 
butter and sprinkle with sugar. 
Ambrosia. 
One-half dozen Bweet oranges peeled aud 
sliced; one large coeoa-uut, grated. Alternate 
the layers of cocoa-nut aud oranges. Sprinkle 
powdered sugar over each layer. 
Nuts and Raisins. 
Crack the nuts and select nice bunches of 
fresh, plump raisins. For dessert use, the 
“ Muscatels,” aud “London Layer” take the 
preference. 
Orange Pyramid. 
Cut the peel into eight different pieces, from 
the stem downward—careful not to cut 
through iuto the juice cells. Peel each piece 
down to little more than half way, and bend 
sharply to the right. Pile the oranges in the 
form of a pyramid ou a high fruit dish. 
Grape Pyramid. 
Build up of Malagas—au imported grape— 
Delaware and Concords. 
CREAMS. 
Whipped Cream. 
Place the cream where it will become 
thoroughly chilled, and whip with an egg-beat¬ 
er. Should the creatn be difficult to bring to a 
froth, beat with it the white of au egg. While 
whipping take oil the froth and place on a 
6 eive, re-whipping all that passes through. 
Sweeten aud tiuvor. Fill jelly glasses one-third 
full of currant jelly, aud till up with the cream. 
Spanish Cream. 
Dissolve one-half box of Cox’s gelatine in 
half a piut of cold milk. Iuto one quart of boil¬ 
ing milk stir a small teacupful of sugar and the 
beaten yelks of four eggs. Pour this upon the 
dissolved gelaliue. Flavor when cool or add 
a small wine-glass of wine. Turn into cups 
and cover with a meraugue made of the whites, 
half a cup of powdered sugar aud a little ex¬ 
tract. Brown in the oven. Eat ice-cold. 
Italian Cream 
Soak one-third of a box of gelatine in a little 
cold milk. Bring to a boil one quart of rich 
milk ; then stir iu a cup of sugar, the beaten 
yelks of six eggs and the dissolved gelatine. 
When it begins to thicken, take from the tire 
and pour over the beaten whites. Whip to¬ 
gether ; flavor to taste aud pour into a form, 
Make a few hours before needed. 
PUDDINGS. 
Frozen Pudding. 
Make two quarts of rich, boiled custard ; add 
to it two tablespoonsful of gelatine dissolved 
in a little milk. Put into au ice-cream freezer, 
and as soon as it begins to freeze, stir iu a 
grated cocoa-nut aud a few blanched almonds. 
Let it become solid. 
Fruit Pudding. 
One cup of sweet milk; one cup of molasses ; 
half a cup of melted butter; one beaten egg; 
one cup of stoned raisins ; half a cup of cur¬ 
rants; two cups and a half of flour; half a 
teaspoonful of soda. Mix well together, salt, 
pour into a mold and steam two hours. Eat 
with hard and liquid sauce. Pour over a little 
brandy and light just before sending to the 
table. _ 
Ribbon Blnnc-Mnnge—A Pretty Dish. 
Dissolve one ounce of gelatine (Cooper’s) in 
a small cup of milk. Put a quart of rich, new 
milk over the tire, and when it boils, sweeten 
to taste; add the dissolved gelatine, and boil 
five minutes, being careful not to burn. A 
“ double ” kettle or a tin pail placed iu a kettle 
of boiling water should housed. Strain through 
a salt bag—washed and dried—iuto four bowls, 
an equal quantity into each. Into one stir 
enough grated chocolate, mixed to a paste with 
a little milk, to make a rich brown color. Into 
the second Btir the beaten yelk of an egg. The 
third a little cranberry juice. The fourth leave 
white, aud flavor with lemon. Flavorings may 
be added to suit tbe maker. The chocolate 
may be flavored with vanilla; the cranberry 
with rose, etc. When the blaue-mauge begins 
to cool aud congeal, dip a mold iuto cold 
water; pour in half of the rose, then the white, 
next the yellow and brown. Again the rose; 
the others following as before. Make the day 
before it is to be eaten. 
BRIEFLET8. 
“What fools these mortals be.” There is 
some truth in that. . . 
Oh, dear, what can the matter be '! 
Oh, dear, what can the matter tie! 
Oh, dear, what can the matter be 1 
Johnny’s so sick of the Fair! 
. . . Rye may still be sown to plow under 
in spring. . . If you have nothing else to 
do, gather leaves. . . Cions for grafting in 
the spring may now be cut and preserved in 
sand in a cool cellar. Bevel one end, mark 
the name of variety in pencil. . . Friends 
of the Brighton Grape are multiplying. 
A report is made to the California Academy of 
Sciences that sulphate of iron (copperas) is a 
remedy for mildew and grape-rot. A mixture 
of four pouncU to five of water is applied to 
the stems of the vine. . . Lard and resin 
make a good varnish that may be applied to 
all metal surfaces to prevent rust. . . A 
regular contributor to the American Agricul¬ 
turist writes to that paper as follows : “I must 
say I believe in getting the farmers out to the 
fairs. If they will not come to the sober mat¬ 
ter-of-fact, strictly agricultural 6 how, let us 
give them something that will draw. A few 
horse-trots, side-shows and eveu a rope-dancer 
are harmless." Oh, oh! what’s the use of 
splitting hairs ? Add “ a bar-room, a ten- 
pen alley, a billiard room, a cockpit and a bull¬ 
fight.” - - “ It may appear a little strange,” 
says Mr. Roe in Scribner’s Monthly, “ that the 
luxurious Romans who fed on nightingales’ 
tongues aud peacocks’ brains, and scoured 
earth aud air for delicacies, should have given 
but little attention to the Strawberry.” . . If 
Mr. Roe were restricted to one variety of Straw¬ 
berry, he would take Triomphe de Gand ! . . 
. . Au establishment near Paris works 80 
incubators, and up to September of this year 
has “turned out” 42,000 chicks! . . Our 
monthly uiagaziues are talking a good deal 
about agriculture, which, as a straw, shows 
which way the wiud blows. . . Writes a 
friend of the Rural, who has, himself, been 
eminently successful in improving bis stock, 
“The importance of using pure-bred males 
for the purpose of speedily improving the 
live stock of the country, and couscqueutly 
increasing its value, cannot be too strongly 
impressed upon our farmers and stockmen.” 
. . Under the United States law admitting, 
free of duty, animals imported for breeding 
purposes, it has lately been decided by court 
of law that grade animals might come under 
the provision of the Act, inasmuch as the bona 
fide intent aud purpose for which auitnals are 
imported, whether good or inferior stock, 
must decide the question of their liability to 
duty. The United States Treasury has ap¬ 
pealed the case to the United States Supreme 
Court, insisting that the exemption applies only 
to choice stock. . . Prof. J. P. Sheldon, in 
“Dairy Farming,” thinks that the quantity of 
cheese, if not of butter, made iu the British Isles, 
is yearly diminishing, and that it is not im¬ 
probable thatin the course of time Englishmcu 
may depend almostwhoily on foreign supplies of 
cheese, and to a very great extent, on foreign 
supplies of butter; their owu dairy farming being 
chiefly devoted to the milk trade. . . The Anglo- 
American Cattle Company is the name of an 
English association that expects to realize 
immense profits from breeding and purchasing 
cattle on our Western prairies. Their agent 
says he has already purchased in Kansas 103 
thoroughbred bulls and is acquiring 2,000 
heifers and as many steers, from which a 
profit of from $35,000 to $40,000 is expected 
the first year! . . There’s a dispute with 
regard to success or failure of Perchtron horses 
in Ohio. Wallace’s Monthly insists that they 
have proved failures; the National Live Stock 
Journal maintains that they have been emi¬ 
nently successful in improving native stock ou 
which they have been crossed, and that though 
their prices are lower now than a few years 
ago, when all prices were high, they sell to-day 
at higher figures than any horses except the 
speediest ou the running or trotting turf. . 
Chas. Miller, ol loulca, La Salle County, Ill., has 
just bought ol the Messrs. Smiths and Powell, 
Syracuse, N. Y., the lately imported Clydes¬ 
dales stallion Donald Deuuie, a beautiful dark 
dappled brown of great size, fine form and 
action; and also the three-year-old Hamble- 
tonian stallion, Power’s Hambletonian by Ash- 
bert Bonner, by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, a 
dark bay of elegant style, with three Hamblc- 
tonian crosses and 20 crosses of Messenger 
blood. Both these horseB are pretty sure to 
be heard of, so soon as their foals shall have 
time to show their mettle. 
fUtos of tfre lEteli. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, November 10, 1879. 
in the elections on Tuesday last the Northern 
States gave solid Republican gains, and the South- 
ern won solid Democratic victories. In this State 
Cornell, Conkllug’s nominee, was elected governor 
by about 40,000 majority. Kelly received about 
70,000 Democratic votes, which lessened Robinson’s 
support by at least that figure, thus insuring his 
defeat. The rest, of the state ticket Is still In 
doubt, and It. wU 1 require the official count to decide 
who are elected. Both the Senate and the House 
are overwhelmingly Republican, which will Insure 
the election of a Republican Halted States Senator, 
Instead of Kernan. in Conn, the Republicans 
have also elected a majority of both Houses 
of the Legislature and will send a Republican 
to the United States Senate instead ot Barnurn. 
In Pennsylvania they have carried the State by 
about 60,000 majority, which entitles them to a 
U, S. Senator In place of Wallace; while In Ohio, 
Garfield will probably succeed Thurman, or If he 
doesn't, some other Republican will. In New 
Jersey, they have also gained pretty heavily, and 
swept Kansas and Nebraska. In Virginia they 
hold the balance of power between the two parts 
of the Democratic party, one of wliioh Insists on 
paying the State debt. In full, while the other 
wishes to adjustor scale it. Maryland has gone 
Democratic by a certain but decreased majority, 
and Mississippi la solidly Democratic. 
Special Agent Adams reports that the Govern¬ 
ment’s dernauds for the surrender of theUte In¬ 
dian murderers will be complied with. A com¬ 
mission consisting of Gen Hatch, Chief Ouray and 
Adams met at Uncanpahgree, Col., on the 8th to 
Investigate the White River Utes to meet there. 
Gen Adams went to Denver on Tuesday last to 
take testimony from Mrs. MeekeT and the other 
female captives. Mrs. Meeker la not expected to 
survive the hardships she has gone through. The 
Colorado press generally urge that the Indians be 
killed off, and their reservations confiscated and 
thrown open to miners and settlers. The crusade 
assumes a political aspect, and will play an Im¬ 
portant part In the Presidential campaign and the 
next Congress. The hostility against the Indians 
Is something unparalleled. “No quarter" is the 
cry, and the only Utes who have any chance for 
Justice are Ouray, the head chief who Interposed 
In favor ot the captives, his wife, Chepeta, and his 
sister Susan, the wife of Johnson, who tended 
and greatly protected Mrs. Meeker, her daughter 
and Mrs Price and children. The mines of the 
Ute reservation are richer than at first supposed, 
and the governor will he pressed to call out the 
militia to quell the war which will follow If the 
miners crowd, hunt and bush-whack as they 
threaten. Agent Adams says that he made; no 
pledges to the Utes, at the late meeting, except to 
promise to stop the troops' advance. At the coun¬ 
cil some chiefs wanted to continue the fight. Sapa- 
ranora made a fiery speech announcing that If the 
Utes did not yield to Adams he would join the 
white soldiers. Ouray has ordered the hostlles to 
meet him In ten days. Adams believes that about 
25 of the hostlles will be executed. 
There will be In the neighborhood of 4 , 000,000 
pounds of grapes shipped from the Kcuka lake 
region, Steuben Co., N. Y., this year. There Is like¬ 
wise a very large crop In the Seneca lake country. 
It Is said after this year new and raster boats will 
be put, on these lakes to transport the crop. An 
experienced apple buyer estimates that 150,000 
barrels will be bought at Lockport this season, and 
that the crop Is about one and a half times larger 
than usual. The Central Pacific railroad com¬ 
pany, under the Thurman act, is required to pay 
into the sinking fund for the year ending Decem¬ 
ber 31, ISIS, about 21,000,000, and for the current 
year about $900,000. The recent decision of the 
Supreme Court put a stop to all efforts to resist 
payment. The Union Pacific company, In conse¬ 
quence or the large amount of business transacted 
for the government, wlU not be called upon to pay 
any cash to the sinking fund during the current 
year. Duilng the year 1S79 closing wUh August, 
not less than sixteen million acres of government 
lands were taken up by nomestead entries alone, 
and fully fourteen million acres of new lands were 
sold to settlers. It la estimated that, halt a million 
people settled upon the new lands in 1878, and the 
number for the present year promises to be even 
greater. The drought Is |caualng very serious 
trouble bero and there throughout the country, 
not only In agricultural districts but also In some 
manufacturing centers, at Paterson, N. J. Nearly 
four thousand operatives are out of employ¬ 
ment because the mills are unable to run with 
low water. 
Secretary Sherman’s estimates for the next fiscal 
year ask $ 7 , 000,000 more than requested last year- 
three millions for taking the census and two mil¬ 
lions for pensions. Edward S. stokes, the slayer of 
Jim Fisk, has Just returned from San Francisco to 
this city. He la said to be but the shadow of his 
former self; his hair and mustache are white, and 
he looks like a man of 50 years. 
FOREIGN. 
The cable dispatch that Austria has interfered 
in the settlement of the Egyptian debt means 
something more than a grumble, from Vienna; It 
is the extension of the influence of the double alli¬ 
ance between Germany and Austria over the Le¬ 
vant, and threatens the close corporation manage¬ 
ment of Kypllan affaire hitherto curried on by 
France and England, but with what result It is 
Impossible to say. it may end In giving England 
exclusive control through her relations with the 
alliance. The precise point, atlssue arises from the 
tact that the khedlve borrowed freely ou account 
of Egypt, pledging Its revenues, aud on his own 
private account, pledging his personal estate. The 
“International” tribunal decided that, as every 
plaster the khedlve was worth had been made out 
of Egypt, his private estate was liable In equity to 
the Egyptian bondholders. The khedlve watched 
Ills time, kicked out the court or Egypt, aud paid 
neither set of creditors. Since then the policy of 
France and England toward Egypt has been ap¬ 
parently under the control of the Rothschilds, and 
directed In favor of the Egyptian bonds, of which 
the great bankers are large owners. 
Private letters from Russia state that Immense 
activity prevails In all the arsenals of the empire. 
A full force of workmen In all these establishments 
is employed working on full time. A number of 
guns and ammunition are being turned out ready 
for use aud deposited In neighboring magazines. 
It is believed In St. Petersburg and In Moscow 
that this activity foreshadows some step soon to 
be taken ou the part of Russia which will plunge 
Europe into a general war. Louis J. JennlngB, 
the World’s London correspondent, sent at mid¬ 
night Saturday tblscablu dispatch: “it is rumored 
to-night In well-informed circles that Russia is 
preparing to declare war against England. No 
cert ain information can be obtained on the subject. 
Official personages are reticent, but the probabll- 
tles are that the market* will be disturbed by the 
