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sides. This style is very pretty, and sets off 
a little bonnet, as no other inode would. 
A WHOLESOME AND CHEAP DINNER. 
Potato Soup. 
Round steak, rolled and baked, 
Salad of water cress, 
Apple fritters with sirup. 
Cut in slices half a dozen potatoes, and one 
onion, and fry until they begin to take on a 
brown color. The fat from the top of the soup 
pot is excellent for this purpose—failing that, 
use butter or sweet dripping, but not lard. 
Turn them into a saucepan with three pints of 
hot water, and boil until the jiotatoes are soft. 
Any 1 imies or trimmings of meat that may be in 
the larder, may be added, but it is quite possi¬ 
ble to make a delicious soup of potatoes with- 
• mt meat. Mash through a colander, and re¬ 
turn to the saucepan. Have ready a cup of 
scalding cream, add a teaspoonful of flour 
mixed smoothly in cold water, and turn all 
into the soup. Finish with a tablespoonful of 
parsley, give one boil, seasoning with suit and 
pepper, and serve. 
Make a dressing ns for turkeys and spread 
a round steak an inch thick with it. Roll up 
as you would a jelly cake, and tie to keep it 
in shape. Add a bit of butter and some hot 
water, and bake until tender^ basting very 
often; season with salt and pepper, thicken the 
gravy a little and pour it around the meat. 
Slice it neatly from one end when carving. 
Baked onions are a nice accompaniment with 
this meat. Boil them, until tender, in salted 
boiling water with a little milk added. Then 
put them in a baking pan with a little of the 
water in which they were boiled, and pepper 
and salt, and a bit of butter on the top of each. 
Give them ton. minutes in a hot oven, and put 
them around the meat. 
Water-cresses are a delightful addition to a 
dinner, and are w'ithiu the reach of many, if 
not most, farmers’ families. They are health¬ 
ful and good eaten with salt alone, but a sim- 
X>le French dressing makes a good salad. Cold, 
boiled potatoes sliced and added make a 
' heartier dish, and for a supper dish with good 
home-made bread and sweet butter, make 
about as delightful a meal as any one blessed 
with a good appetite can desire. The dressing 
is made by mixing three tablespoon fills of oil. 
and one of vinegar, salt, pepper, and a tea¬ 
spoonful of scraped onion. Pour this over the 
salad and mix well. 
The very nicest fritter batter is made as 
follows;—Put a heaping cup of flour into a 
bowl, add the beaten yelks of two eggs, and a 
tablespoonful of olive oil or melted butter. 
• Stir in a tablespoonful of wine or lemon-juice, 
and add water a little at a time until it is the 
thickness of ordinary batter. This is better 
if set away for a day or two, although it may 
be used at once. At the moment of frying 
add the whipped whites of two eggs. The 
apples should be cut in large, thin slices, and 
sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar for a few 
horn’s before they arc used. 
A nice sirup is wude by boiling,until it thick¬ 
ens slightly, two cups of sugar with one of 
water and a flavoring of vanilla. Of course, 
not one quarter of this quantity ot sirup will 
be necessary but it is very nice for pancakes. 
A plainer fritter batter is made by mixing 
one beaten egg with a small cup of milk, a 
little salt, and flour through which baking 
powder lias been sifted, to make a batter. 
PALMETTO. 
VINEGAR MAKING. 
Every housekeei>er who chooses to do so, 
can make her own vinegar with very little 
trouble and at very little expense. In truth, 
the best of vinegar can be made from wliat is 
commonly thrown away. 
Apple parings uml cores placed in a vessel 
and covered with warm water and kept warm, 
will make good, sharp vinegar in from four to 
six weeks. If a little molasses or sugar is 
thrown in, it will be deeper-colored and strong¬ 
er, but it will take a little longer “to turn.” 
A lady once pointed to a two-quart glass jar 
that, stood upon a shelf near the stove, and 
said: “Perhaps you will hardly believe it, but 
that gives me all the vinegar I need for my 
table.” Into it she slipped apple parings, and 
when it was sour enough, strained off the 
liquid and refilled the jar with sweetened 
water. This can be done again and again, ns 
the parings do not decay. In making vinegar, 
be sure to give it warmth and air. Cover the 
mouth of the vessel with ti thin cloth to keep 
out insects. If one wishes to make it in larger 
quantities, a barrel should be used. It could 
be set in a sunny shed and the vinegar making 
for t he year be done in Hummer. Sweetened 
water (using either molasses or sugar) with 
some common field corn thrown in, will make 
gooil vinegar. If it is kept warm it will be 
ready for use in a few weeks. To 10 gallons 
of warm water take three quarts of molasses 
and one pint of corn: or, if corn is not handy, 
use one pint of yeast instead. Vinegar made 
either way will keep pickles just as well as 
cider vinegar. Sorghum is as good as molas¬ 
ses for this purpose. Some claim that soft 
water must be used; no doubt it is better; but 
hard water answers very well. Here in Colo¬ 
rado our water is strongly tinctured with 
alkali and is very bard, and as the rainfall is 
not to be depended upon, we often use it for 
vinegar making, with good results. 
s. E. H. 
SICK-ROOM DIET. 
Beef-and-tapioca is very nourishing and di¬ 
gestible. Cut one pound of beef small, and 
cover with one quart of cold water; simmer 
slowly until the meat falls into shreds; strain 
and add two tablespoonfuls of tapioca that has 
soaked for an hour in a little warm water, a 
sprig of parsley and a shred or two of onion. 
Simmer for half an hour, season with salt and 
pepper, and when the soup is ready to serve, 
put iu it a neatly trimmed poached egg, and 
accompany it with a thin slice of delicately 
browned and lightly buttered toast. Sago 
may be used for a change, in which case the 
soup must be simmered for an hour after the 
soaked sago is added. You may omit the 
poached egg, and just before serving stir in 
the well-beaten yelk of an egg. This may be 
done without curdling by pouring a cupful of 
the soup over the beaten egg, very gradually, 
beating the while, then turn this into a 
saucepan and give one hoik 
A broth made of veal and sago is very ex¬ 
cellent for persons suffering from any pulmo¬ 
nary complaint. Have a knuckle of veal weigh¬ 
ing about two pounds cracked into pieces; 
cover with three pints of water and boil in a 
closely covered vessel for two hours. Strain, 
skim off the fat, if any, season to taste, and 
add two tablespoonfuls of pearl sago, previous¬ 
ly soaked in warm water for an hour. Simmer 
for .an hour. Have a cup of cream heated to 
boiliug and stir in the beaten yelks of two 
eggs. Do it slowly to prevent curdling, add 
this to the soup, give oue boil aud serve. 
For persons troubled with indigest ion, beef 
sandwiches prepared as follows are highly rec¬ 
ommended: Chop very finely a piece of tender, 
uncooked beefsteak, season with salt and pep¬ 
per and spread between thin slices of lightly 
buttered bread. Remove the crusts and cut 
into neat, diamonds or squares. 
Coax your invalid with cream toast. Cut 
the crust from two slices of stale bread, and 
toust an even delicate brown; let half a cup of 
cream come to a boil, dip the toast in it, and 
pour over the slices the remaining cream. 
Brown bread is very nice and healthful pre¬ 
pared as above. 
For children who have diarrhea, rice coffee 
may be partaken of freely. Pour a quart of 
boiling water over half a cup of rice that has 
been parched and ground as you would coffee. 
Let this stand w here it will draw for 15 min¬ 
utes; strain and sweeten with loaf sugar. 
NURSE. 
A BOILING KETTLE. 
Young people usually think it great fun to 
fuss over any cooking which is all their own. 
They will carry coffee, eggs, raw potatoes and 
meat to the woods, build a fire of such sticks 
as they can gather, and finally sit dowu in 
great glee to such a meal as would neither 
please them nor satisfy their hunger if eaten 
at their homes, and it is doubtful whether oven 
as a picnic dinner it docs the latter, unless 
pieced out with something bought already 
cooked. 
Rut perhaps of all amateur cookery, none 
is more attractive than a kettle of candy. 
And those who are familiar with the ways of 
the small folk can tell you that Winter is not 
the only time w hen they enjoy a candy-pull, 
but every season has seen them with sticky 
bauds and faces, bending eagerly over the 
fragrant bubbling kettle, tasting and testii g 
the mixture cooking therein. 
A very nice candy for pulling can be made 
of sorghum, molasses. Allow one half cup of 
molasses for each one who is to pull. To each 
cupful of molasses add two tablespoons of 
granulated sugar and u small lump of butter; 
then boil until it will harden iu cold water. 
Pour into buttered plates or tins, and pull as 
soon as cooled enough. It becomes a creamy 
white if well pulled, and the sugur mukes it 
crisp and hard w hen cold. 
A sugar-candy for pulling is made of two 
cups of granulated sugar, one teaspoonful of 
eraun-of-tartar, and half a cup of water. 
After mixing these let them stand a few min¬ 
utes until the sugar is dissolved, then put the 
kettle over the lire mul boil its contents brisk¬ 
ly w itliout stirring until the candy w ill crisp 
in cold water. This will be in a very few min¬ 
utes, and unless carefully watched the candy 
will boil too much, and return to sugar when 
poured from the kettle. If it does this, add 
another half cup of water, let the sugar dis¬ 
solve again, then boil it once more. The candy 
may be flavored if desired, adding rose, va¬ 
nilla or lemon extract while it is boiling. Do 
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Restore tone and strength to tbo 
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Lowell. Mass . 14 years Tax Collector. 
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Patented January 15, 1881 
Twelve different styles. Light, String, Convenient 
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Avoid ail danger by keeping yourself in health 
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for 50c 
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CREAMERY 
Write at once for circulars 
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