THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
whisky cocktails and a chew of tobacco,” and 
I must confess that I had some curiosity to see 
what people who ate neither “fish, flesh nor 
fowl” would have for dinner. That theirs 
was not a starvation diet, the well-rounded 
form of my hostess, and the plump and rosy 
cheeks of her daughter, could testify. As 
the dinner hour approached, I could uot help 
noticing that the coming event of this dinner 
did not cast its shadow before, which is too 
commonly the case in American houses, and 
European ones, too. for aught I know. Many 
an owner of a classical stomach has had his 
appetite knocked from under him by the smell 
of a cooking dinner. In my iriend’s house 
this was conspicuous by its absence, although 
as we neared the dining-room there were faint 
and delicious odors from the fresh vegetables 
that were steaming on the table. 
Ir. was a hot July day, and there was no 
boiling soup to make one perspire with its 
heat or disgust with its greasiuoss. Our 
plates were supplied with the most delicious 
peas, whose excellence was attributable as 
well to the butter and cream used in cooking 
as to the fact that iu California peas are nearly 
always of superior quality. New potatoes, 
steamed until each was like a ball of snow, 
with tiny flecks of finely chopped parsley 
sprinkled over them, were there. Corn cut 
from the cob and stewed with cream, surely 
was never so good before. A dish of crimson 
tomatoes, sliced and mixed with the pale green 
of sliced cucumbers, bad its beauty enhanced 
by globules of mayonnaise, like amber beads 
strewed over its surface. There were plates 
of delicate home-made white bread, Boston 
brown bread in thin hnlf-uioon slices and tri¬ 
angular cuts of crust from a French loaf, with 
plenty of sweet butter. 
Our dessert was composed of great dewy 
blackberries luscious iu their coolness, and 
served in rose-colored glass dishes: raspberries 
fresh from their own garden, in dishes of 
palest sea green, and overall thick rich cream, 
real cream and lots of it We had beside 
triangular cuts of delightful OOCOauut cake, 
over which one of our party poured cream, 
thus *• out-Iierodiug Herod,” and quite van¬ 
quishing our vegetarian friends on their own 
grounds by showing them this novel use of 
cream. There was tea of exquisite flavor, 
and pale amber iu color served in dainty 
bisque cups of shell pink, although this I more 
than suspected was a concession on the part 
of our hostess to her Philistine guests. (1 
mean the tea, not the cups.) 
1 have had many a dinner of a dozen or 
more courses, but I never rumember to have 
felt so delicately satisfied as I did after this 
banquet. I would advise all young wives 
who are about to begin housekeeping and hus¬ 
band- training to see if they cannot glean a 
useful biut from this dinner. The drudgery 
of housework is very much lessened if one bus 
no greasy pots and puns to wash, to say noth¬ 
ing of the saving to one’s temper if meats that 
will be either over or underdone, are omitted 
from the bill-of-fare. I suppose, since it. will 
ter is not too high, to sit and listen to the wis¬ 
dom of the newly fledged scholar. It refresh¬ 
es one’s memory and recalls half-forgotten bits 
of knowledge. So we let them talk—while in 
the meantime “cook” passed doughnuts and 
attended to the practical part of life. And 
while the Novice read on I thought only of 
the first line. Do our remedies lie in ourselves# 
It is a hard question to answer and reminded 
me of a neighbor in whose family diphtheria 
had been prevalent in Spring. “What do yon 
think,” I said, “is the cause of all your children 
taking the disease# They were uot exposed to 
the infection—the house is on a dry hill, your 
cellar is dry, and your vegetables are stored 
under the barn,” I was about to suggest the 
drinking water when she leaned back in her 
chair and remarked resignedly, “Oh! I sup¬ 
pose it had to be, and what is to be, will be.” 
Such people are dangerous to the health of 
others, for they will not take the trouble to 
search out causes, or guard against evils, im¬ 
bued as they are with the theory of predestin¬ 
ation. 
But while I moralized, the fire burned low, 
and my attention was arrested by a yarn I 
heard the “Gourmand” telling of eating, one 
night, 4*2 doughnuts. Let us hope they were 
small ones, for he says he sang a song after¬ 
ward and was praised as having done so well 
that he never would believe again that they 
induced indigestion. But what is oue man's 
meat is another’s poison, and what a youth 
can digest, accustomed to out-door life, to 
Canadian winter sports, and work, is different 
from what it would be possible for a delicate 
youth leadiug a sedentary life to assimilate, 
and the stomach is a severely tried friend, 
cajtable of enduring a good deal; but subject 
also fo rebellion after oppression. And it. is a 
good motto in feeding as in every other cir¬ 
cumstance in life, to be contented with small 
things, and not be too grasping after a surfeit. 
A stomach fed with a small quantity of nutri¬ 
tious food is like a little farm well tilled, a 
source of the most satisfaction. 
Mr. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s of August, says 
that for currant jelly the fruit should be 
picked before it is fully ripe and before it has 
been drenched by a heavy rain, and that it is 
the over-ripe, water-soaked currants that 
break up families and demolish household gods. 
He also finds blackberries improved if piek- 
tawba. Put the unbeaten yelks, wine and 
sugar over the fire in a porcelain vessel, and 
stir continually without allowing it to boil. 
As soon as it becomes of the consistency of 
cream it is done. Serve while hot iu cups or 
glasses with lady-fingers. 
FARINA JELLY. 
This is not altogether a delicacy for invalids, 
but also a very good family dessert. Boil 
three pints of milk, and while boiling stir in 
slowly four large tablespooufuls of farina. It 
should be cooked in a double boiler, and should 
boil slow 13- for three-quarters of an hour. 
When done pour it into a jelly mold and place 
it in cold water or on the ice to stiffen. Serve 
with cream, or with the following sauce: 
Beat up well two eggs with four tablespoon¬ 
fuls of sugar, add one quart of milk, a tea¬ 
spoonful of vanilla or bitter almond, and one 
of brandy. 
POTATO SALAD. 
Potato salad if properly made is an appetiz- 
iug dish. The potatoes must be boiled in their 
skins and peeled and sliced before they get 
cold. Put a quart of these slices in a salad 
bowl with four tablespoonfuls of good vinegar 
and six of table oil, one of chopped parsley 
and salt aud pepper to taste. Stir together 
until thoroughly mixed, and set aside for two 
hours. 
SUCCOTASH. 
I have eaten so many vile compounds under 
the above name, that I cannot consider it un¬ 
necessary to give directions for making it 
properly. String, and cut in small dice 
enough delicate snap beans to fill a pint bowl, 
and cut from the cob twice as much corn.- If 
possible have a cupful each of shelled lima 
and string beans. Parboil the green beans, 
aud shelled lima and bush beans in a little 
salted water, cover again with boiling water, 
add the cobs from which the corn was cut, 
and boil until the beaus are almost done—at 
least three-quarters of an hour. A quarter of 
a pound of salt pork added during this pro¬ 
cess improves it. Take out the cobs, add the 
corn, cook twenty minutes longer, add one 
gill of cream, a generous lump of batter, and 
salt and peppier and you have the best prepa¬ 
ration of vegetables known to the modern 
science of cookery. 
Chicago. MRS. c. R. H. 
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TU AT as a household remedy, for 
■ I j children and adults, Ayer’s 
Pills are invaluable. 
TU AT in Colds, with headache,back- 
■unlj ache, coated tongue, symp¬ 
toms of fever, and a constant feeling of 
weariness, Ayer’s Pills will often effect 
a cure when other remedies fail. 
XU AT these Pills are sugar coated, 
■ ■ perfectly safe to take, da not 
gripe, and contain neither calomel nor 
any other dangerous drug. 
I have used Ayer’s Cathartic Pills in 
my family for the past thirty-five years. 
For stomach or liver troubles, or any 
irregularity of the bowels, and in case 
of Colds, Ayer’s Pills are unequaled. 
I am never without them. — Frank 
Tisdale, Montpelier, Vt. 
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a medicine to be given with food. Noth logon.esyth 
will make hens lay like it. It cures chicken chol¬ 
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25 eta. In stamps 2,V-lb. tin cans. $ 1 ", by mail, 
$1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $5. 
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DELICIOUS CAKE. 
At one of the lessons given by Miss Pa~loa 
in Boston, the following cake was made. A 
generous cupful of butter was beaten to a 
cream, two of sugar added gradually, the 
juice of a lemon, the yelks of five eggs, and 
the whites of three, a small cup of milk, and 
three cups of jiastry flour through which was 
sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking jiowder. The 
whole mixture was stirred rapidly and thor¬ 
oughly, and baked in two sheets In a moderate 
oven for twenty-five minutes. It was then 
cut into small squares, a portion of the crust 
removed from each, and the cavity filled with 
preserved strawberries. This was not done 
until the rake was cold. The crust was re¬ 
placed and covered with an icing made as 
above. This is called Victim>is cake. 
Fairy - gingerbread will be appreciated by 
the little ones. Beat until light a cup of but¬ 
ter and two of sugar, stir in one tablespoonful 
of ginger and one cup of milk, iu which has 
been dissolved three-fourths of a teaspoonful 
of soda. Stir in four small cups of sifted flour, 
turn the baking pa us upside down, wipe very 
clean, butter lavishly and spread the mixture 
upon them very thinly. Bake in a moderate 
oven until brown, aud white still hot. cut into 
squares with a ease knife and slip off the pan. 
The two important points to remember are 
that the batter must be spread very thin, and 
cut the instant it is taken from the oven. It 
should be kept in a tin box. A large dish can 
lie made with the quantities given above. 
It is quite j>ossible to make very delightful 
cream cakes iu the precincts of one’s own kitch¬ 
en. as l know from experience. The friend 
who gave me this recipe superintended the 
first operation, and the result was very satis¬ 
factory’ indeed. Boil together oue pint of 
water with half-a-pouud of butter; as soon as 
it reaches the boiliug point, stir iu three- 
quarters of a pound of flour; let it cook a mo¬ 
ment, and when cool add ten eggs well beaten, 
and a scant teaspoonful of salcratus and one of 
salt, dissolved in a very little boiling water. 
Drop with a spoon on buttered tins a little 
distance apart Bake in a quick oven; they 
will puff iu baking. When done and cold, cut 
one side large enough to insert the cream with 
a spoon. This will maketkl cakes. The cream 
is made by beating two cups of sugar with 
four eggs; add a cup of flour and as much of a 
quart of milk as is required to make a smooth 
and thin paste; heat the remainder of the milk 
to boiling, and pour the above mixture into 
it; stir constantly until it is sufficiently thick¬ 
ened; flavor with vunilla. Do not use it until 
it is cold. It should be made iu a custard or 
farina kettle. mrs. a. g. 
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A WORD TO MOTHERS. 
“It sounds materialistic to put sound health 
before all other virtues, but, really every 
tbiug else depends upon it.” This quotation 
from a recent, article in the Rural gives mo a 
text for a short sermon to mothers iu the 
farm-houses. I am most interested iu vou 
though it may apply to other mothers as well. 
I wonder ho<v many of you think of your re¬ 
sponsibility regarding the heulth of your child¬ 
ren before their birth as well as after. How 
matiy think whether or not they are expend¬ 
ing their vitality, that should go to the em- 
bryo infant, in over-work and over-worry# 
How many of you having weak or ailing 
children, either small or grown up, know that 
they are the result in great part of your effort 
to “get your work done up.” Now, I'm not “a 
paper farmer’s wire,” but know all about har¬ 
vest-time, with its crowd of hungry workers; 
all about house-cleaning, soap-making, butch¬ 
ering, canning fruit, butter-making, etc., etc., 
and that with even good “help” which is 
scarce, it. seems almost impossible for the 
“house-mother” to take much care of herself. 
But is there in the world any work to com¬ 
pare with the value of a human soul? A 
dwarfed soul may not exist iu a dwarfed body, 
but if, as my text, says everything depends on 
health—its a sound text too— ought not you, 
having evoked a human life into being, make 
it your llrst duty’to give it as fair a start as 
possible? Mrs. Fisher’s directions for house¬ 
keeping would fit in well right, here, but as you 
have all read them, I will not repeat. 
Some people may not think this a proper 
subject for general reading and that it should 
be confined to medical works, but the people 
who have most need of this advice would 
never see it there. Moreover, the Rural 
gives advice as to the production of the best 
grades of horses and cattle, pigs and poultry, 
and are not human animals of equal im¬ 
portance? If we could regulate the breeding 
of human beings as we do that of domestic 
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*' Or it remedies oft In ou ae.luca do Ue 
Which we ascribe to Heaven, the fated sky 
Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull 
Our slow de-lgns, when we ourselves are dull.” 
So read the Novice to us the other evening as 
we sat beside the fire, for the night was chilly 
even iu August, aud the brigut light aud 
warmth wore quite cheerful. The Amateur 
Cook had been making doughnuts, and volun¬ 
teered to pass tham around as we discussed 
the situation. “Yes. there's plenty of scope,” 
said the .Sportsman “and no game here.” The 
Plowman grumbled iu au undertone because 
the fields were limited—nothing but boundless 
prairie would suit him. “The earth is what 
we make it,’’ said the Poet, and the Critic 
scornfully observed, as he brushed n fly’ from 
his nose, “Who is responsible for this |>est#” 
“Your neighbor's back-yard "saidthe Student; 
and ho gave us quite an essay on the value of 
this scavenger of neglected localities. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES, 
AN ITALIAN DESSERT. 
The following dish is called Zabajone (pro¬ 
nounced Zab-i-o-ne), and is most delicious, 
although more suitable for a winter than a 
summer dessert. Allow two yelks of eggs for 
each person, one tablespoonful of sugar, aud 
one wine-glass of white wine, preferably Ca¬ 
When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Caslorla 
339 BROADWAY NEW YORK 
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