adulterated with Indian meal. Otsego Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., has acquired a reputation for the 
excellence of its cheese. Hwiss cheese of a 
very superior quality is made near Los Gates, 
in California. A favorite plau with epicures 
is to cut the top from a Stilton cheese, hollow 
out a small space in the center, HU it with 
Port wine, replace the top aud set it away. 
This is refilled with wine periodically for sev¬ 
eral months. The result is a very rich article 
warranted to produce indigestion in 24 hours. 
If served plain this cheese should have the top 
cut off, and the cheese neatly surrounded with 
a napkin. When taken from th D table 
the top is replaced. No bit of dried cheese 
should ever be thrown away as it can be used 
for omelets, or grated for maccaroni. Thin 
milk crackers or wafer biseaits (put into the 
oven a moment before serving to crisp them) 
arc served with cheese. The English serve 
calory or cucumbers with it, nud a very de¬ 
lightful combination they make. 
Welsh rarebit is a difficult ooursc to serve at 
dinner unless you have well-trained servants. 
It. should uotbe made until it is almost ready 
to serve and should bo oaten the moment it is 
finished or it will be ruined. It is a very 
nice supper or lunch dish. Grate one pound 
of rich new cheese aud mix it over the lire with 
a gill of milk, stirring if smooth with a spoon. 
Meantime toast carefully a dozen thin squares 
of bread with the crust removed, butter them 
slightly, aud pour over the melted cheese. The 
addition of a little mustard powder or Cay¬ 
enne pepper is considered a great addition by 
some. Very tiny diamond-shaped pieces of 
this are sometimes used for decorating a plat¬ 
ter of macaroni with cheese. Sometimes the 
toast is dipped quickly into hot milk before 
being buttered. A pouched egg inuy be 
served on the top of each slice. 
Cheese Straws make a delightful accompani¬ 
ment to a salad. The following is the recipe 
of the New York cooking school. Sift six 
ounces of flour on the pastry board, and hav¬ 
ing made a hole in the center put into it two 
tablcspoonfuls of cream, three ounces of 
grated Parmesan or any dry cheese, four 
ounces of butter, a half teaspoon fill of salt, a 
quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper and as 
much Cayenne as you can take up on the 
blade of a pen-knife; mix these ingredients 
with the tips of the fingers to a firm paste, 
kneecl it well and roll out the eighth of au inch 
thick. With a .sharp knife or pastry cutter 
cut it in straws about eight inches long and a 
quarter wide. Lay ou buttered tins and bake 
a light straw color in a moderate oven. The 
author accompanies the recipe with the assur¬ 
ance that a prolonged diet of this will produce 
a well-grounded case of dyspepsia in a very 
short length of time. 
CHEESE SOUFFLE. 
This course may follow the soup directly or 
be served just before the dessert. Serve bread 
and butter with it. Ileat oue cup of milk, 
aud add a teaspoouful of corn-starch dissolved 
in a little cold milk; then a pinch of soda and 
pour iL very slowly over four beaten eggs; 
add popper anil salt l.» 3 r way of seasoning, two 
tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and six of 
finely grated cheese. Beat, thoroughly aud 
pour into well-buttered custard cups. Bake 
in a quick oven until they puff up high and 
brown, which will take about 15 minutes. 
Pieces left from any good pastry may be 
utilized in this way. Roll out and cut into 
strips three inches long aud two wide; strew 
with grated ellipse, season with pepper and 
salt, double the paste upon this lengthwise and 
bake in a quick oven. Brush over with beaten 
egg just before they are done. Spread a 
folded napkin ou a dish, pile these on in log- 
cabin fushiou, and serve warm with celery. 
Not goo.l when cold. 
RAMEKIN'S. 
Boil two ounces of the soft part of bread in 
a scant gill of milk, add two ounces of butter, 
one-third of a teaspoouful each of mustard and 
salt, a small pinch of Cayenne pepper and the 
yelks of two beaten eggs. Beat this mixture 
thoroughly and add the whites of the eggs 
beaten to a stiff froth. Make from writing 
paper some little Cases, butter them, fill them 
two-thirds full and bake five or six minutes. 
They will be puffed high above the edge of the 
paper and must be .served immediately or they 
will fall. 'Phis recipe was invented by the 
cook of Louis XVI. Sometimes this mixture 
is spread over lightly toasted rounds of bread 
aud browned slightly in the oven. 
History has left us no record of the fashion 
#tt,$ceH»rtcoujei 
When Baby was slek, we gave her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
Wheu she had Children, she gave them Castorla 
in which the cheese cakes carried by Little Red 
Riding Hood to her grandmother were made, 
but I am quite sure that they were indigesti¬ 
ble and unfit food for the old lady, so that if 
she had not been eaten by the wolf, she must 
in course of time fallen a prey to such a diet. 
Those who live in the country do not need 
to lie told of the delights of cottage cheese 
with cream. Those who do not have milk 
may make a very good substitute by getting a 
couple of the cheeses sold in the market un¬ 
der that name. Work them over, rubbing be¬ 
tween the hands until very fine with two 
ounces of butter and as much cream as you 
can steal from your morning’s milk. Mold on 
a plate and, if you cau get it, pour over it a 
gill of cream. palmetto. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
FRIED CHICKEN WITH HOMINY. 
Clean and cut in joints a young chicken. 
Wipe dry, season with salt and pepper, and 
fry iu a pan in which you have previously ex¬ 
tracted, by frying, all the fat from several 
slices of pork. This fat must be very hot. 
Cook slowly, turning frequently to prevent 
burning, and if any more fat is needed, add a 
little sweet dripping. Have ready some cold 
boiled hominy, cut in slices and rolled iu flour: 
take out the chicken and place on a hot dish in 
the warming oven, while you brown the hom¬ 
iny iu the fat left after frying the chicken. 
Place it as a border around the chicken; add 
a half cupful of hot cream to the gravy iu the 
pan and thicken with a scant tablespoouful of 
flour wet with a little cold milk. Send to 
table in a boat. 
AVe have the word of an epicure for it that 
very ripe, medium-sized tomatoes, dipped 
quickly in boiling water, peeled and placed 
over night, on the ice, are delicious if served 
the next morning at breakfast with cream and 
sugar. 
Celery cooked a let asparagus may be a new 
dish to some of the readers of the Rural. 
Cut the celery in convenient and equal 
lengths; boil iu salted water until tender, but 
not watery; drain and serve with white sauce. 
Put iu a small sauce-pan a tablespoouful of 
butter, aud when melted stir in as much flour: 
arid a cup of boiling milk, gradually, so that 
there will lie no lumping, season with pepper 
and salt and jiour over the celery. It cau also 
be cut in half-inch pieces, put in a baking dish 
sprinkled with grated cheese, aud baked with 
the above sauce poured over it. 
AUNT EUNICE. 
ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING. 
Here is a recipe for the . eal old Euglish 
plum pudding, aud everything appertaining 
thereto. 
There are a few general rules for all boiled 
puddings that auy one attempting to make a 
plum pudding should understand. If boiled 
in a mold it should never bo more than two- 
thirds filled, aud the cover must fit so tightly 
that no water can enter. It a bag or cloth is 
used, it must, be thoroughly soaked in hot 
water, then wrung out and the inside dredged 
with flour. Lf this is done, and the bag plunged 
in cold water for a second after it. is removed 
from the fire, it will turn out of the cloth with¬ 
out sticking. Plum pudding wants plenty of 
water to swim about in; therefore the vessel 
must be largo and contain plenty of boiling 
water when it is put in. The water must boil 
the whole time, otherwise it will soak into the 
cloth and make the pudding heavy, and as the 
water boils away it must bo replenished from 
another kettle of boiling water. If e 'Id water 
is used it will be certain to make it heavy. 
Armed with this knowledge, you may pro¬ 
ceed as follows: Chop one pound of suet very 
flue, and mix it with three-quarters of a pound 
of bread crumbs, half a pound of flour; l 1 ., 
pound of raisins, stoned, one pound of Zaute 
currants, washed aud dried, and half a >x>uud 
each of orange peel and preserved citron cut 
into shreds; stir all these well together with 
half a grated nutmeg and ten eggs well beaten. 
If Imiled In a bag, leave a little room for it to 
swell. Boil it for six hours, ornament with 
holly, pour brandy arouud it, and set tire to it 
us soou as placed on the table. 
The French have always viewed this nation¬ 
al dish oT Eughiud with disapprobation; but 
Louis XVIII., either to show his contempt for 
the prejudices of his couinrymeu, or because 
it suited his taste. always had an enormous 
plum pudding served up ou Christmas Day. 
Au amusing story is told of oue of the 
French monarchs, who, desirous to treat the 
English Ambassador with particular hospital¬ 
ity on Christinas Day, ordered a plum pud¬ 
ding for the entertainment given in his honor. 
Ho strictly charged his cook to follow iu every 
particular the excellent recipe which he had 
obtained for making one, all of which direc¬ 
tions wore well attended to. But one trifle 
was wanting; the king forgot the cloth, and 
the pudding was served in a tureen like so 
much soup. ALICE G, 
CHRISTMAS PLUM CAKE. 
A Christmas cake should be made in Octo¬ 
ber as it is vastly improved with age. Beat to 
a cream one pound of butter and one of pul¬ 
verized sugar; stir in twelve eggs beaten to a 
froth: add one pound sifted flour and continue 
the beating for ten minutes. Now stir in two 
pounds of stoned raisins, two pounds of Zante 
currants, washed, picked and dried, a pound 
of citron sliced aud cut iuto small pieces, two 
grated nutmegs, a quarter of an onnee of pow¬ 
dered mace, the same of ground cinnamon, 
and half a teaspoonful of ground cloves. Mix 
well together and bake in pans well and 
and smoothly lined with three thicknesses of 
tissue paper well buttered. Bake iu a slow 
oven for four horn’s. mrs. l. g. m. 
Chicago, Ill. 
WHAT OTHERS SAY. 
Dr. J. W. Kales who has had considerable 
experience with the so-called victims of pois¬ 
oned ice-cream, has come to the conclusion 
that the sickness is due not to poisonous mat¬ 
ter in the cream but to the manner in which it 
is partaken. He says that every law of di¬ 
gestion is violated at the so-called ‘’ice-cream” 
festival. Every fellow takes particular de¬ 
light in gorging himself aud his “best girl,” 
not only with tee-cream, cake, candy, etc.- 
but with every variety of indigestible sub¬ 
stance. This process goes on for two or more 
hours, when outraged nature comes to the res¬ 
cue and the indigestible matter is expelled 
with all the symptoms of acute gastrointes¬ 
tinal irritation. It only excites the public be¬ 
cause so large a company are sick at the same 
time. He has also seen Isolated cases, present¬ 
ing exactly the same symptoms, caused by eat¬ 
ing oysters and other food and drinking ice- 
water. He thinks that if the poisoning was 
the result of vauilla extract we would have 
cases caused by drinking soda water, vanilla 
being a popular flavor. He a Go asks why we 
do not have cases at fashionable hotels where 
cream is served every day. 
To know one subject in a masterful way 
will move you forever from the ranks of un¬ 
interesting or uneducated people, Louise Man¬ 
ning Hodgkins says iu the Christian Union in 
au interesting article addressed to the girl 
who cannot go to college. In electing a study 
to pursue at home take that which gives most 
delight and fill yourself full of it. 
In speaking of the Wilson Strawberry, E. P. 
Roe, in Harper’s Monthly, says that it is not 
ripe wheu red. and therefore is rarely eaten in 
perfection, but if allowed to get almost black in 
its ripeness, it is one of the richest berries in 
existence. Ho thinks that with a liberal al¬ 
lowance of sugar and ereain it makes a dish 
much too good for an average king, aud that 
it also is the best variety for preserving. 
The Housekeeper is of the opinion that it is 
not sufficiently recognized that clothes have a 
moral influence in addition to their effect upon 
the eye. The woman or child who is well 
dressed experiences a sense of moral elevation, 
an added self-respect, hes'des the pleasure of 
appearing becomingly arrayed. It further 
adds that lavish expenditure is not necessary 
for tasteful apparel. 
AVe don't advise anyone to work for an 
hour or more in the morning ou an empty 
stomach. . 
Neither do we think anyone should work in 
the evening after being busy all day. 
Two things children can’t stand-nagging 
aud discouragement. 
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