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one cup of sweet milk, four or five tablespoou- 
fuls of melted butter or lard, a teaspoonful of 
salt, a pinch of einuamou and allspice, two 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder stirred m the 
flour. 
MRS. J’S COOKIES. 
Three cups of flour, one cup of sugar, one 
cup of butter, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls 
of sour milk, one even teaspoonful of soda, 
one of extract of lemon. 
MRS. ft's COOKIES. 
Two cups of sugar, four eggs, half a tea- 
spoouful of cinnamon, five tablespoon! uls of 
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, oue tea¬ 
cup of butter, uot melted Ini' rubbed in the 
sugar. 
HARTSHORN COOKIES. 
Three cups of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of 
Baker’s Hartshorn, pulverized, one pint of 
cream, or half cream and half buttermilk. 
Mix, roll out and bake auy shape desired. 
Much relished by invalids, aunt rachel. 
izedin makiug the celebrated “Club or Indian 
Toast.” Make some hot buttered toast, and 
spread over a very little curry paste, aud 
next a tiny bit of anchovy or shrimp paste. 
While tins is beiug prepared, have iu the oven 
two or three boned sardines, spread with but¬ 
ter and seasoned with lemon juice: as soon ns 
they are hot through, lav them on toast and 
serve. 
Boudinettcs (small sausages) can be made 
from almost anything in the way of fish, flesh 
or fowl. Mix a quantity of either finely 
minced with half its weight of mashed pota¬ 
toes. aud a little sauce, parsley, anebovey. or 
even plain melted butter, or a spoonful or two 
of cream may be u«ed instead of either. Make 
all this hot, seasoning nicely, and stir until it 
leaves the bottom and sides of the saucepan. 
When cool, add one beaten egg for each pint 
bowlful of the mixture, mold into little balls, 
dip iu beateu egg aud bread-crumbs aud fry. 
Oyster bouUinettes&rc great dainties. They 
may be made from canned oysters, but, of 
course, are better ef the fresh are used. Melt 
an ounce of butter in a saucepan, add an 
ouuce of flour and cook for two miuutes, 
then stir iu one gill of cream ami auother 
of milk, aud a cupful of minced oysters, add 
to the usual seasonings, a dash of anchovy 
sauce, and the least hit of grated lemon rind. 
Add a beaten egg, dip in egg and crumbs aud 
fry. 
The makiug of salads is auother way in 
which remnants can be utilized. A good fish 
salad can be made as follows: Cover tho bot 
torn of the dish with flakes of cold fish, next 
put a layer of potatoes (cold, boiled, of course), 
then some boiled beets thinly sliced and celery 
cut into dice. Cut two or three pickled gher¬ 
kins into slices and two hard-boiled eggs, aud 
add them, with a few capers, to the dish. 
Cover with a thick salad dressing for which 
several different recipes have been given in 
the Rural, gat uish with celery tops. 
Stewed apple pudding is wholesome aud 
will be liked by many Pare and quarter two 
quarts of tart apples, and put them over tho 
tire with a talilespoouful of butter and a cup 
of sugar and auother of water; meantime mix 
a piut of flour with two scant teaspoonfuls of 
bakiug powder, oue of sugar, and half a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt: wet this with a scant teacup¬ 
ful of milk, aud roll the dough dow u to the 
size of the cover of the pan iu which the apples 
are cooking. Spread it over tho boiling ap¬ 
ples, draw the pan where it will simmer, nud 
Cook for 25 minutes. Slip a skimmer under 
the crust, lift it into a dish, pour the apples 
into a deep dish and place the crust on top. 
A homely sauce for this is made by boiling 
half a cup of molasses and oue of water for 
three-quarters ot an hour. It is excelleut if 
simple cream is used for a sauce. 
PALMETTO. 
means altogether, but now I determined to 
make oue for a Christmas surprise. The cake 
though to lie made of dried apples and sorghum 
molasses would be, 1 kuew. a good fruit cake 
if I succeeded with it. for when made by my 
mother we had all thought it equal to many 
more expensive fruit cakes and less indigestible. 
Wailing until the next week, when the boys 
were away at school, I put some of the sweet 
apples to soak over-night, and the next morn¬ 
ing, as soon as the boys were out of sight, 
chopped three cupfuls into pieces about the 
size of a pea, and put them into two cups of 
molasses to simmer un'il waxy. While they 
stewed I searched through the cupboard for 
spices, but could only find a little cinnamon. 
This was au unexpected discovery, but having 
begun the cake, some plan must be devised to 
finish it. 1 wanted to surprise unde and did 
not want to ask for a little money without 
saying how it would be spent,, I had a dollar 
and a half of my own 1 had been saving to 
spend for a distant friend at Christmas time, 
but now' I decided part of that should go into 
my cake and less into my Christinas token. 
When the apples were almost candied, I put 
them high iu the safe to cool, and, locking the 
house, went out to buy the spices 1 needed and 
a little coffee to use as a spice, getting home 
with them just in time to prepare dinner. 
Having iittle variety to cook. I was often puz¬ 
zled to make it seem more bv varying the 
cooking. On this day I lilt upou a dessert 
that pleased the boys very much. Popping a 
dish full of pop-corn we ate it with milk and 
salt and called it popped pudding. 
When the boys were off for the afternoon I 
made haste to get my cake ready for the oven. 
Stirring together a large spoonful of butter, 
two eggs (carefully saved for the purpose), a 
half cupful of sugar and a half cupful of milk, 
I was soon ready to add the apples, spices aud 
a tablcspoouful of finely ground coffee, two 
teaspoonfuls of soda and five cups of flour 
This made a large cake, and I left it iu the 
oveu with a steady heat for an hour and a 
half. The odor of the spices filled the kitchen 
with their fragrauee, aud I feared my surprise 
would reveal itself at once; but tried ham for 
supper soon filled the kitchen with another 
odor and the cake was safe from discovery. 
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gives tone aud vigor to the stomach, and 
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Three years ago 1 suffered from Debility 
and Loss of Appetite, the result of Liver 
Disease, After having tried various rem¬ 
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CREAM CAKE. 
One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, whites 
of two eggs, three-and-a-half cups of flour, 
one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, 
one teaspoon In I of creani-of-tartar For the 
cream: one pint of sweet milk sweetened to 
taste, yelks of three eggs: thicken with flour 
to the consistency of custard, flavor with 
lemon. This amount makes two good-sized 
cakes. 
VIRGINIA APPLE CAKE. 
Take one cup of bread dough, work into it 
oue egg, one-half cup of butter, aud onc-aud u- 
balf cup Of sugar. Roll about oue inch thick, 
put in a long pan, then slice good cooking 
apples smoothly over the dough, sprinkle with 
sugar, butter and cinnamon and bake. It 
is a grand favorite for tea cake. 
FRIED APPLES. 
Pare nice sour cooking apples, cut cross- 
way's, remove the core, roll in flour aud sugar 
mixed, aud fry' in hot lard or butter, when 
brown on one side turn over. Please try them. 
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TRIED RECIPES FROM VARIOUS 
HOUSEKEEPERS. 
POTTED SHANK. 
Boil a shank of beef till tender, chop the 
meat up, and season it with salt, pepper and 
(if liketl) half a nutmeg. Reduce the liquor to 
three pints, add the meat, cool in a mold. It 
should turn out well ivheu cold. 
TOMATO SOUP. 
Skin and stew sufficient ripe tomatoes to 
make a quart. Add salt, white pepper, a bit 
of butter, a small teaspoonful of sugar and 
either a quart of milk or half milk, half stock. 
Thicken with three pounded biscuits, boil up 
aud serve. This soup boars heating up well. 
Where tinned tomatoes are used, boil them 
with half a teaspoonful ot carbonate of soda 
before adding the ingredients. 
BREAD FRITTERS. 
Cut thin round slices of bread, butter them 
very thinly, spread with jam and stick to¬ 
gether in pans. Fry in boiling lard, after 
dipping them iu a batter of one egg, one pint 
milk, a pinch of salt and flour enough to make 
a paueako batter. Pile high on a dish and 
sprinkle with sugar. 
CORN FRITTERS. 
Grate cold boiled corn from the cob, sea¬ 
son. add three beaten eggs nud sufficient flour 
to give them consistency. Drop in large spoon¬ 
fuls into boiling lard or dripping, aud fry a 
nice bt own. ( aimed corn may be used. 
CURRIED KUOS. 
Melt a little butter, stir in a teaspoonful of 
curry pow der, add by degrees a large table- 
spoouful of Hour, and a cup of stock, season. 
Boil six eggs hard, cut them in halves, put 
neatly in a deep dish, pour on the sauce, and 
keep all hot a little before using. 
It is always pleasant to exchange recipes 
with other housekeepers, to learn their meth¬ 
ods and be benefited by their experience. A 
good plan is to keep a book aud paste into it 
all the good things one tiuds iu stray news¬ 
papers tube tried at leisure. Iu this way one 
learns many housekeeping details that would 
otherwise lie lost, and can compare methods 
and choose the best. a. l. j. 
FOR WEAK EYES. 
154Tremont Bt.,Boston. 149 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 
46 E. 14t St. 'Union CqP, N, Y, 
A friend writes: “A famous occulist, Dr, 
Merrill, of Albany, X Y., whom I consulted 
for weak eyes, advised me to dash quite 
warm water half a dozen times over my 
closed eyes twice a day, and to dry them care¬ 
fully before opening. This simple remedy 
regularly and persistently followed, helped 
me when more pretentious ones failed.” 
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Has a Rail ditrerenr from all 
other-, is ran shave. a iik Self- 
ad.)'.;-a lug Rill in enter,adapts 
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INEXPENSIVE SIDE DISHES. 
A delicious little side dish will often re¬ 
deem a dinner from absolute inferiority. The 
remnants to he found in even u small larder 
will generally suffice to make some dainty at 
little more than the cost of the trouble. Odds 
and ends of game and poultry are 
especially happy in possibilities. Mince 
tho meat as finely as your patience 
will permit: fry some fancy shapes of 
bread and spread them with the mince; 
sprinkle over this some ham that has been fine¬ 
ly minced with parsley; if a hard-boiled egg 
is also chopped with the ham, it is a pleasant 
addition, and a good use for mi egg that may 
be left from breakfast. Canned oh kike a or 
turkey may la* used in the same way. A 
cream sauce poured around these croutons 
with the mince makes auother pleasant 
change. 
The few spoonfuls of cold boiled rice that 
looks so blue and unappetizing that there seems 
no excuse for uot throw ing it away, can lie very 
easily converted into sweet or savory morsels. 
Here is one of the latter: Take equal quanti¬ 
ties of rice and bread-crumbs, half as much 
minced bacon or fat meat cooked, and double 
the quantity of that in lean cooked meat, also 
minced, A few bits of underdone beef or u 
little stuffed veal is especially nice. Add the 
usual seasoning for croquettes—salt, popper, 
nutmeg, parsley, and if you have any at 
hand, a very little cooked onion. Moisten 
this with a little stock aud bind with a beaten 
egg; shape them in round or oval cukes and 
fry brown in hot fat. Cooked macaroni, cut 
into very small pieces, may be used instead of 
the rice. 
The remains of a tin of anchovy or shrimp 
pasta thut is often thrown away, can lw util- 
DOMEST1C RECIPES. 
PLAIN tea cake. 
Three teacupfuls of dry powdered sugar, 
one cup of butter, one Clip Of sour milk, three 
pints of flour, three beaten eggs, half a tea- 
spoonful of soda, flavor to the taste. Roll 
thin and bake in a quick oveu. 
NAMELESS CAKE. 
One cup of sugar, whites of four eggs, oue- 
lialf cup of butter, one teaspoonful of leuion 
essence, one large cup of flour, one-half tea¬ 
spoonful of soda, one of creani-of-tartar 
stirred in the flour. 
WHITE CAKE. 
Whites of three eggs, oue cup w hite sugar, 
two teaspoonfuls of cream-of-tartar, one of 
soda, one half cup ot sweet milk, butter size of 
au egg, three cups of flour. 
MRS. U’S SUET PUDDING. 
One cup of.suet, a little more than one cup 
of milk, one cup of molasses, oue cup of 
chopped raisins, four cups of flour, three tea¬ 
spoons of baking powder, a little salt, one tea- 
spoonful each of cloves, allspice and cinna¬ 
mon. Steam three or four hours. 
AUNT MINA’S GINGERBREAD. 
Two cups of molasses, one cup of cream, one 
cup of butter, two tablespoon Tills of pearlash, 
piece of alum size of a pea. 
GINGERBREAD NO. 2. 
One-h alf cup of sugar, one cup of molas¬ 
ses, one cup of butter, oue egg, two-thirds of a 
cup of hot water, two cups of flour, two- 
thirds of a teaspoonful each of ginger and 
cinnamon, ono teaspoonful of soda. 
doughnuts; mother’s recipe. 
Two and a half cup of sugar, four eggs, 
one cup of thick, sour cream, one teaspoonful 
of soda dissolved in a tablespoon of hot water, 
salt and nutmeg. 
katk’s rkuiue. 
One and one half cups of sugar, one cup of 
buttermilk, two eggs, four tublespoonfuls of 
melted butter, one teaspoouful of soda, one of 
salt, half a teaspoonful of einuamou. 
Carrie's recipe. 
One and one half cup of sugar, three eggs 
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COOKED CELERY. 
Stew ed celery is such good eating that we 
w onder at its not being more nopului’. Ono 
day we eat in the raw state only the tender, 
blanched stalks from three or tour bunches, 
while the coarse, given parts are put into 
water and set in a cool place until the next 
day. The pieces are then cut into inch lengths 
and stewed in only enough water to keep from 
burning until perfectly tender—time usually 
two hours. Drain off the water, add a cup of 
milk, and season with butter, pepper and suit. 
Occasionally we vary this method of cooking 
aud have what wo call ’’winter asparagus." 
Cut into six or seven -inch lengths; tie min 
bunches, bind up with a bit of white mosqui 
tonet, and cook in salted water until tender. 
Toast some thin slices of bread, put on to a 
platter, arrange the celery on the toast aud 
jHiur over all a dressing made of a pitil of 
milk slightlv thickened with u little e<> n 
starch, ami seasoned with pepper, salt aud >i 
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