1903 
75 
Cakes Withotit Eggs. 
Will you give recipes for cake, cookies 
and puddings without eggs? Some of The 
K, N.-Y. readers are deprived of a Hock 
of poultry in these times of liigh prices, 
and, like myself, have to look for some- 
tliing else for dessert than “good things" 
concocted with eggs. I have hunted high 
and low in recipe books and papers for 
ways to cook witliout eggs, but 99 out of a 
100 will liave more eggs in one recipe than 
the moderate purse can supply. The R. 
N.-Y. gives so many helpful things that I 
venture to ask this favor, hojiing some one 
can tell soon how to make sugar cookies 
without eggs. 1 tried my old recipe, simply 
leaving out the eggs, but they fell flat. 
Here is a good way to pop corn: Heat 
a good-sized iron kettle, put in a table¬ 
spoonful of sweet new lard and same of 
.salt (if one cannot afford butter); when it 
smokes turn in a coffee cupful of shelled 
rice corn, cover, but stir with long-handled 
spoon all the time. Soon it will pop beau¬ 
tifully :md you will turn out a sl.x-tiuart 
Iian full t)f lovely white tender corn. This 
Is a gi'eat improvement on the old slow 
way witii popper. f. m. b. 
Eggless Cookies.—Take two-thirds of 
a cupful of melted butter (not oily), IV 2 
cupful of sour (not too thick) cream, 
I wo cupfuls of sugar, a pinch of soda, 
and enough flour to roll out easily. Stir 
the butter and cream together, then add 
the sugar and. beat well. Add the soda 
to the flour and mix into a smooth 
dough, roll out, cut and bake in a quick 
oven. Keep all the materials as cold as 
possible while mixing, roiling and cut¬ 
ting, and the cakes will require less flour 
and be very much nicer and crisper. 
Eggless Cake.—Beat one cupful of 
sugar and half a cupful of butter to a 
cream; add a cupful of milk, measure 
two cupfuls of sifted flour, add three 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a level 
teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a tea¬ 
spoonful of grated nutmeg and a pinch 
of cloves. Sift several times until the 
Hour is light and fluffy, then stir into 
the other materials and add a cupful of 
seeded floured raisins. Bake in a mod¬ 
erate oven. 
Eggless (jingerbread.—.Mix one cupful 
of molasses, one cuiiful of brown sugar 
and one tablespoonful of butter togeth¬ 
er, add gradually one cupful of milk. 
Measure five cupfuls of flour, add two 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder and 
teaspoon fill of ginger and the same of 
cinnamon. Sift and add to the other 
mixture. Bake in a large shallow bis¬ 
cuit pan and eat warm. 
Noel Fruit Cake.—This contains neith¬ 
er butter nor eggs. One pound fat salt 
pork chopped fine, one cupful brown 
sugar, one cupful New Orleans molasses 
in which is dissolved one teaspoonful of 
soda, one pound each of raisins, cur¬ 
rants and figs chopped fine, one-fourth 
pound citron chopped fine, one wineglass 
of coffee (substituted for brandy), 2)4 
cu])fuls of flour well browned. This will 
make one large loaf or two small ones. 
The longer kept the better it is. This 
may be iced or not. A boiled milk frost¬ 
ing i.« good while eggs are high. 
Ginger Wafers.—Cream one cupful of 
butter with one cupful of sugar and add 
one cupful of molasses and half a cupful 
of strong cold coffee. Sift together two 
teaspoonfuls of soda, one tablespoonful 
of ginger and enough flour to make a 
dough just stiff enough to roll out thin. 
Cut out with a cooky cutter and bake in 
a quick oven. 
Ginger Gems.—Put one cupful of 
molasses, one cupful of sugar and one 
large tablespoonful of butter in a sauce¬ 
pan and warm slightly, beat up well and 
stir for 10 or 12 minutes; then add two 
teaspoonfuls of ginger, one teaspoonful 
of cinnamon and gradually stir in one 
cupful of milk. Sift two teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder with five cupfuls of sift¬ 
ed flour and add to the mixture. If you 
want them a little richer stir in half a 
cupful of seeded raisins or chopped 
dates. Bake them in well greased gem 
pans and eat them hot. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It Is the Best.— Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A boiled icing is made without eggs as 
follows: Put one cupful of sugar, half 
a cupful of milk and a teaspoonful of 
butter in a saucepan and boil 10 minutes 
or until it is thick, add a teaspoonful of 
vanilla and beat until cool enough to 
spread on the cake. We use a good 
many milk puddings, such as rice, sago 
and taiiioca, and these can be made 
without eggs; also brown Betty, short¬ 
cake made with canned fruit, and steam¬ 
ed fruit puddings. Steamed puddings 
with suet crust can be made without 
eggs, and they are very nice. 
Winter Work at Home. 
Recently there appeared in The R. N.-Y. 
suggestions for farmers’ wives and daugh¬ 
ters to eaiii pocket money. Tliose were 
all for Summer employment. My lot is cast 
on a fruit farm; therefore tliere is no time 
to do work expi'essly for myself In Sum¬ 
mer. Could you suggest anything for 
Winter montlis? If so, your advice will be 
thankfully received. 
Canada. a faumer's daughter. 
This is a vital question which wiii ap- 
peai to many. As our correspondent 
says, the advice offered was for Summer 
work entirely. In many rural homes 
women as well as men have more 
leisure in the Winter, and there is often 
a certain isolation, the result of in¬ 
clement weather or bad roads, which 
makes enforced leisure very monoton¬ 
ous. If anyone can give practical ex¬ 
perience of fairly remunerative Winter 
home work we shall be glad to hear of 
it. There are many advertisements, in 
papers of a certain class, of “easy work 
at home.” We have investigated a great 
number of these advertisements, which 
include writing circulars, preparing and 
selling quack nostrums and toilet ar¬ 
ticles, knitting and crochet work and 
embroidery of various classes. They all 
told the same specious tale; tnere were 
preliminary fees to the advertiser, fol¬ 
lowed by attempts at work that proved 
unsalable. In legitimate manufacturing 
the tendency is against home work, be¬ 
cause it leads to the sweat-shop, and 
year by year less woman’s handiwork is 
given out. In the great cities the labor 
organizations, the Consumers’ League, 
and similar bodies working for the bet¬ 
terment of the workers use their influ¬ 
ence against home work, which is not 
surprising when we stop to think what 
tenement home work means. The ideal 
rural home work is something that lifts 
the artisan to the level of the artist, like 
the Abnakee rugs, or the Deerfield weav¬ 
ing. What have our friends to say to 
our Canadian questioner? 
Girls and Housework. 
In these days, when there are so many 
occupations open to women, there are a 
good many girls who despise and dislike 
housework, and are determined never to 
do it if by any means, fair or foul, they 
can avoid it. A large proportion of 
them will marry, and a sorry mess they 
will make of homekeeping. Even if they 
have means and can hire the work done, 
they are likely to have green girls, and 
they will no't know how to train them. 
The girls who have this horror of house¬ 
work are not always the daughters of 
even well-to-do people, and they are the 
very ones who should know the most 
about housekeeping, for the less one has 
to do with, the more brains and experi¬ 
ence are needed in order to manage 
well. It seems to me that a mother who 
neglects this branch of her daughter’s 
education is little less than criminal. 
“But she may never marry and will not 
need it.” It is strange that this reason 
should be urged when in many cases a 
large number of the studies taught in 
school and college are never made use 
of after graduation. And why is not 
housework as good discipline as Greek 
or algebra? It would probably be al¬ 
most impossible to make these girls of 
whom I am thinking believe that it 
takes a high order of intelligence to do 
housework well, and that It is capable 
of being made a work of art. But if 
they are made to do it and carefully 
trained, they will believe it then. 
The way some girls do the things they 
have to do about the house explains why 
they think it is degrading work; it is de¬ 
grading, the way they do it. Did you 
ever have one of these “no-housework- 
in-mine, please, I-won’t-wash-dlshes- 
for-anybody” girls visit you? And did 
you ever manage it so she had to do up 
the dishes? You suggested that she 
wear an apron, so as to save her dress, 
and as she put it on she also put on an 
expression of intense disgust. Then she 
proceeded to wash the dishes—like a 
man. She did not use enough water, she 
spattered things a good deal, she 
slammed things rather more than was 
necessary. The dishes were cloudy and 
had a rough, gummy feeling, and she 
put them in most unlikely places. And 
after she had taken herself away, you 
found that she had overlooked a num¬ 
ber of pieces, and had forgotten a kettle 
or two, and to wash out the sink or to 
wipe around it, and had left the dish 
towels in damp, and the dishcloth in 
soppy wads. And so you had to get some 
fresh, soapy water and clean up, and it 
took you nearly as long as it would have 
done to do all the work yourself. So 
you never got her to wash dishes again, 
and that was just what she wanted. 
Now if she liad been a competent 
housekeeper she would have helped you 
clear away the table, and when you had 
put away the food she would have had 
half the dishes washed, and you would 
have put them away and would have no¬ 
ticed how clean and bright they were, 
and she would have washed out the sink 
and the towels and put everything in 
order, and as she stood wiping her hands 
she would have looked about the room 
with a feeling of pride, and you would 
have glanced at the clock and said: 
“How quickly we got the dishes done,” 
and she wouldn’t have felt a bit degrad¬ 
ed or as if she had been doing drudgery. 
Then if you had glanced into her room 
you would have noticed how smooth her 
bed looked, the white spread drawn 
tight and square and tucked in evenly, 
and the pillows on straight. The other 
girl’s bed looks as if “slung” togethei’- -- 
not an elegant word, but it just ex¬ 
presses the looks of the bed, the spread 
askew and wrinkles showing through, 
and the pillows looking as if fired from 
a cannon. Now if a girl is not faithful 
in little things, if she is careless and 
slovenly about housework, how can she 
succeed in other business? But if she 
has been trained to do all kinds of 
housework in the best way, will it not 
be invaluable discipline and training, 
even though she never should be called 
upon to do it, but should enter some 
larger field of labor? 
SUSAN BUOWN ROBBINS. 
Some Coffees 
are Glazed 
with a cheap coating. 
If glazing helps coffee 
why aren’t the high- 
priced Mochas and Javas- 
glazed also? 
Lion Coffee 
is not glazed. It is per¬ 
fectly pure and has a 
delicious flavor. 
The se&Ied package Insures uni¬ 
form quality and freshness. 
i 
ReUeve 
Asthma, 
Bronchitis, 
Catarrh. 
Cure 
Coughs, 
Sore Throat, 
Hoarseness. 
Nothing excels this simple remedy. 
WRINGERS 
a.s they should be are illustrated in the flue cata¬ 
logue of the AMERICAN WRINGER CO., 
99 Chambers St., New York. 
Write them before yon buy. 
A LOCOMOTIVE 
Thorough Home Instruetioii. 
Small I’liarge—Kasy Terms. 
Railroads need tliousuiids of in¬ 
structed Firemen annmiUy. GODl) 
BAY and chance to bocome an En¬ 
gineer—the HIUIIKST PAID KM- 
I’LOYKK on railroads. Heli.toeiu- 
ploymeiit 011 proper qualiUcation. 
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Bliictleld. VV. Va.,Nov. 10,1902. 
The Hallway Kdncallonal Associa¬ 
tion, Brooklyn, New York. 
Gentlenien—I have your favor of 
November Bth, in regard to qualltications of Mr. t'. K. 
Bcinkampen, and I have given him employment as 
locomotive Ureinan. 1 have to emi)loy a large num¬ 
ber of tlromen, and would be glad to liear from yon at 
any time you may have any bright young men who de¬ 
sire positions. Yours truly, 
Ij. P. LiQON, Uivision Master Mechanic. 
ENROLL NOW for tne great Winter increase of 
force on all railroads. Particulars Erkk. 
THE RAILWAY EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
Station B-25, Brooklyn—New York. 
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