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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Rural Recipes. 
Bullerniilk Muffins.—A quart of fresh 
hiiLlermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, a 
pinch of salt and enough flour to make 
a stiff batter and two or three table¬ 
spoonfuls of sour cream. Dissolve the 
.soda in a little of the buttermilk, then 
add to the rest; add salt and cream and 
the flour. Bake in gem pans in a hot 
oven. 
Stewed Summer Squash.—Wash, pare, 
cut into pieces after removing the seeds, 
cook in a small quantity of water until 
tender; drain and press dry, salt slight¬ 
ly and serve on golden browned toast 
with a cream dressing made as follows: 
Into half a pint of rich milk stir one 
teaspoonful of cornstarch, let boil until 
slightly thickened, then pour it over the 
toast and squash. 
Gingerade.—One quart of cold water, 
one cupful of sugar, one-fourth ounce 
white ginger root, juice of two oranges 
and of one lemon. Put the water and 
sugar to boil, add ginger root broken in¬ 
to small bits; let it boil 20 minutes after 
boiling begins. Remove from the Are 
and add fruit juice. Strain and cool. 
Serve with powdered ice and a preserved 
or sw'eet cherry in each glass. Very re¬ 
freshing. 
Blueberry Cakes.—Measure three cup¬ 
fuls of sifted flour, add three teaspoon¬ 
fuls of baking powder, a heaping table¬ 
spoonful of sugar and a teaspoonful of 
salt; sift well together. Beat one egg 
until light; add cupful of milk. 
■Make a well in the center of the flour 
and gradually pour in the liquid, stirr¬ 
ing in the flour. In this way you can 
keep the batter smooth. Make it to the 
(onsistency of cake batter. Melt two 
level tablospoonfuls of butter and add to 
the batter; then two cupfuls of floured 
blueberries. Bake in little custard cups 
or muffin rings, allowing a little longer 
time than for plain muffins. Blackber¬ 
ries are nice used in this way. 
Apple Fool.—Peel, core and quarter 
.six large apples, cook them until tender 
with three or four cloves, a small piece 
of lemon peel, half a cupful of sugar and 
a teacupful of water. Remove the cloves 
and lemon peel, beat well with a fork 
and stir in one-fourth pint of thick, 
sweet cream. Cut any kind of delicate 
cake into rather thin slices and place a 
layer in the bottom of a glass dish. Pour 
over it diluted red currant jelly, then 
cover with a thick layer of the apple 
fool, then another layer of cake and 
currant jelly, and heap the remainder 
of the apple fool over the top. With 
each helping serve a large spoonful of 
whipped cream flavored with almond. 
Prf^erved Crab Apples.—The apples 
should be very ripe. Wash them well 
in cold water; put them into a porcelain- 
lined kettle and just cover with boiling 
water. Let them cook very gently until 
you can remove the skins easily. Drain 
them, peel and carefully remove the 
cores, but do not break the apple's or re¬ 
move the stems. Weigh them, allowing 
one and one-quarter pound of sugar to 
a pound of fruit; allow a cupful of water 
to this quantity of sugar. Put water and 
sugar over the fire and bring to boiling 
point. Skim until clear, then put in the 
apples and cook very gently until they 
are tender and transparent. Skim while 
cooking. When they are done put them 
into small, large-mouthed jars, and 
when cool seal same as jelly. 
Huckleberry Spider Cake.—Pick over, 
wash and drain a quart of berries; when 
quite dry dredge them with flour. Meas- 
use four cupfuls of sifted flour; add a 
teaspoonful of salt, four level teaspoon- 
fuls of baking powder and sift again. 
Rub into the flour, using a spatula or 
flexible knife, half a cupful of butter. 
Add the berries; mix well; then mix in 
enough milk to make a soft dough that 
mothers.—B e sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while 'I'eething. it is the Best.— Adv. 
will spread, but not run in the pan. 
Heat a tablespoonful of butter in the 
iron spider (frying pan), put in the 
cake; the pan must be large enough to 
make the cake three-quarters of an inch 
thick; set it over a moderate fire to bake 
slowly for about 20 minutes, allowing 10 
minutes for each side; shake the pan 
about and turn the cake to prevent its 
burning; serve as soon as done. Split 
open, do not cut, and use plenty of good 
butter. 
Household Congress. 
Pi/UM-PnAcn Jelly. —We ju'st finished 
making some pretty jelly this morning 
out of Japan plums, rather green, with 
the addition of a few peaches to improve 
the flavor. It is of a clear amber color 
and “came” readily. docia dykens. 
Sweet Cucumuer Pickle for present 
use: After the cucumbers are washed, 
sprinkle them plentifully with salt, then 
pour on boiling water. Let them stand 
over night. In the morning drain and 
put them in a cold, spiced vinegar made 
by scalding two pounds of granulated 
sugar, one pint of vinegar, one ounce of 
cinnamon (put in a muslin bag), one- 
half ounce of whole cloves. h. c. a. 
Canning Corn and Tomatoes. —Al¬ 
though told by old housekeepers and 
successful canners that I could not suc¬ 
ceed with corn after reading so many 
directions I determined to try it. I 
canned a couple of pint jars, taking the 
greatest pains, and they showed no 
signs of fermenting. I had a little corn 
left and about a cupful of tomatoes, so 
I put them into a Mason’s jar. When I 
opened the corn I found it spoiled. The 
tomatoes and corn kept finely. I shall 
try it again. m. e. l. 
Canning Corn. —I would like to give 
your readers a recipe for canning corn 
which I used last year with success. In 
the evening cut corn off cob, place in 
stone jar, then add one-third teacupful 
salt to each quart of corn. Let stand 
over night, put no water on corn, but 
mix salt with it. In the morning add 
enough water to cook, boil 20 minutes 
or until done; can like fruit, in glass 
cans. On opening for use, if corn is too 
salty, it can be soaked out before cook¬ 
ing. MRS. w. J. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
Fruit Shelves. —Chicken netting, 
stretched as shelving in rooms where 
fruit is stored will be found a most ad¬ 
vantageous substitute for barrels or 
board shelves. The mesh should be of 
such a size as to prevent the fruit from 
falling through, but no finer. Apples 
placed on such a support will not touch 
each other nor be in contact with any¬ 
thing to promote decay. They may be 
readily inspected, and spotted or imper¬ 
fect ones removed. If preferred the net¬ 
ting may be firmly tacked on frames and 
supported on brackets attached to the 
cellar walls. For the smaller fruits, 
cherries, etc., a finer mesh may be used 
and the same frames serve for the dry¬ 
ing and storing of the fruit. Where 
this is done, spread the cherries over 
the netting and place a similar frame 
over the fruit. Secure the two frames 
together by means of hooks and staples. 
They may then be turned over as often 
as desired, permitting the cherries to dry 
uniformly on both sides. If the frames 
are made with sides one inch deep below 
and two or more deep above they may 
be so placed as to bring the netting close 
together for the drying process and sev¬ 
eral inches apart for storage purposes. 
The advantage of the extra space in the 
latter case is that mice cannot attack 
the fruit from below, and will not be 
able to reach it from above. The frames 
can be readily removed and cleansed 
from fruit that has dried or decayed on 
them. E. H. COOPER. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The attractive tucked waist shown 
consists of the fitted foundation, which 
can be used or omitted as preferred, the 
back and the fronts. The back is plain 
and drawn down in gathers at the waist 
line. The front- is tucked to form a 
graduated pleat at the center and from 
the shoulders to yoke depth. It also is 
gathered at the waist line and blouses 
slightly over the belt. The closing is 
4461 Shirt Waist, 32 to 40 bust. 
made invisibly beneath the full length 
tuck at the left of the center. The 
sleeves are the prevailing ones that are 
snug from the elbows to the shoulders, 
full from the elbows to the wrists. The 
quantity of material required for the me¬ 
dium size is four yards 21 inches wide, 
3% yards 27 inches wide, 3% yards 32 
inches wide or 2% yards 44 inches wide. 
The waist pattern No. 4461 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust 
measure; price 10 cents from this office. 
Pleated walking skirts are still in fa¬ 
vor. This one shows wide backward 
turning pleats which are stitched to give 
the effect of a graduated flounce at the 
lower edge. The model is made of dark 
blue Sicilian stitched with silk, but all 
light weight materials are appropriate. 
Cloth, cheviot and the like are admirable 
for cool weather wear, pongee, linen and 
similar fabrics for the warmer days. 
The skirt is cut in nine gores and is 
laid in pleats so managed that they con¬ 
ceal all of the seams. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size is 
9% yards 27 inches wide, 6% yards 32 
inches wide or 4% yards 44 inches wide 
when material has figure or nap; 7^ 
yards 27 inches wide, six yards 32 inches 
wide, or 4% yards 44 inches wide when 
material has neither figure nor nap. The 
skirt pattern No. 4463 is cut in sizes for 
a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30-inch waist meas¬ 
ure; price 10 cents from this office. 
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