1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
43 
Uncle Chatterton’s Ginger¬ 
bread. 
This time it was the gingerbread. 
Uncle Chatterton had to find fault with 
something. It was a matter of principle 
with him. If ever the day passed whose 
low descending sun failed to set upon 
some adverse comment of Uncle Chat¬ 
terton’s concerning his bill of fare, Aunt 
Chatterton put a kettleful of water on 
the stove before she went to bed, in the 
firm belief that somebody would have 
to start for the doctor before morning. 
“This gingerbread,” said Uncle Chat¬ 
terton, “is not fit for the pigs.” 
The rest of us had eaten our squares 
of it without finding this out. It was 
very good gingerbread—not quite up to 
Aunt Chatterton’s mark, perhaps, hut 
still very fair average gingerbread. 
Georgiana looked indignant, Aunt 
Chatterton’s brow cleared. Uncle Chat¬ 
terton had not grumbled at anything 
during breakfast or dinner. It was a 
relief to her when he began at last. 
“It is a little heavy,” she said apolo¬ 
getically. “I don’t think that last barrel 
of flour is quite as good as the one we 
had before.” 
Uncle Chatterton snorted: 
“If that isn’t like a woman! Never 
give in it’s her own fault, of course. The 
flour is all right. The recipe is the trou¬ 
ble. If you’d use the recipe my mother 
gave you, you’d have gingerbread fit to 
eat. My mother used to make the best 
gingerbread I ever ate.” 
“Your mother’s recipe calls for sour 
cream,” protested Aunt Chatterton, 
“and you know we never have any.” 
“Well, why don’t we have?” Uncle 
Chatterton was getting more excited 
every minute. “Anyway, such ginger¬ 
bread as this is a menace to the diges¬ 
tion and health of every unfortunate 
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creature who rashly attempts to eat it. 
I could make better gingerbread my¬ 
self.” 
“Why don’t you make it, then?” 
.Of course it was Georgiana who ask¬ 
ed this. None of us would have dared. 
But Georgiana belonged to some weird, 
new place out West, where people said 
what they thought. This was her first 
visit East, and she was not yet suffi¬ 
ciently sophisticated to be in awe of 
Uncle Chatterton. 
“Wha-a-t-t?” gasped Uncle Chatter¬ 
ton. 
“I said why don’t you make it?” re¬ 
peated Georgiana, sweetly and calmly. 
“Won’t Aunt Chatterton let you?” 
Uncle Chatterton’s face was a study. 
“Y-young w-woman,” he spluttered. 
Then he stopped and drank a glass of 
milk to relieve his feelings, after which 
he said: “I icill make some ginger¬ 
bread. I’ll make it for tea to-morrow 
night. It’s the simplest thing in the 
world. I’ll send out to Mrs. Grigsby for 
some cream, and you’ll see.” 
Uncle Chatterton was game. He would 
rather die than give in that he couldn’t 
make gingerbread after all his growling. 
Accordingly the next afternoon Uncle 
Chatterton made the gingerbread for 
tea. 
We all went in to the kitchen to watch 
him. He was beaming with good nature 
and made us all furious by assuming 
genially that we had come to learn how 
good gingerbread was really made. Aunt 
Chatterton tied one of her big blue 
aprons around him, and hunted out his 
mother’s recipe for him. Mrs. Grigsby 
had sent up a whole jugful of sour 
cream; and Uncle Chatterton went to 
work. 
He measured and sifted and stirred— 
all quite deftly, as we had to admit. He 
did get a little bit flustered when he 
broke one of the eggs by mistake into 
the remainder of the sour cream instead 
of into his mixing bowl; but he cheer¬ 
fully decided that it didn’t matter, be¬ 
cause eggs were cheap and the rest of 
the cream wasn’t needed anyway. 
“I’m going to put lots of ginger in,” 
he said. “Maria never flavors it strong 
enough for me.” 
When his mixture was ready he pour¬ 
ed it into the pan and set it triumphant¬ 
ly in the oven. 
“Now, you girls may set the table,” 
he said. “That cake will be ready to 
eat in about 20 minutes.” 
When the gingerbread came out of the 
oven, it was as light and puffy as gol¬ 
den foam. 
“Say I can’t make gingerbread, will 
you, young woman?” chuckled Uncle 
Chatterton at Georgiana. 
Georgiana’s crest was drooping but 
she replied that the proof of the pud¬ 
ding was in the eating. 
Uncle Chatterton turned the steam¬ 
ing gingerbread out on a plate and car¬ 
ried it proudly to the table. Triumph 
seemed to ooze out of him at every pore. 
When the gingerbread was passed he 
helped himself to the largest piece and 
took a big, brave bite. 
We all saw the look on his face and 
each of us hastened to sample his or her 
slice. 
We did not take a second bite. Geor¬ 
giana, who has a delicate throat, nearly 
choked to death. 
Uncle Chatterton had “gingered” that 
gingerbread with mustard!—What to 
Eat. 
Rural Recipes. 
Pumpkin Custard.—Pare and cut suffi¬ 
cient pumpkin to make two quarts of 
blocks. Put into a steamer, or into a 
saucepan, with just a little water. Cover 
the saucepan closely and allow the 
pumpain to steam until perfectly ten¬ 
der. There should be no water left when 
the pumpkin is done. Press through a 
sieve, add two table9poonfuls of butter 
and stand aside over night. One hour 
before serving time add to the pumpkin 
a pint of milk, the yolks of six eggs 
beaten with a cupful of sugar, a tea¬ 
spoonful of cinnamon, and, if you wish, 
the grated rind and juice of a lemon. 
Turn into a baking dish or into small 
custard cups and bake in a moderate 
oven one hour. Beat the whites of the 
eggs until they are very light, add six 
tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and 
beat until dry ana fine. Heap over the 
baked custard, dust thickly with pow¬ 
dered sugar and stand it in a slow oven 
until dry and lightly browned. Serve 
cold. 
Creamed Liver.—Cut one pound of 
calf’s liver in inch square pieces and 
cover with cold water; add one tea¬ 
spoonful of lemon juice and one whoie 
clove and simmer gently for one hour; 
add one-half teaspoonful of salt after 
half an hour; pour off water and add 
one-half pint of rich milk or thin cream; 
mix a heaping teaspoonful of flour with 
one tablespoonful of salt, a pinch of 
white pepper and let boil up once. Serve 
on small squares of crisp toast. 
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