1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Pickles and Relishes. 
SOME SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 
Most housekeepers have their own 
recipes for pickles, catsups, and sauces, 
but occasionally one meets with a new 
idea which is helpful. Here are some 
suggestions which have been tested re¬ 
cently: 
Tomato Ciiowder, or Ciiili Sauce.— 
Select 24 large tomatoes, one dozen 
green mango peppers and eight medium¬ 
sized onions; chop all fine. Then add 
three cupfuls of vinegar, one taolespoon- 
ful of salt, three large tablespoonfuls of 
sugar, one teaspoonful of cloves, two 
teaspoonfuls of cinnamon and one tea¬ 
spoonful of allspice. Tie the ground 
spices in a small muslin bag. Boil the 
whole mixture two hours. Before seal¬ 
ing, if desired, add a little grated horse¬ 
radish. It can be kept either with or 
without sealing, but is best if kept 
sealed. > til 
Spiced Cucumbers. —Peel ripe, firm 
cucumbers, removing all the pulp and 
seeds from the inside, and cut them into 
strips half an inch wide and three or 
four inches long. Put these in cold 
vinegar enough to cover, and let them 
stand for 24 hours. The vinegar, which 
will have drawn out the strong, un¬ 
pleasant flavor of the fruit, should be 
thrown away and replaced by enough 
fresh vinegar to cover the pickles. To 
each quart of this vinegar add two 
pounds of sugar, an ounce of cassia buds, 
and half an ounce of cloves. Simmer 
over the fire for about an hour, or until 
the pickles are pierceable with a broom 
straw. 
Muskmei.on Pickle. — Select ripe 
muskmelons, peel, remove seeds, cut in 
pieces, and put in a stone jar. Cover 
with scalding vinegar, let them stand 
until the next day, then reheat the vine¬ 
gar, and pour it over them again. Con¬ 
tinue this until the fourth day; then 
weigh the melon, and to every five 
pounds of fruit allow three pounds of 
sugar and one quart of spiced vinegar. 
Let all simmer together until the fruit 
is tender. Allow the pickle to stand 
until the next day, then pour off the 
syrup, and boil (it down so that there 
will be just enough to cover the fruit. 
This may seem a good deal of trouble, 
but the excellent result will repay it. 
Pumpkin Marmalade. —Select a ripe 
yellow pumpkin, peel, remove the seeds, 
cut into pieces, and weigh. For every 
pound of pumpkin use one pound of 
sugar and one orange or lemon. Grate 
the pumpkin on a coarse grater, and put 
in preserving kettle with the sugar, the 
r'ind of the orange or lemon grated, and 
the juice strained. Allow the mixture to 
boil slowly until it forms a thick, 
smooth marmalade, stirring and skim¬ 
ming frequently. Put into jelly glasses 
while warm, and cover like jelly when 
cold. 
Oiled Pickles. —This very good recipe 
was, we think, given originally by Mrs. 
Rorer, but it does not appear to be gen¬ 
erally known, and will bear reproduc¬ 
tion. Small cucumbers are selected and, 
to 100 cucumbers, condiments are used 
in the following proportion: One-quarter 
pound ground mustard, one teaspoonful 
black pepper, one-quarter pound mus¬ 
tard seed, one ounce celery seed, one 
quart of onions, one pint of olive oil, 
two quarts of vinegar. Peel the cucum¬ 
bers and onions, and slice them thin. 
Put a layer of cucumbers in a crock, 
then a layer of onions, over this a heavy 
sprinkling of salt, and continue this un¬ 
til all are used. Put a weight on top, 
and allow all to stand over night. The 
next day, drain off the liquid. Dissolve 
a tablespoonful of alum ia enough cold 
vinegar to cover the cucumbers and 
onions, and pour over. After standing 
for several hours, pour off this vinegar. 
M)ix the mustard, celery seed and pep¬ 
per with the oil, add the two quarts of 
vinegar gradually and, after putting the 
cucumber and onions into jars, pour the 
mixture over them. Seal, and put away 
in a cool, dark place. 
Tomato Catsup. —Here are two catsup 
recipes, both good. The first calls for 
one gallon of tomatoes, one pound of 
sugar, one quart vinegar, one teaspoon¬ 
ful of Cayenne pepper, one teaspoonful 
of black pepper, four teaspoonfuls of 
ground cloves, four teaspoonfuls of salt, 
four teaspoonfuls of ground mustard. 
Boil down one-quarter. Add four tea¬ 
spoonfuls of ground cinnamon. Bottle 
and seal. 
The second recipe requires two quarts 
of vinegar, one gallon tomatoes (cut 
fine), six tablespoonfuls of salt, three 
tablespoonfuls of black pepper, eight ta¬ 
blespoonfuls of yellow mustard, one 
tablespoonful of allspice, one table¬ 
spoonful of cinnamon, one tablespoonful 
of mace, one tablespoonful of cloves and 
one teacupful of granulated sugar. Place 
all in kettle at once and boil three 
hours; then strain through a sieve, 
which will remove the skins and seeds. 
Storiettes. 
A Scholastic Courtship. 
“Yes,” said a young man, as he threw 
himself at the feet of the pretty school¬ 
mistress. “I love you, and would go to 
the world’s end for you.” 
“You could not go to the end of the 
world for me, James. The world, or the 
earth, as it is called, is round like a ball, 
slightly flattened at the poles. One of 
the first lessons in elementary geog¬ 
raphy is devoted to the shape of the 
globe. You must have studied it when 
you were a boy.” 
“Of course I did, but-” 
“And it is no longer a theory. Cir¬ 
cumnavigators have established the 
fact.” 
“I know, but what I meant was that I 
would do anything to please you. Ah, 
Minerva, if you knew the aching 
void-” 
“There is no such thing as a void, 
James. Nature abhors a vacuum. But, 
admitting that there could be such a 
thing, how could the void you speak of 
be a void if there were an ache in it?” 
“I meant to say that my life will be 
lonely without you; that you are my 
daily thought ana my nightly dream. I 
would go anywhere to be with you. If 
you were in Australia or at the North 
Pole, I would fly to you. I-” 
“Fly! It will be another century be¬ 
fore men can fly. * Even when the laws 
of gravitation are successfully over¬ 
come, there will still remain, says a 
late scientific authority, the difficulty of 
maintaining a balance-” 
“Well, at all events!” exclaimed the 
youth, “I’ve got a pretty fair balance in 
the bank, and I want you to be my wife. 
There!” 
“Well, James, since you put it in that 
light, I-” 
Curtain.—Wichita Eagle. 
The Letter that Never Came. 
An anxious-looking young man had 
been standing beside a street mail-box 
for nearly two hours waiting for the 
carrier to come and take the mail out of 
the box. When the carrier finally ap¬ 
peared, the young man said: 
“See 'here, I dropped a letter into that 
box that I’ve got to have back again.” 
“Can’t have it,” replied the postman, 
as he unlocked the box. 
“I can’t nave it? Why, man, I’ve got 
to have it! i wouldn’t have that letter 
go to the person it’s addressed to for a 
million dollars!” 
“Can’t help that, Mister. It’s against 
the law to return a letter after it has 
been dropped into a mail-box. It’s Gov¬ 
ernment property then until it’s given 
over to the person it’s addressed to.” 
The look of distress on the young 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
man’s face deepened as he said, cajoling- 
iy: 
“Oh, come now, that’s all nonsense in 
a case like this. I wrote that letter. I 
can tell you to whom it is addressed, 
and you can compare the handwriting 
with mine, if you want to. Hand me 
back that letter and you may select a 
dozen of the best cigars in the cigar 
store across the street.” 
“Do you know that you are trying to 
bribe a Government official? I wouldn’t 
give you the letter for a whole cigar 
store.” 
“But, my good fellow, I’ve got to have 
that letter. It’s one I—there it is! That 
one in the large, square, cream-tinted 
envelope. It’s this one, and-” 
“Hands off, young man, or I’ll call a 
policeman and have you arrested for 
trying to rob the mails. If the postmas¬ 
ter at the general office wants to give 
you that letter, he can do it. 7 sha’n’t!” 
“But, say now—wait a minute, please 
wait! I’ll tell you exactly what’s in 
that letter, and if you’ve a spark of feel¬ 
ing you’ll give it to me. That letter 
contains a proposal of marriage, and ten 
fninutes after I’d mailed it, I got an in¬ 
vitation to the young lady’s wedding! 
Think of it! Those are the blood-curd¬ 
ling facts in the case! Now be merciful 
enough to let me have that letter.” 
“Very sorry, but I can’t do it,” said 
the postman, with a grin. “But come 
along with me and state your case to the 
postmaster, and maybe he’ll think it 
none of the Government’s business, and 
give you the letter.” 
The dejected suitor followed the post¬ 
man down the street, while the anxious 
look on his face deepened into one of 
actual misery.—Youth’s Companion. 
... .Midway between poverty and riches 
is a genial clime, named contentment 
with a little. Earth’s most famous sons, 
like Dante and Milton, have dwelt in 
this temperate clime. Carlyle, too, and 
Wordsworth, and Emerson have “earned 
a little and spent less.” The heroes and 
reformers, also, in avoiding the arctic 
zone of poverty, have also avoided the 
tropic zone of riches. The most famous 
spot in Westminster Abbey, it has been 
said, commemorates “the glorious com¬ 
pany of paupers.” The history of our 
great men, from the Pilgrim Fathers to 
Grant and Lincoln,.does but emphasize 
this injunction of a scholar bidding us 
“to be content with earning a little and 
spending less.”—Rev. N. D. Hillis. 
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