1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Rural Recipes. 
Hot Cross Buns—Sift into a large 
bowl one full quart of flour, half a cup¬ 
ful of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of 
salt; dissolve one-fourth of a cupful of 
butter in a generous half-pint of warm 
milk, and add to the dry ingredients, 
with the yolks of two beaten eggs; add 
half a yeast-cake dissolved in a little 
water, half a nutmeg grated, and the 
whites of the two eggs, beaten stiff; this 
should make a very soft dough. Cover 
the bowl with a clean cloth, place it 
where It will keep warm, and let It rise 
over night. In the morning take pieces 
of the dough the size of an egg and, 
with a little flour, mold them Into round 
cakes an inch in thickness. Place them 
on a buttered tin, leaving a little space 
between. Cover the tins and set In a 
warm place for the buns to rise; they 
should be double their original size. 
With a sharp knife cut a cross in the 
center of each bun. Bake them In a 
moderate oven for about half an hour. 
When the buns are baked, brush the top 
with a syrup made of sugar and water. 
A few currants or a little candled peel 
is usually added to this recipe. 
Virginia Beef.—Put a boiling piece of 
beef in a large, flat kettle with two 
onions chopped flne, two tablespoonfuls 
of butter; sprinkle all over with flour. 
Let onions and butter cook a few min¬ 
utes-before adding meat, which must be 
well seasoned with salt and pepper. Add 
one pint of water, cover tightly to re¬ 
tain all juices and steam, and cook four 
hours. Then add a few mushrooms. 
Stir into the gravy a tablespoonful of 
catchup. Pour over the meat and serve 
hot. Meat should be cooked until it can 
be cut with a spoon. 
Farmhouse Apples.—Peel and core six 
tart apples and All spaces with seeded 
raisins, shredded citron, sugar and a lit¬ 
tle lemon peel. Stand in a baking tin, 
pour over one-half cupful of water, dust 
with sugar. Bake in slow oven till ten¬ 
der, draw to oven door, sprinkle with 
bread crumbs and dust with sugar and 
allow them to remain 10 minutes. While 
baking mix one tablespoonful of flour 
with one-half a cupful of sugar, pour 
over it a half-pint of boiling water, boil 
a minute, take from the Are and pour 
it over one well-beaten egg, add juice 
of half a lemon. Pour over apples and 
serve warm. 
Best Doughnuts.—This is a tested re¬ 
cipe from our friend Aunt Ruth; One 
egg beaten light; one cupful of sugar 
and a little salt; one cupful of sour milk 
sweetened with one teaspoonful of soda; 
two tablespoonfuls of melted lard; flour 
to make a stiff dough. Fry in hot lard, 
and dust with cinnamon and granulated 
sugar. These doughnuts are light and 
wholesome. 
Maple Sugar Fudge.—Measure out two 
cupfuls of maple sugar broken Into 
small bits, and mix It with a cupful of 
hot milk. When the sugar is melted in 
the milk let the syrup boil until a drop 
hardens when placed in cold water. Add 
0 , large tablespoonful of butter, and let 
the syrup cool until you can bear your 
Anger in it. Now beat it hard for three 
minutes, then pour it out at once on but¬ 
tered pieplates. Crease it in inch 
squares, so it can be easily broken into 
even pieces when it is cold. A delielous 
Canadian fudge is made in the same 
way, using a cupful of cream Instead of 
milk, omitting the butter and adding 
butternuts to it. Put the butternuts 
chopped into good sized bits on the but¬ 
tered pie plates, and pour the fudge over 
them. Crease it. Let it cool and break 
the mass into squares. 
Bleached Apricots.—Wash a half- 
pound of dried apricots 24 hours before 
wanted, and pour over them boiling 
water; let it stand not more than two 
minutes, then drain; add cold water to 
cover well and let stand 12 hours, then 
pour this water off. Make a boiling 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.—Aiiv. 
syrup of one-half pound of sugar and a 
third of a cupful of water, then turn it 
over the fruit and allow it to stand till 
morning. The fruit needs no cooking 
and is similar to that sold in the market 
as “California jellied fruits.” 
Peach Tapioca.—Soak one-half cupfvil 
of tapioca over night in plenty of cold 
water. Cover the bottom of a buttered 
pudding dish with a layer of canned 
peaches, pour over this the tapioca, 
which has been sweetened with one 
tablespoonful of sugar, put over this 
another layer of the peaches and bake 
in a moderate oven for half an hour. 
Beat the whites of two eggs until very 
stiff, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, 
spread this over the peaches and return 
to the oven until a delicate brown. Add 
more sugar to the juice left from the 
canned peaches, beat one-half cupful of 
cream until light, pour gradually over 
it the peach juice, beat all together and 
serve with dessert. This dish Is good 
served either cold or hot. 
Cream Walnuts.—Two cupfuls of 
sugar, one cupful of lard or butter, one 
cupful of sour cream or milk, the yolks 
of two eggs, one teaspoonful of vanilla, 
and one teaspoonful of soda. Flour to 
roll. After placing in the pans, stick 
half an English walnut meat in the cen¬ 
ter of each. Bake with care. 
A Dish^of Greens. 
In the Spring nearly everyone begins 
to think of dandelion greens. They are 
an excellent appetizer, and we see peo¬ 
ple out in the flelds busily digging them. 
In many cases it Is hard to get enough 
for a mess; they are small and far apart 
and it takes much valuable time to get 
them. This used to be the case with us, 
but now, in the dandelion season I can 
go out and get a large dishpan full In 15 
minutes or less. The way It came about 
was this. We sent for a 10-cent packet 
of seeds, and planted them in a row in 
the garden. The ground was rich and 
they were well cared for. They grew to 
an enormous size, and we had an abund¬ 
ance of greens. Some of them were al¬ 
lowed to go to seed and the seeds blew 
all about the yard. It is a number of 
years since we had the cultivated row, 
but all around in the grass are plenty of 
plants. They do not grow as large as 
the cultivated ones, and they do not 
need as much cooking, but they are 
larger than the ordinary wild ones. Care 
should be taken not to plant them 
where the seed will get into lawns or 
in other places where dandelions are 
not wanted. susan brown bobbins. 
Macrame Slippers, 
A pretty bedroom slipper may be made 
of gray linen macramfi cord, and be 
found as soft as silk, and much cooler 
than those crocheted in worsteds, says 
a writer in Motherhood. It is done in a 
simple single crochet, with the exception 
that each stitch is taken in the back of 
the loop Instead of the front. Begin at 
A HAPPY CHILD 
is one who grows, without in¬ 
terruption of health, from a 
baby up—except the inevitable 
diseases of children. 
And Scott’s emulsion of cod- 
liver oil has done more, in the 
26 years of its existence, than 
any half-dozen other things, to 
make such children. 
It keeps them in uninterrupt¬ 
ed health. It is food that 
takes hold at once, whenever 
their usual food lets go. 
Wc’ll send you a little to try. If you like. 
SCOTT & BOWNIi. 409 Pearl etreet. fittm York. 
241 
the toe of a No. 3 slipper by making a 
chain of 11 stitches, and in the center 
of each alternate row add two stitches 
to widen, until there are altogether 43. 
Commence the side by taking up 12 
stitches, and, after knitting seven plain 
rows, begin to widen at the top for the 
heel, which must be four stitches high¬ 
er than the sides. After widening suffi¬ 
ciently for the heel, which must be done 
very gradually, knit two rows without 
widening, and decrease in the same pro¬ 
portion until there are but 12 stitches. 
Knit seven plain rows and crochet fast 
to the other side. Of course the work 
must be measured and graded according 
to the sole that is to be used. A shell 
border finishes the top, and an elastic 
and bright ribbons are run through it 
and tied with a bow on che Instep. A 
strong cork sole, lined with gray linen, 
should be used, and care must be taken 
in sewing the slipper and sole together, 
so that the stitches may be hidden. 
Farm, Stock and Home suggests that 
killing a toad In a garden Is equivalent to 
bringing In a lot of Injurious Insects. 
An exchange says that the man-afrald- 
of-hls-consclence ought to be more nu¬ 
merous. How about the man with a con¬ 
science that ho doesn’t need to be afraid 
of? 
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chimneys are carefully made 
of clear tough glass; they fit, 
and get the utmost light from 
the lamp, and they last until 
some accident breaks them. 
“Pearl top” and “pearl 
glass ” are trade-marks. Look 
out for them and you needn’t 
be an expert. 
Our “ Index ” describes <»// latnps and their 
proper chimneys. With it you can always order 
the right size and shape of chimney for any lamp. 
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Address 
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