1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Rural Recipes. 
O baker, you haven’t, in all your shop, 
A cookie At to be tried, 
For the art of making them came to a stop 
When my Aunt Lucinda died. 
I can see her yet, with her sleeves uprolled. 
As I watch her mix and knead 
The Hour and eggs with their yolks of gold. 
The butter and sugar, just all they’ll hold. 
And spice them with caraway seed. 
—Colorado Weekly Times. 
Ginger Snaps.—A reader asks for a 
desirable recipe “A Woman Farmer” 
sends this: Beat together one cupful of 
sugar, one egg, and one tahlespoonful of 
ginger. Heat one cupful of molasses to 
the scalding point, stir into it one tea¬ 
spoonful of soda or saleratus, and, while 
it foams, pour it over the butter and 
egg, and beat together. Add a table¬ 
spoonful of vinegar, and stir in lightly 
enough flour to roll out and cut the 
dough. 
Hot-Pot Mutton.—This recipe is from 
the Boston Cooking School. Cut 21^ 
pounds of mutton from the fore-quarter 
into pieces for serving. Dredge them 
lightly with flour and hrown in two 
tablespoonfuls of hot fat. Peel and cut 
five potatoes into slices a fourth of an 
inch thick and parboil them six minutes. 
Cut an onion in slices after peeling and 
parboil for 15 minutes. Place a layer of 
the meat in the bottom of a granite bak¬ 
ing dish, add a layer of the potato and 
onion slices, drained from the water in 
which they were cooked, and continue 
the layers until meat, potato and onion 
are all used. Season each layer with 
salt and pepper, using a rounded tea¬ 
spoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of 
white pepper. Have the last layer of po¬ 
tato placed like shingles, one slice 
slightly overlapping another. Dot the 
top with a tablespoonful of butter cut 
into bits, and cook covered for nearly 
three hours in a very slow oven, remov¬ 
ing the cover for the last half-hour that 
the potato may brown. 
Jugged Rabbit.—Select a plump ten¬ 
der rabbit. Wash, wipe dry, and cut in¬ 
to well-shaped pieces. Have ready a 
teaspoonful of salt and one-fourth tea¬ 
spoonful of pepper and rub this into the 
rabbit pieces. Put four tablespoonfuls 
of flour on a plate and roll each piece 
in this. Heat half a cupful of butter 
in frying pan; when hot fry the rabbit, 
browning on both sides, being careful 
not to burn the butter. As soon as it 
browns put the rabbit into a stewpan 
and into the hot butter stir what is left 
of the flour in which the rabbit was 
rolled; add three teacupfuls hot water 
and cook 10 minutes. Pour this over the 
rabbit, adding two cloves, one-half bay- 
leaf, two or three allspice, one teaspoon¬ 
ful salt, one-fourth teaspoonful pepper, 
a slice or two of onion. Cover closely 
and simmer for an hour and a half. Add 
one teaspoonful lemon juice and one 
tablespoonful good catchup. Remove 
the rabbit to a hot platter;- strain what 
liquid is left, add to it a teaspoonful 
each of butter and flour rubbed smooth 
and a cupful of hot water; boil up once, 
pour over the rabbit and serve. 
Dried Beef with Egg bauce.—Put one 
tablespoonful of butter into a hot fry¬ 
ing pan; when melted add two ounces 
of dried beef, chipped thin and torn in¬ 
to small pieces. Break one egg into a 
teacup, beat slightly, and fill the cup 
with sweet milk, season with one salt- 
spoonful of pepper. As soon as the beef 
is frizzled, pour the egg and milk over 
it, and cook slowly until a thin custard 
is formed. Prepare five nicely-browned 
and lightly-buttered pieces of toast, pour 
the beef over it, and serve at once. 
Martha Washington Biscuit.—Sift one 
pint of flour with one tablespoonful of 
sugar, one teaspoonful each of baking 
powder and salt. Rub into it one table¬ 
spoonful of lard. Mix with one well- 
beaten egg and one cupful of water; roll 
one-fourth of an inch in thickness and 
cut with small round cutter. Fry in hot 
fat until cooked on one side, turn and 
brown. 
Prune Sago.—This is a Scotch dessert. 
After washing one-half pound of prunes 
put them to soak till well puffed out, 
then put them into a stewpan with 
enough cold water to cover them. Cook 
till soft; pass the fruit through a fine 
sieve, after stoning it. Mix with it some 
pearl sago that has been well boiled. 
There should be equal quantities of fruit 
pulp and sago. Heat up, but do not boil; 
if too stiff thin with a little milk or 
water, season with lemon juice; it wilt 
be sweet enough for ordinary palates. 
Pour into a jelly mold and when cold 
turn into a glass dish. Serve with 
whipped cream or boiled custard. 
Date Cake.—Two cupfuls sugar, one 
cupful shortening, creamed together, 
three eggs, well beaten into sugar and 
shortening, three teaspoonfuls baking 
powder, 3^ cupfuls flour. To this add 
one cupful of stoned and finely-chopped 
dates, floured. Bake in five layers and 
put together with plain or boiled icing. 
This recipe is sent us by Mrs. C. S. 
Perry, of Georgia, in response to a re¬ 
cent request in The R. N.-Y. 
Practical Home Dressmaking. 
The Requirements. —Every well-reg¬ 
ulated home should have a spacious, 
well-lighted room set apart exclusively 
for dressmaking. In this room should 
be closets, racks, cutting and sewing 
tables, machine, tracing-wheel, cutting 
system, patterns, tape line, scissors, 
chalk and a variety of good-quality sew¬ 
ing material. If there are daughters in 
the family they should all be taught to 
assist the mother or sewing woman em¬ 
ployed so as to obtain a practical knowl¬ 
edge of the art of dressmaking. The 
plan of parceling out the work of a 
home among the daughters—one to do 
the milking, one the cooking, one the 
laundry work, and one to do the dress¬ 
making, is not commendable—all should 
be given practical lessons in dressmak¬ 
ing. 
How TO Make a Waist. —Lay pattern 
on lining crossways of the goods to avoid 
splitting. Pin pattern on and trace in 
every perforation. Cut and haste up lin¬ 
ing, commencing at top of darts and 
baste downward, keep tracing of each 
side together. Commence at the waist 
line and baste upward, and again at the 
waist line and baste downward, until 
the garment Is basted together, keeping 
the waist line straight to prevent the 
waist from being crooked. Fit lining to 
the form, pin the corrections on the 
form, remove and alter or take up the 
corrections. In tracing the corrections 
be careful to have each side to match. 
The next step is to take lining apart and 
lay on and cut the goods to match. Baste 
in all the tracings on the lining, then 
baste up as you did the lining; seam, 
press and fit again. Bind seams with 
seam binding. An important matter in 
the fit of a dress waist is in placing the 
whalebones. The whalebone should be 
a little fuller than the goods, so as to 
provide for expansion of the goods and 
avoid wrinkles. Cut lining for sleeves, 
trace in perforation, baste inside seam, 
lay flat on table, material upside down, 
pill the upper side of sleeve to under 
side, so the fullness will come to the 
elbow. Fit the lining and take up the 
corrections as before, and then take 
apart, lay on goods and cut; baste seam, 
press and fit again and sew in. 
The Skirt. —For a walking or rainy- 
day skirt use a five-gore pattern. Cut 
lining, baste, fit form, take up the cor¬ 
rections around hips and waist, and get 
correct measure for the band. Pin up 
one side right length around bottom. 
Remove, trace all corrections around top 
of skirt, run thread around bottom when 
pinned up. Take out pins and pin to¬ 
gether carefully and true. Trace around 
bottom where the basting is; secure 
right length nil around. Take apart and 
cut goods by lining. Baste up the out- 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use "Mrs.Wlns- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
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side like the lining, seam the outside, 
press and stitch on each side of seam as 
often as is conducive to the taste. Baste 
up the lining, seam and press; be care¬ 
ful that both are alike. Cut haircloth 
crossways six inches deep, sew together, 
bind at top, and place at bottom of skirt 
where marked for the length. I recom¬ 
mend hair cloth for bottom of skirt for 
the reason that it wears better and is 
lightweight. I fit the haircloth separate 
from the skirt, stitch the seams flat and 
bind at top to avoid the hair penetrating 
the goods. Then lay back on lining and 
tack it at every seam, and two or more 
times between each seam at top. If 
goods are flimsy, line with crinoline all 
the way through, but to make the flare 
stand out round the bottom, put light¬ 
weight linen canvas (linen color) about 
four inches wide around the flare at the 
bottom. Baste on the goods, turn up the 
hem over the hair cloth, baste down 
smooth and solid, press and stitch to 
suit fancy. Join the lining to outside 
by basting the seams together. Turn 
lining in round the bottom and fell it 
down, put on braid; press and put on 
band. Heavy goods will require no lin¬ 
ing. In that case the goods must be cut 
direct from pattern. These are the dis¬ 
tinct steps to be taken in making a suit. 
No one with a fair degree of skill need 
fail in practical home dressmaking by 
the pattern system. amoe m. long. 
When you write advertisers mention Th« 
It. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
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