1905. 
470 
Frozen Desserts. 
Strawberry Ice Cream.—Mash and 
strain through cloth the contents of two 
baskets of very ripe strawberries; stir in 
two cupfuls of sugar. Cook one quart of 
milk in a double boiler and while hot 
stir in two spoonfuls of cornstarch dis¬ 
solved in a little cold milk; add the 
beaten yolks of six eo-^s with a cupful of 
sugar, cook for three minutes; remove 
from the fire i pour over the beaten 
whites of the eggs; strain and add to it 
one cupful of whipped cream. As soon 
as the mixture begins to freeze, remove 
the cover and turn in the berry juice. 
Strawberry Parfait.—Boil three-fourths 
cupful of sugar, one-fourth cupful of 
water; pour on to two stiffly beaten whites 
of eggs and beat until foamy and cold, 
then fold in one cupful strawberry pulp 
cooked thick with one-half cupful sugar; 
add one pint cream whipped until solid, 
one teaspoonful of rose extract; turn into 
ice cream mold and cover securely with 
oiled paper and the cover; pack for three 
hours in equal quantities of salt and 
crushed ice. When unmolded garnish 
with fresh unhulled berries. 
Raspberry Granite.—Boil a quart of 
water and one pint of sugar together for 
20 minutes, then add the juice of three 
lemons and the juice of two quarts of 
red raspberries. Set away to cool. When 
quite cool pack into a freezer as for 
cream, throw a blanket over it and set 
away in a cool place. After an hour 
scrape the frozen mixture from the sides 
of the can; do not beat, as you want the 
frozen mixture to be granulated, not 
creamy. It will require about an hour 
and a half to freeze the dish. Just before 
serving stir in the third quart of berries 
and serve. These ingredients will make 
two quarts of granite. 
Raspberry Ice Cream.—Cover two 
rounding tablespoonfuls of gelatine with 
cold water, and let soak for half an hour. 
Mash one quart of ripe berries with a 
pound of sugar and let stand for an hour, 
stirring often. Strain and press, add to 
the gelatine with a pint of whipped cream 
and freeze. Or mix well and place in a 
mold to harden. 
Raspberry Water Ice.—Wash thorough¬ 
ly a quart of very ripe berries, red ones 
preferred, put in a bowl with a cupful and 
a half of sugar; mash and let stand until 
the juice is all released; strain; add a 
quart of ice water and the juice of two 
lemons; freeze. 
Cream of Peach Sherbet.—Put one 
quart of rich milk in a double boiler over 
the fire, add a cupful of granulated sugar 
and stir until dissolved; cook 10 min¬ 
utes, then set aside to cool. Put suffi¬ 
cient quantity of peaches through a vege¬ 
table press or coarse sieve to make one 
pint of pulp; add the cold milk and flavor 
with a little almond or a few pounded 
peach kernels. Freeze same as sherbets. 
More About Washing. 
Mrs. Frederick C. Johnson, whose arti¬ 
cle, “Notes from My Kitchen,” appeared 
recently in The R. N.-Y., is to be con¬ 
gratulated upon her remarks concerning 
washing—not her method—but the fact 
that she has been willing to experiment 
with various processes whereby soiled 
and useless garments are converted into 
wholesome utility. There is too wide a 
variance between family washings and 
laundry conveniences for housekeepers to 
become agreed upon a laundry process, 
and the great variety of soaps, powders 
and fluids, also washing machines, all help 
to increase and multiply the methods of 
extracting soil from woven material. But 
every housekeeper must adapt herself to 
some one method, and it is each one’s 
duty to herself (not to the washing) to 
experiment with methods and laundry 
aids, until she is convinced that she has 
a process adapted to herself and her 
household conveniences—to her strength 
and good judgment. 
The weekly washing is the most burden¬ 
some of all the household duties; for it 
cannot be slighted, neither can it be neg¬ 
lected, for then it just grows and grows 
until it becomes a veritable monstrosity. 
And yet it is surprising how little thought 
is given the subject of laundry conveni¬ 
ences in building and repairing farm¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
houses. The woman who goes out of 
doors for water, down cellar for tubs, into 
the woodshed for the washbench, in brief, 
here and there to collect her laundry im¬ 
plements, works under a great disadvan¬ 
tage as compared to the woman who has 
stationary tubs, hot water by turning a 
faucet, and empty tubs by pulling a stop¬ 
per, and no disarrangement of her kitchen 
by a collection of unusual utensils. Sta¬ 
tionary washtubs usually are found with 
a water and sewer system, but not neces¬ 
sarily so; although the stationary tub 
does call for a reliable drain to carry off 
the water. Stationary tubs and good 
drains cost money, and so do bay win¬ 
dows, sliding or folding doors, stuffed 
furniture and many other objects about 
the house, both useful and ornamental. 
But what would a stationary washbench 
cost, located underneath a kitchen win¬ 
dow, roomy in width, and long enough 
for two if not three medium-sized tubs, 
enclosed underneath a laundry closet, a 
place for the washboiler, washboard, 
wringer, clothes-line, pins, bluing, soap 
and starch? 
There are several washing machines 
which take the place of at least one sta¬ 
tionary tub, but housewives differ in opin¬ 
ion as to the helpfulness of even the most 
up-to-date washing invention; and they 
will continue to differ while badly soiled 
garments require special attention—hard 
rubbing. It hardly seems possible for 
varied opinions to exist as to the conveni¬ 
ence of a stationary washbench or a 
laundry closet, and there are several laun¬ 
dry hints, which may be termed as regu¬ 
lar “trump cards,” to utilize when in a 
state of laundry doubt, such as the treat¬ 
ment of stains. 
Stains are either of an animal, vegeta¬ 
ble or a mineral nature. Cold water, es¬ 
pecially soft water, is nature’s great sol¬ 
vent. Stains of an animal nature yield 
their animal substances to cold water, to 
cold or lukewarm soapsuds, and finally to 
boiling water. Cold water and lukewarm 
suds will not always remove the color¬ 
ing matter of animal stains, but such 
stains are never thereby rendered indeli¬ 
ble. Boiling water removes nearly all 
kinds of fruit and vegetable stains; but 
it sets stains of an animal nature, and 
also the coloring matter of some vegeta¬ 
ble substances, -such as cocoa, chocolate 
and coffee. Stains from freshly-made 
coffee usually yield to boiling water; but 
coffee spilled at the table contains sugar 
and more or less milk or cream, the 
same as cocoa and chocolate, and milk is 
an animal substance. All animal matter 
contains albumen in some degree. 1 he 
white of an egg is nearly all albumen— 
a sticky elastic substance, which thickens 
—cooks—with 120 degrees of heat. Boil¬ 
ing water represents 212 degrees of heat, 
and when applied to a vegetable sub¬ 
stance containing animal matter, the col¬ 
oring matter is held by the albumen, and 
both are cooked into the texture of woven 
material. The same may be said of 
flour mixtures, alone or combined with 
fruit or vegetables. All the grains con¬ 
tain gluten, which, if not chemically the 
same, is identical to albumen as found 
in animal substances. Ink stains yield to 
cold, sweet, skimmed milk; printer’s ink, 
and also machine oil yield to cold water 
and soap. In short, when in a state of 
doubt, it is always safe to use cold water 
for an unusual or a cooked food stain. 
Iron rust is the most common mineral 
stain to trouble housewives, but that is 
usually avoided with good and well-cared- 
for laundry implements, although it has 
been asserted with a degree of authority, 
that soaps and mineral bluings contain 
substances which unite chemically and 
yield a result, which will cause spots the 
same as iron rust spots. To avoid such 
a possibility, the washing should be free 
from soapsuds before bluing, or the blu¬ 
ing omitted. From personal experience, 
lemon pulp can be commended for rust 
stains. With a large article, fold with the 
rust stains uppermost, and place in the 
strong rays of the sun (in warm wea- 
ther)j cover with lemon pulp and a piece 
of glass—window glass— and repeat until 
successful. For small pieces, dip in 
cold water, fold and lay on an earthen 
dish, cover with a clean white cloth also 
wet with cold water, with holes cut there¬ 
in exposing the rust spots, which cover 
w' h thick pieces of juicy lemon pulp, and 
place in a hot oven for a safe length 
of time—until the covering commences to 
dry. This process will leave a lemon- 
colored stain which will yield to boiling 
water. In using boiling water for a 
stain, place the material across the top 
of a deep dish, and pour a stream of 
boiling (boiling, not hot) water directly 
upon and through the stain. 
Aside from unusual and special stains, 
the family washing has to do with body 
soil, and earthy dirt. Dust and mud 
usually consist of a mixture of animal, 
vegetable and mineral matter. With the 
inside garment soil of an animal nature, 
and the outside soil of a mixed nature, 
it stands to reason that the housewife 
in a state of laundry doubt is quite sane 
and safe in putting her white cotton and 
linen washing a-soak over night in a 
strong lukewarm (more cold than warm) 
soapsuds, with soap rubbed on where 
especially needed, no matter what follows 
the next morning—rubbing and boiling, 
or boiling and then rubbing. There are 
compounds which are equal to all kinds 
of dirt and stains, and many a house¬ 
wife and laundry woman has thereby been 
able to do large washings by first boiling 
(stewing) the clothes before rubbing, 
or even soaking them. But the majority 
of women hesitate to use these aids 
through the belief that they injure the 
texture of goods; and then, with the 
small family, the bulk of the washing 
consists of wearing apparel, much of 
which usually requires special attention, 
consequently each housekeeper should be¬ 
come a laundry law unto herself. 
A word about making soapsuds with 
hard soap—have a soap-bag. The small 
salt bags are nice for soap-bags. Shave 
the soap and tie it in the soap-bag, drop 
into the boiler. No waiting for floating 
pieces of soap to dissolve; no soap stick¬ 
ing and burning to the bottom of the boil¬ 
er. Scraps of soap all utilized. When 
not in use, keep the soap-bag on an old 
saucer for future use. Never, never be 
without a soap-bag for making soapsuds 
for the laundry. With colored wash 
goods and blankets of cotton and wool, 
keep on the safe side, and at the first 
washing soak for one hour in strong, 
cold salt water. Only the striped borders 
of blankets need to be soaked, then wash 
as usual according to a well-tried method. 
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