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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Making Beef Tender. 
Is there any known reeipa for rendering 
beef from an old cow tender and palatable 
when served ? 
If, when making custard or pumpkin pie, 
the crust is composed of equal parts cold 
water and unsalted butter or lard mixed with 
sufficient flour to handle, and after placing 
in the pie tin it is spread liberally with the 
unsalted shortening before putting in the 
filling, the crust will not be “soggy” as is 
usually the case with pies of this and 
similar kinds. Of course the pie must be 
eaten while newly made or the best of crust 
will become heavy with the moist filling. 
Michigan. a. a. b. 
All meat grows more tender with keep¬ 
ing; even the best of beef is likely to be 
E208 Tucked Blouse Waist, 32 to 40 bust. 
tough when freshly killed. Hang in a 
dry, cool place, and it will keep without 
taint for weeks in Winter. The tropical 
cook, whose meat must be cooked when 
freshly killed, rubs it with the fruit or 
leaves of the papaw, Carica Papaya, an 
arborescent member of the Passionflower 
family (not the same as the American 
papaw, Asimina triloba), which has the 
properties of a vegetable pepsin. This is 
not within reach of the American house¬ 
wife, but she may use vinegar instead. 
To soften a tough steak pour a few 
spoonfuls of vinegar, or vinegar and oil 
mixed, over it, and allow it to stand 12 to 
24 hours turning occasionally. A tough 
piece of meat may be laid in vinegar (not 
too strong) for three or four days in 
Summer, or twice as long in Winter. Oil 
or spices may be added to the vinegar 
if desired, this bath being termed a mar¬ 
inade. Tough meat should receive long 
621 'd Three Piece Cl rcula! Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist- 
gentle cooking, preferably in an enclosed 
vessel which will prevent evaporation of 
juices. Such beef should not be treated 
like a tender rib roast; it would better be 
braised (pot roast) or cooked as beef a 
la mode. The marinade will be found 
desirable when the meat is cooked in this 
way. If stewed, the same system of pro¬ 
longed gentle cooking (preferably in an 
earthen stewpan or casserole) should be 
employed. Most housekeepers have a fa¬ 
vorite recipe for beef a la mode or beef 
stew; the following recipe from Mrs. 
Rorer will be a pleasant change, and is 
satisfactory when the meat is suspected 
of toughness. 
Spiced Beef.—Four pounds of beef 
round or shoulder; >2 teaspoonful salt; 
a dash of cayenne; two bay leaves; 14 
teaspoonful cloves; one teaspoonful all¬ 
spice; 14 teaspoonful mace; one onion; 
juice of one lemon; four tablespoonfuls of 
olive oil or butter. Mix the spices, salt 
and pepper together a-nd rub them well 
into the meat on all sides. Mix the lemon 
juice and oil or butter together, pour 
over the meat and let it stand in an earth¬ 
en vessel for 24 hours. Then put it with 
all its juices into a saucepan, add the 
onion and bay leaves, cover with boiling 
water, a-nd let it simmer for two hours. 
When done, take out the meat, and boil 
the liquid down to one pint. Brown a 
tablespoonful of butter in a frying pan, 
add a tablespoonful of flour, mix, and then 
add half a pint of the boiling liquid in 
which the meat was cooked; stir until it 
boils, season with Worcestershire sauce, 
and serve it with the beef. Mrs. Bertha 
Dahl Laws, addressing a women’s insti¬ 
tute in Canada, gives the following meth¬ 
od of cooking an inferior cut of meat: 
“I can buy a piece of meat, four to six 
pounds, for thirty cents, with hardly any 
bone. I tie it up in a solid chunk, and 
pour over it one cup of water and a half 
cup of vinegar, which are boiling hot, 
and let it stand over night. In the morn¬ 
ing pour off the vinegar (which may be 
put in a bottle for use again), wipe, dust 
with flour, and fry quickly in salt pork 
fat until a crust has formed. Pour off the 
fat. and cover the meat with boiling hot 
water, and add seasoning. I believe in us¬ 
ing herbs—they are cheap and give a nice 
flavor. Onions are at once a medicine 
and a food. Do not let the meat boil; 
just simmer on the back part of the stove 
from four to six hours. By cooking this 
meat on wash days, ironing days, or bak¬ 
ing days, the question of fuel will be set¬ 
tled.” _ 
The Rural Patterns. 
The blouse that is made in lingerie 
style, the material being either thin silk 
or thin wool, makes one of the most at¬ 
tractive features of the Winter. This one 
is among the simplest and best of its kind 
and as illustrated is made of wool 
batiste with trimming of Valenciennes 
lace, but is quite appropriate for any of 
the materials mentioned and also for 
lawns and the like, which many women 
prefer throughout the entire year. Valen¬ 
ciennes lace is a favorite of the season, 
but Cluny also is much seen and almost 
every sort is correct, while again if lace 
is not desired any one of the pretty band¬ 
ings of the season will be found appro¬ 
priate. Tn addition to serving for the sep¬ 
arate blouse the waist will be found a 
most satisfactory one for the entire gown 
of cashmere, veiling and the simpler soft 
silks. The waist is made with a fitted lin¬ 
ing, which can be used or omitted as pre¬ 
ferred. fronts and back. The closing is 
made invisibly at the back. The quantity 
of material required for the medium size 
is 4 T 4 yards 21. 3 T 4 yards 27 or 2*4 yards 
44 inches wide, with fi r /2 yards of inser¬ 
tion. T he pattern 5208 is cut in sizes for 
a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust measure; 
price 10 cents. 
The circular skirt in all its variations is 
a pronounced favorite of the season. This 
one is among the newest and combines the 
circular portions with a narrow front 
gore, which is arranged to give the effect 
of a double box plait. This plait is 
stitched flat for a portion of its length, 
but falls free below. In the illustration 
the material is gray Venetian cloth 
trimmed with hands of the material 
stitched with silk and finished with point¬ 
ed ends, where ornamental buttons are at¬ 
tached, but all suiting and all skirting ma¬ 
terials are appropriate and the model will 
be found equally desirable for the long, 
skirt of dressy occasions and the short 
one of street wear. Braid applied after 
the manner of the bands would be effec¬ 
tive and plain cloth on rough makes one 
of the features of the season. The skirt 
is made in three pieces and can be laid 
in inverted plaits at the back or finished 
in habit style. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 7 vards 27. 
4 X A yards 44 or 4yards 52 inches wide, 
with 15 yards of banding to trim as illus¬ 
trated. The pattern 5213 is cut in sizes 
for a 22 ; 24, 26, 28 and 30 inch waist meas ¬ 
ure; price 10 cents. 
The Bookshelf. 
The Menace of Privilege, by Henry 
George, Jr. This book aims to show how 
privileges granted or sanctioned by gov¬ 
ernment underlie the social and political, 
mental and moral manifestations that ap¬ 
pear so ominous in the Republic. Mr. 
George does not write with the wealth 
of lurid invective that distinguishes Law¬ 
son’s arraignment of financial leaders; 
he marshals his facts with direct sim¬ 
plicity, strengthening his arguments by 
quotations from judicial rulings, court 
records, and State or national statistics. 
He calls the United States “the land of 
inequality,” which may be a shock to 
those who do not realize how far we have 
traveled from the social conditions of De 
Tocqueville’s time; he describes the rise 
of princes of privilege from small begin¬ 
nings to monumental fortunes, which over¬ 
shadow and corrupt the plainer virtues of 
the public conscience. The chapters on 
“Privilege the Corrupter of Politics” de¬ 
serve especially careful reading. While 
many will disagree with Mr. George’s 
views as to the cure of existing 
evils, any thoughtful person may gain 
a wider vision from their reading. 
Apart from its ethical import, we 
found the book extremely interesting 
reading. Published by the Macmillan 
Company, New York; price $1.50 net; 
postage 13 cents additional. 
Caros and Calendars. —The holiday 
season brings each year a new series of 
calendars, cards and booklets from 
Raphael Tuck & Sons Company, of New 
York and London. The work is striking 
and artistic, the lithography employed be¬ 
ing of a very high class, while the designs 
are always meritorious. The text is ex¬ 
cellent from a literary standpoint. Among 
this season’s calendars “Seed Time and 
Harvest” is particularly good; the series 
of American belles is striking and up- 
to-date, and “A Prairie Flower” gives an 
idealized Indian maiden in bold and at¬ 
tractive coloring. The cards and booklets 
show new effects in photogravure and 
embossing. This firm is a leader in il¬ 
lustrated postal cards, issuing hundreds 
of series, which possess solid educational 
value, in addition to their artistic beauty. 
Wiiat man is there that does not labor¬ 
iously, though all unconsciously, himself 
fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot 
of his life?—Maeterlinck. 
A great deal depends upon a man’s 
courage when he is slandered and tra¬ 
duced. Weak men are crushed by de¬ 
traction, but the brave hold on and suc¬ 
ceed.—H. S. Stevens. 
We often distress ourselves greatly in 
the apprehension of misfortune which, 
after all, never happens at all. We 
should do our best, and wait calmly the 
result.—Lord Avebury. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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it. That is why persons 
with consumptive tenden¬ 
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strength enough to check 
the progress of the dis¬ 
ease. 
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