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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 3, 
Noodles in Various Forms. 
When a hearty supper dish is wanted 
noodles, served in any one of various 
ways, will fill the bill to perfection, while 
as an addition to soup they are delicious 
at any time. Some people use a little 
water in mixing the dough, while others 
use milk; but the real German noodle, 
which is the best of all, is made without 
either. To make them: Beat an egg 
slightly, but not until it foams; salt it to 
season the dough, and then work in all 
the flour the egg can be made to take up. 
Take the dough on to the board and 
knead in flour until it is stiff and smooth, 
then roll out as thin as possible. Let the 
sheet of dough dry for a while, but roll 
it into a roll like a jelly roll before it 
gets dry enough to break when rolled; 
slice from the end, and shake into strings, 
'['lie thinner the dough is rolled, and the 
finer it is cut the better the noodles are. 
\ very thin, sharp knife makes the work 
of cutting much easier and insures much 
finer noodles. The directions given call 
for one egg as a basis, but the method of 
making is exactly the same if six, or a 
dozen eggs are used. Three medium¬ 
sized eggs will make a sheet of dough 20 
inches square if properly rolled out, and 
will be enough for a family of six or 
eight hungry people. When dry enough 
to roll and cut the noodles arc dry enough 
to cook, but they may be kept for hours, 
or days, after they are cut. This fact 
permits making them in the morning, for 
use at supper time, or a day in advance 
of the advent of the thrashers, butchers, 
or others whose coming means hurried 
work. 
A few noodles in a soup are fine, but 
for a “hearty” dish take just enough of 
any good stock that the noodles will fill 
it after they are swelled by cooking. The 
flour which adheres to the dough will 
thicken the little stock left until it will 
be like a creamy dressing on the noodles. 
Have the stock boiling when the noodles 
are dropped in (a few at a time) and lift 
them occasionally to keep them from 
forming into a lump. If cut fine they will 
cook in 10 minutes, but if net very fine 
allow 15 or 20 minutes for the cooking. 
Another good way to serve noodles is to 
cook them in salted water for 10 minutes; 
lift out and drain, and saute in hot butter. 
To make a delicious pudding, cook the 
noodles in salted water, as above, and 
drain. Rub a tablespoonful, each, of 
butter and sugar with a few blanched and 
chopped almonds. Mix these with the 
noodles and add a scant cupful of sweet 
cream. Rake and serve with a hard sauce. 
Noodles are commonly served in a meat 
soup, but are delicious in a tomato soup. 
Boil a quart of tomatoes and a quart of 
water together; strain and add a half¬ 
teaspoonful of soda. Bring to boiling 
heat again; season; add a generous lump 
of butter and as many noodles as wanted, 
and cook 10 minutes. Add a quart of hot 
milk and serve at once. Certain things 
called by different names are in reality 
noodles fried in deep fat. To make 
“varieties” the dough is made like the 
noodle already described with the one ex¬ 
ception, that the eggs are well beaten 
before adding the flour. When the dough 
is rolled into the thin sheet it is cut 
into strips an inch wide by four inches 
long and wound around the finger, then 
slipped off and the “curl” fried to a 
delicate brown in hot lard. A recipe de¬ 
scribes “vanities” as made from exactly 
the same kind of dough but simply cut 
into squares, circles, hearts or other 
shapes and fried. A different dough is 
made by grating a dozen boiled potatoes 
(of medium size) and adding two beaten 
eggs; salt to taste; half a cup of milk, 
and flour to knead stiff. Cut off small 
pieces and roll into pencils an inch thick. 
Fry in deep fat. eva ryman-gaillard. 
A Possible Living. 
Two unmarried women, who were cous¬ 
ins and took in sewing for a living, moved 
into a small cottage not far off, to which 
was attached half an acre of small wood, 
with a strip of pasture that was enough 
for a horse and cow. and half an acre 
of land that sloped down to the river. It 
had been turned over the previous Spring, 
and planted in corn and potatoes, so that 
it was in good order for gardening, and 
the new occupants, who had saved a little 
money to pay down for the place, wanted 
to make it profitable by growing vegeta¬ 
bles for their own table, selling the sur¬ 
plus to the storekeepers. 
It is not every country town where 
such things are salable, but there had been 
a boom in Summer boarders, and a new 
hotel had been built for transients. So 
Doris Grey and Agnes May Laird made 
up their minds that their pleasure and 
recreation was to be in working the gar¬ 
den, with the praiseworthy object of free¬ 
ing their little home from debt. A man 
who lived near by undertook the care of 
the horse and cow for a consideration, and 
made up the land into sections, after 
plowing, with wide paths that led to the 
river, which was convenient for watering 
in a time of drought. 
Of course disappointing experiences 
of neighbors were given unsolicited, but 
they were not discouraged; the land was 
in good heart, and a few loads of manure 
purchased from the livery stable made a 
rich strawberry bed for the newly-set 
plants, and a hotbed in which to grow to¬ 
mato and cauliflower plants. O the an¬ 
ticipation that goes in with the seed every 
Springtime, and sometimes it resembles 
Government donations that “never grow!” 
Sweet corn (Early Minnesota), Won¬ 
der peas that need no staking, beets 
(Round Egyptian) ; Half-long carrots, 
easy to pull and solid; Wethersfield 
onions and a few late turnips on the 
ground where the peas had grown, made 
up the vegetable list for the first year ; 
the tomatoes and cauliflower were twice 
transplanted, and set out in rich ground 
at the end of May. Cheap, light baskets 
were bought, and the storekeepers pur¬ 
chased all that could be grown of these. 
But it was with sweet peas and migno- 
lette that Doris Grey made her finan- 
:ial success. Taking a half ridge that 
:ame out along the fence side, she bought 
half a pound of mixed seed of the best 
varieties, and a few packets of novelties. 
A double row was made a foot apart and 
the seed sown, while in front was put in 
several ounces of mignonette. Stakes 
were set at even distances, and fine wire 
stretched the length of the row support¬ 
ed on a notch in each post. It was work 
the women could attend to, and they hoed 
and weeded faithfully, training the tender 
young tendrils of the peas up the wires, 
and the mignonette to make an even bor¬ 
der along the path. By the middle of 
July the first bunches of flowers were 
sent to the hotel and found ready pur¬ 
chasers, and until frost came there was 
no lack of flowers to sell or give away. 
Rather thick pink cord was used in tying, 
and care was taken to blend the colors of 
the peas to make each bunch harmonize. 
At the close of the season it was found 
that the flowers had paid for the hired 
help and for all the seeds sown in the 
garden, leaving the vegetables as clear 
profit. There are to be improvements 
made this coming Spring, for a few apple 
.and plum trees will be set out, and the 
bed of Marshall strawberry plants are ex¬ 
pected to give some return for the weed¬ 
ing that they received last year. The peas 
are to be planted on the other side of the 
garden, for it is not wise to plant them 
two years on the same ground, and so a 
fresh piece of land will be worked for 
them, and more care given to their cul¬ 
ture. 
Some of the hotel guests asked for 
roses, and Doris will purchase a few Tea 
roses, and set them out to supply the 
demand. There is nothing so good for 
the roots of roses as the soil that has 
been an old pasture, and so there are 
great expectations in regard to the qual¬ 
ity and quantity of the new venture. Ag¬ 
nes May made a specialty of salads and 
herbs, as there was a demand for early 
lettuce and radishes, with the thinnings 
of the onion bed tied up into bunches. 
Garden cress was in demand after the first 
taste for sandwiches with the lettuce, and 
it grew quickly and in small space. The 
girls are in better health than when they 
began to garden last Spring, and are 
obliged to refuse some sewing for the 
Spring, because the garden work has be¬ 
come so much more interesting and keeps 
they out of doors. 
“We only sew in the middle of the day 
in Summer,” said Agnes May to a cus¬ 
tomer, “for mornings and evenings we 
are both out in the garden. All the flow¬ 
ers are cut at night after the sun goes 
down, and kept in the cellar in cold water, 
ready to tie up very early in the morn¬ 
ing. This is one of the reasons our 
flowers are recommended as not wilting, 
and we do the same with parsley and 
lettuce, so that it does not look flabby 
when it gets to the store.” 
Already the catalogues are being studied 
and plans made to fill each garden space. 
The man is at work repairing tools in 
odd hours, so as to be quite ready when 
the season opens. Altogether the women’s 
garden has been so far a success, and even 
with less land and more intensive farm¬ 
ing, it is possible to make a living from 
the land if managed with willing labor, 
intelligence and perseverance. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
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