1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
495 
Suggestions in Bread. 
Spider Corn Cake (Miss Parloa).—Mix 
together one and two-thirds cups corn- 
meal, one-third cup flour, one-fourth cup 
sugar, one teaspoon of salt and a scant 
teaspoon of soda. Beat two eggs till light, 
add one cup sour milk (sour cream or 
buttermilk is richer) and one of sweet 
milk, and stir into the dry ingredients. 
Mix thoroughly and pour into a frying 
pan, in which one-fourth cup of butter has 
been melted. Tip the pan (first) from 
side to side to oil evenly with the butter. 
Bake about half an hour. 
Sour Cream Biscuit.—Pass through a 
sieve two cups of flour, three teaspoonfuls 
of baking powder, and half a teaspoonful 
of salt. With the tips of the fingers work 
in two or three tablespoonfuls of butter. 
Beat a scant half a teaspoonful of soda’ 
into a cup of thick sour cream, and use in 
mixing the dry ingredients into a dough 
of such a consistency that it will take up 
all particles from the inside of the bowl. 
Turn on to a floured board, work on the 
board with a knife, to flour the outside 
slightly, then pat and roll into a sheet an 
inch thick. Cut into rounds, and bake 
about 25 minutes. 
Mercier Rolls (Chicago Record).-—Boil 
one-half pint milk and one-half pint of 
water, with one tablespoon lard, one 
tablespoonful butter. Cool and add one- 
half cake of compressed yeast, dissolved 
in milk. Add to the above one pint of 
flour, one tablespoon sugar, one teaspoon 
salt. Beat well. Add one more pint of 
flour. Let rise in one loaf over night. 
In morning make into rolls three inches 
long and one and one-half inch wide. 
Make thin, let rise, wash in melted butter; 
bake 10 minutes. 
English Muffins.—Dissolve half of a 
compressed yeast cake in six tablespoon¬ 
fuls of lukewarm water. Have a pint of 
milk scalding hot and stir into it a heaping 
teaspoonful of lard. Beil until the lard is 
dissolved, then take from the fire and, 
when the milk is blood warm, stir it grad¬ 
ually into a pint of flour that has been 
sifted with two saltspoonfuls of salt. 
When the milk is all worked in, add the 
dissolved yeast cake, and blend thorough¬ 
ly. Turn the batter into a bread raiser 
and set to rise in a moderately warm room 
for six or eight hours, or until light. 
When light, turn the mass out upon a 
floured pastry board and break off bits of 
the dough, having them of uniform size, 
and each about as large as an ordinary 
tea biscuit. Handle very lightly, and roll 
each muffin in flour. Have a soapstone 
griddle thoroughly heated and lay these 
muffins upon it. Bake them without touch¬ 
ing until they swell to twice their original 
size. When brown on the under side lift 
carefully and turn. When the other side 
is baked to a delicate brown, the muffins 
are done. When ready to use, tear them 
open, toast and butter generously. 
Spoon Corn Bread.—Put a quart of 
milk, or half milk and half water, in a 
double boiler. Add four large kitchen 
spoonfuls of white cornmeal, and stir and 
cook five minutes. Remove from the fire 
and let it cool, stirring it once or twice as 
it cools. Then add two or three eggs 
beaten with two tablespoonfuls of wheat 
flour, one tablespoonful of butter and a 
scant teaspoonful of salt. Mix well, then 
pour into a greased baking dish, and bake 
35 minutes. Serve immediately in dish in 
which it is baked, with a folded napkin 
wrapped around the dish. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
Some of the girls call me mercenary 
because I try to make a little pocket 
money in various ways. I didn’t know 
about it till lately, for we seldom hear 
what people really say about us, in their 
general opinion, or rather from their 
point of view. So when Ada Lucas was 
telling me that she hadn’t a dollar to call 
her own, and wanted one to give to some 
church mission, I said: “Your brother 
Jimmy has a lot of pop corn; why don’t 
you buy it, or go shares with him, and 
make pop corn balls to sell to the stores 
and to the hotel? There’s money in it,” 
and to my surprise she said: “O yes, 
Charity, you think about nothing but how 
you can turn everything into money.” 
That is the reward people generally get 
for giving advice, but was quite unex¬ 
pected, and I found that I was supposed 
to be making a lot of money, and thought 
of nothing else. But, really, it goes near¬ 
ly as fast as it comes, and yet there is a 
pleasure in having it, and I only speak 
of these things so that other girls may 
have the same feeling of independence. 
It isn’t a pleasant feeling to have to ask 
for every five cents one needs, and there 
are so many things about a farm that can 
be turned into money it seems a pity co 
have them go to waste, and yet there is a 
bitter drop in being thought mercenary. 
Tf one could only get along without mind¬ 
ing what people say about us it would be 
easier, but I sometimes think it was these 
11 11 J tllf* 
Bible where it says “The Lord thy God 
shall send the hornet.” 
llow' the Summer flies along! I hardly 
know where May ended and June began, 
but the roses have begun to fade, and in 
spite of all I could do the leaves were 
destroyed by the mischievous insects, 
though tobacco water was applied till the 
roses smelled of it. In one corner of the 
garden there is a large patch of lily of 
the valley. I sent a few sprays of it to 
the hotel with some cream Brother had 
an order for, and a note came back offer¬ 
ing 75 cents per hundred for the flowers 
picked with buds still on the tops of each 
spray and plenty of leaves with them. 
So every evening for a week 1 worked 
late gathering them, and placing in water 
over night, packing in the morning with 
damp paper outside the leaves, and in 
cardboard boxes. It well repaid me for 
the trouble, and many girls in quiet 
homes near Summer resorts could do the 
same. The half-shaded places of the 
garden where other things do not thrive 
well will suit this flower, and it is gen- 
6361 Girl’s Dress, 
6 to 12 years. 
erally beloved and sought after when in 
season. 
Minty and the baby are thriving, and 
the little dimpled thing already seems to 
take notice, and we are happier since she 
came, realizing that “a babe in the house 
is a wellspring of pleasure.” 
The boys have taken to gardening, and 
I gave them each a vegetable to grow. 
Cleveland chose beans, and Grant toma¬ 
toes, while Sherman wanted to grow corn. 
They have become tainted with the com¬ 
mercial spirit too, and are anxious to sell 
what we do not use. I am growing a 
patch of onions, and if they turn out 
salable, shall devote the money towards 
buying a bread mixer, for after being en¬ 
dorsed by The R. N.-Y. it seems a neces¬ 
sity. When a woman can buy these little 
labor-saving articles with her pocket 
money it gives a certain satisfaction and 
independence. This age of the world 
seems to call for everything that will 
lessen labor and save time; perhaps it 
may not be any better for us than the 
methods of our grandmothers, but it is 
as different as a Japanese morning-glory 
is from the simple and innocent-looking 
blue and white “glories” of our child¬ 
hood. I sowed a packet of the Japanese 
variety, and they are already coming into 
bloom, transplanted from pots that stood 
in the kitchen window. Such a variety 
of coloring! and such beautiful shading 
in the large deep flowers. We do not 
often stop to think how much we are in¬ 
debted to Japan for our choicest and 
hardiest shrubs, and many beautiful 
flowers, but the Winter has been very 
severe on the Japan lily that I purchased 
two years ago. Not a vestige is to be 
seen, and Brother decides that it was not 
planted deep enough. At any rate, its 
loss is one of the season’s disappoint¬ 
ments. CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The sailor suit is always a practical 
style. As figured, the suit consists of the 
blouse, the skirt and the body portion. 
The body portion is smoothly fitted and 
faced to form the shield, and the skirt is 
attached to its lower edge, the two being 
closed at the back, while the blouse is 
closed at the left of the front, beneath 
the tuck, and the lower edge is drawn up 
by means of elastic inserted in the hem. 
The sleeves are the latest ones that are 
tucked at the wrists. The quantity ot 
material required for the medium size (10 
years) is 614 yards 27. 4(4 yards 36 or 
3^4 yards 44 inches wide with % yard 
36 inches wide for the body portion. The 
pattern 5349 is cut in sizes for girls of 
6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age; price 10 
cents. 
Such a simple, prettv little frock as 
No. 5361 is sure to find its welcome. As 
illustrated it is made with the slightly 
open neck and elbow sleeves, but a yoke 
and deep cuffs can be easily added. The 
double sleeves are novel and attractive 
and the whole design is marked by indi¬ 
viduality. In the illustration it is made 
of pale blue French gingham with trim¬ 
ming of a simple banding. It is. however, 
appropriate for wool materials as well 
as for the washable ones as it can be 
lined or unlined. The dress consists of 
the body lining, which is optional, the 
front and the backs. These last are 
tucked from the shoulders and are fitted 
by means of shoulder and under-arm 
seams. The undersleeves are simply puffs 
while the over ones are slashed at their 
outer portions. The skirt is five gored, 
laid in plaits at back and front, and gath- 
jered at the sides. -The quantity of mate¬ 
rial required for the medium size (10 
years) is 5 yards 27, 4(4 yards 36 or 3% 
yards 44 inches wide with 2 yards of in¬ 
sertion and Vs yard 18 inches wide for 
the chemisette and cuffs when these are 
used. The pattern 5361 is cut in sizes 
'for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age, 
price 10 cents. 
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