1607. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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When Rice Reigns. 
Too many households know rice as a 
more or less satisfactory dessert, some¬ 
thing to be eaten on wash days and house¬ 
cleaning times with as much patience as 
possible. That it is a cheap commodity 
they will acknowledge, but there their 
interest ends, and 1 must confess that in 
mv opinion rice as it is usually cooked 
would be dear at any price. And right 
there is the trouble, few cooks take the 
trouble to learn the possibilities of rice 
when properly cooked. For Summer use 
especially it is an inexpensive and hygenic 
food, being one of the least heating of the 
cereals, and should be used more exten¬ 
sively than at present, as it would be if its 
preparation were better understood. As 
a vegetable it is superior to potatoes, for 
many stomachs, and especially is it more 
wholesome than the shriveled and sprout¬ 
ing variety that greets us in the early 
Spring. Serve a dish of snowy rice, light, 
dry and fluffy, with the roast and brown 
gravy, and see how the family like the 
change. To attain this result the rice 
should be of the large-grained variety, 
well washed through several waters. 
Throw it into rapidly boiling water, a 
gallon at least for a pint of rice, and 
salted in the proportion of one teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt to four quarts of water. Boil 
rapidly about 15 minutes, when it may be 
tested by rubbing a few grains between 
the fingers. Length of time for cooking 
depends much upon the quality of the 
rice, but from 15 to 20 minutes should 
be sufficient. When thoroughly done, but 
not mushy, drain off the water, and place 
the rice in the colander in an open oven 
to dry. Rice cooked in this way may also 
be used as a stuffing for any vegetables, 
or in any of the following delightful but 
little-known combinations. 
Rice Waffles.—One cupful cold cooked 
rice, warmed in a cupful of rich milk, to 
which add two tablespoonfuls of butter. 
Sift two teaspoonfuls of baking powder 
and a saltspoonful of salt with a pint of 
flour. When the rice is warm and freed 
from lumps, but not mashed, drop in two 
egg yolks and beat well. Beat the whites 
separately to a firm froth; beat the flour 
into the rice mixture, adding by degrees 
a cupful of either milk or water. Lightly 
fold in the stiffly beaten whites, and bake 
immediately in hot waffle irons. 
Rice Muffins.—Measure a pint of flour 
after sifting; add a teaspoonful of salt, 
a tablespoonful of sugar and two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of baking powder and sift thoroughly 
to mix. Then rub in a large tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter. Beat two eggs light and 
add them to a cup of milk; stir this info 
a cup of cold, cooked rice and add in the 
dry mixture and beat to a smooth batter. 
Pour into buttered gem pans or muffin 
rings, and bake in a quick oven for half 
an hour. 
Rice Snowballs.—One cupful of cold 
boiled rice, mixed with three tablespoon¬ 
fuls of sugar and one of melted button 
Form into balls and place them on a 
buttered baking tin in the oven for a few 
minutes; do not let them brown. Make 
a meringue with the whites of three eggs 
and six tablespoon fills of powdered sugar, 
and cover the balls with this; put back 
in the oven to color a delicate brown. To 
be served with any fruit dessert or 
compote. 
Rice Rolls.—Moisten cold boiled rice 
with a little milk, and stir in enough white 
flour to make a stiff dough. Knead on a 
molding board and roll.out about half an 
inch thick, cut in finger lengths one and 
one-half inch wide. Lay in a floured pan 
and bake in a quick oven. 
Rice Croquettes.—One cupful cold boiled 
rice, one egg well beaten; thicken with 
cracker crumbs and season well. Form 
into croquettes, roll in beaten egg and 
cracker crumbs and fry in hot deep lard. 
Rice Pancakes.—Two cupfuls cold, 
cooked rice, one pint flour, a teaspoonful 
sugar, half teaspoonful salt, 1J4 teaspoon¬ 
ful baking powder, one egg, a half pint 
of milk. Sift together flour, sugar, salt 
and baking powder, add rice freed from 
lumps, diluted with beaten egg and milk. 
Mix into smooth batter, and fry as other 
cakes. 
Baked Rice.—Wash a cupful of raw 
rice. Take one cupful of beef broth, 
strain and add two cups boiling water 
with a little salt. Add the rice and cook 
slowly until it has taken up all the water 
and is soft. Pour in a large cupful of hot 
milk, in which have been mixed two well- 
beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls grated 
cheese, and a tablespoonful of butter. Stir 
up well; add one scant cupful of minced 
veal and ham and turn into a greased 
mold. Cover and bake one' hour in a 
dripping pan of hot water, dip in cold 
water and invert upon a flat dish. 
MAUDE E. SMITH HYMERS. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
We went to a service in the old Luth¬ 
eran church one day in Spring (Auntie 
and the boys of course are the “we”), 
and nothing that was said by the preach¬ 
er interested me half so much as a notice 
he read at the close. It was simply this: 
“The ladies of the ‘Do Good Society’ 
will be in the basement of this church 
every Tuesday evening to receive flowers 
that may be donated for the sick poor.” 
On our way home Grant said to me: 
'“Auntie, can’t we grow some flowers for 
the sick?” and so we planned and worked 
to raise some plants that could give 
fragrance and comfort where needed. 
Mignonette and pansies blossomed for us, 
and sweet peas have done well. I found 
out long ago that if you sow your Aster 
seed out of doors in May it will bloom 
till October, while the plants raised in a 
hotbed are spent by September. Succes¬ 
sive sowings of mignonette have kept us 
with plenty of this odorous if homely 
flower, and now the Verbenas are added 
to the collection. We gather the flowers 
after sunset and have them in a pan of 
water in the cellar all night, when they 
are in a proper condition to convey their 
message the next morning. 
When Brother knew that I had given 
away a hen and chickens he laughed, and 
said that Jonas wouldn’t thank me for 
sending extra scratchers to spoil his gar¬ 
den. But I must differ from him in that; 
from close observation I have decided 
that an old staid hen with a small flock 
of chickens will do a great deal of good 
that compensates for the mischief they 
manage to accomplish. It is quite funny 
to watch them in a field where the plow 
turns up white or gray grubs, how the 
little, things squabble and fight like 
humans for the fat morsel, and usually 
the strongest wins. By the time the 
young cockerels are ready for the hotel 
as broilers the hen returns to her legiti¬ 
mate business and the little pullets pick 
up a living if they get a feed of grain in 
the afternoon. They are good company 
for lonely souls, interesting and useful, 
with an instinct that causes one to wonder. 
A neighbor who lives three or four 
farms away came over with her fancy 
work the other day just when I wanted 
to can some beans for next Winter. 
“Minty” was away with little Theo, and 
I had to sit and listen to her complaints 
of her husband and children, and how she 
has to work too hard, and how often he 
upbraids her for lack of method. “But 
you can’t keep things regular in a farm¬ 
house, can you, Charity?” she asked. Ques¬ 
tioned so direct, I could not do less than 
answer that it was possible if the princi¬ 
pal parties thought so. But I agreed that 
rsen are often very thoughtless and seem 
to fancy one time will do as well as an¬ 
other, often being irregular with milking 
and with meals, that causes extra work 
by the delay. But I said we are not me¬ 
thodical and seldom measure out the time 
we have to spare for each duty. So 
things get crowded out; that frets us, and 
we get into breathless haste that uses up 
our nervous energy. We fail to plan our 
work, and that is where these schools of 
domestic science will do good, for they 
teach girls the best methods of doing sim¬ 
ple thing, so as to combine rest and rec¬ 
reation with the necessary daily labor. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
With the Procession. 
The greatest thing in all the world 
Is knowing how to laugh. 
Let cheerfulness support you and 
Have this for epitaph: 
“He rarely had a dollar, so 
Could never live in style, 
But he sang to greet the morning and 
Would always wear a smile.’’ 
—Birmingham Age-Herald. 
Who rises from prayer a better man, 
his prayer is answered.—George Mere¬ 
dith. 
We are always in these days endeavor¬ 
ing to separate intellect and manual labor ; 
we want one man to be always thinking, 
and another to be always working, and 
we call one a gentleman and the other 
an operative; whereas the workman ought 
often to be thinking and the thinker often 
to be working, and both should be gentle¬ 
men in the best sense. As it is, we make 
both ungentle, the one envying, the other 
despising his brother, and the mass of 
society is made up of morbid thinkers 
and miserable workers!—John Ruskin. 
We cannot live a self-centered life 
without feeling that we are missing the 
true glory of life. We are made for so¬ 
cial intercourse, if only that the highest 
qualities of our nature might have an 
opportunity for development. It is a sin 
against ourselve to let our affections 
wither. Our hearts demand love, as truly 
as our bodies demand food. To be for 
ourselves' puts the world against us. 
Stinted affections dwarf the whole man. 
We live by admiration, hope and love, 
and these can be developed only in the 
social life.—Hugh Black. 
Crowded cities, congested population 
mean high prices for food and poor liv¬ 
ing for a large per cent of the people. 
The larger cities present a darker side. 
The thief, the thug, the murderer, the 
assassin, the butcher of women and slayer 
of little girls, the anarchist, the Black 
Hand, the Mafia, the vendetta and all the 
organized forces of disorder and enemies 
of law find haven in the hideous piles of 
brick and mortar that cover acres and 
miles of ground. It is there that the 
enemies of freedom and government 
breed, and it is from such hotbeds of 
crime and disorder that foes against 
American institutions will rise—to be put 
down by the man who lives in the whole¬ 
some air and freedom of the farm and 
village and smaller cities—the saving 
grace and power of the nation.—Nashville 
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Keeping Out Flies. —I want to tell 
your readers about a little device that 
has proved very helpful to me, in keep¬ 
ing flies out of the house. I take an old 
window shade if I have one, if not strong 
wrapping paper will do. Have the shade 
or paper as long as the door is wide, and 
about sixteen inches wide after it is folded 
through the center lengthwise, then slash 
it to within two inches of the fold. The 
strips when slashed should be two inches 
wide. Tack the folded edge acros the top 
of the door. A very gentle breeze will 
keep the strips in motion and prevent the 
flies from settling on the door ready to 
come in when the door is opened. 
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