1907 . 
467 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Homemade Health Foods. 
A friend in a nearby city has a large J 
sale for bran bread, the deputy county 
clerk being the first one to mention it, 
wishing for a loaf twice a week. She 
recommended it to others who lead a 
sedentary life, for its action on digestion. 
The following is the formula: One quart 
and a fourth of bran; one pint flour; one 
pint sour milk; one-helf pint New Or¬ 
leans molasses (which makes it sweeter 
than I like it) one teaspoonful soda; one- 
half teaspoonful salt. It is good either 
with .butter or in milk. 
Another excellent idea I have learned 
from some friends who make their own 
breakfast food, and it Is delicious. They 
have a coffee mill, kept on purpose for 
f rinding wheat. The wheat is looked 
. over, washed and dried, then ground 
coarse or finer as they desire, and the 
quantity they wish for one meal at a 
time. In my younger days I remember 
my father taking wheat to the mill and 
having it cracked. Mother used to steam 
it for hours, and what a delicious feast 
it was! I know no breakfast foods of the 
present time could equal it. 
Again in war time, 1861 to 1865, when 
coffee was so high, we browned barley 
and peas to use in its stead. Coffee not 
agreeing with me my husband got some 
peas not long ago, which when browned 
and an egg stirred in, could hardly be 
told from purchased coffee substitutes; 
we prefer it to them; still, it is not Java 
or Mocha, mrs. Frederick c. Johnson. 
Winter SuppltesWithout Cooking 
No good housewife ever has too many 
catsups in the Winter supply, for the rea¬ 
son that they arc so good for seasoning 
soups, salads, and various other dishes, 
as well as for serving with meats of all 
kinds. The long boiling, and much 
watching required in the making of the 
cooked sorts may all be done away with 
if one chooses with no loss to the qual¬ 
ity of the catsup. The following recipe 
has been tested year after year, with no 
failure, so it is given without hesitation 
to even the most inexperienced worker. 
Uncooked Tomato Catsup.—Peel and 
chop a peck of ripe tomatoes and hang fn 
bag, to drain for 24 hours. Add to the 
drained tomato four bunches of celery 
(chopped fine) and one large cupful of 
chopped onion. Mix the three vegetables 
thoroughly and then add one-fourth cup 
of salt; one-fourth cup sugar; two 
tablespoonfuls mustard seed; two table¬ 
spoonfuls ground cinnamon; one tea¬ 
spoonful ground allspice, and two large 
red peppers, chopped fine. Mix very thor¬ 
oughly ; cover with good cider vinegar, 
and put in self-sealing cans. The first 
year that I used the above recipe I opened 
a can of the catsup a few weeks after 
making and was so disgusted with the 
fresh, raw taste of the tomato that I 
emptied all but two cans of the stuff into 
a kettle; added a little more celery and 
sugar, and cooked it, with the result that 
I had a supply of perfectly delicious 
celery-sauce. Later in the season I 
opened one of the cans saved and found 
that the spices and other flavors had pene¬ 
trated the tomato and removed that raw 
taste. This experience is given for the 
benefit of any who may, like myself, dis¬ 
like the raw tomato. 
Cucumber Catsup.—Peel, and grate the 
solid meat of 50 large cucumbers (be¬ 
fore they begin to turn yellow) ; chop 15 
large onions and six green peppers. 
Put all in colander and let stand two or 
three hours to drain, then add six tea¬ 
spoonfuls of black pepper; eight tea¬ 
spoonfuls of salt, and three quarts of 
Strong vinegar. Mix thoroughly and put 
in air-tight cans or bottles. 
Ripe Cucumber Catsup.—(Some peo¬ 
ple call thin a “salad” but it is worth 
making under any name.) Peel 12 large, 
ripe cucumbers; remove seeds and pulp; 
chop the solid meat; mix with it a cupful 
of salt and hang in bag to drain. Giop 
12 large onions and six peppers and mix 
with the cucumber. Mix together one- 
fourth pound white mustard seed; one- 
half cupful celery seed, and one cupful of 
sugar. Mix all together; cover with cold 
vinegar; put in cans and fix tops firmly. 
The above, or any similar preparations 
should be kept in a dark, cool place. If 
the darkness is not available, wrap the 
cans with paper, eva ryman-gaillard. 
The Domestic Partnership. 
Where two people, a man and a woman, 
are associated together in the maintain¬ 
ing of a home, each one has his or her 
own problems to work out, and each is 
inclined to look only at one side. Some 
there may be who are so constituted that 
they cannot see but one side. Others who 
have broader minds and livelier imagina¬ 
tions, are able to see both sides, but to 
.actually experience both sides as I have 
done, is, I believe rather unusual. It 
has happened to me to be the man of the 
house, and also on occasion to be the 
housekeeper for weeks at a time. So I 
feel that I have unusual qualifications for 
presenting both sides of the case. 
Tt is often the little things that cause 
rouble. Your nice new gasoline engine 
may refuse to run some fine morning. 
It may take you hours to locate the trou¬ 
ble, but when it is found it may be some 
little thing that you can remedy in a few 
minutes._ _ With the domestic machine 
some trifling thing that could easily be 
avoided may eventually bring its days of 
usefulness to an end, or if not that, cause 
ic to drag and grind and clatter. Often¬ 
times a little oil on the bearings is all 
that is needed to make everything run 
smoothly. I don't set myself up .as an 
expert domestic machinist, but I do think 
I know a few of the bearings where the 
oil of tact, good temper and toleration 
needs to be applied to prevent friction and 
hot boxes. 
His Side. 
Far be it from me to consider Mary as 
a mere accessory to my comfort, or as 
simply a useful article of household fur¬ 
niture. She is ornamental as well—when 
she has her hair combed and a becoming 
diess on. But I realize, also, that she is 
a woman with a mind of her own, and 
with her own ideas of what she wants 
her life to be. Keeping this in mind all 
the time, and with a perfect willingness 
that she should have all the pleasures 
and recreation possible, I still think, con¬ 
sidering the partnership, and that we are 
supposed to share alike in both the bene¬ 
fits and responsibilities of it, that there are 
certain things I have a right to expect. 
Mary understands this as well as 1 do 
and I very seldom have any excuse for 
finding fault with her. 
Having meals on time and having them 
well cooked and enough of them, is one 
of the first duties a wife owes her hus¬ 
band. Now don’t think that I am one 
who care for nothing but eating, for I 
am not. Everybody knows that if fuel is 
not added to the fire, it will go out, and 
the faster it burns the sooner this hap¬ 
pens. Well, you take a farmer who works 
hard out of doors as I do, and when meal 
time comes his system cries out for fuel. 
A woman who works in the house all the 
forenoon, and especially if a good part of 
that work is in the preparation of food, 
has no conception of a farmer's appetite. 
In the early days of our partnership, 
Mary had a very delicate appetite. She 
cooked dainty things that tasted delicious 
but left an aching void in a man’s stom¬ 
ach. One day I thought I’d give her an 
object lesson, so I told her I wanted her 
to help me cultivate the potatoes, and we 
did up the housework together and then 
went out in the field. She led the horse, 
and every little while I’d have her stop, 
so as not to get too tired, and we’d hunt 
for Potato bugs. I kept this up for two 
hours, the outdoor air and the exercise 
doing their work for her. “Are you 
tired?” I asked when we got through. 
“No,” she answered, “but I am so hun¬ 
gry/” “So am I,” I said. She looked at 
me sharply. “You poor man!” she cried 
suddenly, “I never realized.” 
Well, it wasn’t but a little while after 
she had gone back into the house that I 
saw her run out and hail the butcher, 
and when I went in to dinner she had on 
the table an abundance of mashed pota¬ 
toes, juicy steak, hot johnny cake and 
hot gingerbread, with cold milk to drink. 
What is more, she did ample justice to 
the meal herself. She’s quick about see¬ 
ing through things, Mary is, and when 
we got up from the table, she said with a 
laugh, “I mean to go out of doors every 
day, John, so I can realize your appetite, 
but if I should forget and go to starving 
you again, just ask me to help you culti¬ 
vate, and that will remind me.” 
It isn’t such a lot of kinds of things a 
man wants, but a reasonable variety from 
day to day, and a plenty of a few things 
that are well cooked at each meal. And 
things that are supposed to be hot, he 
likes to have hot, and not lukewarm and 
fast growing stone cold. Some men may 
be different, but I don’t like to have Mary 
ask me what to have for dinner. I real¬ 
ize, for I’ve been there myself, that it is 
sometimes hard to think what to get, but 
it is also somewhat hard at times to think 
which of a dozen outdoor jobs to do. But 
I don’t run into the house and ask Mary 
about it. We each try to look after the 
little details of our own department, con¬ 
sulting together only on more important 
matters. Two other little things are 
quite important—the keeping of a man’s 
clothes mended and the buttons on, and 
the keeping of his lantern in good run¬ 
ning order. 
Life isn’t all hard work—or shouldn’t 
be, and when I sit down to rest of an 
evening I like to see Mary sitting also 
with idle hands. Then we can talk things 
over comfortably. But if she should be 
working in a nervous way and sighing 
occasionally, how much comfort could I 
take? There are women who do not 
seem to want their men folks ever to see 
them resting, but give the impression that 
they are much abused and hard-worked. 
It must make the men feel real happy, I 
should imagine. But Mary is all right, 
she never forces her work on my notice. 
When for any reason I come into the 
house she always has a smile for me—now 
don’t laugh. I know it is an old rule, but 
I’d rather be smiled at tha'n frowned at 
—and she drops whatever work she may 
be doing and gives me a few minutes of 
her time, and then we both go back to our 
work feeling better for the pleasant little 
chat. I wouldn’t know that she ever did 
any work, only that I can see that it gets 
done. Why, she sometimes leaves the 
supper dishes so that we can have our rest 
time together. And she neveer sighs. 
I’m so thankful for that. I should take 
to the woods or dissolve the partnership 
if she did; it is an awful habit. 
You may think from this that Mary and 
I get along better than most people. I 
am inclined to agree with you. It is 
because we both try all the time to do the 
square thing by each other and use plenty 
of the oil I spoke of. If T conducted my¬ 
self as some men do, I should not expect 
Mary to do all these things that she does 
to make me comfortable and contented. 
She’d have a perfect right to sigh, or 
throw things at me, or leave the domestic 
machine to go to smash. As it is we 
manage to keep it running smoothly. 
Her Side. 
One fhmg which causes a great deal 
of feeling between some husbands and 
wives never has troubled us in the least— 
that is, building the fires. If it comes 
handy I do it, and if John has the spare 
time, he does it. Neither of us care any¬ 
thing about it either way. Many people 
seem to think it little short of a crime 
for a man to permit his wife to build the 
fire, but if there are kindlings handy— 
and John is very good about keeping the 
kindling.basket, wood box and coal hods 
full—I don’t mind doing it any more 
than any other part of housework. In 
Winter, of course, I.might feel differently 
but we burn coal then, so I don’t have to 
get up in the cold. 
But there was one time when something 
else threatened trouble, and that was 
John’s habit of not coming to meals as 
soon as I called. Sometimes he would 
wait so long that things would get cold, 
but if I counted on his being late and 
called before dinner was quite ready, why 
he was sure to come right away and then 
he’d look surprised and say. “I thought 
you called me!” 
Well, I couldn’t understand it, so I had 
a serious talk with him one day. "This 
hoeing out your row idea is all very well 
in theory,” 1 said, “but it is very vexa¬ 
tious to the housekeeper. There is' more or 
less planning, work and judgment needed 
in the preparing of a meal, and it isn’t 
pleasant to have your work all spoiled 
just because folks won’t come when they 
are called.” Well, John was ever so nice 
and reasonable about it, and since then 
has come promptly when I blow the 
horn. Sometimes he gets ready a little 
before I do, and then he lends a hand and 
fills the teakettle or brings in some wood. 
And he is nice about it, too. You know 
a man can do a little tiling like filling a 
teakettle in such a way as to win either 
a woman’s love and devotion, or her 
enmity and aversion. John does it the 
former way. Pie doesn’t wear the air of 
a martyr, and his manner does not say 
plainer than words, “I am doing work 
that is far beneath my station in life, and 
I feel very much abused, and I want you 
to know it.” 
There is no reason under the sun why 
John and I should not help in little ways 
on each other’s work when there is occa¬ 
sion for it. When he wants to go away 
for a day, he arranges things so I can at¬ 
tend to the chores easily—and when I go 
away, I leave plenty to eat in the pantry 
so that he gets along all right. Neither 
of us feels abused or neglected. The one 1 
that’s left at home may be a bit lone¬ 
some, but that is made up for when the 
other one comes home with quantities of 
new impressions to impart. We both 
try to remember everything we see and 
hear while we are away, so that when 
we tell of our experiences it is almost as 
if we went together. 
If I seem to have less to complain of 
than some women, I think it’ is partly be¬ 
cause of this habit of talking. We can 
talk things over and make suggestions 
and at the same time keep good humored. 
D. B. 
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