1907 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
483 
Delicious Cheese Dishes. 
Gieese Noodles.—Make your noodle 
dough and roll it out the day before 
wanted and allow to dry thoroughly. 
Roll and cut fine in the morning about 
three hours before dinnertime. They will 
dry a little more, and an hour and a half 
before dinnertime throw into boiling, 
salted water. Boil 20 minutes and then 
drain. Place in a baking dish and sprin¬ 
kle with salt and pepper, dotting with 
butter the size of a bean. Over the top 
put an inch layer of grated cheese, and 
carefully pour in enough sweet milk al¬ 
most to reach the top of the noodles. 
Bake in a moderate oven one hour. Serve 
in the baking pan in order that each 
helping may have some of the browned 
cheese. 
Cheese Patties.—When making pies line 
a number of patty pans with thin paste 
and bake. These will keep several days, 
but are better fresh. Grate one-fourth 
pound cheese and add one pint milk, one 
tablespoon flour, one-half teaspoon mus¬ 
tard or one dessertspoon prepared mus¬ 
tard, one tablespoon butter and salt and 
pepper to taste. Carefully heat together, 
stirring to make a smooth mass. Serve 
hot in the patty shells. Nice for even¬ 
ing lunches or Sunday night suppers. 
Cheese Omelet.—Make your omelet by 
any good recipe and pour it into a pan 
with a generous supply of hot butter or 
frvings to keep from sticking. After two 
or three minutes sprinkle with grated 
cheese, fold and brown in the usual man¬ 
ner. Use one-half cup of grated cheese 
to every four eggs. 
Cheese Toast.—Make as many slices of 
toast as needed and spread with butter. 
Arrange in shallow pans and sprinkle 
with grated cheese. Dust lightly with 
salt and place in the oven until the cheese 
melts. The oven should be quite hot. 
Cheese Sticks.—Mix together one pint 
grated cheese, one pint flour, one table¬ 
spoon butter, two scant teaspoons baking 
powder, a little salt and a dash of pepper. 
Mix with milk or water and roll thin like 
nie crust. Cut into strips four or five 
inches long and nearly an inch wide. 
Bake in a quick oven. 
Macaroni with Cheese.—Throw one- 
half box of macaroni into boiling water 
and cook 20 minutes. Never let the water 
stop boiling, or the macaroni will be soft. 
Drain and pour into a buttered baking 
dish. Have ready one cup of cheese cut 
into small pieces and stir this through the 
hot macaroni together with salt and pep¬ 
per to taste and a lump of butter the size 
of a small egg. Add enough sweet milk 
to almost cover and sprinkle the top 
with more grated cheese Bake three- 
quarters of an hour in a moderate oven. 
A good supper dish on a cold night. 
Cheese Sandwiches.—Mash the cheese 
in a pan on the back part of the range or 
where it will be slightly warm, and mix 
with a little sweet cream, salt and pepper. 
For some the flavor is improved by add¬ 
ing a little prepared mustard. Spread on 
thin slices of buttered bread and press to¬ 
gether lightly. HILDA RICHMOND. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The blouse and skirt shown will make 
a pretty suit in wash material, either 
white or colored, or in some soft woolen 
or silk. The waist is made with front 
and backs, both of which are tucked and 
joined to the yoke. The closing is made 
invisibly at the back and the sleeves of 
moderate size are gathered at their lower 
edges. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 3J4 yards 21, 2J4 
yards 32 or V/% yards 44 inches wide with 
?4 yard of all-over lace and Ye yard of 
silk for the bands. The pattern 5644 is 
cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The skirt is made with the upper por¬ 
tion and flounce, both of which are 
straight at their lower edges. The upper 
portion is cut out to form a succession of 
squares and the flounce is fitted in f o 
these. At the lower edge is a hem and 
tucks which are simply stitched with silk. 
The fullness at the waistline also is ar¬ 
ranged in tucks, which is stitched flat to 
avoid all bulk. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 11 yards 
21, seven yards 36 or 5 Y yards 44 inches 
wide with five yards of banding. The 
pattern 5642 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
26, 28 and 30-inch waist measure; price 
10 cents. 
Country Feather-Work. 
“Just see these poor dead pigeons— 
dead because they were too tame! I’ve 
always told you quietness and meekness 
never pay; one always gets trodden upon 
unless on the alert to fight—or fly, upon 
occasion. These lovely fantail pigeons 
would trust themselves on the ground and 
therefore the ponies have trampled them 
to death, not wickedly, but because where 
they stepped the pigeons were, that’s all,” 
and the Master dangled the soiled white 
beauties before me. “You have a fairy’s 
gift in your fingers, and always find a 
* 6644 Tucked Blouse, 32 to 40 buat. 
use for the seemingly useless—what can 
you do with these? The wings and 
breasts are unsoiled,” and the 'Master 
again dangled the birds half pathetically, 
half carelessly, before me. 
Like a flash I recalled some kitchen 
farmhouse work, where the women were 
besought by a man milliner who had gone 
out from their midst—had left his fath¬ 
er’s cows and hens to their care and 
gone to a large city to live out his indi¬ 
vidual life according to his natural bent— 
being a “born milliner.” His millinery 
was unique, and so were his methods, and 
soon he had all his girl friends studying 
the colors of the barnyard fowls, and 
plucking all fowls dry, when killed for 
home use and for market, and sorting the 
feathers according to shades and tints, 
salting and curing them by careful expo¬ 
sure to sun and air until all oil and fleshy 
tissue was dried away, and then gluing 
and wiring them into all sorts of bands, 
tufts, pompons, aigrettes, and many fanc¬ 
iful bits for just “butterfly-like touches 
amid the bows.” 
Fearless, though inexperienced, and 
spurred on to victory by the compliment 
given to my fairy-like power to “do 
things,” I accepted the poor dead pigeons. 
First I took off the wings and divided 
them into wings and sub-wings, as I 
called the smaller portions. Smoothing 
each into its natural shape and plucking 
out a soiled feather here and there, they 
6642 Tucked Flounce Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
soon looked perfect. I nailed the best 
side down to shingles and rubbed into 
the tissues about the joints all the table 
salt that the tissues would absorb. The 
cutting of the wing’s made openings 
into which I inserted my fingers, and I 
carefully pressed off the skin of all those 
portions unsoiled on the breasts. With 
old scissors I detached these pieces, laid 
them feather side down carefully on 
pieces of thin boards, and stretched tight¬ 
ly and tacked firmly. With a dull table 
knife I then scraped off all the fatty tis¬ 
sues on the surface, always scraping only 
one way—the way the feathers lay—from 
ton to bottom. To have scraped up and 
down would have “gone against the 
grain” of the feathers—would have dis¬ 
turbed their “roots” and rumpled them 
besides. Then I rubbed salt in liberally, 
all the skin would take, and later took 
these boards and nailed them upon the 
door of one of the buildings—a door that 
could be hooked and stand open on all 
pleasant days, and unhooked and closed 
when it was foggy or rained. This fore¬ 
thought saved taking down these several 
pieces whenever they needed to be shield¬ 
ed from the weather. 
In two or three days the skins were 
growing dry and crackly, so were the 
wing joints. The next step was to take 
them down and rub with vaseline, cotto- 
lene, or plain lard (I have used each with 
equal success) into the skins until soft¬ 
ened. The wing joints were softened by 
the same treatment, and then all were re¬ 
hung in the sun for another day. Next 
day all were scraped again, and it was 
surprising how much fatty substance ap¬ 
peared upon the surface. Clearing this 
off, the joints and skins were again salt¬ 
ed. To make the story shorter, these 
processes are repeated until the skins and 
joints present no more fatty tissues for 
worms to breed in, and the skin seems dry 
but not crackly. The length of time de¬ 
pends wholly upon the greater or less de¬ 
gree of oily fatness in the various skins. 
The prettiest work done was the whole 
skin of a bronze-feathered bantam rooster, 
whose head and throat rivaled in its 
sheeny greenness the lights and shades of 
the famous Impeyan pheasant, whose 
feathers are almost priceless. With a bit 
of gold-brown velvet and an arrangement 
of these bronze and green-feathered skins, 
the fairy who directed the fingers and 
eyes evolved a bonnet for almost nothing 
—and the real bantam made a most de¬ 
licious broth for a couple of invalids. 
And when the Nimrods came home from 
a day’s shooting, was it too un-Audubon- 
like to utilize the “green-head” in the 
same thrifty way? 
From the soiled parts of the aforesaid 
fantail pigeons there were pluckable 
thousands of tiny feathers of snowy 
whiteness, and these were placed loosely 
in a large pasteboard box, sprinkled with 
salt, covered with mosquito netting to 
keep them from being blown away, and 
kept in an open window and sunlight for 
several days until the quills were dried 
out. Each day they were well stirred up, 
that all might take their chance at the 
surface for stronger light and air. These, 
later, were sewed singly on a tape a half 
inch wide, three feathers across, each held 
bv one stiten, the next row a feather be¬ 
tween each, that is, t\yo feathers, three, 
then two, until there was a feather band 
long enough to trim an opera sack. A 
long piece of work? Yes, several yards 
long, and perhaps it took the leisure hours 
of some weeks, but it was not trying to 
the eyes, like embroidery, and was much 
more effective, and as pretty as a swan- 
down border. These experiences taught 
me to look for feathers wherever there 
were fowls, and so, when in the country, 
I am looking for pretty feathers on the 
ground, wherever ducks come to drink or 
the mother hens in seach of food. Some 
days there are six or seven beautiful 
grays, browns or greens found, and they 
go with the handfuls of other days into 
the netted box, to be dried. 
The Guinea hen’s “craik, craik” is one 
of the most unholy noises with which the 
quiet (?) farmyard assails the nervous 
person seeking country quiet. And one 
could scarcely believe that the Guinea 
fowl could furnish comfort in any de¬ 
gree, yet the mourner, ready to be half 
comforted with “half mourning,” finds 
in the lovely feathers of this unlovely 
gaited, shaped, and voiced biped, the most 
charming polka-dotted black and white 
feathers. All intelligent milliners know 
that they buy one thousand feathers 
plucked from lawful game and barnyard 
fowls, and pay the wholesaler—and in 
turn charge their customers “song-bird” 
prices—for every feather that they buy 
that is really Mucked from a rare song 
bird. “Art” is very busy with the dye- 
pot, and the inartistic feather-worker 
evolves heads and breasts of hideous hues, 
the like of which Nature herself dis¬ 
claims all knowledge. The artist works 
with Nature, and does not run to glass 
bead eyes and celluloid bird beaks, which 
Nature will never pattern after. 
SARA M. C. ALDRICH. 
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