1909. 
711 
Crumb Coffee Cake. 
In answer to your inquiry for the 
crumb covering found on bakers’ coffee 
cake, here is a recipe, and the cake 
with which I use it: Cream a lump of 
butter the size of an egg with a cup 
of brown sugar, add a tcaspoonful of 
cinnamon and one cup of flour. Be¬ 
fore going further take from this mix¬ 
ture a large spoonful for frosting for 
the cake. Add to what remains a tea¬ 
spoonful of cloves, a cup of sour milk, 
a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a 
tablespoonful of hot water, a cup of 
seeded raisins, and, if needed, more 
flour. Put into a pan, sprinkle the top 
with the reserved frosting and bake. 
EAST BETHANY. 
Work With the Hands. 
Times have changed indeed, since the 
little Puritan maiden, the minute the 
child sat down to rest, was admonished 
to get her knitting, the good wife say¬ 
ing, ‘‘You can rest just as well knit¬ 
ting.” History tells us that this eight- 
year-old child was already an expert 
knitter, having had a share of this part 
of the family work to do for some 
years. Nowadays it is unusual to find 
a child of that age who can knit at all, 
or indeed do anything useful. We go 
to the opposite extreme, and the les¬ 
sons of industry and thrift our ances¬ 
tors early taught, are by us' sadly neg¬ 
lected. It is a great mistake, I think. 
There is genuine pleasure to be had 
from working with our hands. It is 
with a real feeling of satisfaction that 
the little folks finish a top, or a “shin¬ 
gle” boat, or a dollie’s dress all by 
themselves, and they should take the 
same pride in their sewing of blocks, 
or lessons in carpentry. Knitting 
seems to be a comparatively easy task 
for little fingers, but tries 1 sadly the 
patience of older pupils. Just to take 
the stitch is not so very difficult, but to 
keep them from dropping, and the yarn 
from splitting, and to do smooth even 
work, takes time and practice, and the 
constant oversight of some one expe¬ 
rienced is necessary during the first 
lessons'. One little girl learned to knit 
by making a long strip of plain work, 
eight stitches wide, and when she had 
finished a many-colored piece some five 
feet in length, she joined the strip and 
fastened on some bells and gave the 
“lines” to her little brother to play 
horse with. The hoy was ambitious to 
learn how to knit too, hut has failed as' 
yet “to get the hang of the needles,” 
though he has knit yards of the round 
cord made through a spool, by slip- 
ing stitches from three pins driven 
half way into the spool. Another child 
learned to crochet by making a long 
strip for “lines” about eight stitches 
wide. 
Piecing blocks and garden work are 
pleasant tasks for little folks. The boys 
should be encouraged to use saw, ham¬ 
mer and nails, and fashion for them¬ 
selves darts, boats, kites, etc. I think 
it a good plan to let the girls learn the 
use of these tools too, and it won’t 
hurt the boys to sew and knit and cook 
either. One reason why the farm is 
an ideal place to bring up children is 
because there is opportunity for health¬ 
ful exercise. The hoys, as a matter of 
course, should help their father and 
the girls their mother. 
Isn’t it better to teach our children 
to be independent and do for them¬ 
selves and others as much as possible, 
than to .take the opposite course, as so 
many fond parents do, of even spend¬ 
ing their time amusing the fretful, 
spoiled children, who, having always 
been waited upon and entertained from 
their cradles, have the idea that their 
parents exist only for their pleasure. 
Many busy mothers will argue that 
they have no time, and that the child¬ 
ren make more work than they help. 
Our ancestors found time to teach their 
THE RTJ IX A. L. IM E W - Y OIX KEK 
children to work, and farm and house¬ 
hold labor has been wonderfully light¬ 
ened since their day. It is not a good 
argument, our saying that the children 
make poor help. Their good is what 
we should think of, and it is a duty 
we owe to them to bring them up to 
work, so that they will he well fitted 
to do their part in life. The incapable, 
idle young folks are not the ones who 
succeed. _ f. 
Everyday Items. 
What is more repulsively untidy than 
cooking utensils mended of leaks by 
having a bit of cloth drawn through the 
hole! Yet I have often been glad that 
an old lady showed me how a basin or 
pan might thus be made watertight. 
“What, one of my best little pails used 
for soap grease!” I had protested and 
the reply had been that the old bucket 
leaked. “Wash it and bring it to me,” 
the old lady had commanded, and stand¬ 
ing hv I had seen her hold the old pail 
to the light to see how large a leak was 
to he dealt with. Selecting a bit of new 
cloth from the scrap basket she had cut 
a small half square, frayed out one of 
its corners, then waxed and twisted it 
exactly as she would have prepared 
woolen yard intended to he threaded in¬ 
to an ordinary needle. When thus made 
ready it was an easy matter to thread 
the hit of cloth into the hole, draw it 
through just as far as possible and then 
cut off what could he clipped away on 
both the outside and inside of the pail. 
Since that day we have not been an¬ 
noyed by leaks in the pans that hold 
table scraps for the poultry, or by a lack 
of small basins to hold milk for the 
pussies at the barn, or drink for the set¬ 
ting hens put in jail. Nowhere but on 
a farm could such mending find legiti¬ 
mate uses so often, but what sort of 
knowledge does not come handy about 
the farm? 
The bondage of a stiff linen collar 
while working in the kitchen is hateful 
to me, yet I like to look neat even in 
the forenoon. So this is how I com¬ 
promised. In the drawer of mv dress¬ 
ing case was a folder, well stocked with 
top collars, some colored, but not much 
faded, some having eyelets-worked in 
the ends wherfc pin pricks had made 
holes, some good as new, and all still 
pretty in my eyes, but all, of course, 
now out of date. But I cut a length of 
two-inch black satin ribbon just long 
enough for a collar after the ends were 
slanted a trifle and hemmed. Thirteen 
inches at top and nearly 14 on the Lower 
edge is right for my neck. When a top 
collar is pinned upon this and a small 
cravat bow of three-quarter-inch black- 
satin ribbon worn at its joining in front, 
no more comfortable collar can be 
found. One can omit the how and use 
two small collar pins in front and an¬ 
other to fasten the ribbon to the blouse 
in back if preferred. Such a neck dress¬ 
ing is cooler than the high starched linen 
collar fashion ordains for morning wear 
and more easily laundered. I wash my 
black ribbons by themselves now and 
then, pressing while still damp. 
PATTIE LYMAN. 
Muffins and Gems. 
Sweet Cream Drops.— (Chicago Rec¬ 
ord-Herald).—One cup granulated sug¬ 
ar, one-half cup sweet cream, beaten 
together with one-half teaspoon of salt, 
and one teaspoon of flavoring extract. 
Add two eggs, well beaten, whites and 
yolks separately. Sift one large cup of 
flour and two gently rounded teaspoons 
of baking powder. Beat this into the 
mixture (lightly) and drop into little 
gem tins which have been well greased. 
Bake in a quick oven and serve while 
warm. 
Rye Muffins.—Two cups of rye flour, 
one-half cup white flour, one-half cup 
of any cereal left from breakfast, one 
tablespoon sugar, one heaping table¬ 
spoon of butter, one teaspoonful 
salt and one-half yeast cake dis¬ 
solved in one and three-quarter cups of 
water or milk. Beat well and let rise 
over night. In the morning beat down, 
put in gem pans, let rise one-half hour 
and bake twenty minutes. 
Coffee Buns.—One and one-Kalf 
pound of well-sifted flour, four ounces 
of lard, four of sugar, half a teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt, one saltspoonful of grated 
nutmeg and the same of ground mace. 
Rub all well together in a baking bowl, 
make a hole in the middle, into which 
pour one cupful of warm water, with 
one compressed yeast cake dissolved 
therein. Make it into a sponge with a 
cupful of warm milk. When the sponge 
has risen, knead the buns, using enough 
warm milk and water (half and half) 
to make a firm, not too st'ff, dough. 
Allow to rise in a warm place over 
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night. Then turn the dough on to a 
well-floured baking board, and roll out 
into a sheet. Squeeze the salt from 
two ounces of butter and lay the butter 
in little dabs over the sheet of dough. 
Fold over and roll out three times, till 
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the butter is thoroughly worked into 
the dough. Then roll out in a large 
sheet, over which sprinkle a generous 
portion of currants (about two coffee 
cupfuls), which h ve been well washed 
and picked over. Now roll up the 
dough in the same 'form as a jelly roll 
and cut it in slices about one inch 
thick. Lay these on warm baking 
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As soon as they are done wash with 
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verized sugar and half that quantity of 
water, with a saltspoonful of ground 
cinnamon or any preferred flavoring. 
Serve these cold, without butter. Very 
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Graham Gems.—Put in a bowl one 
cupful of wheat flour, two cupfuls of 
best graham flour, one-half a teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt and tablespoonful sugar; 
stir, then mix in two tablespoonfuls of 
shortening; add buttermilk or sour 
milk to make a soft batter that will 
drop easily frPm the spoon; dissolve 
a level teaspoonful of soda in a table- 
spoonful of hot water, add and beat 
the batter vigirously. Pour into well- 
greased and heated gem pans and bake 
in a quick oven twenty minutes. These 
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when sweet milk is not available. 
Velvet Muffins.—Stir to a cream two I 
tablespoon fuls each butter and sugar. 
Add two well-beaten eggs, one cupful 
of milk, one scanty quart of floor sifted 
with two tablespoonfuls of baking 
powder and a quarter teaspoon of salt. 
Beat until light and bubbly, though the 
batter must be quite stiff, and turn at 
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Queen Cream Biscuits.—Two cupfuls 
of sifted flour, half a cupful of cream, 
two teaspoon fuls of baking powder, 
one of sugar, a half saltspoonful of 
salt. Mix the flour, sugar, salt and 
baking powder together; then add the 
cream and one well beaten egg, mixing 
all together with a silver knife. Handle 
the dough as little as possible while 
making it into small round cakes. Bake 
in a hot oven for about ten minutes. 
This quantity will make a dozen bis¬ 
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Established by Win. Simpson, Sr. 
Three generation) fll 
Simpsons have made 
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