1908. 
THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
170 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
T have been so fascinated by the beau¬ 
tiful catalogues of plants and seeds, that 
it was a hard job to make up my mind 
at last what was best to get with a 
limited purse. The boys wanted to grow 
tomatoes more extensively and thought 
there would be a good market with 
Summer boarders and the hotel. I may 
be a partial auntie, but as I look at 
other lads I feel proud of them, for 
they are growing up with many good, 
safe qualities of heart and hand. How¬ 
ever, we decided to make a venture with 
Earliana tomato, White Wax bean, 
White Plume celery, andlGolden Bantam 
corn. The patch of ground where pota¬ 
toes grew last year is clean, and ad¬ 
joins the garden, and brother said we 
might have it, rent free, for our vege¬ 
tables, so we concluded to work all to¬ 
gether this year, and divide the profits 
at the end of the season. We shall 
grow lettuce and radishes and a few 
other things, but all will be for the 
Summer's use. Peas we find unprofit¬ 
able when one considers the work they 
require, though a row or two of Ameri¬ 
can Wonder may be put in. It is so ex¬ 
hilarating to get out the hotbed frames 
and sashes and begin work again; the 
planning and selecting is one of the joys 
of early Spring. But through the house 
to one and all came this Winter the 
tiresome "grippe” that seems to attack 
all people in all countries. We thought 
it would pass by, and leave little Theo¬ 
dora untouched, but she was worse than 
any of us, though “Minty” tried to keep 
her out of doors, and we burned sul¬ 
phur intthe sleeping rooms, but it went 
its weary way all the same, leaving us 
weak and dispirited. It comes so 
strangely that it is no wonder the 
Italians named it “influenza,” believing 
it the work of some dreadful and mys¬ 
terious influence in the atmosphere, or 
the human constitution. We did not 
dose it with strong medicine, but took 
plenty of linseed tea in the daytime, and 
an old-fashioned gruel made with 
onions, on going to bed. But the length¬ 
ened days of sunshine and the freshness 
of the air, that comes from the south 
these days, has quite aided our recovery, 
and now we are ready for the garden 
rake when the time comes. 
Uncle Nathan came to visit us the 
other day from the Middle West. He is 
father’s youngest brother, and it does 
seem good to see one’s own kith and 
kin. But what I was about to tell was 
that he took a great fancy to my jellied 
chicken, and asked for the recipe to take 
back home to his son’s wife. As he 
praised it so much, and it was made of 
an ancient rooster, I think it may come 
in handy as a dish for Spring, to have 
ready cold when in a hurry. The 
cleaned chicken was cut up, put in a 
stewpan, with two small onions, and 
covered with boiling water. It is best to 
cook slowly, adding half a teaspoonful 
of salt, and a little pepper during the 
process. When the meat will leave the 
bones, take out the chicken, boil down 
the stock a little more, skim off the fat, 
if any, and strain. Place pieces of hard- 
boiled egg in the bottom of a mould and 
pack the chicken meat in, adding more 
salt and pepper if necessary. Perhaps 
good housewives will scorn the addition 
of a little dissolved gelatine, but I often 
put it in so as to be. sure of a firm 
“jell” and stiff meat to cut. Let the 
mould remain awhile under a weight in 
a cool place, and you have a dinner or 
supper dish that most people like. As 
the season advances, one’s appetite flags 
for awhile, and it is fortunate if there 
are vegetables in the cellar to give 
variety. After this I think we shall al¬ 
ways grow salsify, for I tried a little 
last year and left it packed in a box of 
sand all the Winter till the turnips were 
finished, and we cooked it as a vege¬ 
table, cut up into small pieces, and 
then served with a white sauce. Every¬ 
one pronounced it delicious, and the 
soup of the same is a good vegetable 
substitute for oysters, boiled in a small 
quantity of water, which is used with 
milk, butter and cracker crumbs, to 
make the soup. It has the advantage of 
keeping well all Winter if packed in 
sand. But now one begins to look for¬ 
ward to the coming of brighter days, 
with pleasant anticipation. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
Plain Suet Pudding. 
The inquiry of “O. P. F„ Nebraska,” 
is noted. What is known as plain suet 
pudding, and much eaten in the north 
of England, is made as follows: 1}/ 2 
cup flour, 1^2 cup finely chopped suet, 
l /z teaspoonful salt, 1 tcaspoonful bak¬ 
ing-powder. Add as much sweet milk 
as the pudding can take up —much 
thinner than biscuit dough. Put at once 
into boiling water, either tied in a cloth 
or (which we think much better) in a 
mold or even a bucket, covered so that 
water cannot possibly get in. Keep 
water in pan boiling within about an 
inch of top of bucket. Leave plenty of 
room to rise, for it is a very light pud¬ 
ding. Steam two hours or more. Serve 
with well-sweetened pudding sauce or 
with syrup. This is distinctly different 
from puddings with eggs, not a frugal 
imitation. If the first one is not light 
try more milk in the next—it should 
be as wet as batter. a. e. f. 
O. P. F. wishes a plain suet pud¬ 
ding like “mother used to make.” Plere 
it is: One cup chopped suet, 1 cup 
molasses, 1 cup milk, 4 cups flour, 1 tea¬ 
spoonful soda. Boil three hours in a 
covered dish or a cloth. 
MRS. L. L. IT. 
The Cost of Dress. 
I have been much interested in the 
discussion concerning a woman’s dress¬ 
ing on $65 a year. I think the woman 
who is the mother of 11 children has it 
about right when she says that what is 
right for one to spend would be more 
than many another could afford, and 
again, the clothes that one woman would 
consider sufficient for all occasions, an¬ 
other would not. As for myself, I have 
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a good deal given me as Christmas and 
birthday presents. As I do most of my 
own sewing those things cost very lit¬ 
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purchase them, for cloth does not take 
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bat at all seasons. My actual outlay for 
the last year was $42.90. This includes 
$15 for a Winter coat and $15 for a 
dress and its making. I have had more 
underclothes than listed, but the cloth 
was purchased before and I made them 
myself. The present year the outlay 
will be less, for I shall have no coat or 
new woolen dress, but must of necessity 
have a new hat. I never wear a veil 
and seldom kid gloves, so that item is 
minus. mrs. m. 
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