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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A Tapioca Pudding. 
I made Cousin Cornelia a visit last 
week, and while I was there I learned 
how she makes her tapioca puddings. 
Now, our family all like tapioca, but 
I don’t like to make the pudding very 
well, for I never get it just right. Her 
pudding was simply perfect, and I 
asked her for the recipe. 
“Why, yes,” said she, “I can tell you 
just how I make it. But I haven’t 
really any recipe. First I put about 
half a cup of tapioca to soak the night 
before -if I don’t forget it—but it 
wants to soak several hours anyway. 
And then I beat the yolks of two eggs, 
add half a cup of sugar and maybe a 
teaspoon of cornstarch when I add the 
milk.” 
“What is the cornstarch for?” I in¬ 
terrupted. “I never heard of using 
cornstarch in tapioca pudding.” 
“Just to thicken the pudding a little. 
You don't want it to run. Next I put 
in the milk, enough for five or six 
dishes, and cook the tapioca in this 
mixture until it looks clear. Then I 
set it away to cool while I beat up the 
whites of two eggs for a meringue.” 
“That sounds simple enough, but it 
makes me think of grandmother’s cook¬ 
ing. You know what a good cook she 
was, but when you asked her for a 
recipe she would say, ‘Put in enough’ 
of this or that, whatever it was she 
was making, and her seasonings were 
always ‘to taste.’ You haven’t told me 
whether to boil, bake or brew thjs con¬ 
coction, and how do I know how much 
milk is enough ?” 
“Well, you ought to know,” laughed 
Cousin Cornelia. “I am sure anyone 
could make tapioca pudding if they 
would follow the directions I have 
given you.” 
The formula is as follows: One-half 
cup tapioca put to soak for several 
hours in one teacup of water; yolks 
two eggs beaten; one-half cup sugar; 
two cups milk with one teaspoon corn¬ 
starch dissolved; pinch of salt. Add 
soaked tapioca to mixture and cook un¬ 
til clear. Beat whites of two eggs very 
light, sweeten with one-half cup sugar, 
pile on pudding and brown in hot oven. 
Serve cold. _ e. r. f. 
Last Uses of Light Wools. 
II. 
A good deal of experience, some suc¬ 
cesses and various failures in putting 
light-colored cashmere and crepons to 
their best uses after their first fresh¬ 
ness is gone has led us to two or 
three settled opinions. If the goods 
is of the heavy-threaded, open-weave 
variety, or if it has a crimped or crape¬ 
like surface it will probably repay one 
the expense or trouble of dyeing, 
though there is likely to be some shrink¬ 
age, so that after dyeing the garments 
will be better suited to the shape of a 
smaller person. Both dyeing and let¬ 
ting out and lengthening down means 
too much of an output to bestow upon 
even the nicest of cloth, for the results 
could never be very good. But there 
are other ways for using cloth not 
presentable as blouse or dress skirt. 
One Summer when I was ill a cash- 
mere dress belonging to Pet hung 
around waiting for some one to clean 
some spots from the front and sleeves. 
Of course, the moths found it, and 
equally, of course, I found it useless as 
a dress, when able again to take af¬ 
fairs in hand. But after various in¬ 
clinations leading toward the ragbag, 
and the rugmaker, a lucky chance 
landed it in the hands of a neighbor 
who had two rather delicate little chil¬ 
dren and a thin pocketbook. She af¬ 
terwards told me that she wanted so 
much that Winter to buy sets of cam- 
el’s-hair or all-wool undershirts. But 
as it was not possible she purchased 
the usual cotton vests and then made 
vests of the soft cashmere to go un¬ 
der them. It was a heavy piece, and 
though shrunken by washing had not 
grown hard. She followed the lines of 
the bought vests in shaping them, and 
said they actually proved more con¬ 
venient for her than the camel’s-hair she 
had wanted to buy could have done. 
The cotton vests could go into the 
washing machine with the common 
wash, and the little cashmere wrappers 
she could wash out in the wash bowl 
any day and dry behind the stove. They 
were easier to handle than heavier gar¬ 
ments were, needed only in mid-winter, 
and best of all neither of the children 
had colds that season. She said that 
if the inner vest were slipped inside 
the cotton one before either was put 
on the two went on together without 
wrinkles. 
This gave me an idea. I went home 
and resurrected what had once been a 
white flannel dress. Plaving been 
washed, folded and securely inclosed 
in a newspaper package, the flannel 
came forth exactly as good as when 
put away. I knew a girl who would 
never sleep in any garment worn by 
day, declaring it unsanitary and not 
nice. The full skirt and the sleeves 
made two night wrappers. Such a gar¬ 
ment goes off and on with the night¬ 
gown, being made sack shape, and to 
button down the front. About the 
neck and wrists they were worked in 
buttonholed scallops done in fast col¬ 
ors, one garment in pink, one in blue. 
They were found to be easier to the 
wearer and far more convenient than 
bought undervests for night use under 
a cotton nightgown. 
My sister happening in while the 
garments were making, there came to 
use not long after, another white flan¬ 
nel useless as a dress. During the 
Summer we dyed this a cheerful pink. 
I have now cut a dressing sacque from 
it. wide in sleeve and armhole and 
with a large rolling collar. We dyed 
some white silk (not new) in the 
same dye, and are using this to face 
the open sleeves well up on the inside. 
Bess is to catstitch the hems and fac¬ 
ings with white and buy enough nar¬ 
row lace to edge collar and sleeves. 
She may get butter-colored lace, as less 
likely to soil at once, and will put it 
on a little full. When finished this is 
to be Bessie’s Christmas present to 
Cousin Ellen, who has often to take 
her breakfasts in bed and even to 
receive her callers in that spot, which 
“none would like to be without, yet 
few would like to keep.” The made¬ 
overness of the kimono is sure to rather 
please Ellen, because of the time and 
thought it expresses, and both Bess and 
I have enjoyed anticipating the dear 
invalid’s comfort in the cosy garment. 
It is really pretty, too, though how it 
will fare when washing becomes neces¬ 
sary we are not sure. It will have to 
be washed by itself, and if the color 
comes out and dyes the lace pink no 
harm will be done. As the catstitching 
is being done with white mercerized 
floss, it will probably refuse to be in¬ 
fluenced by any dye stains. 
One hesitates to speak of the use of 
discarded dresses used as petticoats, for 
though the farm housekeeper must of¬ 
ten do a scullion’s work, she aims to 
be still a lady, and hates anything in 
the way of makeshifts in her under¬ 
wear, liking to have the unseen gar¬ 
ments even a little finer than those 
upon the outside. But many carefully 
dressed women now wear underskirts 
of outing flannel instead of the shrink¬ 
ing, dust-collecting white flannel of all 
wool, and there is no reason why any 
pieces of light-colored cashmere, 
washed and pressed, should not be con¬ 
verted into as pretty an underskirt as 
can be made of outing cloth. Lines of 
feather stitching on hems and facing 
worked in a bright color give the look 
of refined intention to such a garment, 
which is really in better taste than the 
coarse laces and sleazy texture of much 
of the ready made. Such a skirt would 
wash well and be soft and warm. Make 
with wide, full ruffle and with a yoke 
at top if liked. Have it come only 
four or five inches below the knee, 
or cut shorter still if for a young per¬ 
son. 
To as many of the Rural’s readers 
as will turn from such economies as 
are here suggested, knowing they can 
always buy new and plenty of it, the 
rest of us offer hearty congratulations. 
But till our large-hearted President has 
the world all made over and running 
as it should there will still be some pa¬ 
tient mothers called upon by circum¬ 
stances to make the most of the half- 
worn and the second-hand R. itiiamar. 
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