1912. 
The Rural Patterns. 
the rural, new-yorker 
The first group shows 7525, plain 
blouse or guimpe, 34 to 44 bust. 
With high, round or square neck, 
or with yoke facing. 2 yards, 36 
with )4 yard 36 for peplum, for me¬ 
dium size. 7528, corset cover for misses 
and small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 
1 l A yds. of material 36 in. wide, 3)4 
yds. of beading, 3 yds. of edging, for 16 
year size. 7378, tucked blouse or shirt 
waist, 34 to 42 bust. With long or 
three-quarter sleeves, with or without 
collar. 2)4 yds. 36, with Y & yd. 27, )4 
yd. 36 and 1)4 yd. of insertion and 1)4 
yd. of edging for the frill, for medium 
size. 7494, five-gored skirt, 22 to 32 
waist, with high or natural waist line. 
3) 4 yds. 36 when material has figure or 
nap, 4)4 yds. 27 when material has 
neither figure nor nap, for medium size. 
7504, five-gored skirt for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. With 
or without plaited portion at left of 
front. 4)4 yds. of material 36 in. wide, 
H yd. any width for plaited portion, for 
16 year size. 7507, four-piece skirt, 22 
to 32 waist, with high or natural waist 
line. 5 yds. of material 36 in. wide 
when material has figure or nap, 2)4 
yds. 36 when material has neither figure 
nor nap; for medium size. 
The second group includes 7486, seven- 
gored princesse slip for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 5)4 
yds. 36 for plain slip, 3 yds. of em¬ 
broidery 4 in. wide, 9 yds. of insertion, 
4) 4 yds. beading, for 16 year size. 
/478, child’s princesse slip or petticoat. 
2 to 6 years. With round, square or 
high neck, sleeveless or with long or 
short sleeves. 1)4 yd. of material 36 
with 2 yds. of embroidery 4)4 in. wide, 
2)4 yds. of insertion, 1)4 yd. of edging, 
Black Chocolate Cake. 
In February. 1910. you had a formula 
printed for a devil's food cake that was 
cheap, easy to prepare and excellent to 
cat. I have sent The It. N.-Y. of that 
year away, and the paper with this valu¬ 
able recipe, so please print again. 
Virginia. mrs. g. l. h. 
Two recipes for this were given in, 
February, 1910. They were as follows: 
Devil’s Cake.—Cook in a granite pan, 
on top of the stove 1)4 cup milk, two 
squares grated chocolate and the yolks 
of two eggs. Stir till the mixture 
thickens and is smooth. Remove from 
fire and add three tablespoons of butter, 
one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, one- 
half teaspoon soda, 1)4 cup flour. 
Flavor with vanilla, bake in two layers. 
Black Chocolate Cake.—First dissolve 
one-fifth cake unsweetened chocolate in, 
one-half cup boiling water, stir on stove 
till it thickens, then set aside to cool 
while you mix cake. Cream one-half 
cup butter, scant, with 1)4 cup sugar,, 
add well-beaten eggs, then one tea¬ 
spoonful soda dissolved in one-half cup 
sour milk, one teaspoonful vanilla, flour 
to make a thin batter, then add melted 
chocolate. Bake in flat pan and finish 
with chocolate icing. 
Green Tomatoes. 
Unless we have more sunshine and 
warmer weather in the near future than 
we have had for the past two weeks, 
ripe tomatoes, which we so much enjoy, 
will be a dream of the future, so we 
have had to resurrect all our green to¬ 
mato recipes to get the benefit of the 
fruit. 
Fried Green Tomatoes.—This is a 
new dish to us, but we enjoyed it so 
much for a change that I would pass 
it on. Of course the quantity to pre¬ 
pare depends on the size of the family; 
we have eight in ours. Peel and slice 
about one-fourth inch thick, dip in flour 
on both sides, then fry in butter a nice 
brown. They need to cook slowly, so 
as to be thoroughly done. 
Green Tomato Pie.—Peel and slice 
crosswise, very thin, the quantity 
needed to fill one crust. One large cup 
sugar, two level tablespoons butter, one 
tablespoon vinegar, cinnamon or any 
spices you prefer, add flour as you 
would for pieplant, for they are very 
juicy. This pie needs to bake longer 
than an apple or berry pie. 
Another dish we enjoy very much is 
green tomato chowder: One peck to¬ 
matoes, six or seven onions; chop to¬ 
gether and let stand over night, with 
salt well sprinkled through. In the 
morning pour of! this juice which has 
formed, then put on a quart of vinegar 
and scald. Pour off, then add one 
poujnd sugar, one pin,t vinegar, one 
tablespoon ground mustard, one table¬ 
spoon groutud cinnamon and cloves and 
two or three green peppers chopped; 
then cook till done. \Ve enjoy green 
tomato pickles, but expect the house¬ 
wife readers of The R. N.-Y have 
i ccipes for them, so I will not give 
In i ne - HOUSEWIFE. 
tor 4 year size. 7489, work apron with 
cap and sleeves, small 34 or 36, medium 
3o or 40, large 42 or 44 bust. 4)4 yds. 
for apron and sleeves, 54 yd. either 
width for cap, for medium size. 6980, 
seven-gored petticoat with habit back. 
-2 to 32 waist. 3)4 yds. 36, 3 yds. of 
embroidery, 2)4 yds. of insertion, 2 yds. 
of beading, for medium size. 7480, 
girl’s bloomers, 6 to 12 years. To be 
attached to under waist or made sep¬ 
arately. 2 yds. of material 36 in. wide, 
1)4 yd. 44 for bloomers, )4 yd. 36 in. 
wide for under waist, for 10 vear size. 
Price of each pattern, 10 cents. 
Convenience in the Farmhouse. 
WFy should not the woman on the 
farm enjoy the same conveniences, or 
at least a part of them, that our city 
cousins do? So many old-fashioned 
houses on the farm, you say? Yes, but 
many of them can be made very con¬ 
venient with very little expense. The 
house in which we live was built over 
60 years ago. We live on the farm 
owned by great-grandfather (who lived 
in the log house), grandfather, father 
and son. Y\ lien we were married the 
father, mother and children were still 
here, but were building a new house 
about oO rods away on the opposite side 
of the road. We all lived here—very 
peaceably—until the new house was 
completed, then all moved to the new 
house and we lived witli father and 
mother nearly a year, while carpenters 
were repairing the old house for us. 
1 he house is on a north and south 
toad, and faces the west. The rooms 
\yere all quite small, but we saw where 
they could be remodeled very nicely. 
I lie ground floor consisted of front 
room, bedroom with closet, middle 
room, dining room, kitchen (very small) 
and pantry. We took out the partition 
between closet and bedroom and put it 
all into the bedroom, which makes it 
very good size. Then the partition be¬ 
tween front and middle room was taken 
out and part put in the front room, the 
remainder made into a hall, and from 
this we go upstairs, also outdoors and 
into the dining room. The dining room 
was left as it was, with the exception 
of taking out an outside door; the 
small bcdioom with closet off the dining 
room is also the same. 
The kitchen, which is on the north¬ 
west end of the house, is the most con¬ 
venient place of all. The partition be¬ 
tween the kitchen and pantry was 
taken out. We first thought of having 
cupboards between the kitchen and din¬ 
ing room, but it was going to spoil the 
only good place for the kitchen range, 
so we decided to make the whole west 
end of the kitchen into cupboards. 
They are about 18 inches deep and 12 
feet long, and go to the ceiling. (In 
building cupboards don’t make the mis¬ 
take of leaving them part way to the 
ceiling, for they make a fine dust 
catcher.) The upper cupboards are 
about 60 inches in height and below 
these are three cupboards for food, then 
three drawers that I use for towels, 
strainers, wash cloths and my kitchen 
aprons. To the north of these drawers 
is a bin for white flour and one for 
graham, or whatever one cares to use 
it for. This takes ail the room under 
the dish cupboards. 
This brings us to the broad shelf 
along the north end. Under this shelf 
are two cupboards for tinware, then two 
more under the sink. We have three 
windows on the north end, one directly 
over the sink, and by the sink the nicest 
thing of all—a never-failing water sup¬ 
ply. This is piped from a spring about 
40 rods away. The water runs into a 
stone crock under the kitchen and is 
pumped into the house. From the crock 
the overflow goes into a cement tank 
in the milk house. From this tank two 
pipes take the water to a tank where 
we water horses and the other to a tank 
in_ the barnyard where the cows drink. 
We also have pipe connection with a 
well, but the spring has always been 
sufficient, so we have never had to use 
the well water. We are thinking now 
of having a cistern dug near the barn, 
so we would have a better supply of 
water in case of fire. No farm has an 
over-supply in such a case. mrs. r. m. s. 
Fried Cakes.—One cup sugar, one ; 
tablespoonful butter creamed together, i 
Add two eggs well beaten and one-half 1 
teaspoon ful salt. One cup milk, two 
teaspoonfuls baking powder and flour 
enough to roll. Roll out, cut in circles, 
place one teaspoonful of cranberry jelly 
or jam in the center, fold up closely and 
fry in hot lard. 
Drop Jumbles.—One pound of flour, 
one-half pound of butter, three-quar¬ 
ters of a pound of sugar, four eggs, 
one-half pound of currants well washed 
and dredged, one-half teaspoon ful of 
soda dissolved in hot water, one-half 
lemon, grated , d and juice, one tea¬ 
spoonful of cinnamon. Drop from a 
spoon upon well-buttered paper, lining 
a baking pan. Bake quickly. 
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