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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 2, 
and as many tongues and hearts as can 
be spared from other things. Too much 
liver gives it a bitter taste. Take out 
all bones and run through the meat 
grinder. Stuff in muslin bags or the 
large cases. Season highly while hot 
with salt and pepper. Any other season¬ 
ing may be used if liked. 
Pickled Pigs’ Feet.—Clean the feet 
well and soak in boiling water till soft 
and limber. Cook in as little water as 
possible until done so the bongs will 
drop out. Pick out all the bones and 
pack the meat well into crocks so it 
will not take too much liquid. The feet 
should be seasoned when put on to 
cook. Strain all the small bones out 
of the liquid and mix with an equal 
quantity of sharp cider vinegar. One 
quart of liquid and one quart of vine¬ 
gar will be enough for a dozen feet 
unless they are very large. Pour the 
liquid over the meat and set aside to 
cool. May be served hot or cold. If 
liked a little mixed spice may be added, 
but most people like them better plain. 
This will form a jelly all about the 
meat. We have kept them fresh and 
good for weeks in cold weather by us¬ 
ing this recipe. 
Fried Pork Scraps.—Take the large 
and small pork scraps, fat and lean, and 
fry them a light brown, after season¬ 
ing well. Pack the scraps into a crock 
or jar and cover with the hot fryings. 
For baked beans, for seasoning fresh 
vegetables in Summer, for any dish 
where a little fried pork is needed, these 
scraps are excellent. They can be sealed 
up in any kind of jars or simply put 
away as people put down sausage. They 
are much better for many kinds of 
cooking than pickled pork or even ba¬ 
con, as they retain that fresh, delicious 
flavor of fresh pork. 
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A Proverb of Bell Service 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TIIE CRIB IN TIIE CARMELITE 
CHURCH, DUBLIN. 
Foreninst the crib there kneels a little 
child, 
Behind him in her ragged shawl his 
mother. 
For all the ages that have passed one child 
Still linds God in another. 
Now, look-a how he wonders when he sees 
The shepherds with their lambs beside 
the manger, 
The cattle, poor dumb creatures, looking 
down 
Upon the little Stranger. 
An’ there’s our Savior lying in the hay, 
Behind Him in her shawl His watchful 
mother; 
Two mothers with their sons—each knows 
the joys 
And sorrows of the other. 
The father kneels away there by the door, 
The hands be clasps in prayer are rough 
with labor; 
The likes of him that hunger and that toil 
Once called St. Joseph neighbor. 
Outside the church the people travel by, 
The sick and sad, the needy, the neg¬ 
lected, 
But just across the threshold Bethlehem 
lies, 
Where none will be rejected. 
—W. M. Letts in tbe Westminster Ga¬ 
zette. 
* 
Cauliflower is very nice served with 
tomato sauce. It is boiled till tender, 
-'panwhile making a strained tomato 
sauce, seasoned with pepper, salt and 
a shred of onion. Put the cauliflower 
into a hot dish, pour the sauce over it, 
sprinkle some finely grated brown 
crumbs over the top, and serve. 
* 
Here is a recipe for nut crisps with¬ 
out any nuts in them. Beat one cupful 
of powdered sugar gradually into a 
tablespoonful of butter; add two eggs, 
beating thoroughly, and then 2cups 
of rolled oats, into which has been 
stirred two teaspoonfuls of baking pow¬ 
der and half a teaspoonful of salt. Add 
a few drops of vanilla, and drop on 
buttered tins, a teaspoonful to a cake. 
Bake light brown in a slow oven; they 
are puffy and delicious. 
* 
A French medical authority recom¬ 
mends cider as a cure for gout. 
Rational diet, exercise, and cider diluted 
with one-third its bulk of water, the 
cider having just fermented, without be¬ 
coming hard, was said to relieve acute 
attacks, even in cases where chalky de¬ 
posits had formed in the joints. On the 
other hand really hard cider, which we 
all agree in considering a most perni¬ 
cious beverage in every way, has long 
been credited with increasing a tendency 
to gout and rheumatism. 
> 
The Domestic Science Department of 
the North Dakota Agricultural College 
tells why flannels shrink in washing, 
and what we should do to prevent this. 
Wool fiber is covered with minute scales 
like a pine cone, and when put into hot 
water and washed with alkali soap 
the scales become tangled, resulting in 
the shortening or shrinking of the gar¬ 
ment. Wash in lukewarm water with a 
pure neutral soap. Soap bark is also 
recommended. All water should be of 
the same temperature. Do not rub on 
board and do not apply soap directly to 
the article, as it will harden the tex¬ 
ture. 
* 
When we read of the little island of 
Great Britain, with its 35,000,000 popu¬ 
lation, we naturally think it must - be 
closely congested, without the lonely 
farms and isolated villages frequent in 
our own great country. Yet recently 
an electoral registrar, in looking up 
voters, discovered a farmhouse near 
the Scottish border that is only reached 
by horse tracks across swamps and 
moorlands, and where a child had not 
seen another child of its own age for 
two years. There were only four cot¬ 
tages in 30,000 acres of moorland; in 
one of these homes a peat fire in the 
kitchen had not been allowed to go out 
for 200 years. The farmer boasted that 
his family had held possession of the 
place for 600 years. In this section 
about 200 voters have to travel 15 miles 
to vote. The general conditions of this 
district still seem like the surroundings 
of Dandie Dinmont’s home, in Sir 
Walter Scott’s “Guy Mannering.” 
* 
It would appear that Southern girls 
are devoting themselves very enthusi¬ 
astically to tomato culture, judging 
from the following item in the Hatties¬ 
burg, Miss., News: 
Miss Susie V. Powell says that the Girls’ 
Tomato Club work is very encouraging this 
season. There are 2,816 girls enrolled in 
these clubs and the unofficial reports re¬ 
ceived indicate great enthusiasm and mar¬ 
vellous records for this season. 
When asked if she had heard of Miss 
Chatham's achievement at Petal in putting 
up over two thousand cans of tomatoes 
from one-tenth of an acre she said she had, 
and if the report is true it would mean 
that the young lady had practically doubled 
any previous record in Mississippi, as the 
greatest number of cans officially reported 
in any State was 1,036 from one-tenth of 
an acre. This record was made in South 
Carolina last year, being only 20 cans in 
excess of Mississippi’s record of 1,016 cans. 
Apple Butter. 
Will you publish a reliable recipe for 
“apple butter" ? w. f. o. 
Will you give a recipe for making apple 
butter? 0 mrs. d. l. f. 
Apple butter should be made from 
new cider, fresh from the press, and 
not yet fermented. Fill a porcelain- 
lined kettle with cider and boil until 
reduced one-half. Then boil another 
kettleful in the same way, and so con¬ 
tinue until you have sufficient quantity. 
To every four gallons of boiled cider 
allow a half-bushel of nice juicy apples, 
pared, cored and quartered. The cider 
should be boiled the day before you 
make the apple butter. Fill a very 
large kettle with the boiled cider and 
add as many apples as can be kept moist. 
Stir frequently, and when the apples 
are soft beat with a wooden stick un¬ 
til they are reduced to a pulp. Cook 
and stir continuously until the consis¬ 
tency is that of soft marmalade and the 
color is a very dark brown. Have 
boiled cider at hand in case it becomes 
too thick, and apples if too thin. Twen¬ 
ty minutes before you take it from the 
fire add ground cinnamon, and nutmeg 
to taste. It requires no sugar. When 
cold, put into stone jars and cover 
closely. 
The Scraps at Butchering Time. 
Scrapple.—Cook the fat and lean bits 
of meat trimmed from lard and the 
heads until well done, in water enough 
to cover. Season with salt and pepper, 
sage or other herbs. When done drain j 
off the water and return it to the kettle. 
Strain out the bits of meat and save. 
Chop the meat rather fine and keep it 
in a warm place. Make a common 
boiled mush with the water in which 
the meat was boiled, stirring all the 
time to keep the cornmeal from sticking. 
When done add the meat scraps and 
press the mush into crocks or pans. Cut 
it thin with a sharp knife when cold 
and fry as ordinary mush. If kept in 
a cold place it will keep a long time. 
Head Cheese.—Take the bits of lean 
from the heads, the ears well cleaned, 
part of the tongues and a very little fat. 
Boil together and take out any bones 
that may happen to be in it. Season 
with salt and pepper and run the meat 
through the sausage grinder. Stuff in 
salt bags or muslin cases, or simply 
pack in jars to be cut out in slices as 
needed. Sometimes we take out a little | 
of the meat and season with garlic, 
sage, onion or other seasoning, keeping j 
it separate, as all do not like the flavors. 
Liverwurst.—Boil together the scraps 
from head, lard and other trimmings, 
together with one-fourth as much liver 
Once upon a time there dwelt 
on the banks of the holy river 
Ganges a great sage, by name 
Vishnu-sarman. 
When King Sudarsana ap¬ 
pealed to the wise men to instruct 
his wayward sons, Vishnu-sarman 
undertook the task, teaching the 
princes by means of fables and 
proverbs. 
Among his philosophical sayings 
was this: 
“To one whose foot is covered 
with a shoe, the earth appears all 
carpeted with leather.” 
This parable of sixteen hundred 
years ago, which applied to walk¬ 
ing, applies today to talking. It 
explains the necessity of one tele¬ 
phone system. 
For one man to bring seven 
million persons together so that he 
could talk with whom he chose 
would be almost as difficult as to 
carpet the whole earth with leather. 
He woiud be hampered by the 
multitude. There would not be 
elbow room for anybody. 
For one man to visit and talk 
with a comparatively small number 
of distant persons would be a 
tedious, discouraging and almost 
impossible task. 
But with the Bell System pro¬ 
viding Universal Service the old 
proverb may be changed to read: 
To one who has a Bell Telephone 
at his lips , the whole nation is 
within speaking distance. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System . 
