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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Improvement in Jelly Making. 
Like many another valuable discovery, 
the above was learned when not being 
sought for. My wife had pressed the 
juice from the fruit, and the weather 
was stormy for a few days- Fearing 
that the juice would spoil and that it 
would not keep over Sunday, she 
brought it to a boil and sealed it hot in 
jars, proposing.to make the jelly the first 
suitable day the following week. When 
a good day came, other work came also, 
she interviewed me as to what she 
should do. We reasoned together if 
that jelly stock had kept two or three 
days sealed, why would it not keep 
longer? The outcome was that that 
jelly was not made until Autumn. This 
was perhaps 10 years ago. Some of the 
points we learned were these: The 
fruit may be pressed as much as you 
please; get all the juice you can and 
seal it hot All of the sediment will 
settle, the juice will be as clear as water. 
Pour off the clear of each jar and make 
by itself, then make up that at the bot¬ 
tom of the jars; this will do for some 
purposes, being practically as good, only 
muddy. Currant jelly being made in 
July is often hard to keep through the 
Summer without moulding especially 
near salt water, and all jellies shrink 
with keeping. All of this is overcome 
by not making it up until wanted, the 
fruit stock keeping perfectly until used. 
My wife had just made up some crab- 
apple from juice put up a year and a 
half ago and it jellied as well as though 
just from the crabapples. f. t. j. 
Jelly Does Not Keep. 
Perhaps some of your readers can tell 
me why my jelly does not keep. I use 
good firm fruit with sugar, pound to pound, 
and always heat my cans. I cover it with 
paraffin, and nearly every cup is a little 
fermented on the tops, and some are a 
great deal so. The jelly become slack on 
the top and the paraffin gets loose. I 
usually cover it when cold, but last year 
I thought I would try it hot, but that does 
not seem any better. E. G. s. 
The inquirer does not say anything 
about the place in which her jelly is 
stored- Our guess, without actual knowl¬ 
edge of conditions, is that her pantry is 
too warm, and perhaps damp also. The 
fermentation certainly suggests a warm 
place, for it is very unusual for it to 
occur at a low temperature. Such 
changes in jelly, properly made, as E. 
G. S. describes, are practically unknown 
in a cool dark pantry. 
Fruit Salads. 
I have looked all of my recipes over and 
cannot find a recipe for fruit salad. Can 
you give some? mbs. f. r. 
Fruit salad is quite an elastic term, 
for it is susceptible of many variations- 
A simple fruit salad consists of four 
oranges, divided, the white skin removed 
and each segment cut into four. Add to 
this a cupful of English walnut meats, 
which have been scalded to remove the 
skin and then allowed to get dry and 
cold. Mix with the orange, place in a 
dish lined with crisp lettuce, and cover 
with mayonnaise dressing. Malaga 
grapes cut in halves and seeded are often 
used in combination with bananas with 
mayonnaise over all. Peach salad is 
made by cutting a quart of peeled yellow 
peaches into slices and mixing with a 
halt cupful of blanched almonds cover¬ 
ing with a dressing made by adding one- 
third cupful of whipped cream to t./o- 
thirds cupful of mayonnaise. Cherry 
salad is made by stoning large cherries 
carefully putting a hazelnut kernel in 
each cherry and dressing with mayon¬ 
naise. There are also sweet fruit salads, 
made of pears and strawberries laid on 
lettuce leaves with blanched almonds, 
and dressed with ginger syrup and 
cream, or in many cases with some alco¬ 
holic liqueur. These are usually very 
rich; in fact all fruit salads are really 
too rich to serve as a salad course in a 
heavy meal, and are usually served 
either at luncheon or in some collation 
in the afternoon or evening. Pineapple 
is very often combined with them. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows 7745, tucked 
house jacket with peplum, 34 to 44 bust. 
7720, breakfast jacket, 34 to 44 bust. 
7466, kimono or house gown, 34 to 44 
bust- 7725, work apron, small, 34 to 36, 
medium, 38 to 40, large, 42 to 44 bust. 
With or without straps over the shoul¬ 
ders. 7712 long or short kimono, small, 
34 to 36, medium, 38 or 40, large 42 or 
44 bust. With long, three-quarter or 
short sleeves. 
The second group includes 7726, fancy 
waist, 34 to 40 bust. 7714, blouse for 
misses and small women, 14, 16 and 18 
years- 7728, semi-princess gown, 34 to 
42 bust. With five gored skirt and blouse 
that can be made with shaped or straight 
front edge, with long or elbow sleeves. 
7727, three-piece draped skirt, 22 to 32 
waist. 7718, three or four-piece skirt, 
22 to 32 waist. Price of each pattern, 
10 cents. 
Graham big Biscuit.—Scald one cup 
of sweet milk; add one-fourth cup of 
sugar, one-half teaspoon of salt and one 
heaping tablespoon of butter; stir until 
sugar is dissolved and butter melted, 
then set aside to cool in another dish. 
Mix one and one-half cups of graham 
flour, one cup of white flour and 2 y 2 
rounded teaspoons of baking powder. 
When milk is cold add to the dry ingre¬ 
dients with one well beaten egg. Beat 
hard a few minutes, then stir in one-' 
half cupful of finely chopped figs ! 
dredged with flour. Fill hot greased 
gem pans half full and bake golden 
brown in a hot oven. These are delic¬ 
ious with jam or marmalade and are ex¬ 
ceedingly healthy. mrs. j. j. o. c. 
Bran and Wheat Chop. 
On page 106 of The R. N.-Y., J. E 
W. asks about bran as food for man. 
I have eaten fine biscuits and bread made 
of bran, but the entire wheat ground 
coarse is a much better food. 
For confirmed constipation you will 
find nothing better than the following: 
Plave some well-cleaned wheat ground 
coarse, as “chop feed for stock.” Do 
not sift it. Two cups of chop, one cup 
cold water, salt, beat thoroughly, spread 
about one-half inch deep in well-buttered 
baking pans, bake in a moderate oven 
till well done, but not browned too 
much. Break up into small pieces and 
let dry thoroughly in the oven with the 
door open. When cold grind through 
the food grinder. We call it wheat 
nuts. Take a small bit of butter in a 
teaspoon, fill with the wheat nuts, then 
chew—chew long and fast. You will 
find this a delicious, wholesome and 
common-sense food. Eaten with butter 
it makes a perfect balanced ration. If 
you are a victim of indigestion and the 
ills that jt brings, throw away all medi¬ 
cine; drink plenty of good, pure water, 
not during meals, but an hour before 
each meal and not for two hours after 
eating; and eat nothing but wheat ntUs 
and plenty of fruit for a month. You 
will be surprised at the change. 
The “chop” sifted makes a fine mush 
for breakfast to be eaten with butter 
or cream, and also makes bread with a 
rich, nutty flavor, much more whole¬ 
some than bread from fine flour. 
MRS. e. m. s. 
President’s Pudding.—Take two table¬ 
spoons of butter and one cup of sugar, 
cream together; break into it the yolks 
of four eggs, all the crumbs of half a 
loaf of bread, the juice and rind of one 
large lemon and one teaspoon of vanilla, 
mix. Put half the mixture in a pudding 
dish, then put on it a thin layer of pre¬ 
serves and the rest of the mixture on 
top of this. Make a meringue of the 
stiffly beaten whites of the eggs and 
sugar, spread on top and bake a deli¬ 
cate brown- Serve cold. 
MRS. J. J. O. C. 
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