1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
60 
The Rural Patterns. 
The bishop dress is one of the sim¬ 
plest yet one of the best that the infant 
can wear. White Persian lawn is the 
material illustrated and the trimming 
is frills of linen lawn but dresses of this 
kind are made from all the soft fine 
lawns and batistes that are adapted to 
babies’ use and can be finished with 
frills of fine lace or embroidery in place 
6528 Infant’s Bishop Dress, One Size. 
of the plain ones. Either long or short 
sleeves can be used as preferred and the 
neck can be finished with an under-fac¬ 
ing or with a narrow band. The dress 
is made with front and back portions 
that are gathered at the neck edge. The 
sleeves are in one piece each, gathered 
into bands, whatever their length. The 
quantity of material required is 2 z / 2 
yards 30 or V/h yards 44 inches wide. 
The pattern 6526 is cut in one size only; 
price 10 cents. 
A very nice apron is shown in No. 
6537. Checked linen with bands of white 
makes the one illustrated but ginghams 
and percales, lawns and all similar sturdy 
materials are appropriate, with bands of 
the same or in contrast as liked. The 
apron is made with the front portion, 
which includes the skirt, and the back. 
6537 Work Apron, Small 32 or 34, 
Medium 36 or 38, Large 40 or 42 bust. 
I here are patch pockets arranged over 
the front and there is a belt attached to 
the back which keeps the fulness in 
place. The apron is closed with buttons 
and buttonholes. The quantity of ma¬ 
terial required for the medium size is 
534 yards 24 or 27, 3 /z yards 30 inches 
wide, with z / 2 yard 27 inches wide for 
bands. The pattern 6537 is cut in three 
sizes, small 32 or 34, medium 36 or 38, 
large 40 or 42 inches bust measure; 
price 10 cents. 
Cough Candies. 
During the Winter, when colds and 
coughs are far from uncommon, it is 
worth while to know how to make good 
cough-candies and as they are easily 
made and keep well there seems to be no 
excuse for not having them on hand 
when needed. The following recipes 
furnish plain direction for making a 
few kinds but they are intended, too, 
as suggestions for other kinds, for the 
changing of the “remedy” may make a 
candy more agreeable to certain tastes, 
and require no change in the basic candy. 
To make a fine hoarhound candy: 
Steep two ounces of dry hoarhound in 
a pint and a half of water for half an 
hour—let simmer briskly without hard 
boiling. Strain and to the tea add three 
and a half pounds of brown sugar. Boil 
until the syrup will crack when tested 
in cold water. Pour out on to greased 
pans or plates and when cold break into 
small pieces. This recipe gives a plain 
hoarhound candy but if a teaspoonful of 
creme de menthe be added when taken 
from the fire the character of the candy 
changes and it becomes, practically, the 
same thing as the mentholated cough- 
drops purchased in packages—at many 
times the cost of the homemade ones. 
Both the dry hoarhound and the creme 
de menthe can be had at drug stores. 
Granulated sugar may be used if more 
convenient and, with either kind, the 
addition of half a cupful of butter just 
before taking the candy from the fire is 
an improvement. The candy may be 
pulled, like taffy, if liked, and drawn 
out into sticks, broken off into “drops” 
or put in any shape wanted before it 
gets entirely cold. The important point 
in this, and all cough-candies, is to have 
them hard enough to dissolve slowly 
when held in the mouth. 
Iceland moss (sometimes called Irish 
moss) makes one of the finest cough- 
candies known. Cover any amount of 
the moss with cold water and let stand 
over night. Look over carefully, to avoid 
any foreign substances, then put in a 
double boiler with plenty of water and 
cook (slowly) until the mass is like a 
heavy glue. Measure, and to each pint 
add two pounds of granulated sugar. 
Cook until a bit can be rolled into a soft 
ball between the fingers, then pour on to 
buttered tins and break when cold. 
Balsam candy may be made by adding 
from six to ten drops of oil of tar (note 
that it is oil of tar ) to any recipe of 
molasses candy, or butterscotch, just as 
it is taken from the fire. This candy is 
as healing as any of the balsamic reme¬ 
dies in syrup form and has the advan¬ 
tage, over them, that it can be carried 
around in a box ready for use at any 
time—as the syrupy form cannot. While 
not as pleasant to the taste as some 
other flavors the writer values this 
candy above all others. The one pre¬ 
caution should be taken of breaking the 
candy into the smallest possible pieces, 
and using only enough to allay the 
spasms of coughing ds they come on. 
If eaten as other candies might be there 
is danger of its becoming nauseating. 
Flaxseed and slippery elm furnish the 
soothing element in this candy. Pour 
half a pint of boiling water on six table¬ 
spoonfuls of flaxseed and let stand 
where it will keep warm for a couple of 
hours. At the same time, have soaking 
in another dish a cupful of slippery elm 
bark, broken in small pieces, and, like 
the flaxseed, kept warm. Use enough 
water to keep the bark well covered. 
Strain these through cheese cloth, press¬ 
ing enough to get all the water from 
them. To this liquid add \/ 2 pound of 
sugar (either granulated or yellow) and 
boil until it shows signs of going back 
to sugar. If lemon is liked add the juice 
from two, when the candy is about half 
cooked. When cold, this candy will 
break into crumbly pieces. 
These “troches” are as good as any 
that can be purchased and are made 
without cooking. Get the druggist to 
pulverize one ounce, each, of cubebs, 
sweet flag root, licorice root, and gum 
arabic. Take out a little of the licorice 
root to use when cutting the troches, 
then mix the remaining ingredients thor¬ 
oughly and moisten with one dram of 
oil of anise and three drams of oil of 
cubebs. Add half a pound of finest 
grade confectioner’s sugar and just 
enough warm water to form a very 
stiff dough. Sprinkle a board with the 
reserved licorice root; roll the dough 
to a thin sheet and cut the “troches” 
with a thimble. The scraps may be gath¬ 
ered into a. mass, and rolled again. If 
they get too dry in the handling add a 
very little bit of water. Lay the troches 
on a waxed paper and let stand a few 
days, until dry enough to permit packing 
them in boxes between layers of waxed 
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