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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Canning Raw Rhubarb 
Tell the housekeepers to chop their 
rhubarb stalks (raw) rather coarsely; 
]»ack in the cans so the juice fills all the 
spaces and comes up over the top, then 
seal. Use no water. Just like fresh 
rhubarb when opened. E. .1. E. 
Peach Puffs 
Peach puffs are a favorite dessert in 
our family, and aie as easily digested as 
they are delicious. Puff's they truly are, 
for I have never tasted anything that 
.vas lighter. Everyone who has eaten 
them at our xdace has asked for the 
recipe, and. I think they are good enough 
to deserve wider circulation. 
Cream together one-half cup each of 
butter and sugar, add two eggs, one cup 
milk and two cups of flour into which 
has been sifted three teaspoonfuls of bak¬ 
ing powder. Butter cups and slice into 
them one good-sized peach, or an equal 
(piantity of any other kind of fruit or 
berries, then half fill the cups with batter. 
Set the cups .n steamer or in a kettle 
with enough water in it to come half¬ 
way up the outside of the cups. Steam 
forty minutes. This recipe will serve 
ten people. Serve with the following 
sauce: Beat the white of one egg very 
wuth a little vinegar, two tablespoonfuls 
of celery seed, one teaspoonful each all¬ 
spice, cinnamon and cloves and a half 
pint of grated horseradish. Bottle. 
MRS. F. E. K. 
Raising Your Own Vegetable Seeds 
The other day a woman said to me 
she would like to save her own garden 
seeds on account of the economy, but she 
always found they “run out” in a short 
time and she had a poor quality of veg¬ 
etables as the result. I have had such 
good success in the raising of my own 
seed that I would like to pass on my 
methods for the benefit of others. If 
careful selection is practiced, the quality 
of the vegetables will improve instead of 
deteriorate. The agricultural college of 
my State recommends the home raising 
of seed in order to secure the best results. 
Market gardeners who w'ish to secure su¬ 
perior strains raise their own seed. In 
several different kinds of vegetables they 
have secured strains superior to any that 
can be bought from seedsmen, and which 
they will not sell to the general public. 
They have attained these results by care¬ 
ful selection, and while the woman with 
the home garden may not have the time 
to exercise the extreme care they do, with 
.\11 of US remember how in flie <la.vs of oiir grandmothers it was tlie custom to have 
hung on the wall. Many of the old customs of Colonial 
early sixties have been revive{r and brought up-to-date, and the wall motto, 
one of the older home decoctions, is coming back. Our grandmothers used to embroider 
their rnotmes in w;orsted on buckram, but those of to-day are on cloth and embroidered with 
mecerized floss. _ In this issue we have illustrated design No. 649, showing the Stars and 
Stripes and bearing an appropriCe Inscription taken from a recent speech of President Wil- 
son. The stars and “•’c to be embroidered with the satin stitch in their 
lespective colors. The blue background' on which the stars are mounted is not to be em- 
moidered unless especially desired, in which case the Kensington .stitch shouhl be used 
The lettering is for either outline or satin stitch in royal blue. The finished design may be 
fCnied or mounted over h^vy cardboard or thin board, allowing enough margin o^ aU 
sides to pasC down to back of board. The design is stamped and tinted on fine oi aliiv 
•do'cems!'^'’'""’ mercerized* floss to completfLbrofdery? S 
light aud whip into it one-half cup of 
liowtlered sugar and an equal quantity 
of rich cream. I prefer this sauce with 
the puffs to any other, but when I am 
hurried I often serve simply with sugar 
and cream or with fruit juice. 
MBS. c. J. 
Mystery Pickle 
I send you our favorite recipe for 
pickle; will you publish it for the benefit 
of others? If not liked the celery seed 
or horseradish may be left out. 
A spcialty with one of the oldest chop 
houses in New York is a mixed pickle 
which is chopped so fine as to be almost 
paste-like in its consistency. It always 
appears in a mold shape, about the size 
of a small cup, and accompanies all chops, 
steaks and roasts. The materials have 
evidently been run through one of the 
patent grinders, and green tomatoes, pep¬ 
pers and celery seed are among its pro¬ 
nounced ingredients. Business men near 
Twenty-third street always sing its 
praises, and many of them have tried to 
get the formula of its preparation for 
their wives. They have never been suc¬ 
cessful, however, as that is evidently one 
of the trade secrets. Hence its name 
of “mystery.” Possibly the nearest ap- 
lu'oach to this favorite pickle is the fol¬ 
lowing: Run one peck of green toma¬ 
toes, six medium-sized wnite onions and 
nine small green peppers through a meat 
chopper, stir in one-half pint of salt and 
let the mi.xture stand twenty-four hours. 
Drain, put on vinegar enough to cover 
and cook half an hour. Add one-half pint 
of vinegar, one-half pound of sugar, two 
tablespoonfuls of ground mustard, mixed 
just a little attention to the subject it 
is possible to secure very good resuit.s. 
The entire secret lies in not taking 
seeds fimm plants indiscriminately, but in 
looking over your growing plants and 
marking for future seed taking .such as 
show superior traits, resistance to dis¬ 
ease, productiveness, and that have the 
marked characteristics of the original 
type. I know people who are going to 
save tomato seed, for instance. They 
wait until the tomatoes are picked and 
select a good-looking fruit or two from 
those aud take the seed. They may have 
grown on a plant that jiroduced very few 
perfect fruits, it may have been anything 
but a prolific hearer. Next year the 
plants repeating the characteristics of the 
parent will be very much inferior to the 
original strain. Whereas, if you remem¬ 
ber that “ like produces like” and select 
fruit from a heavy-bearing plant with a 
large percentage of perfect fruits and do 
this from year to year, you will produce 
plants superior to the original. This, 
of course, holds true Avith any plant. 
As the season is upon us in which we 
can select aud save our seeds for an¬ 
other year, it Avill pay us to do so, in 
more than a monetary sense, if we are 
careful in their selection. 
MRS. CHARLES JOHNSON. 
Pearl Barley With Raisins.—Carefully 
look over and wash a cupful of pearl 
barley. Cook in a double boiler in five 
cups of boiling water for four hours. 
Just before serving add a cupful ofrais'us 
which have been prepared by pour¬ 
ing boiling water over them and allowing 
them to stand until swollen, Seiwe hot. 
Snap-Shots from Home. 
Give cheer to the boys in camp and on shipboard 
by sending them pictures from home. There are 
likely to be some tedious, homesick days and a little 
cheer-up in the way of photographs of the home 
folks and the home doings will do them a lot of good. 
And some day when you want to give something 
a little more substantial, send along a Vest Pocket 
KODAK and ask your Soldier or Sailor Boy to send 
pictures to you. 
Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak, - - $6.00 
All Dealers'. 
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 
387 State Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
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