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New England Dyes 
The following are New England recipes, 
from my old family recipe book : 
To Color Cotton Blue.—For 5 lbs. 
cloth dissolve 5 oz. copperas in sufficient 
water to cover the cloth. Soak three 
minutes; add 2 oz. prussiate of potash to 
clear water. Put the cloth in this and 
let stand half an hour. Then air the 
cloth and add 8 oz. more of prussiate of 
potash, dip again, air it. then add 2 oz. 
oil of vitriol. Strain and dip again, then 
rinse well. 
Another Recipe.—Prussiate of potash. 
1 oz.; oil of vitriol, % oz.; copperas, 7 oz. 
Put cloth in boiling copperas water, after 
which rinse in cold water. Dissolve 
prussiate in two or three gallons warm 
water. Stir in the vitriol, put in cloth 
Embroidery Designs 
An attractive little design is the safety 
pin holder. The under pnrt is used for the 
pins, the design side is the cover. The pin 
is to be embroidered with either outline 
or satin stitch in gray, with the lettering 
in brilliant pink, embroidered with outline 
stitch. The design is on white art fabric 
and, with mercerized floss to complete the 
embroidery, costs 20 cents. 
and work it well about one-half hour. 
This colors 4 lbs. of cloth. 
To Color Green with Logwood.—One 
ounce fustic. 2 oz. extract of logwood, 1 
oz. blue vitriol, one pail water. 
For Coloring Blue.—Four ounces cud¬ 
bear; 1 tablespoon extract logwood. 1 
tablespoon blue vitriol. For dark let it 
lie about five minutes. 
For Coloring Black.—Eight ounces ex¬ 
tract logwood. 1 teaspoon each of vitriol 
verdigris, copperas and a little madder. 
Put the extract into sufficient quantity 
of water to wet without crowding the 
goods. It will dissolve as soon as the 
water is hot. Put in another vessel the 
vitriol, copperas and verdigris; when hot 
put in the cloth. Stir it well 10 minutes, 
then put in the logwood dye, and put in 
your cloth again for 10 or 15 minutes, 
stirring it well most of the time. Then 
wash and rinse in strong suds twice be¬ 
fore drying. The madder water is put to 
the black dye before you put in your 
cloth. 
Dyeing Nankeen Yellow.—One pail of 
lye. a piece of alum half the size of a 
hen’s egg (everlasting). 
For Coloring Madder.—Three pounds 
madder. 1 lb. alum for 10 lbs. cloth. Boil 
the cloth \y<> hours in solution of alum, 
rinse thoroughly, soak one peck of wheat 
bran in which after straining rub the 
madder, let the cloth remain in this two 
hours, airing it often. For first rinsing 
put a little while in warm water, the 
other two rinsings clear cold water. 
Composition Blue.-—One ounce indigo 
pulverized, to 4 oz. sulphuric acid. 
To Color Brown with Catechu.—For 
10 lbs. of goods 2 lbs. catechu and 4 oz. 
blue vitriol. After it has laid in the dye 
two hours take it out and put in 4 oz. 
bichromate of potash ; let it lie half an 
hour or more. Rinse in good suds. Color 
in brass or iron. 
For Coloring Orange.—First a copperas 
dye, then dip in a weak solution of lime 
water. „ . ,, 
A Simple Black Dye.—Dor 1 lb. of 
cloth or yarn. 1 oz. logwood and % oz - 
vitriol. Have water enough so cloth or 
yarn will not be crowded. Put in the 
vitriol and let it come to a scalding heat, 
then skim and add the cloth and let lie 
one-half hour. Take it out. empty the 
vitriol water into another dish, and rinse 
in cold water. Put in logwood, scald and 
then skim : put the cloth in the logwood 
and let lie half au hour, air occasionally, 
then put the logwood and vitriol together. 
Let it stand in this 15 minutes, then 
rinse. ^ 
Yellow and Orange.—One-half pound 
su<rar of lead. 3 oz. bichromate of potash, 
"‘n le cloth into the of 1n, 'd fi’ - «t. 
tlvci in the polish. For the orange, t v » 
‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
the yellow cloth into two pails of water 
with a piece of lime as large as a quart 
cup dissolved in it. This will color 10 
lbs. MRS. S. C. J. B. 
Bran Coffee; Apple Butter 
I get so many little helps from your 
paper that I will give a few which might 
help others. 
Bran Coffee.—One-half gallon bran, 
one quart cornmeal, one handful graham 
flour, one large cup molasses, one egg. 
Mix and brown in oven. Watch closely 
when it is getting brown, or it will burn. 
I do not follow this recipe exactly, but 
use only bran with enough molasses to 
give the coffee just a slightly sweetish 
taste, then put in just enough good coffee 
to flavor. I have had compliments on the 
good coffee when I made it this way. 
In making gingerbread I substitute ap¬ 
ple syrup for part of the molasses called 
for. . 
How to make good apple butter without 
sugar: Use well-ripened apples, about 
three-fourths sweet and balance sour, for 
cider. They should all be so ripe that 
the sour ones are nice to eat. For every 
barrel of cider have five 12-qt. pails of 
pared and quartered sweet apples. Boil 
the cider down the day before unless you 
want to get up very early. Large copper 
kettles holding 25 to 40 gallons are used 
and it is cooked in the open here. Some 
of the boiled-down cider can be put in a 
tub and the apples put in, then the re¬ 
mainder of cider added gradually as it 
boils down. It will take about eight or 
nine hours from the time the apples are 
put in. This depends on how strong it is 
made. We put in large crocks, tie up. put 
upstairs and it keeps two years. When 
apples are first put in lift and stir every 
little while with a paddle, but when they 
begin to settle it must be stirred con¬ 
stantly with a long-handled stirrer, in 
shape something like a chopping hoe. Two 
barrels of cider and 10 buckets of apples 
will make about 20 gallons. I make very 
little jelly and preserves, as we never tire 
of the apple butter. When it is about 
done put in two gallons of grapes, from 
which the seeds have been removed. This 
gives it a nice flavor. Some people put in 
spices, but we prefer grapes. e. p. 
Dishwashing Notes 
I have none of the modern conveniences 
in my kitchen, and as I have no doubt 
there are many other farm women sim¬ 
ilarly situated, I will tell my method of 
simplifying the work of washing dishes. I 
scrape them all clean as possible (I 
tried wiping off with paper, but it nause¬ 
ated me), then wash them with soapy 
water and pile them up. If I have other 
work pressing me, I leave them so for 
a while. "When ready I use a clean cloth 
and wash them in clear hot water that I 
can just bear my hand in. and stand them 
on edge in a pan to drain. Boiling water 
I found cracked the enamel on my best 
dishes. If I had a sink, wire drainer and 
running water, I should never even own 
a dish towel. They dry so smooth and 
clear. m. e. l. 
A Fine Fruit Cake 
Cream together on'e-half cup of drip¬ 
pings or vegetable fat, one-half cup of 
butter, one cup of sugar; then gradually 
add four well-beaten eggs. Now add one 
cup of thick molasses, 1 lb. currants. 1 lb. 
raisins, % lb. citron cut fine, one cup 
chopped nut meats, one-half cup grape 
juice, four cups flour, sifted with four tea¬ 
spoons baking powder; add one-fourth 
teaspoon salt, two teaspoons powdered 
ginger, one teaspoon of cloves, nutmeg, 
cinnamon and spice; one-half cup chopped 
cocoanut if desired. Mix well; turn into 
a papered and greased cake tin. bake in a 
slow heat for three hours. MRS. C. c. M. 
Made-over Pie Crust 
When making pies I did not always 
wish to make turn-overs or tarts with the 
little pie crust remaining. After setting 
it away to use next time I usually forgot 
it. or the “next time” did not come until 
it had molded. Now, whatever I have left 
I mold into a small cake and bake when 
baking my pies. When the next baking 
day comes I crumble this up very finely 
into ray flour, using less shortening to cor¬ 
respond with that already in the baked 
crust. If finely crumbled it cannot be de¬ 
tected in the baked crust, except that it 
makes it a little darker in color. M. R. P. 
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