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THE
POCUMTUC HOUSEWIFE;
A GUIDE TO
DOMESTIC COOKERY,
AS IT
IS
and
from
the
all duties
of a careful housewife.
Especially
adapted
outside places
Valley,
to
the
use
and are
and
mother's training.
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first
edition
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Baking Day
to
Bread
10
Boiled Dinner
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Roasts
18
Pickling Meats
21
Pies
22
Puddings
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Cake
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to tbe lEMtion of
1897*
TO THE READER.
the universal hunt for things ancestral, one essential part
IN of
the old
life
Why
should empty
platters
Surely, a
an ancestor.
The blood
it
fed
still
itself
Then
spit,
life.
Some housewives
made
to excel.
found in
By
this little
book, they
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Hbvertieement to
ifir^t
lEMtion,
J'
As
and
own
Daughters,
good
Economy, she has avoided all excessive
luxury, such as essence of Ham, and that wasteful expenditure
of large quantities of meat for Gravy, which so greatly contributes to keep up the price, and is no less injurious to those who
eat, than to those whose penury bids them abstain.
Many
for
daily Use,
the
mode
of preparing
it
may be
and
it
useful to others.
In that idea
from
it
it is
no Emolument, so she
trusts
Eat
iXlbat to
It will
to feed.
For Breakfast.
For Sunday morning
was
left
in winter
fry the
hasty-pudding that
too heating.
that can be
Week
is
with West
up.
when
the
men
cooked quickly, so as
it
working hard.
Eat
them go
to let
Sausages,
Ham,
to the
meadows
eggs, or pork and apple with a milk gravy, with Irish potatoes
boiled, are always handy.
Salt
buy a Barrel
of
them and
When
them
salt
the
yourself.
They
are very
Johnny cake
and Indian bread.
nice.
or
It is
flour
bread in the
it
for break-
fast
It is
of
bread
For Dinner.
Some
have friends
who
the Nooning.
There
no objection
come
everything
pre-
Spit
to this
if
can be started
is
away.
If
that
in for
is
is
also, so as to
thaw grad-
at
home, get some rice Porridge or brewis and cold meat. This
For a week
with Pye is enough for anyone on a leisure day.
day dinner boiled corned beef and pork with a pudding and
seasonable vegetables is a standard dish, and always relished
by working men. Lay in a good supply of Turnips and cabCalf's head and pluck makes a
bages. Pumpkins and squashes.
filling meal. You can have fresh meat frequently, even in warm
weather, if when you kill a sheep or calf you pass it around
to the neighbors, and they return the Compliment when they
kill.
It is usually safer to wait for cool Weather before killing
Fowls are always to be had. When the team
beef and pork.
goes to Boston in the winter with a load to
back a
fifty
pound
fresh
codfish,
weeks.
piece can be
sawed
is
sell,
have
it
bring
much
4*Store Codfish
who eat it
men came to the
people
is
if
it
and the
Wisdom
Sunday,
began losing:
" Conway for beauty, Deerfield for pride.
If it hadn't been for Codfish, Wisdom would have died."
as soon as a Wisdomite appeared.
until the loafers
of
These sugges-
Supper.
Arrange the cold meat and vegetables
large platter for the
men
left
from dinner on a
folks.
cooled.
for
Pie
common
Keep
use.
Cake on hand
a loaf of Rich
for
unex-
pected company.
How
to
and brush
hotter.
Economical People
Oven."
foot wood
Hard wood
to heat the
Take
as to nearly
fill
four
the Oven,
it
is
split fine
and
saved fuel to
doubtful
set
pile
it
it
quicker and
criss-cross so
in.
fire to
economy
heats
A
that
let
Hour
Top and
Sides will at
it is
all
them
lie
burned
first
off.
a minute.
or
more
is
usually enough.
See
The
to count
twenty
is
right for
it is
about right
Rye and
Indian.
Bake the Brown bread first, then flour bread and Pies, then
Cake or puddings, and last custards. After everything else is
out put in a pan of apples.
Next morning they will be deliciously baked.
of the
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Some
make a
When
it is
or more.
In that case
to
make
risen bottle
If it spoils
selling these
around to people
supply themselves.
Rye and
pour
a Batter.
it
so as to
who
It is said to
make
it
of
saving
into cakes,
and
enough
to
be very good.
Indian,
six or
lo
slice so as to
the sweeter
milk
with the
in
good.
is
Rye Bread
made
is
Flour Bread
If
it
Pumpkin
Stewed
tastes.
it
Put
of the oven.
not
is
the
same way.
made
quite so
stiff
and
baked
is
in pans.
bread runs short before baking day comes, light cakes can
be baked in the bake kettle or the tin baker. Draw out a solid
mass of Coals, set the bake kettle over it, put in your biscuit,
put on the lid, and cover it with a thick layer of coals.
Ivaised Biscuit
In winter,
and a half of
Put two pounds of flour
bake
Knead
an hour.
rise
in a quick
a piece,
oven.
mold
in half
into a pan
well.
If
made
Phil.
and mix
Make
and a
seven
in cakes three
it
salt.
Let
and
rolls
inches thick,
sliced
little
in the above.
into
it.
1808.
Put to
a pint of milk.
it
up and bake
it
By a Lady,
Lumm's).
a spoonful
it
biscuit
(like Sally
Warm
like
made much
are
is
shortening
little
as
made
at
Bath.
Mrs. M.
Muffins*
One
S.
Allen.
butter,
little
night.
In the morning
salt.
stir
in a Itttle soda
Let
it
rise
over
hour.^
Rusk.
Make
flour,
one teaspoon
salt
and
warm
let it rise
II
over night.
In the morn-
ing add one-half teacup butter, two well beaten eggs and flour
enough
bake,
split
them stand
open,
to roll.
let
pile lightly in a
Sally Luno.
One quart flour,
When done
in a slow
oven
crisp.
till
size of
Brown
Two
salt,
Mrs. F. Stebbins
Bread, (Sweetened)
cups Indian meal, four cups rye meal, one cup molasses,
one cup
raisins,
Brown
Two
Bread.
one and
flour,
vinegar added
and brown
in
last.
or boil.
Remove
lid
Johnny Cake.
One pint buttermilk, one pint meal, one pint flour, one egg,
one heaping teaspoon soda, one tablespoon sugar, salt.
A rice
little
Cake
salt,
is
made
mixed very
of
stiff
fire.
Fire Cakes.
Make
dough
they are
other.
fire
brown one
and water,
around a brisk
and a
make
and
set
it
stick.
Put a row of
side, slip
flat
them.
it,
irons
When
Mrs. C. H. Ashley.
one egg,
soda,
salt.
Indian Flapjacks*
in half
Flour Flapjacks.
Make a batter of buttermilk,
thick
enough
frying
pan
to cover the
up with
bit
pan a
When
bottom.
little
of a twist,
flour, pearlash
and
salt,
just
spread easily.
to
fry.
one side
is
done
just
and catch
fairly
it
on a
when
it
it
comes down
cook, spreading each with butter and sugar, and, on extra occasions, a little
Cut the
pile
down through
jg^Every
who
jacks,
family has a legend of an inexpert but muscular fryer of flaptossed so high, the cakes flapped up through the wide kitchen
This should be avoided.
meal,
salt
and a
pork has
just
been
fried
little
Drop
Set
it
Mrs. Yale.
Pour on boiling
butter.
for
which
brown
both sides. The
back where
it
will
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nDeat0.
girls
it
was
would
way.
to
set
about
First they
a one as would
it
made
last
till
as soon as breakfast
sure the
fire
Then
full of
cold water.
Into this was plumped a big piece of corned beef and another
of fat
pork.
to the
work
of scraping, peeling
vegetables.
carrots
Then
quarters of squash were laid on the top and the dinner was un-
der way.
The
steel
home-spun
plain
cloth
plates
At the
"rye and
injun "
bread,
mangoes and
and beer.
In Deerfield the conch shell and the dinner horn were unnecessary for as the sun reached high noon the old sexton rang
At
this
home
slices
of
to dinner
The
last
The beef
table.
of crimson beets,
pinkish
turnip,
cabbage.
from
pewter
golden
squash and
of chairs
Then grandfather
kitchen begin to
was
for that
after the
rise.
day and
if
it
anew.
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for
suppper with
turkeys failed
been cut
pork
slices of salt
from having
and
some family
jollification
Fricasseed Chicken.
Joint the chicken
uncommon
chickens and
to
off at
many
ua believe, while
boil gently
till
tender.
When done
fry
to a
flour
last thing,
pour part of
this
gravy
over the chicken which has been placed on the platter with the
pork around
The
it.
rest of the
Cod
Fried
Soak cod
Fish.
over night in cold water.
fish
roll in
Cut
in pieces
salt
about
pork.
of
slices
off
a part of the
fat.
Take some
mainder
of the fat
Apple
also
is
and
good
salt
fried
deep
slices of salt
dish.
Turn
Dip
fritters.
Mrs. Yale.
Take out into a
the frying pan and pour
Pork Fried
like
with sausage.
it is
hot pour
it
in Batter.
I6
fry
Mrs. Jenks.
Cracker Hash.
Chop
Add
salt,
make
Bake
one hour.
Vegetable Hash.
Take whatever remains
and potatoes,
which a
bit of
Calf's Head
Soak the head
and Pluck.
in
chop
fried,
fine,
Miss L. Stebbins.
Sea Pie.
This pie is so called because it was brought to Western New
England long ago by a sea captain. In order to make it you
first take a piece of pork or veal, or anything you happen to
have.
Put it " a bilin " in the great iron pot over the fire, add
a quart of sweet dried apples, some salt if necessary and " bile "
till the meat is nearly done.
Then add a cup of molasses and
materials
to
It
modern
was the
Smith.
During the last year of Uncle Oliver's life he was in miserable health.
became necessary for him to make a trip to Boston on businesss (a
serious undertaking in those days)
He said that he felt too weak to go
but a sea-pie, he thought, might set him up and enable him to accomplish
his mission.
So "Aunt Lois "who "looked after him " bestirred herself
and succeeded in finding some dried sweet apples, (sea pies were then
going out of fashion) made a pie and set it before him. Having partaken
of which he was so strengthened that he made the journey and settled his
business.
It
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If the
be
little
and
When
brisk.
up a sound strong
fire
should
joint to roast
fire,
proportioned to the
make
Let
it
be
to
be roasted.
many
The
first
is
Never
salt
it
else.
down
to the fire,
To
Roast Beef.
Wash
to
it,
spit
it
and
lay
To
it
before the
fire
"Economical Housekeeper."
Roast a Pig.
it
up
till
flour
it
fill it
full
and sew
save
all
in the
it
Be
sure to
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When
to run.
the pig
is
done enough
the crackling
till
is
crisp;
them
off
stir
the
up; take a
fire
it,
spit.
off
each end; cut the under jaw in two and lay the parts
at
each side; melt some good butter, take the gravy you saved
at
and put
fine
in
it,
boil
just killed,
If
it,
pour
it
and a
it
to the table.
if
killed the
half.
Roast Turkey.
Wash
till
done.
sew
stuffing,
it
fill
Keep
it
turn-
To
When
over a
little
Chicken
you have
it,
or
spread
Pie.
Take out
if
butter.
second
joints
all
drum-
and wings.
in
the meat,
sweeten and
season to taste. Cut a large hole in the top crust before covering the pie.
Two
six
stir
with
it
ing.
Mix
soft
dough.
as for pie
crust,
and
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wet
with
milk to make a
Baked Beans.
For an ordinary sized family put a quart of beans
In the morning set them on the stove
night.
off
the water.
Add more
till
to
soak at
come
they
it
come
to a boil,
into
all
purpose.
is
quite
much
enough) put
cranberry bean
it
to
If the
If
covered at
the oven
first.
it
water
is
The
for this
Corned Beef.
For a hundred pounds
four pounds of
pounds of
salt,
mix
together.
and so on.
be placed on top.
feet,
cover with
more;
boil about
two hours,
slip
let
salt
and water;
Sausage.
Chop
ounces of
To
Pickle
To
Mary Hawks.
salt,
Fry or bake.
pepper.
Little
Ham.
enough
to cover.
Mrs. M.
Souse.
Pigs feet, ears,
skins, etc.,
throwing in cloves,
and
a weight
in flour,
and
on top.
fry
salt,
S.
Stebbins.
pepper, as
brown.
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in a
in.
Put a plate
Cut
in slices, dip
put
Head
Cheese^
Chop
if
you
fine,
salt,
like).
it.
When
cold serve.
lpiC6*
J'
At some seasons
Make
of
sional scalding
it
year,
may be kept
the
squash,
makes
fill
the gap.
delicious
and
is
With occa-
fall.
A bushel
pies.
the
not expensive.
pie
in,
of
cooked
boiled raisins
require very
If all
things
fail,
little
pud-
At Thanksgiving time,
it
saves labor to
from the
Pie Crust.
One quart of
plates.
make
Pack them
roll
in
slip
an earthen
upon another.
Mix with a
knife and wet with cold water until you can roll
and
seventy-five or
it.
Fold over
Cranberry Pie.
Fill a
crust,
and bake
Cover with an
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Marborough
Steam
Pic*
and
strain.
Stir
in
one spoonful butter; when cool, add two eggs, the rind and
Bake
juice of a
Pumpkin
One
Pic*
Pumpkin
One
and a
little
Pic Without
quart pumpkin,
five
E::s.
Sweeten
to taste
crust.
allspice,
water, and
one cup
ginger.
thickens.
ginger,
Raisin Pie
One cup seeded
ginger, salt
and
raisins,
spice.
Bake
Mince
One
citron
pickle
and
raisins.
vinegar;
of
nutmeg,
or sweet
clore
and
lemon grated.
Mrs.
Pie.
salt,
fine, also
liked.
flour,
Avis Ailms.
or Persian Apple*
One cup chopped rhubarb, one cup
Cream
add a
crusts.
Rhubarb
spoon
two
^^iss
each
spoon
in
Pie*
third
one tablespoon
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J.
Stebbins.
table-
Squash
spoon
Mrs. F. Stebbins.
Pic.
One cup
sifted squash,
flour,
raisins
seeded and
Lemon
Pic
and grated rind of one lemon, one cup of sugar, one
cup water, two tablespoons flour, salt. Flour and water boiled
together; white of egg partly reserved for frosting with a spoonJuice
ful of sugar.
Sweet Potato
Slice boiled
Pic.
a covered plate;
potatoes into
Cheese Cakes.
Two cups soft cottage
add sugar, a
Pour
in
Mrs. Jenks.
Marborough
cheese,
Puddingfs.
Mrs. Baker.
pound butter,
Mix while warm; when cool, add five eggs
Bake
well beaten, nutmeg and cinnamon, one half cup cream.
with one crust; makes four pies.
One
three-fourths
Apple "Pudding
Pic*
Five cups strained stewed apple; add while hot a small cup
of butter,
five
two cups
of sugar,
Then add
eggs beaten light, two and a half cups of rich milk, spice to
taste.
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Fried Pics.
One cup
can be
soda,
flour
as
Pan
Mrs. Ingersoll.
Pics*
quarter
sugar.
half
crust
of
gone,
all
Bake
the
allspice
a very
of
Let
butter.
of
night.
fill
of water
first
is
still
bottom
heat
is
warm^
of
two
the crust, cover with a plate and return to the oven for half an
hour
to
or lunch
gone days.
Pan Dowdy.
more pork.
crust.
salt
apple
pork,
crust.
When
done eake
allspice
off
or
on the
rest of the
25
Stcbbins Padding.
One pound bread, one
morning
pound
sift
In the
night.
of butter,
nutmeg and
raisins,
of
milk.
Apple Dumplings.
Make
and core
peel
apples;
tart
fill
Steam
or
Iput)&ing0,
(not scalding
and two
ginger.
Boil
Leave plenty
or
pudding
stiff.
it
of
room
very
and warm
in
the
will
answer instead
Tasty Pudding.
little
of milk.
cloth.
Some
milk; others
lasses,
little
thick
for
One
peo-
warm
Water
stir in
cider molasses, a
little salt,
Bake slowly
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and
butter,
Miss Whiting.
When
meal.
adding the
cool,
Bake slowly
rest of the
the
in
stir
two hours,
for
Mrs. E. Co\\xes.
Apple Slump.
Fill
cup
full of
cup sugar, two thirds cup molasses, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon; cover and cook a very little. Make a biscuit dough with-
Cook
out shortening, roll one inch thick and cover the apple.
let
it
The
whole and
brown.
One teacup
salt,
should be
quarters
clear.
Miss E. Williams.
the crust,
Lift
rice,
two and a
one half
tea-
and nutmeg.
and
rice
on the
set
it
Cook
Then bake
is
needed.
in
Bake
salt,
tea-
thirty-five minutes.
Miss E. Williams.
Bake one
Add
three
Sweeten and
eggs,
flavor
and
pint
to
of
taste.
half hour.
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Plum
Mrs. Jenks.
Puddingf.
in
cup
of sugar,
ins.
Bake
fine.
Add
seven eggs,
of
rais-
Fudding Sauce.
One cup
sugar,
two tablespoons
butter,
Add one
or wine
if
Engflish
beaten egg,
salt,
and teaspoon
of
gill
of
vanilla,
preferred.
Plum
Puddingf.
of sugar, one
pound
pounds stoned
suet,
raisins,
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The production
of
particular
and
care
This can be
ness to ensure
its
hand
made
keeping
for
chance
or
visitors
before Thanksgiving, of
six or
other
rich-
Should
it
with a
foam.
Pearlash
is
a necessary ingredient in
Thrifty
all
cakes
made
fall
into bottles.
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A manufactured
cream
tartar
soda
article called
to
make
of
Wedding Cake.
Three pounds
is
raisins,
two pounds
of currants,
one half
citron, a
cloves, a
Stir
little
a wine
molasses,
glass
of wine,
eleven eggs,
Honeymoon Cake*
Three fourths
of a
one-half cup of milk, two eggs, spice, one teaspoon cream tartar,
four
one cup
and a
citron,
flour.
four eggs,
taste,
one
two cups
Election Cake.
Four pounds
butter,
flour,
one scant quart of milk, eight eggs, one half pint wine
two
like bread;
when
light
of
Make up
gills yeast.
flour, yeast
of currants,
two pounds
of
When
raisins.
again light
Bake two
hours.
Raised Cake.
One and
Bake
cup
one egg, a
full of
as soon as
chopped
little
raisins.
made.
30
of
sugar, one
Pound Cake.
A pound of butter and the same of sugar and f^our, ten eggs,
two pounds raisins, one pound currants, half a pound of citron
one teaspoon soda, spices if one likes.
Beat
three fourths of a
raisins, a pint of
pound
same
of sugar,
pound
of
of
teaspoon of soda.
of
milk, four
soda, two
eggs, a teaspoon
cream
tarter, extract
one cup
five
and a cup
of citron sliced
teaspoons
Bake
fine.
fifty-
minutes.
Little
of raisins
of
Plum Cakes
coffee
cup
quart of flour.
of
to
Keep Long.
sugar, a cup of
1805.
little
less
than a
butter, a
a walnut.
little
tin plates
Bake
currants, the
brandy.
Beat
same
of
citron,
some time
on them the
all for
in a brisk oven.
Spong;e Cake.
Ten
till
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stiff
and
stir
flour lightly,
in
adding lemon
last.
family and
is
much
prized.
Shrewsbury Cakes.
A pound
of
butter, three
composition to a pound of
this
Bake with
cakes.
flour.
Roll
it
little
light.
into small
a light oven.
Blueberry Cake.
make
a thick batter.
Bake
of flour, a
pound
of butter, a
quart
warm
soda dissolved in
flat tin
sheets
and
Roll
made
for
it
on
the
butter in
it.
Sugfar Gingerbread.
A cup
of butter, three
tablespoons of ginger.
Some
salt
and
flour
to
soda,
mix very
two
stiff.
of flour,
two pounds
of sugar, a
pound and a
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very thin on
flat tin
sheets.
This
is
Roll
ginger.
still
in use.
Cream
Gingerbread.
One cup molasses, one egg, one
half
Soft Gingferbread.
One cup molasses, one heaping teaspoon
full
soda, a
little salt,
and
salt
to taste.
Buttermilk Gingerbread.
One and
cup of sugar, a
Flour to
make
to
taste, a
teaspoon of soda.
stiff.
Ginger Snaps.
Two cups of molasses,
a quick oven.
Cream Cookies.
A cup of sugar, a cup
of
flour.
Caraway
One and
Mrs. Whiting.
Cookies.
cup of
work.
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to
make very
and
tie in
butter,
one
Roll
stiff.
Dougfhnuts.
Two eggs, a cup
Mrs. Arms.
of sugar, a little
nutmeg and
salt, a
table-
and a
Rye
Two
Dougfhnuts.
quarts of rye flour,
two
cup of
thirds of a
lard,
salt.
a pint of
Mix very
hard.
and
twist each
Fry
strip.
fast
and
crisp.
Raised Dougfhnuts.
One
cupful of lard or
butter,
two cups
of
Warm
stir in flour
enough
to
make
a batter, and
Knead
then
roll, cut
out and
let rise
let
it
soft
and
let rise
again;
before frying.
Custard.
One and one
Mrs. Ball.
the same
little salt,
nutmeg on
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of
top.
Raspberry Cream.
Take a quart
berries into
your juice
one way
it
to
of thick
Then
wallops.
take
your
in, that
it
it
the
off
taste.
fire
Stir
may be
To make
it is
it
it
two
three
or
and
an hour.
stir
Then sweeten
it
it
it
to
up.
it.
"Whipped Cream.
Take a quart
of
of eight eggs
beaten with
Whip
it
middle.
Take
off
bit of
lemon peel
it
tied to the
into glasses.
duced
to a quart.
Strain
and
cool.
mange.
To make
of several eggs.
jelly
it
is
re-
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till
J9S^ Porridges are always good for children. They make an easy dinner
for the women when the men folks take their dinners to the field; and a hot
dish of hulled corn and milk or rice porridge is relished by the men on a
cold night for supper.
Rag
Toast.
Brown
in the
all
bottom
Make an
of a large dish.
it.
Mrs. Whiting.
Mulled Buttermilk.
and sugar.
them
Crumb
in
few
slices of
bread.
Let
little
it
salt
boil
up
Hulled Corn.
it is
is
out.
Then
boil
it
soft.
Samp.
new corn is hard enough not to crush in
some cracked very coarse. Put as much as you
dinner in a pail and pour on cold water. The hulls
As soon
as the
wish for
will rise.
pail,
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into
on the
Repeat
Boil
it
poured
preserver, Ci5er
dom
'
Economical people
sickness.
who
They
skim
it,
will sel-
unhealthy,
are well."
are
good
for
common
Raspberry Jam.
pounds
Six
berries
and
set
Gtroa Melon
Preserves^
cover.
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Mrs. C. E.Williams.
until tender.
water
if
apple
is
pounds sweet
and cores
and cook
cook
five
parings
and apple
in
to water.
Let
layers
alternate
it
and
Add more
necessary.
and a
rainy day
soon as
it
Boil
down
press, either
when
brass kettle
two thirds
full
apples.
in
the
Take
Fill
tered apples.
and
will freeze
the
and
a barrel
it
will
grow
sauce where
It
it
needs time to
is
mixed
Syrup
To
first
little
be-
in.
in the spring
make
sauce with
soaked in water.
Sweet Pickles.
eight pounds fruit use one quart vinegar, four pounds sugar,
fruit
pour over
fruit.
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Pour
off
and
use
boil until
it
in cakes
Put
clear.
it is
and puddings
it
as
and water
Mangoes.
Take green muskmelons, remove the seeds and put them in
and water over night. Fill them with onions, horseradish
chopped fine, mustard seed and cloves, sew them up and pour
salt
Pickled Cabbage*
Pack red cabbages, the large heads cut
Pour weak vinegar and
brass kettle.
until the
cabbage
is
or jar
tender.
down
piece so as to pin
in
salt
quarters, into
over
them.
Scald
the leaves.
in a
keg
Tomato Soy.
One peck green
add one cup
liquid
salt
and
let
of sugar, a
cup
Then
drain
till
soft, also
add a
off
the
of grated horseradish,
little
cover with
ground mustard.
till
thick.
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of
^be
lpb?6ical (rector.
may
This department
affirmed
to
be worth double the Price of the Book, as the receipts are not
only safe and cheap, but such as can be easily procured, and
are what cannot possibly do the least
if
harm
to the
constitution,
believe will
hot
flip
on going
Plunge
foams well.
This
in
A Quaker Stew
molasses, a
little
Slice of
made
strip of
stir
salt
it
Warm
to heat.
up
till
it
the bed
the cold.
good
for
Take hot
strings.
with a
is
cure.
fire
Pour on some
off
Take a piece
cough.
in a beer
a very agreeable
is
is
mug.
the red hot poker and
Nothing
to bed.
or cold in doses to
Boil until
it
suit.
camphor.
Take brandy
Let
this dis-
"For
down
is
it
as
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there
For a Cough.
Add a
to a pint.
and
cool,
up a cold.
gill of
For Humors
cream
on a lump
oil
is
of tartar
of
lemon
the Blood.
in
juice.
Make
a paste of sulphur,
and molasses.
May
spearmint,
Boil
like.
yarrow,
mullein,
sarsaparilla,
coltsfoot,
down
Make
add molasses
make
to
syrup.
all
preventive
of
Spring fevers.
"Elixir Pro,
orders.
is
N. E. rum
Add the
saffron
better."
Mrs. S.
aloes; let
it
stand
Then fill up
The longer it stands the
headache
and
warm
a day.
ashes; put
dis-
myrrh,
of
in the sunshine or a
wood
digestive
one ounce
saffron,
may
M.
Child.
take a shovel
cause vomiting;
full
When
if
it
of clean
it
has
set-
does the
Mrs. E. A. Howland.
"For Earache.
"For Deafness.
with clarified honey.
Take a strong
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the
center
fill
of
it
an
unbaked
bread
loaf of
Pour a small
from the
Mrs. Howland.
them on a bed
Reduce to powder
the morning,
A Good
distressed
is
fruit or
it
Mrs.
Howland.
is
cake
this
eat
when
of food.
An Ointment made
hand
is
excellent
when
of
drawn up.
Mrs.
'Motherwort
is
Pennyroyal
is
it
good
Mrs.
Child.
"The
dew
off
attention of
and
finally
young
was called
to
on
his
bones go
Child.
Students and
and
or for
to alter his
doing
appearance, to recover
of
camomile, drank a
Or,
Hour.
down
and
have
little
known
Turf of fresh
The Jaundice.
Take
as
much
as will lie
on a
Shilling, of
sweat.
the
in
Her appe-
relief.
spirits,
tite
Or half a Pint
The King's
Evil.
of Strong
Take
much cream
as
till
you
Decotion of Nettles.
of Tartar as will lie
For an Ague.
Take
dram
Do this
A Cold
as near as possible,
in
an orange;
the Head.
roll
it
of
it
Powder
of
Myrrh, mix
it
of sack after
come on.
fits
Doctor Mead.
roll
into each
nostril.
a Plaister of
with Butter.
lying
ful of Juice of
Penny-royal mixed
twice a Day.
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with
Rub
the
Or give a
back
at
spoon-
brown Sugar-Candy,
A
salt
it
Amer. Cook.
a pewter vessel.
Milk Porridge.
Take
a leg of
noon, putting
cool
thing and
Strain,
last
salt to taste.
"Chicken Panada.
Take
off
Caudle.
cool,
peel,
stir at
Make
times.
and nutmeg.
Soap Making.
and put
it
all
fat that
comes along.
cellar.
Drop
into
when
It
is
it
gets
dark,
and every-
along in the courseof a year. The lye will work on it and keep
In the spring
when
is
to drip,
and
water and
let
let it
them stand
in the
to
bottom,
set
up on
several days.
If it is
or
it.
six
not a
if
sticks
will
Then pour on
boiling
on water
until
egg
it
fat
thing
down
a ninepence,
it
is
about
right.
On
soap day morning get breakfast out of the way early and
Swing the
on the crane
for
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the soap, and a smaller one for the grease which should be put
on
to heat with
how much
Too much
of each.
will eat
make
until
If
it jell,
much
or
take out a
it
This
will
Boil
is
and
first
Then
does thicken.
it
to the
When
thin,
it
Water
it
little in
add
make
it
it
lye will
boil again.
start again.
Compiled.
in
its
wash
it
the
Selvages.
way
the Sel-
vage goes; then take clear water, not too hot for that makes
strain the
your lather;
let
it
it
upon
a clean Stick
it
and beat up
make
will
the
water yellow.
Let your Mushns stand to soak, then wash them one by one,
squeeze them, and shake them open into a dish;
Wash
Scalding.
whilst they
water
To
in a clean
Starch.
Pound
are
first
warm and
Water be
*
then
let
your
To
them take
Powder Blue.
rinse
of
Squeeze them very hard and pull them out with dry
Hands.
your
for that
Pump
as
Take
a Pint of
Pump
Water
water to a Quarter of a
in a Skillet,
46
and put
it
over
clear Fire
till it is
Way
one
stirring
boils,
till it
Starch, keep
your
in
it
is
it
cold, take
Hand
them
your double
Fist,
till
in
it;
first
starched
Hands, then
open them,
rub them slightly through your Hands; take the two Ends, and
50 clap them between your Hands; hold them against the Light
See
to
that
is
if
it
If
over gently;
hard, for
if
hands;
you
let
fly
will
when
very thick
be limber.
and
they are
asunder, and
tears
You must
them;
not
and very
neither
spoils
the
Colour.
as
pull
till
you
finish
about
one upon another; then with your Box-iron, iron the under
six
one
first,
because
it is
It
Spruce Beer.
bunch
of spruce
like.
Boil
them
all
together in
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is
well out.
next .
Compiled.
Blackberry Wink.
Jam
and
the berries
let
them stand
twelve hours. Strain and add three pounds sugar to three quarts
juice; let
make
Add
it
Do
a gallon.
not close
it
tight until
water enough to
is
it
done ferment-
pounds
made
the
and water.
Raspberry Vinegar.
and a
Then
ries
and
off
of ber-
To every
When
loaf sugar.
let it
day. Drain
it
sugar
pound
of
pounded
Mrs.
The young
girls in
large spoonful
common
candles.
it
at
Buy
the family
candle wicking.
it
odd times.
little
who are
Keep a
Tow
does
Solly.
Candle Dipping.
ones.
in
When
in a glass of
or fevers.
this.
it
Put
Dip them
in
alum water
to
Place two long poles across the kitchen a foot or more apart,
resting the ends
fioor,
on chair backs
at a
one
at
Take
Melt
the rods
a time and dip the wicks in the hot tallow, Before they
cool and
stiffen,
this
apart.
letting
them
uneven.
Two
stick requires.
Let them harden thoroughly
them from the rods. Bees wax melted in the
tallow makes them harden. Bleach some of the best ones by
hanging them in the window when the sun will strike them.
If you wish to make only a few run them in molds.
Potato Starch. Peel and grate a quantity of potatoes;
put the pulp into a coarse cloth between two boards and press
Mix the juice with an equal quantity of water. In an
it dry.
hour's time it will deposit a fine sediment, on which pour boiling water, and your starch is ready for use.
Or dry the sediment in the sun and keep for future use.
Skimmed Milk is a good starch for calicoes.
Economical Housekeeper.
Substitutes for Tea and Coffee. The leaves of currant
bushes picked very small and dried on tin can hardly be dis-
an ordinary candle
before you
slip
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excellent substitute
which was
best.
Save
your
all
for
coffee
fish skin,
and keep
it
to
settle
coffee.
Shob Blacking.
them
Set
in the
adding a
half a day,
and
boil
down
it
Wash
elderberries
in a kettle of water.
water as needed.
Strain
It will
the
it
liquid
give a fine
Economical Housekeeper.
on them.
This
may be used
Rose Water.
over a slow
it
flies
it
fire
and
distill
when
they are in
very gradually.
it
it
in thin slices.
blos-
full
it
still
water,
Bottle the
close.
Boil until
it is
tender.
Spread
will
Ecoonmical Housekeeper.
som.
let
The
without apprehension, as
it
flag root
Make
until
it
a thick
candies.
out to dry.
50
it
Purple Slate.
in cider in
an iron pot.
Nankeen.
A piece
made
make
comes around
loaf sugar
color
that
will
never
hen's egg
wash
out.
into petticoats.
Straw Color.
Dark
Slate.
Brown.
Boil
maple
Boil butternuts.
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