The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-06
Hints to HOuSekeeperS.

or ten years, while the latter will last
twice as long.-Cor. Practical Farmer.
Hints to HOusekeepers.
DIR. MARY Stafford communicates
the following to the Herald of Health:
The farmers wife in too many in
stances is prematurely old. If she has
no help, with the ever-pressing cares
of home and family, she finds very
little time for rest and relaxation from
care. But if she only knew how to do
it she could command more leisure,
and add to, rather than detract from,
the comfort of herself and those de-
pendent upon her.
In the first place, with all of the
fresh and abundant vegetables that
should be found in every farmers
garden, with fresh, sweet butter and
plenty of milk, the whole. household
can feast upon excellent and nourish-
ing food during the summer, without
using much meat. Monday-washday
there must be a fire certainly most of
the forenoon; then is the time, if fresh
meat is at hand, to make a delicious
and nourishing soup, a good meal of
itself. The meat cut in small bits, or
if bone bruised, is put on, on the
back of the stove, when the fire is first
built, to cook slowly, the grease is all
removed, the vegetables it be vege-
table soup-cut fine, are put in early,
not too many to make it too thick, but
enough, with some rice, to give it con-
sistency. While this has been
going on rice pudding has been
put in the oven, just enough
rice, with milk, sugar and raisins,
if one has them on hand, which re-
quires no previous cooking, and no
stirring, and is ready for the twelve
o'clock dinner. If there are berries,
and pie is preferred, put them into a
pudding dish with no crust beneath to
be made soggy and indigestible, but
with an overcovering of such material
as light biscuits are made, and thus
save time and trouble of kneading and
rolling, of placing and cutting out the
abominable compounds called pie-crust.
Why make a pie at all? Why not eat
the berries? Because pie is traditional
and much enjoyed by the farmer and
his help; and few berries used in this
way will 60 much further than when
eaten uncooked. Now, while the wash
ing is going on, the soup-making, the
pudding baking, the skillful housewife
will have her eye outreaching to the
needs of supper. In another kettle she
will have put a Uncovered dish, with
the amount of oatmeal or cracked
wheat needed for tea; she will have
learned just what proportion of water
is needed, and never have to give a
thought to its cooking, except to see
that enough water is kept in the kettle.
It will be done about the time all else
is, and will no doubt prove a very &C.
ceptable dessert to the man of the house
and his help, certainly with cream and
sugar. But if it is destined for Tea, it
is put into something that will give it a
shapely appearance when put upon the
table. If there is any sweet corn or
beans left over from the dinner they
can be prepared SO as to make a most
palatable succotash for tea, and so it
will always be with the economical
housewife.
Tuesday, there will be hot fire for
ironing, unless the farmers wife has
the advantage of kerosene stove,
which she certainly needs. Then, if
the butcher supplies a roast, is the
time to cook it; the larger it is the
more juicy and rare it may be baked,
50 why not get enough to have it cold
for Wednesdays dinner, and on Thurs
day make a meat pie, with nice,
light, biscuit-dough crust. Then there
are the bones, that would help to make
a good soup for Friday. If one feels
the necessity for meat, and something
of this kind could be done, it would
save vast amount of heat and fumes
that come from the frying of pork, be-
side giving better food, with less liabil-
ity to derange stomachs and livers.
The prudently-inclined farmers
wife, with husband ready to second
her efforts, can dispense with the use
of tea, not only to the pecuniary bene-
fit of the family, but to its health-pr0-
noting, and substitute in its place a
wholesome and most agreeable warm
drink, in the shape of rye, barley or
wheat coffee, burned or ground by her.
self.
A most superficial glance at the home
and surroundings of the farmer tells
the story of the thrift or the thriftless-
ness that prevails within and without.
If the farmers wife lacks order, if she
doesn't have q place for everything,
and put everything in its place, then
YOU will always find her behindhand
with all her work, and wondering how
| it is that Mrs. S., with quite as much
to do, never seems hurried, nor fur
ried; and that the washing and iron
ing, baking and cleaning are done
| when they should be.
The farmers wife wastes vitality,
and is perpetually hindered in her
work by her long skirts. There is no
reason why she should not, like the
farmer, be dressed suited to her work.
Up stairs, down cellar, in and out, she
should wear dress 80 short-say six
or eight inches from the ground-that
she can carry baby mp stairs or milk
down stairs without skirt entangle-
ments. Let her but try it once and she
will never depart from the freedom il
secures. The farmers wife should
never lose in her dress and personal
appearance the charm of neatness; q
clean calico, fresh collar, q tidy
apron and orderly-kept hair she may
always have.
THE English duty on tobacco amounts
to some as, 00O, 900 year.
Good for Babies.
We are pleased to cay that our baby Wa
permanently cured Of serious protracted ir
| regularity OF the bowels by the use Of Hor
Bitters BY it, mother, which ct the Same time
restored her 70 perfect health and strength.