The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-24

a COdl uIC III a SA0CO3 :"
will prevent the coal from burning
out fast, and throw more largely the
heat into the room. Try it.
BoARDING+sCHOOL CANDY.
Take a cup of fine ~pulverized
sugar, wet it up with just enough
water to make a past, knead this
into a cream until it is like confec-
t onery candy, then flavor it if you
choose and stick hickory or butter
nut meats into it, or, if you choose,
dates or figs let harden a little, and
it is a good imitation Of the cream s
you buy. The beauty of it all is
that it does not have to be cooked.
CHEESE MACARONI.
Throw a quarter of a pound Of
macaroni, broken into pieces an
inch long, into three pints Of boiling
water, with a large pinch OF salt.
The saucepan should be large, or
the water will rise over when the
macaroni boils fast, which it should
do for twenty or twenty-five min
utes, Wnen done strain the maca-
roni through a colander; put it
back into the saucepan with an
ounce of fresh butter, a small pinch
of white pepper, and salt if neces-
sary, and shake it over the fire for a
! minute or two. Put a fourth part
Of the macaroni on the dish, sprinkle
over it half an n of grated
cheese, and repeat this until two
ounces of cheese are used. Serve
Immediately with crisp, dry toast
cut in neat pieces.
PIANO COVER.
An inexpensive cover for an up
right pianoforte can be made OF
two wide strips of dark red ever
sible canton flannel Of the best
quality, with a centre strip of bed
ticking, the same width as the outer
ones. The three strips when joined
should be the exact width of the
piano top. Cover all the white lines
in the ticking with briar-stltching
in bright-colored crewels and the
blue lines with the simple ross
stitch-done in gold thread-that
is used to hold down the'open seams
of flannel skirts. The ends of the
cover, which should hang over con
~siderably, may be finished with a
gray linen fringe, either knitted or
crocheted, and embellished with
Gilt balls sewed on at intervals.
A pretty way to vary the tides
| made of sein Irvine is to crochet a
! chain of about 100 stitches, then go
across it with nine closely-knit
stitches, and then with a space of
equal width of open work, and SO on,
forming a solid square and n Of
open work. The three chains be-
tween the blocks should have ff-
teen stitches in two and fourteen in
the middle chain, the upper chain
to be caught in the centre of the
others. Tides made in this way
are pretty when lined with blue or
cardinal ~silesia, and are particularly
adapted to the backs Of rattan or
willow chairs. When the chair
has a round back, a pretty tidy can
be made by crocheting nine stitches
and joining; then work one long
and one chain stitch ten times and
Join; for the third row work two
long and one chain in each altel-
nate space; for the fourth two long
and two chain in every third space,
and continue to widen by working
two long and two chain whenever
one comes to the space even with
that in which original widening was
made. The tidy is pentagonal when
finished, and if ribbons be run
through the holes in which the
widening is done, or if the whole
work be lined with silesia the effect
is very good.
OoD COFFEE EASILY MADE.
It is one Of the simplest things in
the world to make a good cup Of
coffee, and this can easily be accom-
plished by applying a little COM
mon sense. If you put boiling
water ON coffee and do not let it
boil, you have all the good quail
tiles preserved. One reason dys-
peptics cannot drink coffee is be-
cause it is boiled. The style of cof-
fee pot is just a matter of fancy.
| have made as good coffee from an
Cd tomato can as l have ever slipped
from a cup filled from the finest
French coffee urn. We should take