The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-09-01

stomachs, when the beans seasoned
with pork can not safely be eaten by
those persons.
In fruit pie always mix table
spoonful of flour with the sugar-both
dry If butter is to be used spread
it on the lower crust before putting
in the fruit, and it will be evenly
distributed through the pie.
For making oatmeal cookies proceed
as follows: Take three cupfuls flour,
three cupfuls uncooked oatmeal or
rolled oats, and one cupful sugar. Rub
in one cupful butter and lard mixed,
little salt, one cupful boiling water
and one teaspoonful soda. Mix and
roll thin.
A novelty attractive to the cook is
called food protector-a dish of en-
ameled wire, perforated and indented,
to be put in the bottom of kettles to
prevent food from sticking, even
should the water boil away. They
can be had in various sizes, costing
from II to 20 cents.
Maple sugar is no purer than the
other sugars. In fact, it is not ques-
ton of purity, but one of cleanliness.
Careless handling may make maple
sugar less clean than cane or beet
sugar. Refining, and the different
stages of capitalization, make the diff
ferenct grades of sugar. The pure
white or granulated sugar is cleansed
by OK blood and bone-dust. There is
nothing in it that will impair health.
1t is the excessive use of sugar that is
harmful, especially so to persons of
rheumatic tendencies, and those hav-
ing kidney trouble.
Fig apple jelly is nice dish served
with roast pork. 1t is made as fol
lows: Pare five apples, core and slice
into a sauce pan with one and a half
cupfuls of water. Pass six large figs
through food chopper and add to the
apples. Cover and cook for five min
utes. Add one and half cupful of
sugar and cook until the apples are
soft, stirring occasionally. Remove
| from the fire and stir in two table
spoonfuls of gelatine, which has been
soaked a few minutes in cupful of
cold water. Stir well, pour into mold
and set in a cool place to harden.
Hard finished floors look very nice,
| but for the farm house they are quite
out of place-not that they are not
suitable, but that it is impossible to
keep them from showing the imprint
of heavy boots that have nails in both
heel and sole. One woman who tried
the hard finish in one small room soon
found the only way to keep the floors
| linseed oil. This treatment of the
floor can be cheaply renewed as often
as desired, and the oftener the floor Is
oiled the richer and prettier it grows;
it does not show tracks and can be
washed. 1t is also a dust-saver.
| No doubt you have canary bird at
your house. Do you know how much
he would appreciate something green
once or twice week, especially dur
ing the long winter? Just a few
sprigs of chickweed or bit of lettuce
to nibble at will do. The owner of
canary once tried the following to
keep the bird supplied with delic-
ious green all winter: She kept
flower pot filled with good rich soil
standing directly under the cage, and
twice a week, when his cage was
cleaned, she would throw pinch or
two of the bird seed into the soil in
the pot The seed would sprout in
day or two, and in one or two days
more there would develop a long
white-green stem and a few small
leaves at the end of it. The bird
eagerly consumed these little plants