Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-05-27

the mail and as | came sauntering home,
look ing for mayfiowers, and thinking, /
remembered that / was going to tell about
the Christmas dinner at son Ii. b. US and
put in my fruit pudding recipe, so here
goes.
We had at the Christmas dinner, roast
pork, mashed squash, potatoes, pickles,
cream pie, two kinds of cookies, apple pie,
tea and coffee; for dessert, grapes; for
treat during the day, mixed nuts, candy
and apples. Now, wasn't that first-class
dinner? And we ate and ate, talked and
laughed, and had the best time ever.
After we got home and my John had
chored for two hours, / said: allow is it9
Have you an appetite for lunch?" And
he said, "no." | shouted: "Weli, that's
the first time you ever refused to eat"
Don't you know, a man is just like a gull
he wants to eat all the time.
Sunday we went after mayflowers and
got lots of them, and sent some of them
away, so the home folks in Massachusetts
could have Whit of Maine sweets. But
the best OF maytiowers is to see them
W here they grow coming up through the
old leaves, and looking so gay and glad
that tits spring. Carolyn goes wild over
them; goes tearing through the bushes
and every new bunch, she'd say: won't
these be glad to see Mama, when they get
up to Lynnf'
Yesterday ! had a large wash, and to
cheer me on had a pretty petunia blossom,
that had just opened, / sowed the seed
March 1. Wasn't that quite quick for
growing in the house?
Let me see, we were to tell what books
we had read this winter. Well, l haven't
read any books at all. We are far from the
Libraries, and so I'd rather have magazines
and papers-that one can pick up and read
and not get so interested in as body
does in book. When / start in to read
a good book, | read when / ought to be at
work, and it makes me more Disguised
with washing dishes than am now, and
that's needless, for at all times big lot
of dirty dishes is discouragipg. Take it
sunny afternoon, and you have work
| on the machine that you wish to do,
| and the plants ana everything invite you
| into the sitting-room to sew and rest, but
| you must clear the table, do up the dishes,
| sweep and see il everything is right for
| supper. Well, You who live on a farm
| know how ii is, and those who do not,
can imagine-it isn't always treat to do
kitchen work.
"Meb," you are SC, smart that you make
me feel slow. Have been trying to make
put in the column, anu find Pm not in it,
with you, il we are the same age? Going
to write to you some day and get your
recipe for turning off work.
Lyall, / wonder il what I've written
will do for an effort. To me il seems like
| DOlleQ uiuner-Hll over the lot. Esther,
Ford and lots of others, please write.
| l.. E. T., you are where spring arrives
early-tell us about it, please? Nsrcissus,
| is the snow gone your way? Beth, where
are you? Ann, come to the front and tell
us about your spring birds, and give us a
| new recipe. b. J. A, what are you at?
Law, do go somewhere and write us about
| it; you do il so well.
| To-day is May T. and Eleanor Wilson's
| wedding day. Let us hope il is fair in
recipes. A joyous spring time to you all
Good day.
| ERNEsTINE's DATE CAKE-One half cup
butter, creamed together, add the yolks OF
two eggs well beaten, one-half cup Of milk
and one cup of bread -four which has had
one half teaspoon OF soda and one teaspoon
| of cream tartar sifted and stirred through
| it; beat this part well, then add the whites
of the eggs and one cup of stoned and
chopped dates; beat some more, then put
in -four enough to make the cake dough
! just right. Best favored with vanilla and
| almond.
| FRUIT PUDDING - Three quarts whole
milk, four very large biscuits, butter size
of an egg, a cup each of raisins, dates and
sugar, sweetened apple sauce, one cup of
sugar, three kinds of fisvoring demon,
vanilla and alrrond), three eggs; bake
three or four hours; serve with cream.