The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ...

and Indian bread. It is always best to keep flour bread in the house, but with a large family of farm hands or apprentices it cannot be eaten commonly. Nut cakes are expected for breakfast and some times Pye. It is a good Rule for yoimg children to eat a Bowl of bread and milk in the morning before coming to the table. For Dinner. Some families like to get up a great dinner on Sundays and have friends who drive to Meeting from a distance come in for the Nooning. There is no objection to this if everything is prepared the day before. The meat should be plain Roast so that it can be started and left. A young child can tend the Spit while the rest of the family is away. In winter the Pyes should be put on the hearth before meeting, also, so as to thaw gradually. If you wish to avoid the necessity of keeping anyone at home, get some rice Porridge or brewis and cold meat. This with Pye is enough for anyone on a leisure day. For a week 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 cabbages, Pumpkins and squashes. Calf's head and pluck makes a 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 beef and pork, for by so doing you can have them the year round. Freeze what you need to keep for winter use. Put down a barrel of pork and another of beef, and when spring comes, why, there you are! Fowls are always to be had. When the team goes to Boston in the winter with a load to sell, have it bring back a fifty pound fresh codfish, and a barrel of oysters along with the - molasses and sugar supply. The fish wiU keep frozen for weeks. A piece can be sawed off and thawed when needed. It can be salted down, and is much better than store codfish.* For company and great occasions, of course roast pig and turkey and various delicacies will be cooked. These suggestions are for every day. Supper. Arrange the cold meat and vegetables left from dinner on a large platter for the men folks. Saturday night they will expect hasty-pudding and milk, or Samp when com is new. Brown bread and Milk with pumpkin stewed dry, or baked sweet Apples, or huckleberries, are liked on a hot summer afternoon, especially if the niilk is hung down the weU and cooled. Pie and gingerbread and custards are good enough for common \ise. Keep a loaf of Rich Cake on hand for unexpected company. * Store Codfish is not bad eatio^ if properly cooked, but both it and thepeople who eat it are held in disrepute. They used to say that the Wisdom men came to the store every Sattirday night to get a codfish for Sunday, until the loafers began to sing: '• Conway for beauty, Deerfield for pride. If it hadn't been for Codfish, Wisdom would have died." as soon as a Wisdomite appeared. HDeats A Boiled Dinner.