Mary Whitcher

“ About the nicest morsel that ever tickled the palate is a boiled apple; not boiled like a potato nor steamed like a pudding, but as follows: Place a layer of fair-skinned Baldwins, or any nice varieties, in the stew-pan, with about a quarter of an inch of water. Throw on about half a cup of sugar to six good-sized apples, and boil until the apples are thoroughly cooked and the syrup nearly thick enough for jelly. After one trial no one would, for any consideration, have fair-skinned apples peeled. ”

“ This union of that grand vitalizing and restorative agent, Electricity, in a gentle and continuous current, with a highly Medicated Plaster composed of the choicest medicinal gums and balsams known to modern pharmacy, each in itself a curative marvel, is the grandest medical triumph of this century. It is instantly soothing, healing and strengthening. ”

“ Keen observers in polite life have often discoursed at length on the manifold advantages one enjoys in meeting frequently at the table men and women of such pleasing address and impressive bearing that they are constantly — although perhaps themselves unconscious of it — teaching one the countless little things which it is essential to know in order to be at ease when moving in the upper circles. ”

“ This is a nice dish for breakfast or tea.
Meat Hash. — Dredge with salt and pepper any kind of cold meat, and chop it fine. This is always the best manner of seasoning hash, as all parts will be seasoned alike. If you have cold potatoes, chop fine and mix with the meat; if they are hot, mash. Allow one pint of meat to two of potato. Put this mixture in the frying-pan with a little water or soup stock to moisten it, and stir in a spoonful of butter; or if you have nice beef dripping, use that instead of butter. ”

“ I am happy to inform you that Sanford’s Radical cure is the best remedy for catarrh I have ever sold. It gives universal satisfaction. I have not found a case that it did not relieve at once, and in many cases a cure is performed by the use of one bottle. It must soon lead all others in the market. ”

“ Place over a hot fire and stir until dissolved, which will be in about one minute. Put this in the boiling milk. Mix the corn-starch with the cold milk. Beat the yolks of the eggs into this mixture, and when the milk is boiling stir this mixture, the sugar and about a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt into it. Cook six minutes, stirring all the time; then add the whites of the eggs,— which you must beat to a stiff froth before you add the corn-starch and eggs to the boiling milk. Remove from the fire and add the vanilla. This pudding can be eaten cold or hot, with or without sugar and cream. ”

“ A piece of butter about the size of an egg, a nutmeg, a cupful of sugar, and three eggs are to be made stiff with flour, cut in fancy shapes, and fried in boiling lard.
Griddle and Indian Cakes. — For the griddle cakes use two coffee cupfuls of sour milk or buttermilk, one teaspoonful of saleratus dissolved in a little hot water, and flour enough to pour. Grease the griddle with a piece of fat salt pork, and fry the cakes a light brown. Indian cakes are made in much the same way, save that half flour and half Indian meal is used, and also a teaspoonful of salt. ”

“ To restore the appetite, enrich the blood, banish pain and nervousness, and invigorate both the mind and body, nothing known to druggists is superior to Corbett’s Shakers' Sarsaparilla. In fact, it is everywhere acknowledged to be the standard family tonic and blood purifier. ”

“ If you wish to pare an apple or pear, hold it on a fork, and not with your fingers. A fork comes into play again when eating cheese. Saucers are not designed as receptacles for a hot drink while it cools. After sweetening your tea or coffee lay the spoon in the saucer, and drink from the cup. Many children are allowed to pick from the cloth the crumbs which have fallen beside their plates — a breach of etiquette that mothers should correct. Never toy with anything at the table. ”

“ Cut the cold meat into small square pieces, lay it in a baking-dish (without an under-crust) , add tiny bits of butter, pepper and salt, sprinkle a little bit of flour over the top and add a cupful of gravy or hot water; then cover with crust; bake about three-quarters of an hour. A little onion, finely minced, is an improvement; or a few spoonfuls of canned tomatoes may be used.
Green Apple Pies. — Pare, quarter, core nice tart apples, and stew in water enough to prevent burning. When tender, make very sweet with white sugar. ”

“ We have known people to suffer a year or more from a distressing cough, with all the symptoms of consumption, and yet be completely cured by a few bottles of the Radical Cure, simply because the cough was but a symptom of Catarrh, and could not he relieved until the principal disease was removed. ”

“ It unfortunately happens that in more than one excellent farmer’s family fine manners are studiously avoided because of a foolish notion that these are peculiarly the property of residents in the city. Promptings to do what etiquette calls for are repressed simply because these things are out of the every-day path, and are — how false the idea! — considered above one’s station. Nothing that is right is above one’s station ”

“ Certainly, the primary object of our three daily meals is to furnish sustenance to the body. If, therefore, in partaking of them, one is satisfied in this respect, he may content himself with the knowledge that the chief purpose of sitting at his board has been reached, even though he fail of gaining any other benefit. ”

“ Our Shakers’ Sarsaparilla is not a secret or a quack remedy, nor are its ingredients withheld from those who desire to know them. Our claim to superiority is based on the growth, curing and selection of its several roots and berries, and the care with which they are compounded. ”

“ Turn them often, that they may he brown on all sides. Cut stale bread into fanciful shapes, fry in the sausage fat, and garnish the dish with them. Brown bread is very palatable fried in this way. Serve plain boiled potatoes, squash, mashed turnips, and apple-sauce with sausages.
Fricasseed Beef. — Put a pint of clear water in a frying-pan, and when it comes to a oil, thicken with one heaping spoonful of flour, and season with salt, pepper, and a little butter. Cut cold roast beef into slices, and put into this gravy ”

“ In the Annihilation of Pain and Inflammation, in the Vitalization of Weak, Paralyzed, and Painful Nervous Parts and Organs, in the Curing of Chronic Weaknesses and Inflammatory Ailments and Diseases, in the Absorption of Poisons from the Blood through the Pores, and the Prevention of Malarial and Contagious Diseases, it is wonderful. ”

“ No safer or purer medicine can be found to maintain the health of the young, or for delicate women and nursing mothers. It regulates, purifies and invigorates the female functions and is highly prized. ”

“ Chocolate. — With four spoonfuls of grated chocolate mix one of sugar, and wet with one of boiling water. Rub this smooth with the bowl of the spoon, and then stir into one quart of boiling milk. Let this boil up once and serve.
Cocoa Paste. — Cocoa paste is made the same as chocolate, omitting the sugar. Never boil chocolate or prepared cocoa more than one minute. Boiling makes it oily. The quicker it is used after making the better. Chocolate and cocoa that is made with all or part, water, is never rich and smooth. After using all milk you will never go back to the water again.
Beef Tea. ”

“ Enrich the Blood, Solidify the Bones, Harden the Muscles, Quiet the Nerves, Cheer the Mind, Induce Sleep, Perfect Digestion, Regulate the Stomach and Bowels, Cleanse the Liver and Kidneys, and Vitalize every Fluid of the Body, with Corbett’s Shaker Sarsaparilla. ”

“ For Diseases of the Kidneys, Liver, Bladder, Skin and Blood, Scrofula or King’s Evil, Scrofulous Swellings or Sores, Cancerous Ulcers, Canker and Canker Humor, Salt Rheum, Syphilitic Humors, Erysipelas, Dropsy, Scurvy, White Swelling, Gout, Gravel, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Palpitation of the Heart, Female Weakness, General Debility, Fever and Ague, Loss of Appetite, Nervousness and Emaciation. ”

“ Make a soft custard of the yolks of the eggs and a quart of milk, and pour it into the dish. It may appear as if considerable time and patience are required for making this pudding, but the result ought to satisfy one. ”

“ It is a grateful boon to suffering humanity, at once soothing, strengthening, and refreshing. Ask for Sanford’s.
Delicate Flattery. — Farmer Jones—
“ Well, how do you like that Sanford’s Ginger, Mr. O’Brady? ” Mr. O’ Brady— “ Share, now, Farmer, and is n’t it many a long day since I had the felicity to welcome such a salubrious toothful.”
Where Appetite's fierce raging fire
Tends human misery to promote,
And burning fluids feed desire ”

“ In the morning trim the edges; use the trimmings for hash. —If the beef be boiled rapidly it will be dry and stringy, but if it is allowed only to bubble it will be tender and juicy. This is true of all kinds of meat.
Mashed Potatoes. — Pare and boil for thirty minutes. Mash light and fine with a wooden masher. To every twelve potatoes add one teaspoonful of butter, half a cupful of boiling milk, and salt to taste. ”