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Questions will be cheerfully answer
ed by mail if postage is sent. Write
to the manager of this department and
tell what you would like best to ap
pear in these columns. We want the
housewives to look forward with pleas
ure to reading this part of The Ranch.
The Difference.
Something's doin' an' doin' quick
Whenever Pa is sick.
Oh, my! there's such an awful muss,
And suoh a splendid sight of fuss,
Whenever Pa is sick.
Bridget fills the water bag,
Sister hunts a linen rag,
Sarah makes a mustard plaster,
While Pa is yellin', "Hurry faster!"
Baby sits and sucks her thumb —
The only one thats still and dumb.
But Ma just does most everything
Until she hears the doctor's ring,
Then she talks a bit with him
And takes him to the siok room dim;
And when at last he goes away,
We tiptoe round the live long day
And hardly dare to breathe real quick
Whenever Pa is sick.
When Ma is sick, we never know,
Except she moves a little slow,
And looks so tired round the eyes
As though she'd had some quiet cries.
Sometimes she rests a little while,
And gives the sweetest sort of smile
When 1 slip up and soflty say,
•'Ain't you feeling' well today?"
Somehow I wish, when she was sick,
She'd make us move around as quick
As Pa does—so that we could know
And help her when she suffers so.
—Kate Trader Barrow.
A Chapter on Pickles.
Gather cucumbers every morning so
that they will be of uniform size.
Cut with scissors or sharp knife
t The Reflex Edge
on our new PATENTED
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prevents all water from run
ning in at the front and directs
it to the bottom of coat. The
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MAIL ORDER HOUSE
Annual Sales $400,000.00
We have fully 3,000 customers who
find it pays to order supplies from
us. It only costs the price of a
postal card to send your name and
address and we will mail a com
plete price list.
OLDEST AND LARGEST MAIL
ORDER HOUSE IN THE STATE.
Mention The Ranch
when you write.
NORTHWEST GROCERY COMPANY
Cor. 13th and Commerce Sts.
TAOOMA, WASH.
/The Ranch*
leaving a short stem on them. Wash
them and pack into kegs and pour
over them a brine made of salt so
strong that it will float a potato. Put
on weights to keep them under.
When wanted, soak a few days in hot
water, changing it twice a day until
the salt is oat. Then make into
either sweet or sour pickles. If one
prefers to prepare them for instant
use, gather them as before, put into
a stone jar with a tea cup of sugar
to eaoh gallon, cover with boiling
water, let stand over night. In
morning drain oft brine and pack
into fruit jars.
For sweet pickles boil together two
pounds brown sugar, two quarts cider
vinegar, one teaspoon each of cinna
mon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, cayenne
pepper and a tablespoon of whole
mustard. Pour over caoumbers and
seal.
For sour pickles, add a cup of grat
ed horseradish to eaoh gallon, then
pour over clear hot vinegar and seal.
It is not generally known that green
muskmelon can be put down in brine
the same as cucumbers, then soaked
and made into sweet pickles even
more delightful in flavor than the
best of other pickles, but such is the
case.
Before putting in briue merely open
and remove seeds; when freshened
remove tough skins before pouring
on the syrup. The late ones that re
fuse to ripen may be used.
RIPE CUCUMBER PICKLE.
Take large thick ones, remove
skins and seeds; out into rings or
pieces suitable for serving. Boil
until clear but not too soft in water
to which has been added vinegar to
give sour taste. Put into colander
and drain. It is really better to let
them stand several hours, pouring off
the water frequently. Many failures
arise from the faot that this is not
done. The water comes out into the
syrup and consequently the pickles
spoil. Or one can cover with cold
vinegar and let stand twenty four
hours. It's less work, but more ex
pensive, as the vinegar can not be
used again. To eaoh quart of vinegar
for the syrup use two pounds of sugar
and one ounce of cassia buds or a
little more of the stick cinnamon and
a little salt, about one tablespoonful.
Boil together for twenty minutes. If
put into crocks keep closely covered.
WATERMELON PICKLE.
Ten pounds of melon rind peeled.
Boil in clear water until tender.
Syrup one quart of vinegar, two
pounds white sugar, one ounce each
of whole cloves and cinnamon. This
is to be poured over boiling hot
three days in succession.
Wild Grape or Blaokberry Pickles—
Piok over carefully, rejecting all un
sound ones. Put into any kind of
jar or bottle, then pour over molasses.
Keep filling up as it settles—which
will take time. These CANNOT be
sealed; just tie over the top a piece
of cotton cloth and set away. They
will soon be "sharp."
The sweet pickle syrup given above
can be used for peaches, plums, apri
cots and crab apples.
Crab Apple Pickles—Leave stems
on, prick with a fork, steam until
cooked through. Pour over the sweet
syrup three days in succession the
third time returning to thoroughly
heat through before putting into jars.
PICKLED ONIONS
Make a brine, let it come to a boil
Something
Unusual
2 ACRES UPLAND
20 ACRES BOTTOM
RUNNING WATER
DELIGHTFUL LOCATION
GOOD BUILDINGS
Six blocks to paved street and car line to
Tacoma and Seattle.
Finest of soil, cleared and under cultivation.
This is the happy combination you said you were
looking for. Each acre of this bottom land will produce
an average of 12,000 pounds of berries yearly. The
Pyuallup Association will make a five or ten year con
tract with you to pay 3ic per pound and furnish you the
crates. This means a NET ANNUAL PROFIT PER
ACRE OP $200. Not counting poultry.
Can you ask for anything better?
JOHN MILLS,
PUYALLUP, WASH.
and skim. Put in the small onions,
let come to a boil, then stand on the
back of the stove for fifteen minutes.
Boil together live minutes one quart
of vinegar, one large red pepper,
chopped, seeds as well as outside.
Fill quart jars with warm onions,
pour in vinegar to overflowing and
seal. I'hese will keep any length of
time and will be ready for use in two
weeks.
PICCALILY.
Two gallons cabbage, one gallon
tomatoes, twelve large onions chop
ped, mixed and well drained. One
and one-half pounds of brown sugar,
quarter-pound mustard seed, one
ounce each of celery seed, cloves,
allspice and pepper, one gill of salt,
one gallon of good vinegar. Boil all
together slowly for thirty minutes.
One ounce of tumerio may be added
if one likes the flavor or yellow color.
GREEN TOMATO PICKLE.
One peck of green tomatoes sliced
the day before pickling and sprinkl
ed through and through with a little
salt.
In the morning drain off the liquor.
One dozen onions sliced, six red
peppers chopped coarsely. Put in a
suitable keg, layers of tomatoes, then
onions. Between each sprinkle the
peppers and one cup sugar, one
tablespoon each of oloves and oiuna
mon, one of mustard, teaspoon of
cloves. Pour over vinegar to cover
and boil thirty minutes. This is ex
cellent.
For sprains apply hot water on hot
cloths for an hour or more, increasing
the heat until the afflicted part can
stand no more. Repeat onoe a day.
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ForfrecKles, slice cucumbers thick,
let stand until the juice comes out in
drops, then rub the face and bands
with them. This juice is also sooth
ing to sunburned flesh.
One saltspoon equals one-fourth
teaspoon. i
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