"I pray you, () excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things they can get for a dollar at any village. Certainly let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveler; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things." - Emerson.

Good Family Pie Crust

This rule makes 4 pies with 2 crusts. Have the filling for the pies ready as the dough must be mixed quickly and baked immediately. Sift together 1 qt. flour, 1 teaspoon each baking powder and salt. Rub into it with the fingers 1 cup of lard. Then stir in with a spoon enough cold water to make a dough. Do not knead, leave the dough as soft as can be handled. To prevent the juice from running out of pies made from strawberries, blackberries and other small juicy fruit, mix the sugar with cracker dust, it is much nicer than flour, and seal the edges of the pie with an filch wide strip of muslin wet in water, leaving one end loose so that it can be easily stripped off. Mrs. C. W. Whitten.

Pie Crust

Use one cup of shortening to 3 cups of flour and rub to-gether until it is as fine as sand, add an even teaspoon of salt and enough cold water to hold it together. Handle as little as possible. Roll out some of the dough with butter for the Upper crust, and when ready for the oven brush over with cream.

Mince Meat

5 lbs. beef, 2 lbs. suet, 3 qt.s apples, 2 lbs. raisins, 2 lbs. currants, 1 pint vinegar, 3 lbs. sugar, 2 teaspoons cloves, 2 tea-spoons cinnamon, 1 grated nutmeg. Mix all together and cook 1 hour, adding a little water and stirring carefully.

Mrs. Jess Bacon.

Mince Meat

2 lbs. beef, 1 lb. suet. 5 apples, 3 lbs. brown sugar, 2 lbs. raisins, 1-2 gal. sweet cider, salt and lemon, 2 lbs. Sultana raisins, 2 lbs. currants, 1-2 lb. citron, 3 tablespoons cinnamon, 2 tablespoons mace. 1 tablespoon allspice, 1 tablespoon nutmeg. Mrs. M. L. Higgins (in memoriam).

Mince Meat

3 qts. lean beef, 5 qts. apples, 1 qt. suet, 2 qts. raisins, 1-2 qt. citron, 1 qt. molasses, 1 qt. vinegar, 2 qts. sweed cider. 2 qts. light brown sugar, 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 tablespoon cloves, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 tablespoon pepper, 1 tablespoon ginger, 3 lemons. Run the meat, suet and 1 qt. of raisins through a meat grinder. Wash, cut up, and chop the apples without peeling them, cut the citron very fine, grate the nutmeg and lemon peel. Mix all together and cook slowly for several hours, taking care that it doer not burn. Pack into small crocks, cover with melted parafine, then with a cloth. Dried apples may be used if soaked over night in vinegar. . Mrs. Haughey.

Orange Cream Pie

Beat thoroughly the yolks of 2 eggs with 1-2 cup sugar, add 1 heaped tablespoon flour and 1 even tablespoon corn starch dissolved in milk, pour into one pint of boiling milk and cook 3 minutes. Flavor with extract of orange or the juice and grated rind of an orange and pour into a baked crust. Beat the white stiff, add sugar, spread upon the top and set in the oven to brown. Mrs. J. A. Clark.