The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-09-02
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For the Union.
Odds and Ends.

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For the Union.
Odds ana Ends.
Few households can bear q surprise, espe
cially when it comes in the guse of hall dozen
unex xpected guests or q sudden charge upon the
Iar,ler after a long campaign when things have
been consumed generally and their is marked
falling off of family supplies. The fortunate
few that constitute this exception are greatly
TO be envied and should be especially laid down
in the chart social and domestic as places tor
future rendezvous. Cottage Delight is not one
of them, 50 that guests, uuannounced, and PIC
mic and boating parties are hereafter notliled
to send due notice of their coming or go sup
PEERLESS to bed. We do not mean this unamiably,
only by way of general remark after a series
of cocitations upon the events of the day. Not
one hour before the whole thing happened
had said to Kitty, while loisurely healing off
grey stocking-''its o good rule TO finish up
| things Kitty, an excellent rule, and | mean to
try it thoroughly to-day here, for instance, is
my stocking to begin with, and you, see, are
on the ruffle of my last night cap-Lllly ls at
| the final pages of Dorothy Fox, and AZ to house
work and dinner there are five windows yet
unwashed and the looking glasses to polish,
while the pantry is just iull of odds and ends
that we will finish bye an by; ; fourth of
| Lilies last sponge cake, small pitcher of
| custard three rosy checked apples, bit ofcold
| lamb, and wing and two trotters OF yester-
DAVIS boiled chicken. We must have an old
maids dinner with tea and toast and finish
| them up"
al hate leavings p pouted Kitty. 1t was
very evident her nap needed finishing, but it
| was not so easily accomplished as the garden
gate swung open and "Boots," the village assis
tant, handed her q three cornered note.
| "There is finish for US all Auntie," she ex-
| claimed with a feast Of delight for depleted
| larder was ever of small account to Kitty. The
note said, briefly, that four OF our young friends
| from the city were going TO the Lake boating,
and if ''the girls" would meet them at the sta
ton by four o'clock, and accompany them,
| they would return with them Tor tea and a
| nights rest at Cottage Delight.
"Four city friends to supper after boating
excursion with nothing to eat i'll the house,
| looks rather formidable Kitty, especially when
| the butcher has been gone an hour, and no eggs
within och.' Igrew respondent,
@purage arose with the
royal "coup detat p sl ,IaimaS nnert.ata
| ing my work basket in her hasty flight in searcn
f9t illly Hnd VIII" sat sercnqly Y darning stockings
| in the Library. Kitty hss a fashion OF her
Sown of calling all -sesseEts saae sssas
| dishes "InspiratiOn." | think il was usually
by way Of defiance of Lilly's contemptuous
detestation of aseSSeS.
| A few minutes later | found them both in
the pantry, busily hunting up supplies Lilly
| was already pairing the four rosy checked APP
pies while Kitty was rumaging for "sugar and
| spice and all things nice,' she informed me.
| ''I don't know how we will come out Aunte,
butt have Just two eggs and these bits to work on,
| there is more chicken than you thought and q
cup full of raisins-so | am just going to make
| q cup cake, scrimping the butter, which is
scarce, and then | mean to fill it full of the
| chopped apple and the ralsins, and call ita
| boating cake. This pitcher of custard shall
make with quart OF mornings milk, the yolks
| of three eggs and a cup of sugar, after that
| shall pop into it a pint or so of apple float,
| which mean to make out of this apple sauce
and the three whites OF egg-and freeze it
that is if Lilly will crack the ice and bring the
salt while put things together-so you see,
Auntie, shall ''fnish up" things in "jifly."
| ''What slang you do use Kitty !' Lilly ventured
to remark. Perhaps your inventive genius
is equal also to this cold chicken and lamb
OF course it was dropping two eggs into d
| kettle of hot water she left them to boil for
| salad while she went in search of the freezer;
for ices are K;tty's speciality in which she
| usually eXcels. She manufactures them out OF
| anything, or nothing until one is strongly re-
minded of the Frenchman's soup which had
| only shoe strings and the shadow of his neigh
| bors cabbage. Sometimes it IS strawberry syrup
and new milk, or raspberry vinegar and spring
water; buttermilk sweetencd to excess cur
rant jelly or raspberry jam stirred into new
| milk custards, lemon, pineapple, vanilla and
| chocolate coffee and cream and lemon sherbet.
| Then when our good old Doctor comes to dine
| it is invariably, milk punch, or sherry cobbler
| with preserved Strawberries She would any
/ day rather make a mould of ice than the sim
| plest pudding or pie, and insists that her only
| art consists in properly mixing her ice and
| salt, having something good in the freezer, and
keeping it we'll stirred and in motion until the
cream thickens to the consistency of thin
mush At this period she removes the dasher,
| gives il two or three good stirs with a long
handled spoon covers it tsecurely, draws off all
water, packs it closely with well mixed salt
and ice-one quart of salt to a peck of ice
| wraps it about with piece of old carpet and
leaves it alone to freeze of itself. If it has to
| wait over two hours before needed, she draws
| off the water again and renews the ice and salt
| Salt does most of the freezing few people use
as much as necessary. But what about the
chicken and lamb Kitty | inquired with
some curiosity as she finished the ice.
"Just take the shells off those eggs, Auntie,
and give me the whites to help out this meat,
| then do you make one Of your delicious cream
| dressings while Tobe gets me three or four
| tomatoes and chop the meat up ready for my
salad. You must put the tomatoes and dressing
on the ice until needed and then with sprin
| kle or two of celery seed, salt and pepper over
| the meat you can add the minced tomatoe, put
| the whole in one of your prettest glass dishes,
pour the dressing over it, and so serve q salad
| fit fer Mrs. King.
This last alluson was meant for Lilly, who
bushed scarlet and declared with considerable
| feeling she never meant to be Mrs. King and
would thank Kitty to attend to her salad. $50
now Auntie mind, you see we have finished up
| all yonr "odds and ends, secured Il cake, ap-
pie .hoat-cream and q salad for Tea. You can
do your share by stirring up some cold water
mullins, chipping a plate of dried beef and
making pot Of coffee: Lilly can lay the
table with few of her dainty touches and
vase of scarlet geranium, white fushias and
tea roses, and l will give you all bread and
butter and a cupoftea for your dinner, executing
grand coup d'etat afterwards by dressing in
my prettiest and captivating brother King
| myself Adiew and she hung up her apron
| and vanished. AUNT DINAH.
! Aug 22d, 1871.