The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06
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For the "old-time" Maryland biscuits:
Aunt Dinah takes two quarts of flour,
hcaping tablespoonful of lard. teaspoon
full of salt and mixes them to very
stiff dough, adding the cold water eau
tiously. for fear of getting it too sots
and sticky. Then she works and works
it on the bread board till it blister ali
over-the dough, not the board-when
she breaks it off in small pieces, moulds
it with her fingers into tiny, shapely
forms. picks them with a fork and puts
them into a hot oven to cook. If the tenn
perature is right they will be brown and
crisp III twenty minutes. This IS the
way they are made on the eastern shore,
while on the western shore the pro
cess differs only in that they are beaten
vigorously with a mallet or q potato
masher instead of working with the hands
and, though the biscuits from both sec
tons Of the state are delicious, there Is
perhaps finer flakiness about the beaten
ones.
It behooves American women, says the
New York Tribune, who have married
ont of the country to be careful on re-
turning to the land of their nativity 10
inform themselves of what has occurred
during their absence. Their friends are
ant to resent ignorance, ana they theh-
selves are liable to many awkward mo
ments in consequence of want OF Know
edge of the various changes which the
neonle themselves imagine are as we'll
known among Americans abroad as at
home The fact of the matter is now
ever that happenings in our society are
matters of little Or no Importance 70
peoplt on the other side of the Atlanllc'
and it is really almost Impossible 70 Keep
informed on home affairs among the iuul-
titudinous interests of another social me
sin people do not like to be asked after
various members Of the family who are
dad ar to have some black sheep ten
6erlv inquired for, or that absent lrlehds
should forget their marriages or peTay
Ignorance of other important events AN
american woman who has married mo
me English nobility gives an anlusLhs
account of her embarrassments on heI
60 ,-ieit home after an absence Of sew
eral years. -. j,
.s0ne of the first dinners given me,
,,a ca .'0-as by Mr.. s, at the Naldofl'
His neople had always been most mi
mate with mine and MS AFFAIRS ousllt
10 have known as We'll as most % ~
own family. And how Is YOU 80,
fa+bera'' INQUIRED affecronately as SOON
&c We we're seated at the table. He mas
-, dead TWO wears answered my most
t,,~ning aside. leaving me to gulp doWh
~, o1,ster which [ had just raised 70 my
mouth. ..4 +,,;Y1, me >
How unfeeling you must lli mn +,
murmured. after had sac &c -
swallowing the difficult lnoIsei ~ -
49, hesrI OF your sad loss, it was your
mother nf~i1 I Intended to inquire for. -,
Hot She is also dead he said very sol,
EMMY. Was it not awful! am I5,, q nlL+
IRE he will never forgive me -ay nc ! !
+,ansgresefon was even worse Al ~
{ friand Of my mother called to see me.
IRENE II ''rbtay and son had been by earli-
est aft piaymates. Rtlly knew was married I;
and pcongratulating myself that at. was ~, a.
I Us sure OF something, ! asked q 10 oO
leas .-,a s- about her and her husband.
OF qg then, as bad luck would have t.
add Harry? I suppose ne Is q .
1 1aTv clever lawyer by this tine, ana ~ =
making no end of none ~ ~ v,it tf'. some
h tr,,st ap finds Mother told me about It !,
s sfqsr .Ili and said she was on pins ard
pate until she succeeded Ia 'ui ii-i'S
! the conversation.