The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17
HOUSEHOLD Department
Copyright. 1879
SATURDAY. DEC. IS.

Edwin Arnold
BREAKFAsT-Fruit, wheatena and cream,
Dreaded and broiled roast beef. fried raw
potatoes piccoliii, raised corn muffins, cot
fee.
DINNER-Mock Chicken, (Leg ofYoung Pork,)
scalloped apples potatoes baked with meat,
cabbage: cream sauce, celery, minced
pickles, white bread, squash pie, cheese.
SUPPER-Oyster stew. crackers, pickles,
orange sponge biscuits, fruit, tea
Orange Sponge Biscuits.
Six eggs. twelve ounces sugar, seven ounces
flour, one lemon. Beat yolks of eggs until
bubbles rise; add sugar and tablespoon lemon
Juice: beat light; add the beaten whites, then
then then the -four and pinch OF salt. DO net
heat after the flour is added, only stir until
well mixed. Bake in small butterd mouIds'
When cold, spread over.
Orange Icing.
One half-pound icing sugar. two tablespoons
orange juice. Melt the sugar but do not boil.
Put section of sweet drange-dust with
powdered sugar on each cake, put icing over.
SUNDAY. DEC. 10.
If the human love- that underlies
All that is true and good in man s estate
All that remains to us Of paradise
Were lacking there, heaven would be DESC
Sarah X. Bolton
BRBAKFAsr-Oranges. moulded farina: cream
and sugar. broiIed beefsteak, French toast,
raw potato fritters, coffee.
DINNER-Cream of tapioca soup, roast ducks:
olive sauce, radnor (scalloped) potatoes.
beet salad, celery, grape jelly, baked squash,
onions la creme. thin sliced white bread,
ice cream, sponge drops, coffee.
LUNCH.-Rusk. peach marmalade, bread and
butter, milk, tea.
Roast Duck: Olives.
Dress carefully. Put giblets on to boil for
the sauce. Fill the ducks with highly season
ed bread crumbs. Flour the breasts and haste
often while roasting. Allow one hour after
the ducks are hot all through. Turn often.
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liquor or stuffing Make GIBLET SAUCE by
chopping gizzard; liver and heart fine, adding
to thlckened liquor in pan. Just when ready
to serve, add cup of pitted and quartered
olives.
BEET sALAD.-Sliced boiled beets in bed
of lettuce leaves with cream dressing, or
MONDAY. DEC. 20.
The nearer you come into relation with a
person, the more necessary do tact and court
esy become.-Holmes.
BREAKFAsT-Fruit. oatmeal and cream. fin
nan haddie. baked potatoes. corn puffs but
tered toast, coffee.
DINNER-Slieed meat. dressing. stewed toma-
toes, baked sweet potatoes canned string
BEANS apple jelly, mango pickles, white
bread. almond patties; foaming sauce.
SuPPER-HuIled corn and milk. Clipped dried
beef. bread and butter. sugared apples,
Almond Patttes,
Blanch one half pounds of almonds dry on
a dish in the oven and chop line. Beat the
whites of three eggs in a stiff froth, add the
yolks of two eggs and beat again. then stir IN
a cup of powdered sugar. add most of the al
monds. Line patty pans with pun paste ron,
ed very thin, fill with cracker crumbs and
bake. Tip out the crumbs and I'LL with the
almond paste. bake in slow oven half an hour.
Serve with FOAM1NG SAUCE; huo III 1 very
light one spoonful flour, two of butter, four OF
sugar. Stir in half pint of boiling water. add
dust of nutmeg.
TUESDAY. DEC. 81.
Memory of things precious keepeth warm
The heart that once did hold them
jean Ingelow.
observation-disclosures, pearl homing, maple
sugar, Drowned hashed potatoes. honey
comb trtpes. fried graham mush, rolls. cot
fee
DINNER-Cream of onion soup. baked mutton
chops and potatoes, creamed parsn1ps. cab
bage salad. rice croquettes, vienna bread,
peach cobbler.
SUPPER-Broiled sardines, potato cakes, bread
and butter, prunes. cookies. tea.
Baked Mutton Chops snd Potatoes
Pare potatoes and cut in slices the thickness
of a penny piece, enough for family Lay IN
cold water after thoroughly washing. An
hour before dinner; put the potato slices IN
buttered pudding dish in layers evenly, adding
salt and pepper to each layer: Place the dish
in very hot oven, on top shelf So the potatoes
will brown in a few minutes. Lay over the
top nice loin chops. trimmed OF fat, and skew
edre into roand shape. Salt and pepper the
are crisp brown turning as needed. add hot
water if potatoes get too dry. The fine gravy
from the chops makes delicious dish. Serve
in dish with napkin or paper cover.
WEDNESDAY. DEC. %.
1t was little child that swung
Wide back that city g portal
Where hearts remain forever young
Lucy Larcom.
BREAKFAsT-Bananas and lemon juice, rye
mush. hamburg steak, steamed rice, sara
tOQa potatoes, graham mullins. cOffe6.
DINNER-Pot pie. baked sweet potatoes, cab
bage and celery salad. buttered beets. crab
apple jelly, whole wheat bread. raspberry
charlotte.
SuPPER-Sliced veal loaf, olives. stewed peach
es, sally lunn, sponge cream cookies, tea.
Pot Pie.
Make of young chicken or veal. Cut in
small pieces a. evenly as you can. Pare
dozen medium siZedipotatoe and cut in halves
Make crust of one quart of flour, TABLESPOON
butter. teaspoon baking powder. mix with
water into dough. Roll out as for pies, and
cut into strips two inches wide and four long.
Put one-half pint of hot water i'll the kettle;
invert a saucer in the bottom. Place the
tougher pieces of meat onthe saucer, skin side
up, then layer of potatoes. Season with salt,
pepper and butter. Proceed in this way until
all the materials are used. having the top lay
ers dough Put over the fire and cover with
boiling water. Cover closely and cook stead
lily, not lifting the cover before an hour.
THURSDAY. DEC %.
Open the gates of Christmas land,
And the days are few.
observation-disclosures wheatena and cream,
mince cups, rice fritters, baked apples but
tered tbast. coffee.
DINNER-Julienne soup, roast beef and pota-
toes, canned peas, lettuce: cream dressing,
Drowned parsnips, barberry jelly. picked
onions, thin sliced graham bread, lemon
pudding.
SUPPER-Meat and tomato scallop, cheese
toast, braided rolls canned pears. tea.
Lemon Pudding.
One quart milk, tablespoon butter. heaping
cup of sugar. one cup ground rice, grated rind
ana juice of two lemons. six eggs. Take one
cup milk from the quart, put remainder in a
tin pail; set in basin of boiling water. Wet the
rice -four with the cup of cold milk. and when
the milk in pail is hot, stir in, adding small.
level teaspoon salt, boil ten minutes then cool.
When blood warm, stir into it the beaten eggs.
sugar and lemen. Bake in buttered dish half
an hour. Serve cold with cream, or fruit. as
canned cherries or raspberries.
Miss Parloa.
FRIDAY, DEC. "a.
Who gives and hides the giving hand.
Nor counts on favor, fame praise
Shall find his smallest gift outweighs,
The burdens of the sea and land.
Whittier.
BREAKFAsT-Apples and dates. corn mush and
cream, fried calves liver and bacon, stewed
potatoes. graham puffs, coffee.