The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-16
ideas for 17un1ueu.

One may make into savery supper
dishes the cold meats left over from DIM
ner: and it's very little trouble. too. A
small quantity Of cold mutton, for i'll
stance. makes an excellent dish for Sun
day evening tea. If served III the form Of
"kromeskys." Cut the meat IN half-inch
dice: chop one ounce OF onion and fry
in pale yellow III an oance Of sweet drip
ping. Add an ounce of -four and stir
until smooth, then add half q pint or
water, two tablespoonful. of chopped par
sley, a level teaspoonful of salt. a Level
saltspoonfal Of white pepper. half a salt
spoonful of powdered herbs, as much cay
enne as can be taken up on the point of
q small pehknife blade and the chopped
meat. Stir until sealding hot, and the
yoke of one raw egg. cook for two MIR
utes, stirring frequently. Turn out to cool
in a fiat dish. slightly butfefed to prevent
sticking. spreading the minced meat
about an inch thick. Set away to cool
while the batter Is being made.
Plain Frying Batter.-Mix quarter of a.
pound of -four with the yolks of two
raw eggs, a level spoonful Of salt, half u
s~altspooHfu of salt, half a salsspoonful Of
pepper. quarter of q saltspoonful Of graf
ed nutmeg one tablespoonful of salad oil
(Which is used to make the batter crisp
ard a cup of water, more or less, as the
batter viii take uB. The Batter should
be stiff enough to hold the drops from the
spoon III shape when they are let fall
upon it. -
Beat the whites Of the two sGes 90 i
stiff froth, beginning slowly. and in
sfeasffg the speed tfntn You are Beating
as fast as YOU can: the frotE Wifi sure
ly come: stir lshtly with the batter.
Heat the dish co1tafhfag the meat. to
loosen It. and turn 1t oft Oh the table
just busted with cracker crumbs. Cut
into strips an inch w:de and two inches
long, roll lightly under the palm of the
hand in the shape of corks, dip in the
batter and fry them golden brown IN
smoking hot fat. Serve them on d
neatly folded napkin. These make a
delicious dish.
Sweet Biseuits-Rub four ounces of
butter into one pound Of flour; dissolve
FOUR ounces of sugar IN half a pint of
warm milk, and pour this into the
Hour, mixing smoothly; then dissolve
half a level teaspoonful Of cream of tar
tar in one gill OF cold water and stir it
Into the above Ingredients. When they
are thoroughly mixed ron out the paste
abont quarter Of an ihehi thick. cut IL
out in small round cakes and bake them
golden brown at once, in a quick oven.
For seventeen cents one can have a good
supply
She has not lived in the nefghborhood
q great while; she has no ~acquaintances
and sometimes she is very lonely. To
be sure she has her family and her work
and her books to occupy her time, but
they cannot quite compensate her for
Ge lack 81 6o1aPafiionshfp outside Of tie
family circles Nc n realfzeB this until
deprived Of such eompaafonship. One
may seldom see friends, but the thought
that she has frfends whom size could see
II she felt 50 inclined il far more comfort
ing h she realizes while SO blessed.
Sometimes of an afternoon she dresses
up more prettily than usual, for sudden
ly, and without reason, she has become
possessed Of the thought that some sof
her ~neighbors intend to call upon her.
Her sitting-room is made as cosy as pos.s
sible; then she sits down near the wilma
dow with her sewing and her thoughts
are very busy With what she wifi say to
her new acquaintance.
Sometimes her face becomes cutie
flushed with pleasant excitement as she
sees some one coming toward her house
who lives near. Who knows? 1t MAY be
the expected guest! But the guest does
not COME. The other ladies' of the neigh
borhood have as MANY a~oduaintances al
ready as they really care for; or they
are too busy with their own cares to
think Of mothers Loneliness or the new
conner does not belong to their church.
Then some of the ladies may consider
the newcomer somewhat below them in
the social scale; or IN b other hand,
they may have an underlined feeling that
she may ave an advantage fn dress, |
education, social experience, etc, and
that, In consequence, they may not be
welcome. So they stay away and the
watcher at the window looks at the
clock, finds hat It is tea time. and
bravely proceeds to convince herself that |
It does not make a particle Of difference
to her whether any one comes to see her
or not, tx hat the little ache in her
heart is not eaused by disappointment
and inconsistencies, but is the result of
overwork and dyspepsia.
at is so nice to live in a neighborhood
where people mind their own business.
and do not modest you,' she says Il her
husband that night. in a spirit of bravado
which he does not understand at all, but, |
thinking it is wisest not to rob her of
her content, he concludes not to tell her
of a few things that he has heard, that
would go to prove that the neighbors
could not be given medals for q strict at
tentieH TO their own private affairs.
The children have become acquainted
with the other children of the neighbour
hood, they nave even ventured into some
of the houses, and nave been questioned
by the ladies who find excuses for not
calling on a strangers. Then these ladies
say to their friends, 81 have understood
hat such and such a state of affairs
exist. and really I do not know that our
new heiEhbor is just the sort of a woman
that we would care to be on intimate
terms with" Nothing is said, however,
about how they came to s"understand' |
SO and SO, for they would not like to
have people know that they had Dues
TONED a child and repeated what he said, |
They may not nave sufficient principle
to keep them from doing a thing Of that |
sort, but a few are SO tactless as to make
public their lack in that direction.
SO II comes to pass that the lonely
x{Fhhssar has an ordeal ia ~ fbro,,u,