The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-02

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WOMAN'S WORLD.

The best housewife in the world must
once in awhile find herself taken an
awares.
1t may be thdt different member of the
family are lunching away from home, and
that little preparation has been made in
the larder.
Then unexpected guests come In and
extra dishes are necessary.
Now it is that the potted, bottled or
timed articles of food on the pantry shelf
appear in the light of a household bless
ing.
Foremost amongst preserved foods may
be reckoned soups, which can always be
relied on in an emergency, and on these
both cook and mistress invariably count
on such occasions. Is there not a dainty
consomme, two or three little capsules or
which may be extracted, melted in boil
ing water, garnished with a few stars of
Italian paste, or vermicelli just brought
to the boil, and then with the aid of a sus-
picion of sherry, in less than ten minutes
one can have a well-favored, sparkling
consumme aux vermicelli or aux pates
d'Italie. If a more substantial soup be
desired. a cake or two of the pressed
soups may be rubbed up with a little
cold water, then boiled up with rs much
more water as one needs soup, and, final
ly, when a liaison OF egg yolk beaten up
with a spoonful or two of milk or cream
has been stirred in at the last, the potage
bonnie femme or AT riz according to the
soup chosen will not fai! to impress the
guest with a most favorable idea of the
cooks capabilities. Z
. Again. a bottle of tomatoes will pro-
luce excellent soup in a few minutes If
the tomatoes are quickly crushed through
a sieve, and heated with a little butter, a
PINCH of sugar, pepper and salt to taste.
and enough light stock and boiling water
to bring it to the right amount. To this
the egg and milk laision is also a great
addition.
A fish course may also, when needed,
be supplied by the weil-stocked store cup
board. If lettuce, ETC.. be within reach a
tin of lobster or salmon will soon impro-
wise an appetising salad, or m~ayonnaise.
while, L there be time to boil the rice a
curry could equally well be prepared.
Either again will provide nice cakes ii
faxed, mixed with a few breadcrnmbs,
some minced parsley, pepper, salt and
two or three eggs, then dropped from a
spoon into n pan of boiling oil or other
FIXTURE. This dish will not long delay the
dinner.
Entrees are even easier TO prepare. For
instance. there are the Quenelles q Ia fl
naneiere. BY the directions given with
these we. are directed ID boil the tin for
fifteen to twenty minutes, keeping the
water we'll on the boil all the time, then
open and turn out the tin, and serve in a
wall Of mashed potato. Again. curried
fowl or rabbit of excellent quality can be
served as quickly as the rice can be boiled.
Or mutton outlets a la jardiniere, and fill
lets OF beef and olives, If somewhat ex-
pensive. are somewhat desirable additions
to the ~"unexpected' menu. A tin of stew
ed kidneys again will help out al inn
promptu breakfast or lunch, at which also
a tin of calf's head with mushrooms deity
warmed, viii be much appreciated.
AS regards vegetables, there are peas,
bottled or timed, butter beans. which are
delicious, if heated with a little butter,
a squeeze of lemon juice, and a little mine
ed parsley, treatment, by the way, which
will also serve with timed tomatoes
whole ones for this purpose-and sweet
corn.
For the sweet course. the bottled fruits
come in equally handy. as they can be
either served as they come from the tin,
with or without cream, or. il time allows,
they can appear as fascinating "toasts'
or ~fritters. For the sayory there is even
a greater choice of material. Sardines,
anchovies, or herring roes, heated and
served on fried toasts, form a dainty
finish to an improvised dinner. and need
only the time for preparing the toast.
A tin of smoked Gods roe, a pot or two
of bloater and anchovy pastes, and a jar
or two of ported meat all come in nicely,
either for savories OF if sandwiches are
needed. Calantines of veal, turkey or
chicken, game pies of every kind, roast
game and poultry to be eaten either hot or
cold. and a large. variety of ready pre-
pared fish can now be obtained in tins,
Jars and terrines, SO that a proyident
housewife need never, even in the heart
of the country, dread the unforeseen ar
rival of the unexpected guest.
So
1t may be thai school girls who do not
nave the inclination or opportunity to
make their bow to society before Christ
mas will do so at Easter.
The fashion will be started this Win
ter when a few rich girls over in New
York. not wishing to. wait for the next
Thanksgiving season, have persuaded
their mothers to bring them Nout" this
season.
One of the girls explained this new So
cial departure by saying that she was
going to Newport for a fortnighf's visit
this Summer, and was to be a month at
Bar Harbor. She had finished school.
would be presented next year. but would
haye to miss all the delightful things at
both these places. simply because she
was not yet a young lady" She talked
the matter over practically with her
father, then persuaded her mother and
the upshot of it is she is going to be in
trodueed the day after Easter.
Several of her friends have decided on
doing the same thing, and the result is a
half dozen Eastern d~ebutantes.
1t is not half a bad idea.
There are many girls who would like
to come out at Easter.
Probably they needed just that one
more Winter at school, or some one in
the family died and there was a slight
mourning to be observed and then all
the gay Summer days rave to go by
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