Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1899-03-25
THE HOUSEHOLD.
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six eggs until light; then mix with
one pound of powdered sugar and
lastly stir in the paste. Drop with
spoon on coarse PAPER and bake
until brown. This lie well-tried
recipe
STUDENTS RICE CAKES.
Rice cakes for breakfast: Naught
like these
The hungry student to appeascl
Would'st try them? Take thea cold
boiled rice
10 quantity which shall suffice,
Break it up well, and, over night,
Add milk enough to cover quite.
Thus soaked, now in the morning
beat
Two or three eggs to mix this treat.
Should you have rice for ten or more
The eggs should really number four.
Add GouT enough the rice to bind,
Only as if for fritters, mind!
OF soda, half spoonful add
Not more, unless your milk he bad.
Have lard we'll heated in your pan;
Drop in by spoonfuls-if you can
The batter in round, shapely cakes;
For this, YOU know, difference
makes.
Fry quickly 10 brown, and then
Turn, and m0re slowly brown again.
Baltimore. SISTER ANGELINA.
THE BREAD CRUMBS AGAIN.
M. J. L., sends the following re-
cpe for padding to use up bread
crumbs. Put layer of bread crumbs
in the bottom of an earthenware
pudding dish; then add layer of
sliced tart apples; over this sprinkle
sugar and a lew bits Of butter and
powdered cinnamon; then add lay
er of bread crumbs, then apples.
Alternate in this way until the dish
is tull, putting apples, cinnamon and
butter on top. Beat two eggs thor
oughly and add pint Of milk. Pour
this liquid over the pudding and
bake it for three quarters of an hour
in a hot oven. Serve this dessert,
which is Familiarity known in New
England as Brown Betty" hot,
with cream and sugar.
WHAT TO EAT WITH THE FINGERS.
The following list of articles of
food may be properly eaten from the
fingers: All bread, toast, tarts,
small cakes, celery and asparagus,
when served whole, either hot or
cold; undressed lettuce, which must
be crumbled in the fingers and dip
ped in salt or sauce; olives, to which
a fork should never be put, any
more than knife should be used on
raw oysters; strawberries, when
served with the stems on, are touch
ed to pulverized sugar; cheese in ell
forms except Brie, Roquefort, Cum.
befort, and fruits of all kinds except
melons. The latter should be eaten
with a spoon or fork. In the use of
the fingers greater indulgence is be-
ing shown, aud you cannot, if you
are well-bred, make any very bad
mistake in this direction, especially
when the finger bowl stands by you
and the napkin is handy.
THE EVENING NEAL.
1t is a matter of choice with the
household whether the evening meal
shall be substantial dinner, as it
usually is in the house of man OF
business, who cannot come home 10
the middle Of the day, or simple
tea or supper, as it often is in the
country, where the substantial meal
of the day is eaten at noon. The
fashion of serving the most subssan-
tial meal of the day at night, how
ever, is on the increase in the coun-
try. ALI professional men, even
though they may live in small city
and their office is adjacent to their
homes, find it an injudicious thing
to eat heavy meal in the midst OF
their work. Lawyers who wish to
keep their thoughts clear for plead
ing do not attempt to eat so heavy
meal as dinner before their work for
the day is done. The minister or
the professional writer finds his
thoughts flag and his task harder to
accomplish after heavy dinner.
The evening meal seems to be the
natural season for the heaviest meal
of the day for any worker, especially
where the breakfast is 80 substantial
as it is in the majority OF American
families.
Where dinner is not served at
night there is still decided ten
dency to make that meal more sub
stantial, more like Southern sup
per, with hot dishes, than like the
cold, formal tea of New England
fame, where water-like slices of
bread, sweet preserve, delicately
sliced cold meat, plate of sweet
cake and tea constitute the usual bill
of fare. There are very few men Of
business who are able in the middle
Of the day to give the proper amount
of time that should be given to din
ner. If they live near and come
home to dinner, they are likely TO
eat it hurriedly, and thereby acquire
dyspepsia. 1t is the practice OF
most farmers to eat hearty supper.
1t would probably be better for them
il this were always a hot meal and
the dinner eaten In the midst of their
work we're lighter one, as it is
when they 60 any distance from
home and are compelled to take
their dinner with them.
Every one in these modern days
sits Up long enough to digest sub
stantial dinner, so the old fashioned
excuse that it was not wholesome to
go to sleep after a hearty meal no
longer holds as an argument against
a dinner at night.