The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-21
COOK BOOK DAY.
Woman's Club Home De-
partment Exchange Pet
Recipes in Has
brouck Institute.
CHAPTER or POISONS AND SECRETS
Discovered Fakes in Mustard,
Coffee and Pepper-How
to Make Oyster Patties.

s.Cook Book Day, proved such a sucr
cess yesterday afternoon in Hasprouck
Institute. where the Members or the
Woman,s Club Home Department heid
their second meeting, that the ladies' are
quite anxious to have their cook DOCKS
with them always, whenever the depart
ment meets. Unfortunately there u sonly
one ssCook Book Day" on the entire year
programme. and some of the ladies'
thought 1t would be a good idea to devote
a few minutes each month to the ex-
change of recipes.
Yesterday each lady provided herself
with a pencil, or borrowed one from ner
neighbor, and proceeded to copy eacn
recipe as given. Nearly all of these
recipes were for desserts, although there
was quite an argument at the opening OF
the meeting as to the way in which pohea
meats should be treated, also as 10
whether eggs should be dropped into boil
ing or cold water, most Of the members
agreeing that the latter method was more
healthful.
Miss Louisa NJ. Edge, chairman Of the
department, read several extracts from
Mrs. Mary AbeIs book on practical ana
Economic Cooking as well as a Few
newspaper facts stating that pepper was
mixed with charcoal, mustard with plaster
of paris. coffee with wheat middlings, ana
that one-half the jellies were colored with
poisonous extracts, until the department
began to wonder how it happened it was
in existence at all.
Among the recipes exchanged were the
following
Raisin PuTs-Two eggs. 2 tablespoons
! -, -1o5oI ,ofcfpr half Pfn hui
ter, half cup milk, 2 cups flour, 8 tear
spoons baking powder. Put in buttered
cups half full and steam half hour, keep
ing covered. Serve cold.
Baked Indian ~Pudding-Boil one quart
sweet milk, stir in one cup yellow IN
dian meal. When cold add one pint fresh
milk, " well beaten eggs, one cup mo-
lasses, one small teaspoon ginger, same
quantity salt, three tablespoons Hour,
spices to taste, and bake an hour and a
half,
Snow Pudding-Three tablespoons corn
starch dissolved in water, one pint DOLL
ing water, one tablespoon sugar, whites
of three eggs. beaten to froth and stirred
in quickly. Turn in mould wet with cold
water and let cool. The sauce Is made
With two yolks eggs, one cup milk, one
Gun sugar, butter size of ~butternuf.
Cook Until thick and flavor to taste.
Cream Pie with Sponge Cake Crust
Three eggs, scant cup sugar, cup hour'
i,,ice half a lemon, one teaspoon baking
powder Bake in one round and one long
Cut long cake int strips and nj
round edge of round cake to hold filing,
which is made with three cups milk, half
cup ugar, half cup sifted flour, yolks
three eggs and grated rind one lemon.
Spread whole with whites of five eggs
beaten with granulated sugar, not too
stiff.
Lemon Filling for Pie-Three lemons,
nind two, juice three, two and a half cofree
cups sugar. four eggs, W teaspoons
-four, two coffee cups milk; stir well be-
fore adding milk; pour into unbaked crust,
cover with crust and bake.
Orange Layer Cake-One pound -four,
one pound sugar. scant half pound butter,
five eggs beaten separately, three tea
spoons baking powder; bake in round tins
and fill with-juice large orange, half the
rind grated, white one egg. mixed with
one and a half cup sugar, enough to
make a soft icing.
Tortoni-One-half pint cream whipped
stiff, one dozen marcaroons rolled and
sifted, fifteen almonds, blanched and
chopped fine. Add three-fourths of the
marcaroons to the cream and all the
almonds, favor.
Cranberry Jelly-Three bowls cranber-
ries, two bowls sugar, bowl cold water;
boil sugar and water to syrup, add cram
berries, leave twenty minu and boil
again.
A recipe for oyster patties was also
given, in which the secret of keeping the
patties in shape lay in baking the crust
on the outside instead of the inside of the
pans.
Jelly, 1t was also discovered. could be
made fresh during the winter by preserv-
ing the juice, especially of the currant,
in season.
These recipes had all been well tested.
and Miss Edge read them off slowly so
that all might have a hance to give them
a perfect trial. Hereafter the ladies will
provide themselves with regular note
books for his purpose. Among the dis
coyeries made by the Department yester-
day was the fact that cooked celery is
a preventive, if not a cure, for rheumat-
ism.
The next meeting of his department will
be held December Is, when Miss Leila
Kinds will read a paper on Home Dec
orations for Children" and Mrs. Willard
FISK another on as it Right to Teach
Children the Myth of Santa CLAUSE"
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