The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-29

from a kosher shop, IL must be cut
from the most expensive portions of
the animal, the fore-quarters and
breast, and IL must be absolutely above
suspicion. No kosher butcher may
keep meat more than three days.
The breast of beef sells at eighteen
cents a pound, the cut sknown as
chuck" bringing fourteen. Unkosher
meats sell as low as and cents per
pound, but the Gentiles living on the
East Side patronize the kosher shops
largely, to be assured of getting clean,
| untainted meat. Only the best poul-
J try is offered on the East Side, where
| it brings from IS TO % cents a pound.
| The finest fish goes to the Hester
| street shops and wagons, commanding
| from IS to 80 cents a pound. Pike is
regarded as the greatest delicacy. So
infinitely and thoroughly does the East
! Sider's religion enter into his domestic
| life that he eats either the best there
is in the market or nothing. Better
| black bread and coffee than savory
meats that are open to suspicion. The
| housewife may offer but one dish at a
meal, but that viii be carefully pre-
| pared according to the law and tradi-
| tons.
Vegetables she finds reasonable,
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a delicacy, a dessert, but to satisfy
actual hunger. The East Side child
when it gets a penny does not run
to the nearest candy shop. The money
| represents to him actual food and is
| spent usually at fruit stands Dimini-
tive baskets of strawberries in season
sell for cents, bananas in good con-
dition and of reasonable dimensions
can be had for 1 cent, but oranges
/ nffa q
| the summer months.
| All vegetables are now sold by the
| pound, as false bottoms in measures
and a skillful arrangement Of potatoes
| in reliable measures more than once
| have nearly caused riots. Potatoes
| bring 2 cents a pound, beets. an East
| Side staple, have risen to cents a
| pound, and cabbage is considered
| cheap at 5 cents a head. Onions which
are used in immense quantities COM
mand 5 cents a pound. Cucumbers
sell here for a cent, when is de-
| manded uptown.
Their Pet Dishes.
All this the housewife has not dis
| covered on a single trip. But at vari-
Gus times during the day, she has
sailed forth, basket or arm, to watch
the rise or fall of the market. Her
luncheon has been a simple matter.
For the man at work a sandwich and
| some cheese, for the children and her
self perhaps only bread and butter.
with fruit if there were pennies for
the little ones. The one meal of the
day is dinner, which she prepares with
infinite care and served at about $50.
For this there will be soup, meat,
| potatoes, radishes or cucumbers, and
| If times are good with the family
there may be pie made of prunes or
rhubarb. If business at the shop is
dull, there will be only one or TWO
| dishes, in which case extra care must
be taken to provide nourishing quail
ties.
A never failing staple for the East
Slider is herring, which can be pur-
chased at the rate of two or cents.
From these she concocts a peculiarly
satisfying salad. The fish is soaked,
chopped and then mixed with finely
minced onions, boiled egg, pepper and
| just enough vinegar to give flavor,
but not to make the mixture mushy.
The East Side cook prepares fish af-
! ter fashions that other housewives
! have tried in vain to copy. A recipe
that sound simple enough and yet
which battles the INITIATED calls for
seven pounds of the best white fish
such as pike. This is cleaned, rubbed
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cool. The bones and heads are used
to form a false bottom in the agate
| pot used for cooking. This prevents
burning. The fish is then taken from
| the ice, washed free of salt, cut into
portions sufficient for one person and
| laid in cold water to the depth of two
| inches to which has been added sliced
onions, pepper and salt It is permit
ted to simmer quietly for at least two
/ l.
tablespoonful of butter is added
This is a popular dish for Friday night
being served cold for the Sabbath day
| lunch, when it will be found thai
broth in which the fish was cook.
| ed has formed round it like 9
| gelatine. Another characteristic Eas
| Side dish is made from fish skinned
and cut fine while raw and then mixed
with finely ground cracker crumbs
minced onion, salt, pepper and one o.
two raw eggs, the whole made int
These, too, are eaten cold for the Sab
bath day lunch.
Her Busy Fridays.
Friday is the busiest day of the weel
for the East Side housewife, for sh
cannot so much as strike a match il
her house on the next day. No matte
what the weather on Friday, the Goa
| fire is started, great loaves of bread
twist and coffee cake glistening will
| a varnish of beaten egg, and mad
dishes such as those described here ar
| prepared. When this supply of breat
| gives out, she buys at the Hestor stree
market, paying or cents a loaf TO
white bread and cents a pound o
| three pounds for cents for the blacl
| bread similar to that used by the Rus
sian peasants in their native land.
The wife of the man who earns 81
day, and has a family of five, calcu
lates to spend about Sc cents a day Of
her table. The rent will be $40 month
and out of the remainder she will man
age to save not only the coveted de
posit against a slack season, but suffi
GENTLY to send her family decent,
clothed to the synagogue. The chill
dren each may have only a single gar
ment to don during the week, but o.
the Sabbath day they will sally forth
arrayed like the flowers of the feel
every garment fashioned by the un
firing fingers of the under-rated Eas
Side mother.
Aside from her cooking which b
reason of the Mosaic law, is a compli
Gated process, the East Side housewife
conducts her house on simple lines
Bath rooms are unknown in the chea
tenements, but the children can hinge
round the nearest hose house until tn
good-natured firemen turn on a fresh
ening stream. The few garments wor
by the East Side child can be quickl
dried on the roof or the ever-con