The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04
BANANA DISHES
Some Delicious Ways Of
Cooking and Serving This
Useful and Nutritious
Trnit.
FOR YOUNG GIRLS FR0CkS
Our Character the Result Of
Our Past Thoughts-High
Girdle Effects Even
ing Colors.
FOR YOUNG GIRLS FR0CkS


Just now bananas are at their best and
fhe housewife il makise the most OF
them for her desserts. Delicious receipts
may be had for the use OF this fruit, and
few are given here. Banana short
cake is made with one quart Of aour,
one-half cup of butter, one-half teaspoon
of salt, one tablespoon Of sugar, two
heaping teaspoons Of baking powder,
milk to make soft dough, being about
one pint. Sift the -four, salt and pow
der together rub in the butter cold, add
the milk and mix into smooth dough,
sust soft enough to handle: divide in half
and roll out into size Of breakfast plate
Lay on a creased baking tin and bake
in hot oven twenty minutes sep
arate the cakes without cutting, as
cutting makes them heavy. Have mellow
bananas peeled and sliced. sweeten,
spread between layers of cake. Garnish
top with banana slices, dust with sugar
and serve with an abundance of whipped
cream.
To make banana cake one-half cup Of
butter is needed, one cup of sugar one
half cup Of milk, two scant cups of -four.
one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, whites Of four eggs, one-half
teaspoon of vanilla Mix flour and bak-
ing powder. Cream. butter aud sugar,
add milk and four alternately, then va
nilla and beaten whites Bake in three
layer tins in hot oven. Prepare the fol
lowing Sling: Boil one cup Of granulated
sugar with one-half cup of water till it
ropes when dropped from fork. Pour
gradually over stiffly whipped white of
two eggs, beating hard Add one-half cup
of mashed banana and fayorings, and
use at once.
Banana FrittersBeat three or four
bananas to a cream with food whip.
Add one egg, one cup bread flower, in
which one level teaspoon baking powder
has been siftetl, one saltspoon salt, and
about one-auarter cup sweet milk, or
enough to make drop batter. One
teaspoon sugar and one tablespoon
lemon juice may also be added. Beat
until thoroughly mixed. Have the fat
heated as for doughnuts, so the batter
win rise to the top Immediately. Dip
a clean spoon in the fat and use it to
shape the fritters; do not make them too
large Fry until well Drowned, drain
on soft paper. Sprinkle with powdered
sugar or serve with lemon sauce
Almost all the sheer, shimnering silken
stuffs, the soft lightweight woolens, the.
dainty linens and eottons are suitable for
the young girls frocks. if made accord
ing to accepted IDEAS Of appropriateness,
and the full skirts. the elbow sleeves, the
Dutch neck or demi-decolletag the shall
low guimpes and undersleeyes. the ribbon
trimmings, the growing simplicity Of skirt
ali these are notions adaptable to the
girl well along in her teens.
The bolero in one form or another Is
the coat par excellence for the young girl,
bnt short sack coats, shors coats fitted
in the back and loose in front, Norfolk
coats and various notifications of the
Brssian blouse idea. with basques or
skirts. are all shown in youthful skirt
and coat costumes. Occasionally girls
height and lines positively demand half
length or tliree-quarters coat. but often
fl.c bo.oro is more becoming, and the
short cont iiaquestionably consorts more
at:saes.vely with lie instep or ankle
length skirt.
plain tailor suit in some seryiceable
material and color is one Of The first
items TO be considered in planning a
girls wardrobe. and while this costume
may be chic il positively must BE- simple
Our character IS the SIM total Of all
our past thoughts The only remedy for
disturbing thoughts IS counter thoughts.
Calm and hols thoughts always quiet,
cool and calm the mind. He who Is hab-
itlaIly serene and tranquil has what We
call sweet and beautiful character
Never think. much less say man IS
hopelelss because he only represents a
character, a bundle of habits and tllese
can be checked by new and better ones.
ellaraeser Is repeated habits and repeslt
ID habits alone can reform character.
Back Of each habit, aud aetuatiag It. IS
thought Now, # We can rouse the mind
10 Ioob within the xoul for light and nor
without On externaI things the thought
gibfations are imnediately and perInatl-
Alsly ehaHgea to higher ana more har-