One quart of thinly sliced carrots, one head of celery, three or four quarts of water, boil for two and one-half hours; add one-half cupful of rice and boil for an hour longer; season with salt and pepper and a small cupful of cream.
Veal Soup
Knuckle of veal 2 1/2 pounds 2 raw eggs 3 quarts water 2 tomatoes cut fine 1/2 onion salt and pepper to season a little flour 1/2 cup vermicelli or alphabet macaroni 2 eggs, beaten very light 1 1/2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
Put veal in stewing pan and allow it to cook until thoroughly done. Now chop meat and add cheese, flour, salt and pepper if needed and form into little b.a.l.l.s about the size of a marble. While preparing these, drop in macaroni and cook until tender. Now add the meat b.a.l.l.s.
If too thick use a little water. Beat the eggs lightly and add while boiling.
War Not Only Kills Bodies But Ideals MRS. HENRY VILLARD, President of Women"s Peace Conference.
Must the pride with which women point to the life saving character of the work of the numberless charitable agencies throughout the country--with a resultant lowering of the death rate in our great cities--be offset by the slaughter of our best beloved ones on the field of battle or their death by disease in camps?
No longer ought we to be called upon to be particeps criminis with men to the extent of being compelled to pay taxes which are largely used for the support of the army and navy.
Moreover, a recourse to war as a means of righting wrongs is full of peril to the whole human race.
Not only are bodies killed, but the ideals which alone make life worth living are for the time being lost to sight. In place of those finer attributes of our nature--compa.s.sion, gentleness, forgiveness--are subst.i.tuted hatred, revenge and cruelty.
[Ill.u.s.tration]
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.--Swift.
Virginia Fried Oysters
Make a batter of four tablespoons of sifted flour, one tablespoon of olive oil or melted b.u.t.ter, two well-beaten whites of eggs, one-half teaspoon of salt, and warm water enough to make a batter that will drop easily. Sprinkle the oysters lightly with salt and white pepper or paprika. Dip in the batter and fry to a golden brown.
Drain, and serve on a hot platter, with slices of lemon around them.
Creamed Lobster
2 tablespoons b.u.t.ter 1 1/2 pints milk 2 tablespoons flour season to taste
When cooked beat in the yolk of an egg.
Pick to pieces 1 can of lobster, juice of 1 onion, juice of 1 lemon, stalk of celery chopped fine, paprika, sweet peppers, cut fine. Mix all together and serve in ramekins. Serve very hot. Serves 12 people.
Salmon Croquettes
Fresh salmon or 1 can of salmon 2 eggs 1/2 cup b.u.t.ter 1 cup fine bread crumbs 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup of cream 1 pinch of paprika salt to season
Mix well and form into croquettes. Roll in egg and cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat.
Partial suffrage has taught the women of Illinois the value of political power and direct influence.
Already the effect of the ballot has been shown in philanthropic, civic and social work in which women are engaged and the women of this state realizing that partial suffrage means so much to them, wish to express their deepest interest in the outcome of the campaign for full suffrage which eastern women are waging this year.
So we say to the women in the four campaign states this year: "You are working not only toward your own enfranchis.e.m.e.nt but toward the enfranchis.e.m.e.nt of the women in all the non-suffrage states in the union. Your victory means victory in other states.
You are our leaders at this crucial time and thousands of women are looking to you. You have their deepest and heartiest co-operation in your campaign work for much depends upon what you do in working for that victory which we hope will come to the women of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Ma.s.sachusetts in this year of 1915."
JANE ADDAMS.
[Ill.u.s.tration]
Broiled Salt Mackerel
Wash and sc.r.a.pe the fish. Soak all night, changing the water at bed time for tepid and again early in the morning for almost scalding hot. Keep this hot for an hour by setting the vessel containing the soaking fish on the side of the range. Wash next in cold water with a stiff brush or rough cloth, wipe perfectly dry, rub all over again with salad oil and vinegar or lemon juice and let it lie in this marmalade for a quarter of an hour before broiling. Place on a hot dish with a mixture of b.u.t.ter, lemon juice and minced parsley.
Shrimp Wriggle
1 pint fresh shrimps 1 heaping cup hot boiled rice 1 medium size green pepper 1 tablespoonful Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons tomato catsup 1 scant pint cream with heaping teaspoon flour b.u.t.ter size of egg paprika and salt to taste.
Dissolve flour in cream, add shrimps, rice, pepper (chopped), pour in cream, add b.u.t.ter, add condiments, add just before serving 1 winegla.s.s sherry or Madeira.
HELEN RING ROBINSON.
[Ill.u.s.tration]
Chop Suey
Chop Suey is made of chopped meat and the gizzards of ducks or chickens, 1 cup of chopped celery and 1/2 cup of shredded almonds.
Mix with the following sauce: 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter and 1 teaspoon arrow root stirred into 1 cupful broth. Add 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce and simmer all for twenty minutes.
Veal Kidney Stew
1 veal kidney 1 small onion 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter 2 tomatoes cut fine 1 small can mushrooms 1/2 tablespoon parsley 4 tablespoons raw potatoes cut in small pieces Seasoning to taste
Wash, clean and cut fine a veal kidney. Fry onion in b.u.t.ter until light brown, add kidney, tomatoes, mushrooms, parsley, potatoes, seasoning and water, and cook until tender.
MEATS, POULTRY, ETC.
Baked Ham (a la Miller)