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by Joan Kingsbury
With a husband in the
restaurant business, you
can bet Mary Burcculeri
husband, Louie, owns and
operates Pizza Roma at
205 South: Main St. in
Wilkes-Barre. Both Mary
and Louie are experts at
preparing Italian food.
Louie specializes in pizza,
lasagna, and hot and cold
hoagies at Pizza Roma
while at home Mary's
specialties include Rice
Balls, Meat Loaf, Apple
Cake and Stuffa.
Rice Balls are a great
favorite: when Mary en-
tertains her family for
special occasions. A sauce
made from tomato paste,
ground beef, and peas is
used to fill the center of
rice balls flavored with
“butter, Italian cheese and
egg yolks. Rice Balls are
dipped in egg white, then
in seasoned bread crumbs
before they are deep fried
to a golden brown. This
recipe makes 50 Rice
Balls. They can be frozen
for a week or two before
serving. Mary uses Rice
Balls as a side dish.
Mary has found that
adding minced celery and
minced onion to meat loaf
gives this dish a distinc-
tive flavor. Italian
seasoned bread crumbs,
finely chopped parsley
and catsup also add
flavor.
The recipe for Mary's
Apple Cake came from
Stuffa or Honey Balls is
a holiday goodie. The
slightly sweet dough is cut
into: 1% inch balls, then
deep fried in Wesson oil
until light brown. To coat
the Stuffa, heat honey in a
saucepan, then dip Stuffa
coated. Remove honey-
coated Stuffa to a platter.
Sprinkle with confetti
candy or small pieces of
citrus.
Mary, Louie and their
three year old son,
Charles, are newcomers
to the Back Mountain
having moved to our area
in January from
Brooklyn, N.Y. A
graduate of St. Joseph’s
High School, Mary
worked for the District
Attorney of Manhattan for
a year and a half before
accepting a job with a
-
private’ law firm. She
worked at the law firm for
seven years.
Louie attended Staten
Island
College and Pace College.
his own business, Loui¢
worked in a bank where
he was a junior ac-
countant. Before /the
Burcculeris ere
married, Louie was a
partner in the restaurant
business with his brother.
Feeling that our area,
with its’ numerous
colleges, is a good area
for a pizzaria, Louie and
Mary decided to move to
the Back Mountain and
try their luck in the
restaurant business.
business person in the
family, howver. In May,
Mary and her partner,
Jackie Downend, opened
their clothing boutique.
“The New York Con-
nection,” located next to
Pickett’s Charge
Restaurant ‘in Dallas.
Mary and Jackie offer
their customers better
quality clothing at
reasonable prices. While
Mary was working in the
Brooklyn law office, she
met several men who sold
clothes to the better New
York Stores. As a cour-
tesy to Mary, these men
allow her to purchase top
name fashions.
Specializing in one of a
kind dresses as well as
other clothing items,
Mary and Jackie hope to
expand to a full store in
the future.
In leisure moments,
which are rare for Mary,
she enjoys sewing,
cooking, reading and
playing racquet ball.
Since both. Mary and
Louie speak Italian, they
are teaching Charles the
language of their an-
cestors.
RICE BALLS
2 1b. onions
2 cans tomato paste
1 can peas
2 1b. gr. beef
2 1b. Carolina rice
1 Ib. butter or margarine
1, 1b. grated Italian
cheese
1 doz. eggs, separated
1 Ig. can seasoned bread
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1 qt. oil
SAUCE
Cut up onions and saute.
Brown ground beef. Add
tomato: paste and
seasonings with a little
sugar. Add peas; cook
about 1 hour.
RICE
Cook rice per directions
on the box. When rice is
cooked add the rest of the
yolks.
When rice is cool, beat
egg whites. Put a little
rice in the palm of the
hand and flatten, put a
teaspoon of sauce in the
center, then add a little
more rice to form a ball,
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dip in egg whte, then in
seasoned bread crumbs.
Deep fry until brown.
Makes about 50 balls.
2 lb. gr. beef
Y% ¢. beef broth
one third c. catsup
2 eggs
1 c. Italian seasoned
bread crumbs
5 c. minced celery
1 T. minced onion
3 T. finely chopped par-
sley
11% t. salt
% t. pepper
Combine mixture.
Press into a lightly
greased loaf pan. Bake at
350 degrees for 1 hour or
until’ loaf shrinks from
sides of the pan.
APPLE CAKE
4 eggs
1%; c. flour
3 c. oil
1 t. baking powder
10 apples, cut in small
pieces
cinnamon
Grease a 9x13 baking
pan with’ butter. Put in
apples, sprinkle with
cinnamon. Pour dough
mixture on top. Bake at
350 degrees for about 45
minutes.
STUFFA
6 eggs
4 T. sugar
pinch salt
% t. baking powder
Y; 1b. butter, melted
1% t. vanilla
flour as needed.
honey for coating
Beat ‘eggs well, add
sugar, salt, baking
powder and melted
butter. Add as much flour
as needed to make a soft
dough. Roll like a thin
pencil then cut into one
half inch balls. Fry in
deep fat til’ light brown,
drain. After all are cooked
put honey in a pan. When
honey is hot put in stuffa,
a small amount at a time.
Coat with honey, put on a
platter. Sprinkle candy
confetti - on top. Small
pieces of citrus can be cut
up and sprinkled on top,
too.
Brothers
graduate
Two sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne G. Pettit of
Shavertown graduated
from college last
weekend.
Mark Pettit received
his B.S. degree in ar-
chitecture from Penn
State University: Main
He plans to
enter the campus
graduate school to; earn
his Master’s degree in
architecture.
During his junior year
Mark studied abroad in
England.
His younger brother,
David, received an
Associate’ Degree in
carpentry from the
Johnson School of
Technology in Scranton.
Both: young men are
graduates of Dallas
Senior High School.
Tom Yoniski, advisor.
The Office of Continuing
Education at Luzerne
County Community
College has "announced
that the college will offer
a lethal weapons course,
scheduled to meet every
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Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, relative to the
Lethal Weapons Training
Act 235.
The course is composed
of classroom instruction
relative to all facets of
criminal justice including
laws of arrest, search and
seizure, use of force,
crime
vestigation, testifying in
court, statements and
confessions, and offenses
against persons and
property.
In the gym area,
students will learn self-
defense, handcuffing, and
use of the baton; and on
the pistol range in-
struction in shooting as
well as qualification with
the pistol will be
demonstrated.
All students who pass
the final examination and
qualify with the pistol will
be qualified to perform.
their sesired profession in
the security field.
To reserve a place in
the Lethal Weapons class,
interested persons should
contact the Continuing
Education Office ‘at
munity College. .
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Sr. airman
John G. Sidorek Jr., son
of Joyce L. Sidorek of 2S.
Main St., Shavertown, has
‘been promoted i in the U.S.
Air Force to the rank of
senior airman.
Sidorek is an aircraft
fuel systems mechanic
with the 317th Field
Maintenance Squadron at
Pope Air Force: Base,
N.C. :
He is a 1978 graduate of
Dallas Senior High
: School, Dallas.
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