Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-07-18


culinary productions of Eustache Ude. "Wbat is
pon,'"
-'Dcn't you know what that is, srl I'll tell you in
minute. Joke that them thin has nothen TO 40,
aud plenty to eat, make upon the poor people tpat
has nothen t@ cut and plenty 10 do. That Is, when
there's dry patcz the table, and enough OF hungry
people about it, and the family would have only one
bit O. bacon hanging up above their heads, they'd
peel patc arst then they'd point up at the oacon
ond they'd fancy with their own mind that It would
have the taste o. the matt when they'd be aten
after. That's what they call point, sir. cheap
o. diet it is, lord help us, that's plenty enough
among the poor people IN this country A great
plan for making small bit Of pork 60 long way in
a lnrge family"
"Indeed 1t is but a slender sort Of food. Those
scissors you have are dreadful ones"
Terrible, sir, sent my own over to the forge be.
lore ieft home. to have eye put only that, d
be smarter DEAL Slender food it is, indeed! There's
deal o poor people here in Ireland sir, that run
so hard ut times that the wind of bit o mutt IS as
good to EN- as the matt itself to them that would be
used To It. The Diatez every thing, the fuchen
little nothing But there's sort of patez, Ia white
plato, pate that has great produce, don't know did
your honour 'eui,) that's gotten greatly IN
vogue among 'em, am is killing half the country;
the an requires but little manure, an will grow in
very poor land; but has strength nourish
Dlent in it, than if you had boiled hsndiul o.
dust and made Cruel of it, put bit Of deal board
between your teeth, and thought To make breakfast
cut of it, The black bulls themselves better. In
deed the black bulls are deal better platte than
they're thought. When you'd peel EN-, they look
black indigo, an you have no mind to 'em at all;
but declare they're very sweet in the mouth an
very Strengthening. The English reds arc a nate
platte, too, and the apple platte, (I don't know what
made en be given up1 an the kidney Though delicate
oil rearlng,l but give me the cups for o that will
hould the meal IN em to the last, and won't require
any inthricket tillagc. Let man have mddling
sized pit o the cups again the winter, a small cash
tpig) to pay his rent, al haIdful turf behind the
door, an he defy the world
"You know much, think" said Hardress, s'of
tarmipg, as of hair cutting"
Il IN hat
heads came across this way, sir I'd be in poor
why, enough. But | have little spot O. ground be-
Sides"
"And good taste for the produce"
"'Twas kind father for me to hive that same. Did
you here tell cir, of what they call limestone
broi?"
"Novcr."
- Twas my father first made it. III tell you the
story, sir if you'll turn your head this way minute
Hardness had no choice but TO listen.
"My father went once upon a time about the coun-
cry the idle SEASON. Seeing fine would make penny
at all by cutting hair, setting razhurs and PEN
knives, any other job that would fall in his way.
Well an good-he was one day walking alone in the
nocntnin of Kerry without hai'p'ny in his pocket
(tor though he travelled foot it cost him more than
lie earned) and knowing there but little love for
a County Limerick man in the place where he was
an being half pershed with hunger, an evening draw
ing nigh he didn't know well what to do with him
self till morning Very good he went along the wild
road and as he did he farm honse at a lit
tie distance, of one side; snug looking place with
the smoke curling out of the chimney an all
tokens OF good living insidc.-Well some peo-
pie would live where fox would starve. What
do you think my father do? He wouldn't beg Ia
thing one of our people have never done vet thank
heavenly an he hadn't the money to boy a thing so
what does he dn' He takes mn compile of the his
hspAs, away with him to the house. Lord save
all here! says he. 'And you kindly says thew
I'm come To you. says he. this way, looking at the
two lime stones,to know would you let me make n
little lime stone broth your fire, until I'll make
my dinner?"' 1,ine stone BROTH says they to him
again, whats that eroo'' Broth made o. lime
stones, says he what else9'-'We never heard of
such thing says they. why than you NAV hear
1t now,' says he, and see it also, if you'll gil me
pot an couple o. quarts O. soft water You can
have II an welcome, says they. So they put down
the pot an the water, and my father went over, an
tuck chair hard by the pleasant fire for himself
aud put down his two lime stones to BOIL an KEEP stir
ring them round, like stirabout Very good well by
and by when the water began TO boil, tTis thcken-
ing finely, says father; if it had q grain o.
salt at all, I would be a great Improvement To il
Raicb down the salt box Nell says the man e. the
house. TO his vito. 80, that's the very thing lust
says my father, shaking some of it into the pot So
ne stirred it again awhile, looking sober as min
isteT. BY and by, he takes the spoon he had stirring
It, and tastes it. st is very good now, says he al
though it wants something yet. What is it, says
they 'Oyeh, wisha nothing says be, may be It's
only fancy o me- IF it's any thing we can rive you'
says they, you're welcome to it.. IT'S very rood
as 1t IS, says he, 'but when I'm at home | find it
gives 1t fine bit favour Just to boil little knuck-
lie o. bacon or mutton trotOrs, any thing that way
along with it, Raich neither that bone o. sleeps
head we had at dinner yesterday, Nell, says the
man o the house. 'Oyeh don't mind it, saws nv
tather, et be IL U.s. Sure If it improves it. YOU
may as well, says they. sBaiHterastiny* says my
father, putting it down. So after boiling it good
piece longer, TITS as fine lime stone BROTH saws he
'as ever was tasted, an if man had few piatez
says he, looking at pot in the chimney corner be
could't desire hotter dinner They gave him the
piatez, and he made good dinner Of themselves
an the broth, not forgetting the bone which he pol
In off he lot 20 gt,L
people themselves astedit thought it rs good as
any mutton broth in the world"
sBeUsD.
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