The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-03-31
Indian Meal In Great Britain.

Indian Meal In Great Britain.
The Philadelphia United States Ca
zette speculates in this wise on the intro
duction of Indian corn among the English
and Irish people,
Well, when some thousand bushels Of
this Indian corn reach the store-houses
Of England, and are thence distributed
into the meal-tubs and kneading-roughs
of the laborers, and the swelling heap
shows double quantity. for the same
cost, of ordinary -four or meal, who shall
tell them of its use! Who shall sayto the
housewife, thus shalt thou mix the ma
terial and so shalt thou mould the loaf?
Who shall enter into the little laboratory
Of the Workingman's house, and lecture
the practical chemist upon the affinities Of
salt and lard, hot water, and Indian meal
and who will tell her how long she must
submit her combination to the action Of
fire, that it may be for the comfort of her
household! Also, she would be as igno-
rant of all the arts, parts, and process of
that wor k. as were the uniniiiated of the
Eleusynlan mysteries.
Some time after the introduction of tea
into Massachusetts, citizen from Cape
Cod came up to Boston, to trade off his
fish. The merchant persuaded him to
take pound of tea among other articles
of household requirements. "I've heard
of the article said the Cape Cod man,
''but how is tito be cooked"
at must be boiled said the merchant,
sand is always used when company
comes"
The tea was taken home, and it was
resolved to be hospitabIe. Company
was invited to spend the day. At dinner
a fine piece of boiled beef, and another Of
good fat pork, with an accompaniment of
potatoes and carrots, graced the table
''And now," said the host as he looked
in triumph first to his wife, and then to
his guests, whom he served bountifully
with the viands before them, ''help Mrs.
Besset to something from that DISH
The pewter spoon was thrust into a
dish of well boiled tea leaves, from which
the water had been carefully strained, and
each, from the architrichlinos down TO
the youngest guest, was served with a
quantity of the Ceinese weed, real green
Souching.
''Taste that" said the worthy host,
sit is TEA, such as the quality in Boston
and Plymouth make such fuss about"
Each mumbIed little of the herbage,
and carefully rinsed it down with cider,
but none ventured TO criticse the new
addition to the dinner table.
"WiIl youh some more, my dear!"
said the good lady to the husband.
'Not leaf more-that platefuIl cost
fonr and a sexpence, and if it we're not
for the name Of tea, | would as lief have
turnip tops Tor my greens as that stuff
1t is monslrous hard chewing, and not
over pa latable after ALL
And so, or even worse, it may be in
England, with the corn meal Of this
country. 1t may be made up into form,
or mixed in dilution. until poverty itself
will grow sick of the ingredients.
Would it not be well, as soon as the
adoption by Parliament of Sir Robert
Peel's plan shall be known, TO send mes
sengers on mission of love and profit
to England, to instruct housekeepers in
the use of Indian meal! The new Eng
land Envoy Extraordinary shall teach
the people how to mix the rye and corn
meal, and how to build the lofty "loaf OF
brown bread''-how to mingle the milk,
the molasses and the meal, luscious al
literation) and to compose the "baked
pudding The messenger from Mary
land would instruct in the formation Of
..pones,' and he of Virginia lecture upon
the composition and baking of shoe
cakes and South Caroline instruct in
the fabrica n and ase Of '.johnny cakes
And thus the poor, meagre tribe, tb<t
had shrivelIed up on oat meal gruess, or
been drenched by sour flour and poisoned
ale, will grow rugged. red an rampant
upon the blood-warning I'D hesl-giving
meal of maize. 'rnen, the mountain
brown loaf Of Few-England would make
the weaver grosa b IL weight, 'hcugh i