The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-02-06

DamphoOl, thou art superative:--therc 10
mono greater. Farewell! Henceforth, friend.
ship to me 10 but name, and survive nv be.
rcavcment only to concentrate my affections
upon my embryonic whiskers.
Sympathize with me, Mr.. Editor, and re-
main, fea
Yours inconsoable, sfss
Til tho bell rings for dinnor.
q. X. PmLA ANDER DoEsTIcKs, p. B.
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No true New Yorker IL without an affection,
deep as his ancestral pride. for tho cake of his
childhood, morning pabulnm, tho breakfast
delicacy, the tender offspring of the purple
bnckwhsat. What to it are the oatmeal
banch of the hardy Sent, the e.cako of our
Southern tho coarse Jonnv ditto If our New
England brethren7 Poor food. Your truo
buckwheat is ~ Dutch pedigree, born out Of
the culinary ingenuity that gavc US ole kocks.
krullcrs and apple sauce. much studied and
long in gcstsiion, but perfect when brought
forth History has fallen short Of her full boz
hest in not perpetuating the name and fame
of him whom Luckwheat cakes own as theit
inventor. But here. in our land Of diverse an
cestry. we know him for Dntchman. For
from the region watered by tho Hudson. and
tcnanted by the sturdy. broad backed descen-
daats of the Bummels, the Stuyvesants, the
Rensselaors, and tho Vans of all possible suf-
fixes, cano forth tho first knrwledge of this
immortal production. All glory and honor tn
that man and his invention; or if. perchance, IL
were woman. then ten thousand lanrel-
crowns he hers, the matron saint Of breakfasts.
the beneAcient and revered tutelary deity OF
the Winter morng repast.
The buckwheat cake is now firmly enthron-
ed as the stable farinaceous food of all Nor
thern and Western breakfast. II would he Gu.
rions to compute tho number Of those delicious
dishes. daily consumed in the severa! States
to which tho light of a genial civilization has
penetrated But wo have not time For that
now Now can we here pause To refer to that
compendium Of hard facts, the Census. TO as
certain what broad number of acres annually
TEEN with the cereal which carries satisfaction
to so many stomachs. tickling. by the way. 80
many gustatory nerves. We can only consider
il in It's general relations 10 life, after subjec-
iion to sophsticatory arts vt Bridget or Dinah
when. of cold, frosty morning. after nights
fermentation in the chimney corner, the grey
semi-fuid mass. is poured upon the gr;ddle
and soon soliiifying under the potent influence
of heat, Is lifted of. a bnckwheat cake
| Nov. while tho farinaceons QUOT is hot and
crisp. let there be sweet butto-, golden, hard
and odorous. applied to the brown surface. and
then, while the aromatic coffse sends forth It's
grateful perfume. and the lifted cover shows
the links Of sausages. bursting through thei'
integimcnts. let tho appetizing result OF 81
much care and skill he presented for inspoc
ton and trial. The rest may fairly be left "a
nature Most able bodied Dersons can con.
sume six--we know a man who devoured TWEEN
~, and fantlv called for bread, lator in the re
past. He was unreasonable
Some lover of ssccharne condiments has in
! troduced among us tho use of that ednlcora
ting fluid. golden syrup. with which manv be
smear tho honest faces OF their tnokwhen'
cakes before boiling thom.. We aro opposes
to this. as working ruin upon another itinocen
and faithful friend of tho breakfast Ia
Bile. The coffee pots nose is oui Of joint. So
to speak il you eat molasses with your cakes
Tho glowing sweetness of tho sugar solution
deprives the coffee of all pungcncv. and ren
ders il as fiat "a six-water gros. Wherefore
we say. in simple justice to tho Java berry, dt
no such murder.
| We have mentioned sausages. Opinions
are divided as to the proner meat to ncccmpa
nv buckwbeat cakes. We often find ourselves
suspended. rs il we're. In Judgment, bo'worr
hash and the ultimate rcsnlt OF hog mnnipula
tion--the sausage. We speak, of conrse. o
the pure swine. M, reckoning as truthful those
tales which would associate canine aud felin,
caruntitv in one skin. Sausage IA the resi-
dun Of hog, after the extraction of ham. mes
AMI prime pork. spare-rib and clothes brushes
ia a very filing food for the price, and lo'
hearty for sedentary stomachs. We inc''n,
rather 10 hash, where the landlady and cool
entertain no sublimated notions or economy
| leading to the employment of unwholrsom
scraps in its fabrication. But there Is alwav
/ uncertainty in this regard. and il is not al
agreeable surprise to discover Goldfish bones
b, pin feathers or tooth,p cks in the hash. ]
may generally bo avoided with safety on thes
grounSs. g .p.
] Tlore Is one other thing buckwheat cak
is good for. besides eating. II always remind
one Of his youth, md il is good to remembe
that happy time. With US Il carries us back q
tho days when we were evou,g--wheh the cold
frosty mornings made it hard to pct up-whe
the broad fire place. filed with cracking hick
ory. the suspended griddle, tho great coffee
pot and the long-handed frying pan, had no
| yet given way tn the iron stove, or. worse yoi
to tho long range. like those they usod to cool
Saracons and schismatics upon--when tn,
way 10 school was long and weary, and Their
were drifts to be waded through, so that w,
tied our irowsors about the eankles with broa,
/ tspes-when Tho school house stood in a bleal
I, field, and the pile of green wood was snowet
under--when tho master was cross. and th'
lessons in Webster's spelling book was linrd Il
l"got"-whcn we carried our dinners, and al,
them around the great hox-stovo, the whil,
we bui't castles and projected our youthfn
! minds into the foture OF life-when we Wen
home, at evening, and laid our tired head il
her lap whom we then knew MS mother bu
mover knew we'll until we mourDed her dead
whom tho night came. down cold and black
aud the evening was long. and candv pulling
4 was resorted to by the children, while tha
good mothor sate by hor sewing. her miu'
filled (how little we know il then , with snx
ions wishes for our futsro good; when. In fac'
youth and joy, aud strong hope. and perfec
reliance on the world wero ours, and bef,r