Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-06-19
AaritnItntaI anS Domestic.
'slrlsnam Young on Roast Becf ana
Emptyfugn.

Tho Great High Priest of Mormondom
instructs his followers even in kitchen du-
tics. In sermon delivered on Sunday,
April Q, in the Bowory at Salt Lake, he
says:
A man buys ton pounds of fresh meat
and carries il home in the morning, tho wife
will cook up, perhaps, four or five pounds
Of that meat for the breakfast of the man,
the vito and the littlo child. To begin
with il is often cooked very badly, not prop
erly seasoned, smoked up, part Of it burnt
and the rest raw, so that they cannot eat
much of it; and there is a great platter full
left that cannot be eaten, and tho uncooked
portion has probably been neglected until
il is spoiled, and thus nearly tho whole is
wasted.
Sisters, if you do not believe this many
of you may go home and remember what
you cooked this morning and see the plat
ters full, and tho little messes standing here
and there. BY and by it is not fit to eat,
and is finally thrown out of doors. Is
this true9 1t is. The reason say So is
because see it with my own eyes. You
may wish to know where l see it. Among
some Of my neighbors where / visit, among
somo Of my own family, and in many pla-
ces where go.
If a man is a good husband and knows
how 10 live, let him teach his wife how to
cook tho food he provides, as | have some
of my wives, more or less, Notwithstanding
u havo some excellent cooks; but | do not
think that | have one but l can teach in
the art of cooking some varieties of food,
for have at times been obliged to pay con-
siderable attention to this matter. And
when l 90 into q house l can soon know
whether the woman is an economical house.
keeper or not; and if l stay few days |
can tell whether husband can get rich or
not. If she is determined on her own course,
and will waste and spoil the food entrusted
to her, that man will always be poor.
Some women will set emptyings in the
morning and let them stand until they sour
and mix up the -four with them and sweet
en- it with saleratus, and then knead it ready
for baking, and if sister Somebody comes
in they will set down and begin to talk over
old times, and the first they know the bread
is sour; "dear me, ] forgot all about that
bread" and into the oven she puts it and
builds up large fire and again sets down
ito visiting with her neighbor, and before
she thinks of the loaf there is a crust burnt
on it from quarter to half an inch in
thickness. So much of the bread is spoil
cd, there goes one quarter of the -four, it is
wasted, and the bread is sour and disagree
able to eat and the husband comes home
and looks sour, and is sour, as well as the
bread. He finds fault, and that makes the
wife grieve, and there are feelings and un-
happiness and dissatisfaction in the family.
The husband may be good man and the
wife good woman and try to please her
husband and to do as much as the old lady
did who said, "it was impossible for her to
please her husband in baking break for if
it was half dough he did not like it, and if
il was half burnt up he scolded about it."
1t is shame that men and women do
not pay more attention to the principles of
economy in living. They want to have
money to go to market and buy everything
ready made. They want to have somebody
feed it to them. havo thought many
times, that some persons would not be salts
fed, unless we baked plumb pudding and
roast beef for them, and then fed them
while they were lounging in big easy chairs;
and still perhaps they would think that they
were i'll treated, if we did not chew their
meat for them.