The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-11

cause much delight and surprise 10 the who'll
company" A. length the candles are lighted
ano banquet brought 10; the music sounds
and every one with much delight rehesrses the,
actions In the former passages. These. y saw,
Nay, Iegretfully for the immoral dish was in
"si,ss var. inc se,m reign Of Jane: the First
before good housekeeping had left England. and
the sword really acted that which vas only conn
ieTfelted ~ sach honest and laudabe exercises AZ
tnese.n such were the sports at whitehall when
az StAc ,k proved, swsrthy "Old Rowley" presided
cenoed to emile, and which Evelyn and Waller NAV
nave watched with blind approval.
Inc house O. Brunswick brought over sound
rIotes'antsm. but German taste. Cookery grew
cumbrous, dull and unnventive. vulgar Satu.
raiism became the fashion with the Gefmsuized
Italian and French cooks of the eighteenth cen.
Iury Horace walpols great about tribes incom-
Keen despiser of all folles and rneannesses but
his own, neat and fastidious tripper along aow.
cry path over the vulgar and psuper encountered
planet, deridsd the new fashion in desserts. JeI-
pretending and pleasant facts, had long aimee
given way to fashionable inanity and fashionable
Iusticify to harlequins, gondoliers, Turks. Chi
I nese ana sheperdesses Of Saxon China. This was
creatures, wandering about q dessert in mean
Psper and silk flowers. were soon discovered to
white Mig btoeps sosrud hixhus tue iurrrsr rsr e
taphor must be excused,) and there appeared At
my Lord Clackmore's dessert, and at the Earl of
Tattieton's dinner table, meadows full Of paper
cattle al over spots, sugar cottages where Damon
ana Chloe lived when they were not at the Ri.
dotto, or ambiguous Madame Cornely' E ere at mas
SneIade in soho Square; pigmy and long legged
oceans of looking glass and rumply seas Of silver
tissue: My Lady Fitzbattleaxe, the Honorable
Miss Hoopington, the plain Miss Biuesacque,
came home from Chenevix's and the India shops
NIT HAI1o bal HAL
desses, not for their children but for their
bousekeepers. Gradually even such brains as
those OF Frederick, Prince of Wales, whose
enc companions we're Dssnoyers, the dane
began to deride these little puppetshows
that figured in the center of the Burgundy glasses
and the dishes of macarooms. The Dilettante So
ciety, and the fashionable visits to Rome and
florence, awakened expanded notions of art. |
The grandeur OF size now struck these pigmy dan.
DIES. The ambitious coDfectioners Of the fashion.
able squares aspred to positive statuary, spindle
!. gged Venuses, and barber's dummy Marses, in
snected postures. Wslpole mentions celebrated |
confectionery of Lord Albermarle's, who loudly |
complained that bis lordship would not break up |
the ceiling OF his dinningroom to admit the heads
speard- points, and appraised thnnderbolts of |
~ dish OF Olympian deities eighteen feet
But even this fight of Lord Albermarle's con.
fectionery was surpassed by an enthusiastic con.
temporary in the service Of the Intendant of |
Ssscony, at great feast given in the province in
honor OF the birth Of the Duke of Burgundy. The
mobiles OF Gascony were treated with dinner
and q dessert. The latter concluded with a
by wax figures moved with clock
WORK, OF the ceremonial OF the sick.room of the
Daupbiness and the happy birth of an heir to the
great monarchy. Irf l-rIrl - - :.
This reminds Us of the over zeal of tina late
Duke Of Beaufort's Neapolitan Confectionery /
nom MI. Hayward describes as deeply impressed
with the dignity of his art. His grace was one
1lfht 10 bed fast asleep, and with the curtains
'rawn snug, when " he was ware OF an excited
knock at The door several times impatently re.
oeaied. Somewhat impatienily the duke stirred
q bis warm nest, sat up pulled the curtains back,
md asked testify who the was there ~ A
7oice answered in broken English:
Ct@ MOI seulenlent-it is only me- SiQnor |
1uc. was last night at the opera. and was dream
ng OF the music. 1t was Donzetti's, and | have
ented sorbet have named it after that divine |
Isrra tor from whom We quote, of Herbsult's ad-
ress to an English lady of rank, when he hurried
o her hotel to announce the completion of an or.
Ter for turban and ostrich feathers: +" Madame, |
fter three sleepless nights, the feathers are ar
angelo 1l9-H aIf -T8E L asa
The prince regent, whose tastes incline to q
ort Of vulgar and spurious Orientalism, at one Of
lis costly feasts at Carlton House, had channel
Il real water running round the table, and in this
wan gold and silver fish.
The French epicuresn writers say that the des-
ert should be the girandole or browning tableau
|
,ncbsnt. If the dinner have fully satisfied the
enses Of taste and the balanced appetite, the
lessert should address itself to the soul through
he eyes. 1t should rouse sensations Of surprise
with the removal of the cover of the
oup tureen,-that Pandoras cssket of q bad din
Ter, that joy and triumph OF successful and
tasteful repast rll lt
Italian in origin. The mature dhotel. before the
italian dessert, arrived, gloried in large dishes,
Of fruit and sticky hills of sweetmeats.
rhe elegance was clumsy and ostentatous. There
Marriage of Cana will give some idea of the prime
Ial French dessert. The newer fashion consistedin
hose futile trees and shrubs and orchards and
gardens abused by Horace Walpole bat French.
beds formed OF colcred sand, and the little men
md women In sugar promenading in enameled
bowling greens. This custom had not been intro
,uced in 1664-l666, when Louis the Fourteenth
rave those magnificent fetes at Versailles of which
Aoliere has left glowing descriptions. The sand
gardens first appeared in France in l725, at the
marriage Of that miserable and selfish y0luptuary
Louis the Fifteenth with Queen Mary of Poland;
and it is said that this princess, brought up In
misery and obscurity in the late town of Wissen-
Dourg was delighted with the fantastic new
fashion. 1t is in the nature Of art and science to
advance from conquest to conquest. Sir Humphry
Davy once said, science grew so fast that even
while he was preparing for the press. his work
had to receive constant alterations. Desforges,
Iatber of the author of several romances, and the
comedies of The Jealous Wife and Tom Jones in
London, was the first decorator of those days.
De introduced imitation foliage, and gave to the
rizzled muslin what was then considered, in the
words of one Of his eulogizers, IN 81 grand air
le nature ct de verite." To him succeeded
mother great creature, De Lorme. De Lorme
had not such profundity of Imagination and
creative genius yet he still found lsurels in Paris
10 harvest, and what he left ungathered were
stored up by Dutfoy, of the Rue de pArbre Sec,
Who, ciycd 1905. immortalzed himself by forming
he center of his dessert Of palaces aud temples
Of the eeverest proportions, Of perfect taste and
of vast extent. Domes, cupolas, huge peristyes,
galleries In perspective, elegant porticos. col.
INNS, entsblatures, architraves, were moulded by
lis in genious and skillfu hands, The profles were
Of re markable purity, the ornaments OF exquisite
tsste. The appropriate attributes with which he
adorned his temples rendered mythology en- after |
3inner study at once agreeable and instructive. To
hese temples this great msn added woods and
groves (the trees full Of nature), and adorned
hem with groups Of figures Of 5evres. He almost
Rave movement and life to these extraordinary
pictures. and, by managing his light and shade
xith tsste lent an enohantment 10 the whole,
turning even wood Of frizzled muslin into slice
Of fairy land. 5rn 1.. t-llf % 3. -i.a 1h.