Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-05-07
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to taste. about half tablespoonful of each.
When well mixed add good tea-spoonful
of cream tartar, and teaspoon not quite
so full of soda. Bake in maderate oven.
When first made. it is quite fought but 1t
loses that after four or FIVE days. This may
be tried at least for It's novelty, so that we
may know what persons cat five thousand
miles away from us, in the civilized portion
of Africa. A relative residing there, trans
mitted ii to u.s.
Yeast.
To make good yeast, boil two ounces of
hops, the best, in gallon of water, for half
an hour, strain it and let it cool down to the
heat of new milk, then add u small handful
of salt half pound of moist sugar; beat
up one pound of the best flour with some of
the liquor, and then mix all well together.
Two days after add three pounds of pota-
toes, boiled and mashed,to stand twenty-four |
hours, then put into bottles, and 1t will be
ready for use. Stir it often while making, |
and keep it warm. Before using, shake up |
we'll 1t will keep in cool place for two |
months.
Delaware Cooking.
We Judged the writer of the article of
April End, asking SIS Cookery a lost Art,
little versed in Delaware Housewifery in
general for referring to European servant
girls having control of the operation Such
is not the custom in Kent and Sussex, even
if adopted in Wilmington and New Castle
county, and very rare have been the occa-
sions we have seen them employed outside
of Wilmington the remarks, excellent and
practical as they were, we supposed to be
addressed to the younger ladies especially,
in view of those training for future duties as
heads of families We have always seen
the cooking superintendent by the mistresses,
more often assisted also, and surely enthusi-
astic enough in their business, if their "gas-
tronomic tastes and actual appetites" are any
test; for, as people, we are not insensible
to the pleasures Of the table.
But it seems farmers wife, also, is as
vet ignorant ofahe old habits of most of our
best families, and we wonder where she can
have settled her new home, to see only
''pork and hominy," We regret her obser-
walton has been so restricted; perhaps to
the interior of some rural district, where the
fare is suited to the laboring class, possibly,
farmers who need substantial to give bone
and muscle for their work, and certainly as
palatable and nutritious, as Goldfish and
beans.
We deny that the cart has never been
found here positively the very idea is
merely amusing, as it has never been lost,
for whether brought here by the Swcdes and
Firms who settled Delaware, or improved
G on, ii has been the universal experience OF
those who have travelled in distant lands,
a and all over our own, to prefer Delaware
. cooking. On one occasion, at a dinner
IS party at the house of friend, Col. p, o.
81 Nd, cx-Consul to South American Port
!, Hon. Louis McLane, one of our Minister
N to England, who sat next to me, referred I,
e the cookery of the Delaware ladies', special
;, ly those Of Dover, awarding them a higl
q compliment for their perfection in this art
{ adding, he had never eaten bread so goot
c as the Delaware biscuit. We have heart
: the same testimony from those who hay,
! travelled extensively in our own country
; The farther South one goes the more ritl
and delicious the dishes. Friends residing
in foreign lands long for the home yiands
Sitting daily at table for II long time with
c Norherncrs, we have had an opportunity
= OF seeing their preferences tested. While
: pork aud beans, Goldfish, potatoes, and tea
i We're specially prepared for them, our Della
. ware dishes were universally preferred
! Referring TO the abundant USE of "swine.
" flesh, and the long train Of evils rs the re
= suit, chills, feyers, bilious sc, these we be
licvc are peculiar 10 the level country, al
r though by no means universal we know
u many Delawareans who never had Il chill
4 in their lives, and think as a people we ar,
5 as tough and hardy Il race as is to be fount
v anywhere, although eating the Aforesaid Jew
n ish abomiEaion from brain to the tip of III,
II tail, all our lives. Disease in some shap,
,c or other is our Inheritance, it belongs to til,
al curse pronounced on man, and from com
4 pairing notes with northern friends, iint
t that Consumption, Bronchial affections
Dyspepsia and many other more incurab
ID diseases, are incident to their climates, $,
ls if we must have any, prefer bilious an,
r. chills, which are easily managed, and sci
O. dom fatal, 10 Dyspepsia and Bronchitis
having had these ourselves, preterrng III
lesser 20 the greater evil.
A relative who is a dentist North CIV