Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-09-17
MISS BETSY pJsaCE.
How S1c Came to Change Her state
BY LIZZIE A. S. CHESTER.

BY LIZZIE A. 5. CHESTER.
Miss Betsy Price made excellent ginger
! snaps There could be but one opinion
| about that. This was her rec pc: "A tea
1 c,lptul of molass S, a teacupfnl of sugar, a
I teacupul Of butter, n spoonful Of ginger
baIf "a teaspooniul of soda, and -four enough
| to knead rs hard as can he. rolled" Now.
you or might follow Miss Prices recipe
with undertaking accuracy, and yet have no
| snap at all to our gingers. They might be
| thick, ceke-iike squares, gihger-nuts, next
| of kin to the doughmut family n our gin
gers might have too much snap,-likewise
too much ginger. But some people have
| gifts and some haven't. and therein exists
the cause of divers differences in the vast
brotherhood of mankind; which apAorism
by an accommodating synecdocbe, may in
ci de the sisterhood Of woiBanknd, and is
especially applicable in the lire of cookery
and knotting up hal.-inch ribbon effective
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Miss Prices gingersnaps were spontane-
Gus etiusions, thrown off from her hands in
very much The same ha>ty way poetiea gems
come from gifted minds. She no more
thought OF stopping TO measure her ingredi-
| ents than poet thinks Of stopping in the
heat OF his lancy to count the metrical feet
in his stanzas. She mixed up her ginger
snaps by lntui'ion, pounded vigorously and
rolled out energeticaliy; !; she cnt the dough
into smal squares, crossed them witt. the
back Of a knife, and spread them on the
tins then slipped the tins into the oven,
and behold there came forth these ginger
snaps, golden brown, crisp and fragrant! in
every qualification everything 10 which GIN
gelsnaps MAY attain, ,-consequent!y com
ple,e. as few things in this world can be
complete.
One particular A pril morning, Miss Price
gave the last gluger-nap Ii her trow; Stone
ar TO little Patrick Mcmahon, atd imripfii-
ately set about repenlshing the jar. She
slited her -four, pat an uncertai. quantity
OF butter by the fire to melt, took of the
cover of the su@ar-box, and brought the mo-
lasses jug up from its place beoidr the -four
barrel. This jug was ancient and respect
able il was small at the bottom, bulge out
al the sides, and tapered again ct The neck :
consequen ly the molasses, when ,sf,, hat q
long and winding way, up s'ade Hua down,
to travel to the mouth Of TIE jus, and il
COO! weather il was slow on tle road. Miss
Price was well acquainted with these pecu-
liarities Of ttrJ and Of molasses ; so that,
after she had taken out the cork and tipped
the mouth of the jug over tin pan, she
waited patiently for a couple Of minutes :;
bat 10 rich black stream rolled out, with
that soft gursIing sound so deliciousy su9-
gestiye, vet always so narrowing TO imam
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