Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-03

In this torrid spell of weather one is nearly
driven out of his wits, his clothes and his
habits, or ought to be, all except the first
mentioned item, to which it is desirable that
one should hold on to, even in hot weather.
But as TO habits, ought they not to be changed
And is there anything that will bear chang
ing to better advantage than the gross and
meaty dinners which even if allowed in win
ter, should be banished from SUMMER The
summer table should be spread with fruits
and vegetables, with a mere hint Of meat, as
it were connecting link Of memory with the
past.
For example, to-day shall dine upon pota.
toes, new beets, green peas lettuce, for the
main dishes, and mulberries and raspberries
for the desert. Let us turn our attention to
them in this order.
As to potatoes, we admit that as good can
be had in the city as in the country. And
yet there is pleasure in digging your Early
Rose, or King Of Earlies, out of the ground
cool and moist, and without letting the sun
look upon them, furnish your table from your
own grounds. Beets, too, should come from
ones owng ground. Unmarked you get just what
there happens to be on sale. But there is
great differencein kinds The Early Bassano
beet is the best, on the whole small, light
coored, and very sweet. The Boston market
beet comes next and then the Blood beet /;
long, round, turnip-shaped, and all the rest
TeDderly boiled, land the tops of early
beets should not be cut close, or the sweet
ness will boil out leave the tops about half
length, and cut them clean after the boiling
in sailed water, buttered and peppered, beets
will cast glances at you like loves young
dream, and you will Involuntary sigh,
"Come rest in this BOSOM my own sugar
beet J"
But the peas are the grand feature 1t is
probable that few people ever tasted pea
II is almost an unknown flavor. | do sup
pose that not one in ten thousand who fondly
suppose that they are acquainted with peas,
have the slightest conception Of their nature,
virtues, favor and deliciousness.
To begin with, one should have the right
kind. Peas differ in favor and quality almost
as much as one kind of apple from another.
For early, take Daniel 0'Rouke for the
next, McLean's little gem, which needs no
bushing and for the large and main crop,
the Champion of England. With these three
peas one may defy the world, and be happy
man.
Peas, like radishes, pe-plants, turnips, etc,
should not be allowed to loiter by the way
after being planted They contract bad hab.
its. Let them have a good soil, and come
forward at good pace, like people going
home from meeting if you would have their
best flavor.
Next they must be picked right A pea is
dead corpse after few hours. Peas picked
over night for the next day should be thrown
to the pigs. One might as well open bottle
Of champagne week beforehand A stall,
pea is as much worse than stale wine, as
good pea is better than the best wine that
ever deluded man. Pick your peas with
the dew on. Don't let the sun touch them
Put them in cool place, a cellar or ice house
till they are wanted for cooking. Shell then
nimbly. BY all the reverence which you
have for your ancestors, do not wash them
Nay, they are clean already. They hay,
lived a virgin life inside of the cloistor pod
and water, until the moment of vegetable
apothesis, deiles them. Pick out any specks
ifyou will. But the less they are handled
by your warm palm the better will il be
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