The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-10-31
Written tor the journal,
Everyday Essays.
HASH.

| This is a compound of great antiquity, II
has been in use among all people, at all times
and the memory OF man runneth not to the con.
| trary, neither does history sacred or profane
| About soon rs Adam and his wife received
| dominion over the fish of the sea, they invented
| tsh-hash, and had it regularly for breakfast
unllt The serpent called on them, when he made
bad mess OF it, and got notice from the land
lord to quit the premises. There is no special
record that this SavOry dish formed a part OF
The forty days ratlons with which Captain Noah
pFoNlsloned the ark, but that venerable nayi-
gator couldn't otherwise have crowded so much
SOLID subsistence into the same space, and AS he
generally did about the correct thing. it is safe
| to INFER that meat and fish-hash in bulk was
| slowed III the run of the ark. If the elephant
| kangaroo and monkeys didn't like hearty vic
| tuals, they could change their boarding house
| There is other scriptural hints at the dish so
well known in modern times. 1t is recorded
| OF one whose character is depicted as not alto
| gether lovely. that
| "Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the PEG.
PIE. Ephralm Is a cake not turned
| 1t Is inferred from the term ..mixed'' that
Il
| nlshed stated retreshment. If he was AS uu-
| skiiul in operating that as in cooking his cakes
without turning, there is reason to believe that
| those who tethered at his hash-ni got some
| mighty poor breakfasts. ShakSpere records the
dish As pertaining to the times whereof he wrote
| Indeed, how co@ld the great portrayer of man
| and his ways omit hash: He makes that ieal-
1 n,1x
corning his supposed untaithul >pouse-'Ill
chop her into messes.H One is led to believe
that othello may at some time have been cook
OF coaster, class proverbially handy with
their choppins knives. That he contemplated
making pesdemora into savory hash, and in
Viting her lover to dinner is not improbable, in
which case Cassie might have got Ibis ill of
love" IN IN unexpected manner. However
this may be, the quotation expresses a desper
ate and fantastic revenge, peculiar to the race
From this may have sprung the popular say
ing I'm settle your hash,' which is ALWAYS
known to mean business. But if every Ii us
band who takes such notions into his head were
to act in a similar way, a severe glut in the hash
market might be looked for-tollOwed, proba-
by,by as much repentance AS the Moor express
ed when he found that he had been mistaken.
Leaving precedents and illustrations. we
come down to the solid basis of modern hash,
the snStenance of the private families, ana right
bower OF The boarding house. 1t is ETHEREAL
food. Delicate young ladies adore it. But
their elder brothers are apt to turn up their
noses, unless they are soft on the girl in the
kitchen, when the touching token of her regard
comes to them in the shape OF her hair in the
provender. An experienced boarder can always
tell when a change has been made in the kitch-
en- help. This sustenance is associated with
wash-day>, and Its appearance is generally ac-
companied by gathering storm on the brow
OF madame. 1t is Il time for the man OF the
house to eat quickly and in silence, then to get
his hat and stand not on the order OF his going
And when the husbandman forgets TO send
home the wherewth for dinner, then doth he
find fornenst him the platter of domestic hash,
10 which he receives hospitable welcome. For
several days thereafter he don't forget to
member the provision shop. This nuriment
is not popular with experienced lrayellers-the
component parts of hotel hash being sometimes
a. doubtful As those of sausages. Still if one of
tneIl snOuiu blunucf INTO the Kitchen, anu nnu
it clean new pewter dollar, with A young
and pretty cook, having plump hands and bare
arms, welding the chopping knife, he might be
resigned to till himself As full AS the prodgal
dia of husks But rs a general thing the land
lady objects TO folks in the cooking department.
and 50 hash is passed At the table. like a poor
hand in ,fuchre. This endeth the chapter on
hash