The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-07-04
The CurIOsitfes OF Cooking.


life which are too much neglected of
psychologists, curious facts which may
we'll entertain the Philosophical Minds
gravest and most serious atten ton. As
the Philosophical Mind has hitherto
neglected to study these facts, and is
not at the editorial elbow, it is impos-
sible to say what great truths underlie
this class of facts; but without attempt
ing to fathom their hidden significance,
we may at least direct attention to
some of them which happen to lie on
the surface. .
Careful and diligent investigation.
made in connection with certain recent
Sunday-School celebrations, fails to dis
cover q single instance in which toll
cradle cake was sent by any matron for
juvenile consumption on those Occa-
sions. Not that the children discovered
anything the matter with the cakes in
eating them, by any means; on the con-
trary, the large jury OF boys and girls
who subjected the yellow lOaves to that
final and conclusive testof all buildings,
the eating thereof, were unanimous,
we believe, in approving the delicacy
and flavor of the compounds of sugar,
flour, eggs, milk and butter submitted
to their Judgment. We learn the true
character Of the cases only from their
manufacturers, each one of whom sent
her contribution with the positive as
surance that "mamma says she is
ashamed to send this" or that "mam-
ma says this is the worst cake she ever
made" or "mamma says please don't
let anybody know she made this, it is
such a failure BY these or other
similar declarations each contributor to
the feast published the utter unworthi-
shame over its shortcomings. The Gu
rious fact is thus revealed that every
woman who tries to make q cake for
use at Sunday-School festival, how
ever skillful she may be in the art of
domestic synthetic chemistry, fails
wretchedly. Another curious fact is
that her failure is evident only to her
self, and cannot be discovered induct-
lively.
We have observed a like state of facts
in many households presided over by
notable housewives. Breakfast with
any gentlewoman the fame of whose
rolls has gone abroad, and venture to
say that you are glad Of an opportunity
to make personal acquaintance with
the famous little loaves, and you shall
Immediately learn that on this particu-
lar morning they are utterly unworthy
to be set before you; that for some oc-
cult reason the good mistress of the
house had this time failed to achieve
anything like success; that the rolls are
really SO bad this morning that but for
the absence of anything to take their
place on the table they would not have
been served at all.
Thus one never does and never can
personally taste the really good things
of the table. One must always depend
upon imagination to supply the short
comings Of experience in such matters,
because one always happens to break
fast or dine at . given house on the one
unlucky day when failure is made. In
| = world Of good dinners and good break
fasts we are thus doomed always to cal
poor or Indifferent ones.
| We heartily wish that the Philosoph-
ical Mind would investigate this sub.
ject and find peaceful and constitution.
al means for unseating the bad dinners
in behalf of the good ones. It would
be q Joy to visit ones friends If one
could manage to choose day of Gull.
nary success instead of one Of culinary
failure for the occasion Of his visit. =
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