New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-28
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SERVING DINNERS IN COURSES.

SERVING DINNERS IN COUhSEo,
THE ADVANTAGES or A SYSTEMATIC DINNEn-suG-
GKsTIoSs OF WAYS IN WHICH EvEN RAW IRISH
GIRLS CAN ACCOMPLISH n-sATURDAY's PRICES
IN THE MARKETS.
The time is fast coming when the medley dinner
will be thing OF the past-would it were already
come, BY the medley dinner you are to understand
meal served in one couise. Ii IS all summed up IN
the remark which some people will no doubt remem-
her having beard made by kindly old
fashioned hostess, "YOu sec your dinners
before your And bountiful table 1t
probably was with good dinner utterly ruined
for lack Of n little Judgment IN serving Soup, a
chicken pie. n dish Of pork and beans, roast four
OF five vegetables. pickles, preserves. cheese. pies
and fruit are all crowded together, leaving little
room for your plate, and none for your appetite.
II ia n common saying of housekeepers that it is all
very well for the French people to serve their din
ners IN courses-thcir servants arc used TO it, know
how to do it, and do not rebel but that yon can
not train green Irish girl. for instance land most
American housekeepers are subject 20 that sort oil
aid in their kitchens to serve dinner.
nicely, in courses. Now the result OF actual ex-
perience is, that either green Irish girl or clever
American girl can be taught to serve dinner IN the
best STYLE and learn to appreciate the fact that II
is the whole the most convenient aud least per-
picking manner to prepare any meal.
Let the trial be made for few weeks and 1t viii
be seen how much more dellgl't,nl It makes the
course. some Italian macaroni. spegetii Is very
nice variety, has before been mentioned in these
columns. IL is sold at the Italian groceries, and only
there 1t smpossible TO find 1t In the ordinary shops
The price IN II cents per pound. IL should
be boiled tender and served with plenty of grated
PnrmesSan cheese. Get Mt tho butchers 10 or 20
ccnts' worth of soup meat, that t may be boiled
and served for soup next day. This is the chief
secret OF good soups-to think OF them day or two
IN advance. While the macaron - being eaten the
girl be making gravy and dishing the vegetables
for the next II IT il to be fish, IL ~ the wset
rule to procure the fish which are IN season; they
much delicious than the Others, and cheap
or. Muscalonee, salmon trout, whteish and other
lake sh are in season now, and cost from IL 10 ID
cents per pound For the next course either game
or poutry are good at this time but De-
ware of surfeiiing the family with either for one
tires Of these meats much mere easily than OF beet
or mutton. a good substitute for salad OF laituce
Is potato sala-whiie potatoes carefully boiled and
sliced thin. slices Of picked beet, little bollc'l
celery root, some spriSs, of parsley. AID dash OF
garlic with plain French dressing make an nncOm-
monty nice salad. little fruit or AN apple tart
would finish such dinner nicely. Let the attempt
be made at having dinner served in dainty courses,
aud there will be no doubt as to The result.
Game Is becoming little scarce. lhis week IS
the last Of the season, and consequently the prices
Of such game Ms one finds in market have advanced
a trlc hut chickens and turkeys remain about The
same. Chickens. good and fair, are IL cents per
pound turkeys, - cents.
In the vegetable markets potatoes are from ~ 10
81 % per barrel carrots and turnps. 20 cents per
peck squash, from 10 to 20 cents apiece parsnips,
% cents per peck spinach. 80 cents oyster plant.
per peck cabbage. from Ia 10 cents apiece {;
celery, 90 cents per bunch artich0es 10 cents per
quart mushrooms, rs cents per pound. The uneasy
sugar market has moved down little. but sugar Is
now 1Oli cents per pound chips, 10 cents; granu-
lated 0bs cents; nice lghtbrown sugar, Sas cents.
The best Carolina sells at 8 cents per pound
dried peas, 10 cents per quart maiTOwiat beans, y
cents; dried apples, cents per pound; dried
peacheC peeled. cents others II cents perpound;
Turkish pTuncs, ! cents per pound; French pfines,
~ cents.
The recent weather was unfayorlbe to the oyster
crop consequently tbe oysters and clans are poor.
Ii requires good frosty weather with plenty OF snow
to insure fat oysters. Box oysters are ~ 20 pei
hundred: culls, 90 cents.
Smells are in season and fine are selling at
from Il to 90 cents per pound; nice pan fish IL
cents; they are known in market rs frost i-l b.
cause they are often received frozen IN n
solid mass and when thawod ont they come to life
and flop about. utterly regardless OF the fact tina.
they have been dead for hours HOLSTERS are scarce.
but the price dors not change much they are 10
cents per pound lard-sheed crabs are plenty, and
are selling ut 81 80 per hundred soft-s5cIlcd crabs
are out q scnilOps ~ per gallon. Hall
but has come down TO 10 cents per pound