Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-07
Dyspepsia and Cook Books.

EXsn qtehpue.son ytssher tho
c4Rk hSoks bid Re" hpusel id eparti
nd ntss Of rioSs fautiy H1perS have
nd assmuclS4o j witl the pre- bling
IL easE of dyspepsia d had I'D Ska
w6ekstold niHS6. pie4sof @NBrand.
mothers. The mock turtle Houps, lob.
ster croquettes, scalloped oSea6rs and
veal. Welsh rarebits and other cheese
relishes are all very delightful and sure
to DO eagerly pounced on by the dis.
eased appetite of dyspeptic, but they
are productive of much suffering in the
end. We do not wish to insinuate that
the half of the world who may eat these
things with impunity- should he de:
prived CT them, on account of the other
half who cannot cat them, but as not
more than hiatt 1T tits world hdye The
common sense to know what does or
what does not agree with them, we
would, as sanitary measure, have such
recipes labeled Dangerous" Then,
too, there is much bosh sent ont under
the head OF Household Hints" or
" Domestic Helps" generally edited by
O man with a pair of scissors, that
should be suppressed for the sake of
suffering humanity. It is no uncom-
mon occurrence to see recipe for stock
in which a "dozen cloves" are stuck
with lavish hand into one onion. ga
few blades of mace and one or two
whole peppers" help to season couple
of quarts of water to which perchancc
o " tive-cent soap bone "lhas been add
ed. We pity the inexperienced house
honY,nr xv1,0 Cal ;,,kN ha L.
Philistines. Tho mother who will
place among her daughters wedding
presents reliable book on cookery,
with iudicious and voluminous com.
ments aud notes, will do moro for the
happiness of that daushter-we say it
reverently-than if she gave her the
most elegantly bound and illustrated
family Bible ever published. Ameri-
cans speak with contempt Of the "beef
eating British" but as the compilations
of our cons and daughters show, we are
fast running to the opposite extreme Of
richly spiced dishes that vitiate the ap-
petite and destroy both stomach and
temper. To our thinking the sturdy,
good sense of Miss Corson was needed
quite as badly by the upper and middle
C!uoSCe, oS NY tuuSo lOr wuOoS USu0ut
:" Fifteen Cent Dinners" was written.
True, many of our made dishes are
French, and the French are supposed
to have reduced cooking to science,
but the extravaganza which loaded our
grandmothers' tea tables with ten differ
emit kinds of cake, sends as many entire
NETS to our own. The dinners of the
wealthy American who prides himself
upon his "good living" will probably
carry off the palm for vulgarity and
lack of art. There is some radical re-
form needed to keep US from dwindling
to q race of pasty skinned inyalids.
Would it not be possible for scientific
cooking to be placed among the arts and
accomplishments to be learned at mod:
ern Boarding Not that young
ladies shall be able to make specimen
chocolate souff1e as they play the
"Maiden's Prayer. but. that when
called to- be wives and mothers they
may know how to order their house
Holds wisely, and not be obliged to ,trust
the lives OF their husbands. and, chill.
dren to an Irish peasant. r: Her.
0sd. f-'r' - : = go a>'fH 49, 80 ''