Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-01
THE HOUSEHOLD.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HOME DEC
GRAFTON AND FURNISHING.
The Par,or, Kitchen, store-room. Studio,
Library, Nursery. Sewing room,
Garden and Poultry Yard.

ENGLISH DINNER AND DRINK Il
thought the country folk-the parsons and
their wives and innumerable daughters,
and the provincial aristocracy whom we
saw assembled at dinner-took the heat
rather phiIosophlcally. / could not OBJ
serve that it made the slightest difference
with the consumption of claret and cham
payne, of which they drank floods. Don't
tell me about the 100000 Of bottles of
Zoedone drunk in Great Britain last year !!
l tell you that England is thirsty for alco-
hol, and the men, women and children con-
sumo it in enormous quantities, from morn
ing to night, and well into the night. How
it would make good Massachusetts, Puri-
tan who has never travelled stare to see the
sums which an English family of means
will spend on its dinner +! And then after
dinner they trundle of, parsons and all, to
theaters, where they have paid 50 so
each for seats at performances which
began little before 8, and are
over before IL. And then they
come home to the hotel and have supper
and lots of it. No ices, save now and then
at dinner no iced teas, water or sparkling
thinnesses, but wines with bodies, and
liquors with "spirits powerful enough to
overcome the will of st. Anthony. 1t
seemed to me that the dinner was badly
served, but as the heat quite took away
my appetite refused to be guided by my
impressions on that particular occasion.
The English initiate, to the outward SEEM
ing, in these days, the continental fashion
of fixed dinners at fixed prices, served in
course, but careful inspection shows that
the cooks regard the entrees as of no con.
sequence whatever, and concentrated all
their attention on the inevitable roast beef
or mutton. The fish, even at the grandest
of these London hotels, is almost always
detestably served soups, divided, for con-
venience of the walters, I suppose, into
"thick" and clear" are rarely tirst-clsss
roasts Of game only fair. And in fruit
London is a century behind Paris Ed
ward Kings Letter in Boston Journal.
SuccorAsH. = Succotash is an Indian
word, which meant, originally, dish pre-
pared by cooking together green corn and
green beans. The beans were gathered and
shelled just as the pods were turning to
ripen, and before they were dry and hard.
These were placed in pot and boiled until
tender, little salt having been added, if
on hand and desirable. Next quantity
of green corn, shaved from the cob, was
placed in the pot with the beans, and the
boiling resumed until the corn was cooked,
which took from fifteen to twenty minutes.
It made mess that was by no means
bad to take. Modern succotash is something
made on rather a different plan. Take
ears of green sweet corn before too hard,
shuck and silk them; then with sharp
knife slice off the ends of the kernels and
scrape out the inside; this do until suf-
ficient quantity is obtained then put over
the fire in kettle with a very little water
and boil fifteen or twenty minutes-no
longer, as too muck cooking hardens the
kernels and makes them less delicate. 1t
must be kept stirred at the last, or it will
stick to the kettle and burn. When done,
add salt and just sitting of pepper, with
a little butter and milk, or, what is better,
sweet cream, half teacupful or more, &C.
cording to the quantity of corn. This,
with baked new potatoes and good bread
and butter, will generally be found to go
of with reasonable degree of relish.