Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-01-26
LESSONS IN COOKING.

boarding school, and engaged to bt
married, and as she knows NOTHING
about cooking or -house-work, is going
to take few lessons in culinary art To
fit her for the new station in life which
she is expected TO adorn with house
wilely grace. She certainly makes a
charming picture as she stands in the
kitchen door, draped in a chintz apron
prettily trimmed with bows or ribbon
her bangs hidden under Dolly Var,
den cap. and her dimpIed with hands
encased in old kid gloves, while she
sways to and fro on her dainty French
kid heels, like some graceful wind
blown -four.
Mamma" she lisped prett ly,
! ''please introduce me to your assistant
Whereupon mamma SAYS:
Bridget, this Is your lady, Miss
Cicely, who wants to learn the name
and use Of everything in the kitchen,
and how to make cocoanut rusks and
angels food before she goes to house
keeping for herself"
Bridget gives snort of disfavor,
but, as she looks at the young lady,
relents and says. "I'll throy."
"And now, Bridget, dear" said
Miss Cicely, when they We're alone.
'tell me everything except what they
did at school, and isn't the old kitchen
lovely? What makes this ceiling
such a beautiful color, Bridget ?"
"Shmoke," answered Bridget very
shortly, land me ould eyes are put
out wit! that same"
"Shmoke-I must remember that,
and, Bridget, what are those shiny
things on the wall ?"
"Kivers-tin kivcrs for the pots and
kettles"
"Kivers !-oh, yes, must look for
the derivation of that word Bridget,
what are those round things in that
basket 2"
"Praties For the Lords sake
where hez We lived niver to hear of
praties !? Why them is the principal
mate of Irelend where | kim from"
"Oh, but we have corrupted the
name into potatoes; such shame not
to keep the idiom of a language.
Bridget, do you mind if | call you
Biddie? 1t is more euphonious and
modernizes the classic appellation.
What is this liquid in the pan here?"
"Och, murderl Where wuz we
raised? That is millick, fresh from
the cow"
"Mi-Ll-ick, that is the vernacular, |
suppose, for milk, and what is that
thick yellow coating ?'
"It's crane. (Lord what igno-
rance "
Crane Now, Biddie dear, |
must go to work. Pm going to make
a cake ali out of my own head for
Henry-he's my lover, Biddie-to eat
when be comes tonight
Bridget, aside-'It's dead be is,
sure than, if he ates it,"
'Ive got it all down here, Biddie,
on my table: A pound of butter,
twenty eggs, two pounds of sugar,
salt to your taste No, that's a mis-
take. Oh, here it is. Now, Biddie,
the eggs first 1t says to beat them
well; but won't that break the shells?"
"I'd break them this time if | were
you, Miss Cicely; they may not set
well on Mr. Henry's stomach if ye
didn't" said Bridget pleasantly.
"Oh, | suppose the shell are used
separately There I've broken all
the eggs into the -four | don't think
I'll use the shells, Biddie; give them
to some poor people. Now what next?
OH Pm so tired! Isn't housework
dreadful hard? But I'm glad I've
learned to make cake Now what
shall | do next, Biddie 2"
Excuse me, Miss Cicely, but you
moight give it to the pigs. It's me
self can't see any other use for it, T"
said Bridget
pigs! oh, Biddie you don't
mean to say that you have some dear,
cunning little white pigs! Oh, do
bring the little darlings in aud let me
feed them Pm just dying to have
one for a pet. L saw some canton
flannel ones once at a fair and they
were too awfully sweet for anything"
just then the bell rang and Bridget
returned to announce Mr. Henry, and
Miss Cieely told Bridget she would
take another lesson the next day, and
then she went up stairs in her chintz
apron and mop cap, with little daub
of -four on her tip-Iifted nose, and told
Henry she was learning to cook, and
he told her she must not get over
heated or worried out, for he didn't
care whether she could cook or not |;
he should never want to eat when he
could talk to her, and it was only
sordid souls that C; red for cooking
And meanwhile poor Bridget was
just slamming things in the kitchen
and talking to herself in her own
sweet idiom about "idgits turning
things upside down for her inconva-
nipnpinU