Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
moRSELs OF GASTRoNoMY.

Hotel cooks have q bad trick OF intro
duCing ham il to alleged chicken croquettes.
Somebody compares spring lamb TO GER
tain kinds of wine-they improve with
age.
The last gun has fired for oysters, tur-
key, celery, ann those "horrid buckWheat
cakes
There is now long list Of breakfast
salads from which the dainty eater can
select.
II is said to be 4 sure indication OF rural
ity 10 see people put vinegar and sugar Oh
lettuce.
Wild ducks are now out vi season, and
there is a scarcity oil articles Tor game
dinner.
should lie brought to the attention OF the
dudes.
Epicures of the modern school have come
to the conclusion that sherry improves
shad roe.
Little Neck CLANS and clam Chowdcr will
soon receive attention from seaside gor-
mandizers.
Frogs came in for recognition now, and
are most palatabe when fried lightly IN
bread crumbs.
Among the delicious and palataUle soups
about this time i genuine PURGE OF new
green peas.
market, but have not yet the proper taste
at dinner,
Victoria has forbidden lamb to be serTcd
in the royal household. Of course, the
Marys are delighted.
A noted FreuChman once said that no
person who eats onions habitualiy should
ever be confidential.
sam Ward used 70 say that man who
will ca, veal hash away from home, aud
who cuts lettuce with knife will rob Il
bank.
One good way to test the patience Of q
modern Job is TO set him 10 work TO eat
shsd when he is in hurry to catch the
last train.
California fruit, says an exchange, is
good for centre piece a. q dinner party.
California fruit cannot be obtained for Il
cent apiece.
Terrapin are cheaper now, but eplcures
are Of the opinion that they should not be
eaten after the month OF April has come
and gone.
Fish is in splendid supply this week.
| The swell" diners. dealers say, are more
partial to pOmpanO, red snapper, Sleeps
head aud.new salmon.
The narrowing tales about HOLSTERS pub
lished OF late have caused umid people to
exclaim. Nothing on earth could induce
| us ~ lOutu II.
One of the finest and most effiracious
emetics Of the period is the So called mint
| sauce they give you at hotels to pour on
your alleged spring lamb.
An omelet OF chopped mushrooms, olives
| and cloves is put forth as something new
and something likely to astonish all the
epiCurian natives.
Miss Parvenu had eel salad at her dinner
party the other evening, and explained
that when she was girl she used 10 catch
| and skin EN- alivel'
Imitation clam fritters are the latest gas.
tronomIc fraud. No one knows positively,
but it is cOnjeCtured that they are made
out of flannel and batter
Hotels and restaurants are given TO using
what are known as trullle chips instead OF
truilles proper, but the average diner does
not know the difference.
There does not seem to be rs much fuss
made over trout this season as usual, and
there are prominent cpiCures in town who
declare they have not yet eaten of the fish.
At a dinner of an athletic society, the
other day, the ice cream came in the form
OF bicycles, bats, rackets, boxing gloves,
polo caps, and, as the saying IS, 'all sorts
of things"
II is the proper thing 10 cut your own
bread at table now on a bread plate made
of wood from the Holy Land, and with a
knife purchased in Damascus. 1t used to
be the proper thing 10 make your own
bread and cut il with a carving knife on
the table without ceremony.
The spring chicken does not yet seem to
have acquired the requisite number OF
springs to be- tender and palstable. The
nsjority are as tough as Herr Most and
appear to have been under the necessity OF
walking to the markets. The fatigue Incl.
| dent 70 the promenade is probably what
in .ures their tenderness.