The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-23
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When the early Puritans settled in
New England, their customs were OF
the simplest possible kind. At that
time they dined plainly and frugally.
Their descendants have, however, ak
tended the list of dishes, and have
substituted the French word menu
for the old. fashioned bill offare. They
have also made that menu as French
as possible, often to the disgust OF the
diner, who has to puzzle his brain to
find out what flet de bnuf aux to-
matoes farcies is, never thinking that
this Understanding title isnow given to
the plain old dish that used to be
called roast beef and tomato sauce.
There are, however, articles OF diet
that are purely American in origin.
If there is anything in the list OF ar
ticles OF TODD which is essentially Amer
lean, it Is turkey.
"We may we'll call the turkey the
national bird" said q chief at an up.
town hotel to a reporter for the Mail
and Express recently. "And Ithinkit
would be q more appropriate emblem
than the eagle, for | guess there is not
an American living who has not at
some time or other eaten turkey.
Roast beef is essentially English, roast
turkey is unquestionably American.
Properly roasted | believe the turkey
to be the most palatable article on
the list of good things"
, care there not many other dishes
, as distinctly American as the turkey?
asked the scribe.
Il might mention pork and beans.
! Then there is chicken pot-pie, which
!, believe was discovered somewhere in
the New England States"
: A gentleman who has Interpolation
OF being a diner-out, when asked if he
/ knew OF anything that belonged dis
r tinctly to the American cuisine re
: piled: ayes, I believe that pie was
first produced in this country. You
know all our torefathers were OF {
somewhat exuberant turn OF mind
and in order to tone down their spirits
were forced to adopt a dyspeptlc diet
SO they took kindly to pie-particular
n ly to mince pie. l don't think any
thing will subdue an exuberance o
spirits quicker than that miscellane
Gus compound. To realize its full
n benefits it wants to be eaten jus
previous to retiring. | have tried |
quite often, and although not a be
lever in spiritualism, assert posi-
lively, that not only saw my grand
:, father, but a long line ofmy ancestors
q way back to thet;me when they stoot
on Plymouth Rock and hurled de
le fiance across the ocean to the tyrant
lt OF Europe"
s. "Who first discovered pork AM
J. beans?" asked the reporter.
"The origin is greatly involved i
a mystery, but it is supposed to hav
h been some one who settled in Bosto!
p centuries ago"
a "What about pumpkin pie?"
re "Tke great secret OF having goo
Ill pumpkin pieis not to makeit ofpumI
% kin at all, but to use squash. IN
1t pumpkin is the fruit OF the cucurbit
melo, an annual plant OF the nature
order of the cucurbita aceos. Soisth
squash. Hence, the propriety ofmal
ing pies Of squash and calling thel
ne pies. Oee!
~ An old lady who has a great reputs
N ton as q cook was next seen. Sh
ng said, looking at the reporter owe
Mt her large gold-framed spectacle
it. "The French people don't kno
anything about eating. | can DO
w. d%oughnuts that would makeyousm i
Us ii you were to eat them. When l we
lis a girl-but that is a good many yea.
or ago, now-I used to make watfies, bl
"a children don't know what they a,
is. nowadays. Why. there isn't q MIC
in thing in the world than wafies, unle
M. its crullers-not those tough thin
it: you buy at the bakers, but genuil
OF New England crullers, crisp and =.
CHI enough for a king to eat. Then the
es. is apple sauce; that's American. So
nv apple butter; SO are buckwheatcakes
care not buckwheat cakes very j
,h- d~igestible?"
de mot a bit Of it. Ii you think tn
he are just drop in here one morning
A breakfast and eat them right off t
ar. griddle, with maple syrup, and if y,
yes say they are indigestible, I'll nev
lid makeany more"
t In order to find out something
er- The d~elicacles of the Southern tab
nd an old negress was seen.
ity docs dey have anything good
ex. eat down Souf?" she said in reply
J it the reporters query. Now, you
diff just shoutin', you is. Didn't yer n
&C. Der hyear O. possum? Never eat 'p'
.ap sum? Den yer don kno' what eat
ak, is, honey. Roast 'possum and &C
ok cake. Bless de Lord, if is odd ]
oft 'possum. Many and many q time
to young 'uns has gone out in de voc
new by de light OF de moo an catchee
vii. fine 'possum, and Use cooked it, WI
low all de time / was dom it dem 70,
lso, mokes was turning hip-laps in fro
and OBJ de cabin. Shoe, it makes me
cry young again thinkin' Of it"