The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-24

NI,Ey
fffE1 WAS an experimon ia
I6ME cook, and once or twice
,M S while cutting In whale
XIX M tried Thorn with whal
| RAI 5 meat. The flesh lying un
IN @ der the blubber somewha
len E resembles beef In color, an,
8 Gasll Is SO tender as easily TO b,
tore apart by the hands. But whal,
meat is not docile under culinary treat
ment, Extraordinarily, 1t has an indi
viduality OF its own, which will keep OF
asserting itself, no matter. how mucf
spice aud pepper is put upon 1t. 1t is {
wild, nntamed steed. L propounded Il
to my guests in tho guise OF sausages, bu
when the meal WIS over the sausage.
were there still. 1t can't be done. SHARK
can. Sharks a sweet meat, much re.
sembling that Of swordfsh, but no mar
will ever eat a whale, ut least IN. old one,
The calves might conduct themselves
betterin the frying pan. We had many
about us whose mothers we had killed,
but We never thought OF frying them.
When a whaler! is trying out oil, she is
blackened with the greasy SCOT arising
from the burning blubber scraps from
stem to stern. It falls like n storm OF
black snowilakes. They i sift into the
tiniest crsvice. or all this my cookery
got its full share. II tinged my bread
and even my pies with a funeral tinge
Of blackness. The deck ut such times
was covered with ''horse piecesn up To
the top Of the bulwarks. Horse pieces"
are chunks Of blubber foot or so in
length, that being one stage OF their re.
duction Z to the size necessary for the
purpose OF remarking that on my pas.
sage to and fro, from galley to cabin,
while engaged in laying the cloth and
arranging our services OF gold plate and
Sevres ware, chad to Chamber, wade,
climb and sometimes, in my white neck.
tie and swallow.tail coat, actually crawl
over the greasy mass with the silver
tureen full OF s'consomme" or tsoup
Julien" while L held the gilt-cdgetl and
enameled menu between my teeth.
Those were trying.out times for II mari.
time head butler. !" 5;$i Z, r. "a, > 4
The cook socially does not rank high
at sea. Hc stands very near the bottom
round Of the ladder. He is the subject Of
many jests and low comparisons. This
should not be. The cook should rank
next or near to the captain. 1t is the cook
who prepares the material which shall
put: mental and physical strength into
human bodies. He is, in fact, the chemist
who carries on the last external processes
with meat, flour and vegetables necessary
to prepare them. for their invisible and
still more wonderful treatment in the lab
oratory which every man and woman
possesses--the whereby these
raw materials are converted not only
into hlood,,a bone, nerve sinew, and
muscle, but into the thoughts. a gooG
cook may help materially to make, good
poetry. An indigestible beefsteak, frieG
in grease to leather, may, in the. stom
ach OF n general, lose a battle on which
shall depend the. fate OF nations. A eooc
cook might have won tho battle. O
course, he would, receive no credit there
for. save the, conviction his own Gull
nary soul, that ~his. beefsteakf properly
and quickly broiled was thus enabled t
digest itaelf properly in the stomach o
the general, and thereby transmit to ant
through the generals organism : tina
amount OF nerve force and ,vigor, which
acting upon the, brain, caused all his in
telligence and talent{to attain its maxi
mum, and thereby conquer his advsr
sary.S That's what cook may do. .Thi!
would be a far better, and happier worlt
were there more really good cooks OF
land and sea. And when all cooks arr
Blots or Soyers, then will wer have {
society to be proud Of. Skffji1s e
While whaling in Marguerite Bay, We
""kedged"' the Henry about Que hundred
milesinland, where the whales abounded
In so hedging it was necessary to stake
out; at low water portions: OF the chan;
mel daily, when it ran "a mere creek
through an eXpanse OF hard sand, some
times mile from either shore. /, AT high
water all this would be covered to {
depth OF six or seven feet. "a The Henr,
grounded at each, ebb, and often keelet
over at M angle OF forty Ave. From oul
bulwarks it was often possible to jump
on dry ground. This keeling over, pro
cess, twice repeated every twenty.foul
hours, was particularly hard on the cook
for the Inconvenience resulting Iron
such a forty-tive degree angle OF inclina
ton extended 10 all things within Iii!
province. VI My stove worked 4badlys a
the angle OF forty.fve. Tie kettle coult
be but half filled, and only boiled where
the water, was ;shallowest inside. n Tit
cabin table could only be set at an angl,
OF forty-fve. So that while the guest
on the upper side had great difficulty il
preventing themselves from slipping Of
their seats on and over that table, thos,
ION the lower side had equal difficulty il
keeping themselves up to a convenien
feeding distance. !; s1;; ~;
q Capt. Reynolds, st the head ( Of tn,
board, had 3 hard lot in the endeayor t
maintain his dignity and sitting perpen
dicularly at the same time! on the ther
permanent and mot popular anglo 20
forty -fve.s But I = steward, butler cool
and cabin boy, bore the hardest! tribula
ton Of allin carrying my dishes acros!
the deck, down the cabin stairs, and ar
ranging them on q table at an angle o
forty-fve.a or Course, at this time thu
rack! used in rough {weather to proven
plates and platters from slipping 81 was
brought into permanent use. y !; VI ieS
4 Transityirom galley to cabinwas :ac
complished byscrawling on two legs ant
one ARM thus making OF myselfa'peri
patetic, human. triangle, while; the unoc
cupied hand with difficulty ore alof
the soup tureen. SIT was ;thenGISappre
ciated the igreat advantages; afforded il
certain circumstances! BY tho sprehensil,
caudal Termination of our; possibleire
mote ancestors. With such q properly
equipped iappendage, the stewatdmigh
have taken a close hitch around AN: eye
bolt, and let all the rest. Of himself rant
hiss dishes &safelyidown sintoltheslittl
cabin.+It,is questionable whether man,
condition has been physically improves
blythe. process oi evolutions Z Het ina,
have lost mora than khe hasbgained! 5;l
. monkey can we'll afford to ;scorn, tho rel
atively Fclumsyreyolutions ofsthe mos