Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-02-12

0pN' ID 81 leIucT us easily 10 DO
torn apart by the hands But whale
meat is not docile under culinary treat
ment. Gastronomically. it has an indi.
viduality Of its own. which will keep on
asserting itself, no matter how much
spice and pepper is put upon it. 1t is a
wild. unta'ned stced. propounded it to
my guests in the guise Of sausages.
but whom the meal was over the
sausages were there still. It can't
be done. Shark can Sharks il q
sweat meat. much resembling that Of
the swordfsh. but no man will ever
emf whale, at least an old one
The calves might conduct themselves
better in the frying pan. We had many
about us whose mothers we had killed.
but we never thought Of frying them.
When whaler is trying out oil. she is
blackencd with the greasy SCOT arising
from the burning blubber scraps from
stem to stern. 1t falls like storm Of
black snowtiakcs. They sift into the
tinicst crevico. OF all this my cookery
got its full share. 1t tingcd my bread
and even my pies with funeral tinge Of
blackness. The deck ut such times was
covered with "horse pieces" up to the
top Of the bulwarks. Horse pieces"
are chunks of blub,er foot or SO in
length. that being one stage Of their re-
duction to tho size necessary for the try
pots. have introduced them here for
the purpose Of remarking that ON my
passage to and fro. from galley to cabin,
while engaged in laying the cloth and
arranging our services of gold plate and
Scvres wear. | hal to Chamber, wade.
climb and sometimes, in my white neck
tie and swallow-tail coat. actually crawl
over the greasy mass with the silver
turcen full Of "consomme" or "soup
Julien" while held the gilt-edged and
enameled menu between my teeth
| Those were trying-out times for mari
tune head butler.
| 'The cook socially does not rank high at
sea lie stands very near the bottom
round of the ladder He il 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. IL chemist.
| "Ho WI tuS' sstSt SNtCIuul IItNtNS-
es with meat. flour and vegetables ncces.
sary to prepare them for their invisible
and still more wonderful treatment in
the laboratory which every man and wo-
man posscsscs-tle stomach-w thereby
these raw materials are converted not
only into blood. bone. nerve. sinew and
muscle. but into thoughts 4 good cook
may help materially to max. good l,o-
etry. An indiSestib!c b,cfsteak fried
in grease TO leather. may. in the ston,-
ach Of a general. lose IL battle on which,
shall depend the fate OF nations \ good
cook might have Won the battle. OF
| COURSE. he would receive no credit there
for. save the conviction in his own culin-
AIRY soul, that his bref>t"ai properly and
| quickly broile,i was thus rilapiei to ui-
| gest itself property IN the stomach, Of the
| general and thereh, transmit to and
| through the generals organism tina,
! amount of nerve force amt vi5or which
ac',n3 upon the brain. caused all his in
| tel,igcnCr and talent IL ATTAIN It's maxi
mum, and thereby conquer his adver,
>ary That's what acsMk may do This
would he far is'tt"r and happier world
| "e'r t'fTe 'aoTe realty SNh COOKS ON
land and sea And when all cooks are
blots or Snycrs. then will we have SO,
ciety to he proud of
While whaling in Marguerite hay. we
'kc,lSe'd' the Henry about one hundred
miles inland whore the whales atoun.l.L
In SO ke'lSin2 it was necessary 10 stake
gu, at low water portions Of the channel
daily. when il ran u mere creek through
an cxla.iSe Of har;l sand sometimes a
mile from rithpr shore. Al high water.
all this would b.. covered To u depth of
six or seven feet The Henry grounded
al each cob. and often keel.d over ut an
angle Of forty five From, our hulwarks
It MAS often po~si..i. 10 jump on dry
ground THIS Ee.li1c over pr,Ness.
twice repeated every twenty iour hours.
was .arti,'ul ,r!y hard nH. the cook. for
the Inconvenience. resulting from such 4
forty live degree a::cle of inclination cx-
scn!cd 10 I'll lan.,s within his province
Ny stove worked l,aIly ut the angle of
forty tive. The kettle iouii ha hut half
h'I,". and only t.,.ed where the water
WAS s.,ali'wc~; i,ihi.u. The cabin Table
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