, 1890-11-27
THANKSGIVING DINNER
Wives of Eminent Men Fur
nish Favorite Recipes.
IN THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Extensive Preparations Are Being
Made for That Day--A Menu
for the Dinner.

Especial Correspondence of the REvIEw.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Thanks
giving comes next Thursday, and
great preparations are going on at
the homes of our statesmen In
Washington. 1t used to be that
most of the prominent men ate their
Thanksgiving dinners In their own
states. This was when it was not
the fashion to bring their families
to the capital. Now the most of
our great men are rich. They own
homes at Washington as well as
elsewhere, and many Of them keep
their families here the year round,
There will be at least 800, 900 spent
In Washington next week OH
Thanksgiving turkey, and the
mince-meat In the markets could
not be packed into freight car. a
great deal of money will also be
spent here In charity. The churches
are organizing to give out Thanks
giving supplies to the poor, and 1t
may be that some of the cabinet will
do as Secretary Whitney did, and
give each of his department clerks
an order for fat, round turkey. The
Presidents turkey will probably
come from Rhode Island, and there
Is no doubt but that he will rs usual
receive n number frop different
parts of the country. Irs. Harri-
son has not yet planned her Thanks
giving dinner, save that she has de-
cided to have roast turkey, cram
berry sauce and pumpkin pie. She
has been talking Thanksgiving
with her lady friends, and for the
time cooking recipes have taken the
place of social gossip.
/ have visited during the past
week a number of Heading ladies, and
have procured from them recipes for
Thanksgiving dishes and points on
Thanksgiving dinners. Every
woman has some new idea to offer,
and the advice of all is the result OF
their own personal experience.
Mrs. Justice Field tells me that
she received number angry lei
ters from temperance women be-
cause she once advised that the
Thanksgiving turkey be fed on Eng
lish walnuts and sherry few weeks
before it is killed. But she tells me
that the bird likes to feed on it, and
that 1t makes their meat delicious
and tender.
Mrs. Representative Henderson,
of Illinois, says, that the turkey
al a NJ
and that she stuffs 1t with q pint of
oysters, two stalks of celery and a
raw egg. Into the mixture she puts
two-thirds of a cup of butter, chops
the whole very fine and seasons it
with salt, peppT and nutmeg
When her turkey is done it is dish
ii for the queen.
Mrs. Congressman Smith, of Hi
nois, stews her turkey half an
hour before she roasts it, and she
roasts it in a covered pan in order to
preserve the flavor and the steam
She has giblet gravy of her own,
which 1 am told Is delicious, and
she makes this by boiling the glib
lets, then chopping them, and after
seasoning and thickening with
tablespoonful of -four wet with cold
water, she lets them simmer for an
hour longer and sends them to the
table.
There is no better cook at the cap
ital than Mrs. Senator Ingalls,. She
can cook turkey to the queens
taste, and ii John j. ingalls, could
be iattened by anything he would
be very Falstatf from the appetite
created by the visions of Mrs. In.
gals roast duck. She rousts her
duck first, then when they are cold
she puts them into stew-pan and
boils them for fifteen minutes with
one pint of tomatoes, a tablespoon.
ful of onion juice, some salt and pep
per, n little corn-starch and two
dozen olives, and serves it hot.
MRS. LoGAN's MINCE.MEAT.
Another famous cook Is Mrs.
John A. Logan. She has one of the
finest houses at the capital, and
there Is no kitchen managed better
than hers. 1t is from her that |
get my recipe for Thanksgiving
mince-ineat, and this is the way she
makes it: "Iwo pounds OF beef,
chopped fine, after being cooked;
two pounds of suet, chopped fine,
four pounds of raisins, four pounds
of apples, eight oranges, the peel of
half u pound of citron, all chopped
| fine; one ounce of cinnamon, one of
allspice, one of nutmeg and two
pounds of brown sugar"
There is nothing nicer than the
salad of Thanksgiving entree, and
Mrs, Logan has given me the fol.
lowing directions US to the dressing
OF the salad dish: "Take the white
inside leaves of cabbage and make a
border, not allowing the leaves to
fall too far over the sides of the
dish, or make border of curled
lettuce; then place the salad inside,
smoothing it nicely, slice four small
cucumber pickles lengthwise, which
will make eight pieces; pass each
piece through white ring of hard
boiled egg, and place them here and
there; or you can place all the ends
together In the center of the dish,
allowing the other nds to diverge
This will form kind of flower. 1t
will look prettier il IA small round
slice of jellyis placed where the ends
meet" MRS. JOHN a. LOGAN.
MRS. SURGEON GENERAL MooRE's
THANKSGIVING FISH.
Washington is u great fish mar
ket. We have nearly everything
that America can produce, and both
ocean and the lakes send their
IL. Il.