The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-17
PEELED 70 drink q quart or 90 Of his own
coffee, but some merciful cherub aloft
always interferred and got me out Of bad

always interferred and got mo out Of bad
scrapes. Another annoyance WAS the
loss Of spoons and forks thrown accident.
ally overheard as I flung away my soup
and grease clouded dish water. It was Ia.
deed bitter when, as occupied ID these
daily washings,c f. allowed my mind to
DRIFT TO other, and brighter, scenes, to see
tho glitter OF a spoon or fork in the air
or NBinking In the deep blue sea, and
then 10 reflect that already there were
not enough spoons 10 20 round, or forks
either. Our storeroom was In the cabin.
Among other articles there was key OF
rnolaases. One evening, after dralninga
quantity, ! neglected 10 close the faucet
tightly. Molasses, therefore, oozed over
the cabin floor all night. The cabin was
q ircshet OF molasses. Very early itl'the
morning the captain, getting out OF his
bunk, jumped both stockinged feet into
tho saccharine deluge. Some men will
swear as vigorously In a. foot.bath OF
molasses as they would in one Of coal
tar He did. It was a very black day
for mo, and lie generally seemed joyless
and uninviting; but l cooked on. 'il6,GE
. Tho Henry. was full OF mice. These
little creatures would obtrude them.
selves In my dough wet up for fresh
bread over night, become bemired and
die therein. Once a mouse thus dead
was unconsciously rolled up In biscuit,
baked with II, aud served up smoking
no! for The mornings meal aft. 1t was,
as 1t were, an involuntary meat pie. OF
course tho cabin grumbled, but they
would grumble ut anything. They were
rs particular about their food as al habi.
tue Of Delmonico'e. wish now at times
l had saved that biscuit to add to my
collection OF odds and edibles. II Still
even the biscuit proved but an episode
In my career. l cooked on, aud those
l served stood agilast, not knowing what
would come next. }iaSi sIgTfEl
/, After five months Of self training l |
on pies. | studied and
wrought out the making OF pies ,unas.
sisted and untaught. Mine were sea
mince pies; material, salt beef soaked to |
freshness aud boiled tender, dried apples
md molasses. The cabin pronounced |
them good. This was one Of the few |
feathers Ia my culinary cap. OF course,
their goodness was relative. On shore
such II pie would be scorned. But on q
long sen voyage almost any combination
of flour, dried fruit and sugar will pass.
Indeed, the appetite, rendered more Wig
orous and perhaps appreciative by long
deprivation from luxuries, will take not
ankindly- to dried apples alone. The
changes in the weekly bill Of fare at sea
.un something thus: Sundays and
arc duff days." tuesday,
9ean day; Friday, Goldfish aud POI ato
lay some vessels have one ortwo special
lays for pork; salt beef, bareback, tea
md coffee are fluids and solids to fall
back on every day. I dreaded the maxi
ng OF dutIs, or flour pnddings, to the
'nd OF the voyage. Rarely did attain
success with them. aI II fifjl 90
A duff is quantity Of flour and yeast,
,r yeast powder, mixed, tied up in a
gag and boiled until it is light Plum
lutf argues the insertion OF quantityof
'aisins. Plain duff is duff without rails
ms. But the proper cooking OF duff is
.ather delicate matter. II it boils too
ong the flour settles into hard, putty
ike mass, whereunto there is neither
'ponginess, lightness, nor that porous.
less which delights the heart Of q cook
when he takes his dutrfrom the seethius
II the duff docs not boil long
enough, the interior is still paste. II a
huff stops boiling for ever SO few min
ltes, great damage results. And some.
lines duff won't do properly, anyway.
Mine were generally OF the hardened
species, and the plums eyinced a ten
tency to hold mass meeting at the bot
tom. Twice the hands forward rebeiied
1t my dut1s, and their committee on
culinary grievances bore them aft to
The door Of the cabin and deposited
them there unbroken and uneaten i6r
The "Old Mans. inspection. Which
public demonstration witnessed from
my galley door, and when the
huff deputation Is had q retired, Il
and swiftly and silently
bore that duff away. before the Old
Man had finished Ills dinner below. 1t
8 hard ordeal thus 10 feel ones self
he subject OF such an outbreak Of pop.
llar indignation. But my sympathies
now are all with the sailors. y "A spoiled
1utfis great misfortune in the forecas.
lie OF a whaler, where neither pie nor
:ake nor any other. delicacy, save boiled J
Hour aud molasses sauce, come from
month 5 end to months end. gs;F5aii;!s
PRENTICE MuLfoRD.
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