Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-19
MAKING gold DINNERS
Mrs John Sherwood shows the
Way How ',eis Done.
not CREAM SAUCES .L0JE DO IT
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Tie i1agl2ent- Bri4lzt Say4rin
A good dinner and pretty hostess
for there are terms on which beauty
and beef can meet. much 10 the benefit
OF both. one wit. several good takers
ard a. many good listeners, or more Of
thu latter. IL said To be . combination
which evea our greatest statesmen do
nst de&piss.
Man wants good dinners. 1t is
woman's province 10 provide them; but
stature and education must make the
conscientious diner.
IL Ia to be feared that we are too
much in a hurry 10 be truly conseien-
tious diners Our men have too many
school tasks yet. like politics. money
making, science, mental Improvement,
charities, psychical research, building
railroads, steam monitors, colleges. and
such ike gauds, To devote themselves
as they ought 10 the question OF en-
trees and entremets-
But arc we as conscientious as the
gentleman in Punch who rebulsed tho
giddy girl who would talk to him dur
ing dinner by saying: do you reTnem-
Der that you are in the house where
they offer the best entrees in London?"
That was a man 70 cook for. He had
his appropriate calm reserve OF appre-
citation for ths supreme de volatile"
He knew how 20 watch and wait for
the sweetbreads and green peas Not
thrown away upon him was that last
turn which makes the breast Of the
partridge become delicate Vzndycs
brown. How profound and how re-
spectful was Ia 20 that immortal art for
which the great French cook died, q
suicide for a belated turbot.
The young hostess to strike the juste
ra!isa must travel, reflect and go to
cooking school. She must buy and read
library OF cooking books And when
all Is done and said. she must realize that
o cookery book Is not dinner. There
are some natures which can absorb
nothing from cookery book. AS Lady
Galway said that she had put all her
wits into Bradshaw's railway guide and
had never got them out again" so some
amateur cook said that she had tested
her recipes with the cook book in one
hand and the stove in the other" yet
the wit had stayed away. All young
housckeepers must go through this dis
cipline, in q land where cooks arc as
yet scarce, Of trying and failing, of try
ing and 1t length succeeding. She NUT
go TO Ia Beils France" 10 learn how to
mako q soup, for instance. That is TO
say, she must study the best French
authorities
There would be no sense In telling q
young American housekeeper to learn
To- make sauces, aud to cook like .
French chef, for IL Is profession, re-
quiring years of study and great natur-
al taste and ATTITUDE. A French chef
comnands a higher salary than secrc-
tary OF state or than a civil engineer.
AZ we'll tell young lady that she could
suddenly DO inspired with knowledge
of the art of war or of navigation. She
would only perhaps learn To do very
badly what they in ten years learn to
do 80 well. She would say in her heart:
For my part am surfcited with cook
cry. I cried something raw. ii you
please, for me. Something that has
never been touched by hand, except the
enc that pulled it of the blooming tree
CIR uprooted it from the honest ground.
Let me be- Timon, II you win, and eat
green radisbes and cabbages, or Beau
Brummel, asphyxisted with the con-
sumption of green pea, but no ragout.
coletette compete creme or any hint OF
cooking TIL The remembrance Of all that
have seen has faded and the smell of
It has passed away
Stone broth does not go down with q
hungry man. nor bad food however dis
euissd with creamed sauces. A little
learning il a dangerous thing. and If
shc attempts too much she viii fail.
But she can read and reflect, aud get
the general outlines Of cultivated cook
cry. As 20 neat. cultivated cookery be-
ing necessarily extravagant, that il a
mistake. A great heavy Il-considered
dinner 10 no doubt costly. Almost all
American housekeeping is wasteful in
the extreme. bat the modern varieties,
which depend on the skill of the cook,
and the arranging Of the housekcepcr.
eli these are the triunphs ofthe present
age, and worthy Of deep thought and
consideration
Let the young housekeeper remem-
Der that the pretty entrees snade out Of
Yesterdays roast chicken or turkey
will be . great saving as well "a a
great luxury, and she viii learn "a
mako them.
For amongst busy people Ike our-
seives. from poorest to the richest.
dinners are intended TO BE recreatio1s
aud recreztions OF inestimable value.
The delightful contrast which they
cffcr TO the Iabors of the day, the
pleasant. innocent triumph they afford
90 the hostess. IN which all may par.
take without jealousy. the holiday ar
Of guests aad Of the dining room, which
ehould Be fresh. well aired. filed with
Hcwers. be made bright with glass and
sivsr--all this refrrshes the tired man
OF affairs and invircrates every crea.
s,.r~. As far az possible. the discussions
Of all disasrsesble subjects should Be
kpss from, the dinner table.
All that Is unpleasant lowers the
ruls~ and retarsls the digestion Al
that is cheerful Invi9orases the pulse
and helps the human being 20 live Z
more brave and useful life. No one
should bring an unsecening grnmpi
ness ~ the dinner table. lie grumpy
n-x. asv IL ron choose f~hsu the ter
rapsn may bsve dissErcedi, bat not Al
she feast Bring the best BIZ 81 news
and gossip mot sea.udall. the choicest
r~itiaue cs the last novel. the cream 81
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