The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05
they are very great ones of the American

they are very great ones. of the American
table.
One charming thing about dessert and
american dishes, is that ladies can make
them. They do not fi4sh the face or de-
range the white apron. They are pleasant
things TO daily with, milk and eggs and
spice and sugar.
A model Kitchen is every lady's delight.
In these days of tiles and marble pastry
boards and modern improvements. what
pretty things kitchens are.
The model dairy, tob, with its upright
milk pans, in which the cream is marked
on by neat little Thermometers. the nre-
brick floor, the GOODNESS and the neatness
OF 1t. and sometimes q stream of fresh
water moving under the floor. as the river
runs under the chateau of Chenonceary,
where Diana de Potter dressed her golden
hair
In the model kitchen the exanisite range
with its polished batter;< de c,.isine. eyery
oriiiant sauce pan seeming TO say: Come
and cook in me- every porcelain-Iined
pan urging upon one the necessity of stew
ing nectarines in whitelsugar. every bright
can suggesting the word conserve"
which always makes the mouth water.
every clatter of the skewers saving:
DAINTY dishes, come and make me-" All
TINS Is quite fascinating 10 an amateur
No pretty woman, ii she did but know
II. Is ever so pretty as when she is play-
ing cook, and doing 1t well The clean
white apron, the short, clean cambria
gown, the little cap. the white. bare
arms Such glorified creams and fol-
lies, pies and charlotte russo; such
cakes and such buildings, as IalI from such
hngers-ambrosial food
There is a great passion in the property
regulated femase heart for she clearly part
OF the household. work. The love of a
dairy is part of the business of her rank
with many duchess. In our country,
where ladies are compelled 20 put a hand
once perhaps too often, owing to the in
sufnclency OF servants, to the cooking il is
less pastime, and knowledge of il is in
dispensable To cook q heavy dinner in
hot weather, to wash the dishes after
wards, this is sober prose, and by. very
dull author; but TO make the dessert,
this is poetry. In the early morn
ing the hostess should go into her
neat dairy to skim the cream-it Will
be much thicker If she does. She will pre-
pare all things for the desserts of the day.
She will make her well-navored custard
and set it in the ice-chest. She will place
her compete of pears securely on high
shelf away from that ubiquitous cat, who
has in most families so remarkable and so
irrepressible an appetite.
Then she should make q visit to the
kitchen before dinner 20 see to it that the
roast birds are garnished with water cress,
that the vegetables are properly prepared,
that the dishes are without a smear on
their lower surface, all this attention max
ing good servants and very good dinners.
In the matter of liayoring the colored
race have us at a great disadvantage. Any
old colored cook can distance her white
''missus" there. This highly gifted race
seem to have q sixth sense on the subject
of fiavors. The rich tropical nature breaks
out in "reminiscences of oranges blossoms.
pineapple. guaya, cocoanut and Mandarin
orange. Never can the descendants of the
poor, half-starved, frozen exiles of
Plymouth rock hope to achieve such GUS
tards and buildings as these Ethiops pour
out 1t is as If some luxurious and benefi-
cent gift had left US when we were made
poets. orators, philosophers, preachers
and authors, when we were given what
we proudly term "higher intelligence"
Who would not exchange all the cold
mathematical intellectual supremacy of
which we boast for that luscious gift of
making pies and puddings "a Tdriof"
The making of pastry is so delicate and
so varied that we can only say: Approach
ii with cold hands. cold water and roll it
on marble slab; then bake il in a very
hot oven.
Learn to stew well. Stew your fruit in
porcelain stew pan before putting il in
your tarts. 1t is one of the most whole
some forms of cookery. and French nov
elist calls the stew pan the "favorite aim,
the talisman of the cook" celebrated
physician said that the action of the stew
pan was like that of the stomach, and it is
a great gain If We can help that along.
Stewing gooseberries. cherries and even