The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-25
SPOONS WERE TOO SMALL.
Crushed Strawberries md Pouches Were
In the Pudding.

Strawberries md Penches Wero
In the Pudding.
On Tuesday evening a lnrge audience na-
sembled in the main room Of the Helena
Business college TO listen to and watch a
dcmonatrative lecture on cooking by Miss
Katherine Burgc, a graduate Of the cooking
school Of Philadelphia. Among tho audi
ence were not a few young men who looked
aa II they were undecided M to whether
they we're contemplating continual celibacy
and desired to learn tho culinary art, or
whether they were taking notes for the
benefit OF some fair pupil whom they would
the platform only waiting the touch OF n
match to mako il ready for operation. A
kitchen table covered with white oil cloth
was near the stove. 1t held an array OF
earthern bowls OF various siZeH, tin cups,
wooden spoons, spice boxes, roillnR pms
md other cooking utensils.
Prof. Engelhorn in a pleasing manner In
troducsd the little lady who was TO instruct
much older heads in that most difficult and
provoking of all arta, the art OF cooking
we'll. Dressed in a plain light muslin gown
with q long white apron and dainty cap,
her white hands looked as though they
could mako a pudding fit for II king. She
FIRST gave a recipe for the Jolly boy
species of cake and not a biped. Then she
demonstrated the recipe by actually com
pounding enc before the spectators, telling
the different ingredients and how they were
to be proportional and mixed; how a table
spoonful of butter meant two tablespoons
exactly full, III that in measuring You
must not at one time use a coffee cup, Mt
another a teacup and some other cup at an
other time II you desire to have the article
you are cooking always tho same. She
spiced her demonstrations with bright say
ings and witty snrcnsms. She made the
gentlemen present feel in a most happy
mood by saying: II think the men in Hell
ena are so nice; they are so kind and accom-
modating;" but when she suggested to the
ladies that it was not tiresome to beat q
pnste ten minutes If they would let their
husbands do the beating, the smile on their
faces vanished.
While the 'jolly boy'' was set aside to
raise she told how to make a most delicious
pudding called a 'brioche." The sauce or
dressing consisted Of crushed strawberries
with plenty OF sugar, and a syrup made of
one cup of sugar into which was put a
quantity of peaches cut into small pieces;
this WAS put on the pudding and when it
was all prepared it was cut in pieces and
each person in the audience given a ~'taste.''
Everybody wished that the spo was
nounced it "just lovely and vowed they
would 20 home and make n just like 1T.
Other receipts we're given and the method
Of making and baking demonstrated. She
related the origin of slight" bread: 1.-THE
chef of a far eastern potentate having made
a "batch Of bread set it one side and while
attending to his other duties forgot al
about it. When he came to look at it h
found the dough in a state of fermen
In an agony of doubt as to what he coule
do or say to appease the wrath of his mas
ter for not having the warm bread for din
ner, he bethought himself of a scheme. I'll
mixed up a new batch and worked the sou
dough into it. When it came out of tn
ovens behold the beautiful loaves. TIL
pasha was SO delighted with the new brea'
that he commanded him to ever after maxi
the bread as he had that time. The che
had merely done what all bread makers d
every day. The sour dough had acted as
leaven.
Miss Bulge will give another demonstra
ton lecture next week.