The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05
HINTS ON DESSERT.
Mrs. John Sherwood Tells How
10 Tickle the Palate.
TIE ART OF MAKING PASTRY.
American Apple Pie is the Chief Dainty
"A woman Looks Preftiest when
Playing Cook-Good Recipes.

downright. 1897, BY NJ E W. sherwoodl
srhsre Is not in the wide world 30 tempting Q
!. TAI trife where custard and mscaroons
On, the latest sweet tooth from my head must
ma the taste of tina. trine shall not win my
heart
v.tst d not the sugar that's thrown In between,
- ihe peel OF the lemon so candied and green;
is - the rich cream that's whipped up By
q. 81 il is something more exquisite stinP'
fse great meaning of dessert is to offer
arenefhing more exquisite still" And il
he province of the housekeeper, be she
vcung or old, to study how this can be
5bne.
Nothing in European dinners can COM
snre with the American custards, pud-
dinrs and pies. We are accused as ma
Ion Of having eaten too many sweets and
70 have ruined our teeth thereby. but who
Inst has languished in England over the
inspid desserts at hotels and the tooth
sharpeners called Sweets, meaning tarts
8 sour as an East wind. has not sighed for
n American pie? . In Paris the cakes are
uresty to look at, but OH how they break
their promise when you eat them. Moth
ing but sweetened white of egg. One
thing they sUrpasssus in-omeleste souHes.
and eateau st. Honore is good, but with
that word of praise we dismiss the great
French nation.
Just look at our grand list of fruit des-
serts, apple charlotte. apricots with rice,
banana charlotte, banana fritters, black
berry shortcake, strawberry shortcake, vel
vet cream with strawberries tah D. fresh
pineapples in jelly, frozen bananas, frozen
peaches in cream, orange cocoanut salad,
orange salad, peach fritters, peach merin-
.ue, peach shortcake, plum salad, salad of
mixed fruit, sliced pears with whipped
cream. stewed pears. plain, and pumpkin
pie But OH there is something more
exquisite STILL and that is an apple pie
sAll new dishes fade, the newest oft the fee,est.
0sll the pies ever made. ths apple 10 still the
sweetest.
cund come again, the syrup upward spring
ing,
wife life and taste remain, to thee my heart is
clinging.
Who pie would make. first his apple slices,
Then he ought TO take some cloves, the best of
spices,
Crate some lemon rind. butter add discrcetly,
Then some sugar mix-but mind, the pie-aot
made too sweetly.
II cook of taste. be complete to make it,
In the finest paste win inclose and bake It,"
After years of foreign travel l have
never met dish so perfect as the Ameri-
can apple pie can be-with cream.
Then to look at our puddings. they are
richer, sweeter, more varied than any in
the world. The English plum pudding
excepted. That is ponderous dainty,
which few can eat. 1t looks well when
dressed with holly. and lighted up, but it
is not to be eaten every day. Baked bread
pudding. carrot pudding Exceedingly deli
cate). chocolate pudding, cold cabinet pud-
ding boiled rice pudding with custard
sauce. poor mans rice pudding. green ap-
pie pudding. Indian pudding, minute pud-
ding. tapioca pudding, and all the custards
boiled and baked with infinite variety of
favor. These are everyday luxuries. and