The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-10
ROYALTY MAKING PIES.
How Some English Princesses Are
Taught to Rule in the
Kitchen.
Robos of State That Serve to Con-
ceal Housekeepers Frugal
and Careful.
A Royal Review of Pots and Pans-Im-
perfai Women Cooks-A Car
Making Mincemeat.


LONDON, April 2s.-I suppose it was tho
Priucess Victoria, now her gracious maies-
ty of England, Ireland, and India, and who
was flst spoken of as "domesticated"
princess. The other day l came across
paragraph in daily paper, published in
1885, dwelling upon the complete knowl-
edge of household duties possessed by the
then heiress to the British throne, and the
clever way in which she one day surprised
her mother, the dutchess of Kent bv serv-
ing her with luncheon cooked by herself.
The princess insisted on laying tho cloth,
polishing the wine glasses, and making tho
coffee. The paragraph also related that
there were no domestic arrangements ut
kensington palace which her royal highness
did not thoroughly supervise.
The queen has preserved her taste for
housekeeping all her lifetime. She had
every one of her daughters-from the
naughty Empress Frederick to the full
busted young woman who rejoices in the
title of Princess Henry of Battenbe1g''-
taught not only how to make puddngs and
pies, iellies and syllabubs, but how to scour
the dishes and pans used in the concoction
and cooking of the dishes.
The princesses were also systematically
Instructed in regard to the variety of roasts
used in an ordinary family; they learned
how to grill Il steak, stew neck of mutton
and boil vegetables, and even how to turn
the remains of yesterdays veal into pal
atabe hash for breakfast. In addition to
this tuition in the preparation of food,
the princesses, once week at least, took
charge of their own bedrooms and placed
them in order. just as though they were
they would prepare the table for the break
fast or the lucheon of their father and
mother, and q bundle of the royal house
linen, once month or SO, was especially
laid aside to enable the princesses to prac-
tice darning.
The queen, who, perhaps, can be regarded
as one of the wisest of women of her time, is
of opinion that however exalted she may be
placed by fortune. no detail, however hum
BILE, of that portion of life which is implied
by the word "home," should escape the at
tention of a woman. Besides, her majesty
was fond of medltatlng upon the vicissitudes
which had fallen to the lot of SO many rov al
families in her own time. Her brother
sovereign, Louis Philippe, in the earlier
years of her Ioign, was fighting against
poverty in America, and among the MANY
papers which her ma jesty loves to preserve
rs personal curiosities, is letter of the
duchess de Berri aunt of Charles X. of
France. in which the rovaI Iady relates Win
c)ee how she mad nannoed r. ,,wa - fnn
Confines out of her sca,,tv nurse hv nm ad,
yantareous baroain in cnbbares
The prjnceGses of England readily took
to their mothers desires in regard to til cir
domestic training, and many a dish cooked
by the princess royal or by the Princess
Alice was first tried on "papa and man
MAJ: indeed. the late prince consort wa
laid mn for n whole dav of indioestion n fter
eatinr trial pooseberry pnddinn nrenared
by the Princess Beatrice.
One after another the princesses marr;ed
and carried into their own homes olj the
benefits OF the perfect training thev had
at the hands of their royal mother The
Empress Frederick. dur1nc the lonu vears
that she was Grown Princass Frrderick of
Germany. never allowed p detail of her
housekeeping to escare her. II ia amid that
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