Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-22

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(tessAEl.,ss Hr,SI 9s!!sssstSh with them Feast
><Ss M, itt;ta I. "a; He ing was the com
ssl S,syt'iss.lt . is,rssFI mon characters,
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- A5iS 49, DEGREES and kinds
varied The Du,ch
mild and moderate in most thIrus-rIade
their Christmas Keeping u somewhat uro
lonced festival often taking. more tl,,,n -
week. indulcjnu in nil ,hr good ,nirt,..
that they desired or could procure n5f.
cori.tl,nil,c, IN amount of ..trou,, winters.
that you'd have meant cycc., To amy lem
perlmauts less phlegrnilric than theirs OK
had less time been taken in the cut,um
ing
The old Dutch family recipe books con
tanned rule, for many coruuousds ron,,lr
ing delicate manipulation on the part OF
he cooks. rs well u.s. Il good deal OF the
comprehensive faculty known as "iuas
ment. Indeed one can but couceiy,. tt,t
greatest respect for the mental bower,
Of The woman whose scrttIl.rs ana
wafles were always light aud crisuv nor
wilhstaudinc that baking uoN,jcr. ,,nt
egg beaten, were things unknown tina,
even pear! ash" WAS of home u:,uu,fc
turc. aud the i. slt ollanti,yot. ,onr cream
which was 10 btIanr, the nlk,li n. welt "a.
lis due degree of acitlitv had to he defer
mined in each Individual case 1t Is not so
very easy a matter to find good cook even
III these DAYS 0f "pcr,ectiou ranges ant!
all name, of ready made preparations to
help her Yet i, appears to he a tact ,nat
early in tic Seventeenth century good
cooks were he rule rather than the cxccp
tion among tie wives and daughters o,
the well 10 do inhabitants OF the New
Netherlands and Christmas Was the SCI,
son upon which their best powers were ex
pended.
English dishes of ahou, the same dat. do
mot 20 f3.yr,qlyly i,,,nrc,s he modern, re;,d
or Boar.' heads blazing in rum gees.
and ducks siumerjul, in their own grease
and huge Joints of heef or norI; wer. tlnnket
by meat ..un.tjc. u bv rolls of bou.d Won
hidden in layers of pork fat and Then
roasted before the fire so slowly thar ih.
fat was all absorbed in the meat and sad
dies of "hve-yeurod mutton. ,nddeu with
cabbage and vinegar douot seem partIcr
larly attractive TO modern pnlates Grand
SIR l.oin, plum pudding and mincc pies
descendants OF the ancient meat pasly-
are almost the only dishes that have sur
vived the year, and now appear upon our
Christmas tables. What digcstioue ans.
what heads must these old time English
have possessed.
When one read. OF the enormous t,llantity
and soiitlty Of the vinnd~ an, the amount
and strength of the fluids which formed n
Christmas dinner of 2UO wears ago and OF
all the rough. not to say an our Nineteenth
century eyes di>reputablc merryrnakiilg-
which followed the dinner one almost
ceases to wonder at the Puritan revnl>iot
OF fcc!in. which led TO an effort TO replace
Il season OF gluttonv and drunkenness Is,
one OF religious feeling and temnera,e ,c~
tivity, calliag it "Thanksciving' and nold
in- it in advance o; the season which iron
the time oil the Romans and perhaps beio:,
them. had been Kept a, Il heathen te>tiva.
and Still! retained some OF il, old character
i>tics after II Ia! been adapted TO the new
religion
The French We're ever more temporal.
than their nrig!ipore aud very early man.
tested the talent which has made them IN,
tutors OF all the rest of the world III la oil
matters
To the French Uucuenots Christmas ,ra
:. day OF rejoicing. thanksgiving ,amil
fcstiyity and n,i.hborly greeting The
drank almost no strong liquors and the;
mild, pure wines served but to aid uice-
ton and inItrt ynvety to the spirits
Rarely indeed was drunkenness know
among them The giving OF gifts wa,
more prominent feature OF Christina, tim
with them than with the others. Anon
the English and Dutch the gifts, irrcspe,
Tive OF toys TO children We're nearly Away
of something to eat or drink y huunc
OF vcuisoll or a cask of home brewrd al
was Il fnvoritc gift in the parent isle. bu
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