The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1893-12-21
All SIN AS A
Tho Monaghan Cook Secretively Refuses to
Make Known His Recipes.

Tho Mongolian Cook Secretively Refuses to
Make Known His Recipes.
Those accustomed to beau Brum-
mel" cOlOred walters or neat house
maids can hardly appreciate how rid
iculous a Chinaman first appears in
the capacity of waiter, with his
shaved head, snake like queue, stltfly
laundered long, white coat and
apron. pantalet-like trousers, and
thick-soled slippers; but with all,
says a writer in the Washington
Post, he serves the different courses
''alle lite" and handles the table ap-
pointments with his long, thin fingers
in a characteristic style all OF his
owr. When a housekeeper employs
a 'China boy" she must in the very
beginning forcibly demonstrate to
him in 'pigeon English" his differ
ent duties, else when she calls upon
him to perform extra one he never
fully comprchends. AS an instance,
a coOk a one day directed by his
mistress to select and 'devitalize"
two chickens tor dinner. He seemed
never to have heard of a chicken un-
til he saw nc way out Of it, where.
upon the widest confusion and cack-
ling issued from the po%ultry-yard,
and there stood "Ah Wing" frantic.
ally swinging the neck Of the last of
a score Of chickens, as he calmly said:
You tell me to killee chicken an l
kilIee chicken" AS the household
supply OF coal oil was diminishing at
a npont rofa A n Winr utos , 1JnctinnnH
about it. Much astOnished, he asked:
''Do you think l drink coal oil?:" His
conversation consisted much Of the
phrase, "You think So" When
meeting a visiting member of the
family whom his mistress presented
as her brother, he pol tely said, ''You
think so:" la%ughingly she told him
she had always been taught to be-
lieve SO.
Cinnamon are exceedingly secretive,
and housewives seldom find out how
they prepare certain favorite dishes,
for as soon as her 'chef" is watched
he hastily gathers together his in
gradients and utensils retires to the
pantry or discontinues operations al
together, and 1T is quite impossible
to get him to write out a formula of
any kind. The young son of a family
living near Los Angeles once pur-
chased an ostrich egg, and as an eX-
pertinent had the cook make an ONE
let of it, requesting him to write the
recipe. 1t goes without saving that
the Omelet was more powerful than
delicate, and the description read:
zone neapee big egg he makee one
heapee big omelee." Celestials have
a penchant for sweet desserts, and
to encourage new cooks families at
tempt to partake Of three different
egg desserts at one dinner. 1t is a
better and more economical plan to
hide the eggbeater in the beginning.
They also possess a great fOndness
for lettering and executing the
most fantastic designs, with cones,
OF pies and buildings. In these they
often sadly mix their Sunday-school
teachings and show a lack CT rever
renee. once at a large boarding.
house IN Pasadena, the beautiful sub
urb of Los Angeles, the cook shocked
all the boarders 10y placing before
them a pie, upon which was the fol-
lowing inscription: ''Come TO Jesus.
Marengo Hall" Another, in making
out his grocery lists, always heads
them with a scriptural quota
ton as blessed are the pure in
heart for they shall see God. Two
packages of cornstarch, five pounds
OF BUTTER