Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-10
LADIES' COLUMN.
SPRING COOKERY.

Inc Gays are al pTOdCl1lIIS WITCH o1O
housekeeper, try as she may, will not
be able to keep up the standard of her
family's appetite. 1t is inevitable in
the spring that one and all feel eat1n 6
to be more or less of burden, nee
essary evil. A few suggestions, how
ever, may help the woman who is
wondering how she can cater to the
jaded appetites of her homestead. In
the first place she has got to give more
thought to the subject. She has prob
ably fallen into fearful rut of mon
otony through the winter, and the
first thing to be done is to pull out Of
this groove. Let her for once place
cooking far above the care of her
house. A little neglect of dust will do
no harm just before the malestrOm of
spring cleaning is upon us, while ev-
erything depends on an inviting table.
You can't make a better beginning
if, as in nine cases out of ten, these
have been daily spectacle on your
table. Don't let your husband and
children see, smell or hear of one for
weeks to come. They are tired to
death of them, and surely you are
making them. But you don't know of
any substitute? That only shows you
don't give enough thought to attract
i've cookery.
Pie for breakfast is always an an
achronism. Fill it's place there with
eggs, in varied forms, with nice, pal
atabIe dishes made of remnants of
yesterdays dinner, with cream toast,
in short, anything you can name is
more appropriate than pie. For din
ner, how many delicate, easy and in
buildings can be made by a
little skillful combination of milk,
eggs and sugar. If your family like
custards, you have many varieties at
your command. One day combines
chocolate with it; another day, cocoa
nut; again, oranges; again, tapioca;
again, pounded oranges; again, slices
of cake; again the juice of stewed APP
pie, etc. The same variations, and
more, may be made with gelatine, but
remember that acid improves all such
dishes, as it DISCUSSES the gelatine
taste which is not pleasant; lemon
Jelly, orange jelly, wine jelly, coffee
and served with cream, or milk and
sugar, are far more suitable than pie,
the most plebeian of all desserts and
the most unwholesome. Then there
are very attractive buildings. to be
made of bread crumbs. Look them
up in the receipt book; their name is
legion. Study variety. 1t is worth it.
You will please all the family by serv-
ing some surprise every now and then.
Nothing kills the appetite like monot-
ony. For breakfast, give the gO-by
for a month or so to that old tiresome
oatmeal and substitute fruit. After a
day Or so of fruit, oranges or bananas,
try some one of the new cereals and
see how they take to that. Keep on
trying new ones; the family will come
to breakfast with more courage as
they anticipate something little I'M
usual. AS soon as possible, put some
refreshing suggestion of spring on the
table; lettuce is to be had already;
radishes make a good relish; garnish
your meat and fish with green; don't
forget that fresh and dainty looking
table is more necessary now than at
any other time of year. Good house
keepers too often forget that the care
most important part of domestic life.
They fall into a hopeless routine of
embarrassing sameness, preferring to
have their kitchens immaculate rath
er than to put the same time into a
study of attractive variety of cook
ing.