The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-18
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Appetite and Castronomio Comfort.
Nowhere do we need more change than
fn our dot Tho law that makes boiled
mutton DAYS and rice pudding days OF the
domestic calendar g. the worst OF laws.
I Because 70 Is easier Tor the cook 90 know
/ What toexpoct home from the market cach
morning IL mo- reasonable excuse Tor cling
I ing 60 "a CERTAIN routine in food with the
regularity OF a states prison or am aims
house. 4 united family o. nore 90 d. 70
I garlod than one cook. Munotcny Is dry
aust upon interest in any branch of the
home, whether 10 a. "a matter Of furnish
ing. OF diet CT of toilet IL interest d some
Ina the menu and one eats merely 20 salts
~ hunger. loss Of appetite and dyspepsia
como TO tho fore. Nutritious food. well
cooked food and variety i'm food nro
three necessary ndiuncts to gastronouic
comfort
By variety = not meant hero all the
products Of large market at every meal
The present elcgant simplicity that has
wcciCl out the old tangled mass 81 side
dishes from the national board Is certain
IL more dainty and moro appctixing than
our former proiusion. The question Is
merely one Of change. II we breakfast
upon croQuottes today, the chief piece de
resistance tomorrow at the morning meal
should bo as far "a possible removed from
meat halls.
Next 60 daintiness in serving, mystery
Il perhaps the r-,ost important factor in
forcing an appetite. The hungry man
who comes from business with his stom-
ach mortgaged 70 fricasseod chicken on
Monday night, roast beef ON Tuesday
night and chops ON Wednesday night eats
his dinner merely because he Is a hungry
man, but he of the tickle appetite is lured
ever hopefully 90 the dining room of the
wise housewife who never publishes her
bin Of fare in advance. The not knowing
what is coming and an element Of surprise
in what does come IL the food is in itself
desirable, will do more than anything else
can toward putting new life into a listless
palate.
Don't serve too many sorts Of things at
one time, as "a superabundance always
tends TO nausea and "A population ~ tho
whole. but avoid as well that popular pit
fall. meagcrness. And strive TO find new
ways good new ways especially Of cook
ing meat and of making desserts. Many
otherwise well regulated households vi
brnto between eight OF ten meat recipes
and perhaps dozen of desserts, whereas
both these numbers could easily be multi
piled by 100 toothsomo changes. If house
keepers were as careful 10 exchange the
specialtics of their several cooks as they
are TO pass about their misdemeanors,
there would not be 30 many hungry men
stalking our streets-starved not from
want, but from monotony.
A laudahle zeal in the gastronomic art
should not, however, lead tho ineXperi-
enced housekeeper too far aiield A young
wife once tried newspaper recipe that
told her TO use a cupful Of baking powder
and a teaapoouful OF sugar instead Of the re-
verse. She obeyed faithfully, but some way
her husband didn't like the cake IL one
is not natural cook enough 10 tell from the
relative proportions given something about
how a mixture will turn out, it Is best to
resort only 20 such dishes as have been
stamped with reliable approval. But with
tho vast number Of carefully compiled
cookbooks, bursting with accurate infor-
nation, that now food the market the
families that allow themselves 10 dine
daily upon monotony are willfully shaving
thoi- appetites. -Housekeeper.