Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-03-23
OLD E1s6klsH oRooKERv.
Extraordinary .Tastes Prevailing Prior to
the Sixteenth Century.

raordinary Tastes Prevailing Prior to
the Sixteenth Century.
Down to the Sixteenth century the
extraordinary mixtures, both as tdffh-
gradients ana seasonings, which pre-
vailed, gave an Indication of the tastes
of the period. Thus blamange, or, as
it is gensally spelled. basne-manger,
instead Of being merely a Jelly Of milk
or cream was formally composed of
the pounded flesh OF. poultry, boiled
with rice and milk Of almonds, and
sweetened with sugar, while mixture
Of the came kind, but eolored with
Blood or sandal wood, was called rose
Buclzuade was The name of another
typi@l preparation, and this was made
of meat "hewn in goblets, pounded
almonds, raisins, sugar. cinnamon,
eloves'a ginger, onions, salt and fried
herbs, thickened with rice flour, and
colored yellow with saffron.
Momene or mawmony was sort Of
porridge for which the cuisine of of7fI
own day affords 10 parallel. It's COM
ponents were plenty of wine and SUI.
gar, quart of honey, a gallon of oil,
a pound of pakdered spices, together
with gingesg lhnaxon and galangsle,
(eyperus longgs) plant much used for
favoring. All these were boiled to-
gether with the pounded flesh of eight
capons, and the mesS served in bowls
like porridge. with (aesording to one
recipe,) lighted Svax candle stuck in
the middle OF each. Mortrews, a dish
mentioned by CHANGER III his "Canter-
bury Tales" was held in great esteem.
It derived its name from the mortar in
which the meat used in making It was
pounded; and as the recipe is a repre-
sentative one, we will here give it as it
stands in the ''Forme of, Curry"
g Take hennes and porke and sethe
hom togydre Take the lyresAtiesh) of
hennes and of the porlze and hack it
small and grinde it all to dust. Take
bread gyrated, and do ladd) thereto,
and temper it with che self broth 4. e.
the broth in which it was boiled,) and
alye (miX it with zelkes of ayearn,
,(yolks of sggs,) and cast thereon pow
der fort (pepperl and boil it; ands do
thereto powder of gynger, saffron, and
salt, and lolke that ii is stopding,
(stiff, apd flour it all with powder of
gyngsr. quarterly Review.
in 1917 Strada, the Jesuit philoso-
pher, conceived the idea that the two
magnets might be connected in such-a
way as to move sympathetically, and
that IL two persons devised a prear-
ranged code they might communicate
with each other at any distance. The
idea is pleasantly enlarged upon in Adj
dison's Spectator, in which he imagines
that two 1ogers are provided with mag
nets and diafs properly lettered SO as
to enable them to communicate with
each other at any time.
THE sentence is that We be
hanged" said Welsh judge to poor
criminal; "ans l hope it may prove a
wsfhing to you. "-Tit-Bits
Mrs. Twitter listening TO phono-
graph tkiust like having your hus-
band here Kt home, isn't it?" Wife
ssMercy, no; it needs an attachment to
smoke, growl about the dinner, lose a
hat. kick the dog and swear to make it
perfect. Inter Ocean.
The man. who is standing up fer
YOU soon cts tired and sits down. =
Atchison Globe.
Stern Employer Z See here, young
man, this makes three times you have
been late at the office this week. ! de-
mand an explanation Blase Clerk
well, believe in the theory that the
office should seek the man rather THAI