Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-31

gourmet Will travel from Dan 10
Beersheba to taste new salad. [
can sympathize with the taking of
long journey that has this delight at
the end of it. There is nothing quite
30 fine in the eating line as good salad,
and the Frenehman who announced
that he could eat his adored one in
that form il she were served UP with
the proper dressing, is man after my
own heart. | might possibly take a
lesson in painting china, but | doubt
it; still there is no saying to what base
uses wo may come at last. However,
would tumble over the bones of my
forefathers to learn something new in
the cooking line. Apropos of cooking
(learned people say apropos "to" cook
ing. but like my way BEST somebody
says that when cook makes a mis-
take, you should stand off in very
high and mighty way and remark, "Of
course, Bridget, this is your business,
and you know your business much bet
ter than / do, consequently you realize
that the mutton was chippy tonight,
but You understand these things much
better than | and hereafter expect to
sec il served properly"
DO NOT APPEAL TO HER sENslBILITIEs.
Now, this is al! hockey pokey nom
sense-this talk about Bridget's vanity
being fattered and her determination
to make success of it next time.
Bridget has probably lived in she
been "a dugout) the chances are that
she didn't know what shoes were until
she came to this country, and limited
her diet to bread and butter and tea,
with meat once week. Appealing to
her vanity in the cooking line is
ridiculous. What the mistress wants
to say is this: " Bridget, even the dogs
wouldn't eat the mutton that you
served tonight, and although you
ought to know how to cook, as ! am
paying you first class wages, | will for
once explain to you how this meat
ought to be treated, and then | shall
expect you to do it properly" And a
good housekeeper ought to know how.
Personally, | have not much belief in
cook books. They have charming
way of saying "TaKo quart of cham
payne, five Bermuda onions, gallon
Of red peppers and a cup of cream, toss
them lightly, and an airy dessert will
result" Why, one which has a Ma.
tional reputation says that il you want
mutton to be proper, you should allow
go minutes boiling for each pound.
Fancy the result. | am inclined to
pride myself ON knowing about meats,
and il a small piece of mutton stays in
the water 40 minutes after it begins to
boil, then it will he served IN a fit
way, and when the knife is stuck in it
the blood will squirt out and the fat
will be done to turn.
RECIPE THAT DELIGHTS.
But to return to saatls-which people
who like good things to eat do every
day--the newest ono is absolutely as
pretty as Il picture. On the daintiest
Of platters is fringe of tender green
lettuce leaves, and then there is a rod
pepper, large pink tomato--tho kind
they call beafsteak tomato and an
apple OF course, if you have many
people, you double or triple the num-
Der. The pepper is cut 20 that tho top
is like lid, then it is carefully
scraped out and filled with minced
pepper, minced chicken and minced
celery, with mayonnaise carefully dis
tributed through ii all. After the fill
ing the cover is put on again. The
same treatment is given to the tomato,
which is, however, filled with lettuce
and tomato, blended with plain
French dressing, while the apple has
for it's filling tongue paste well mixed
with celery and mayonnaisc. This is
a salad fit not only for king, but for
an artist in color as we'll az in food.
By-the-by, where you are do they
sell Bermuda onions or the fruit
stands? That is the latest fad here,
and the gay men about town buy them
late at night and cat them exactly rs
il they were apples, hoping to kill ner-
yousness and drive away insomnia.
Whether they are initiating the Duke
of Edinburgh or not | am unable TO
say, but he took onions, not for sleep
lessness, but to cure him of some skin
disease, which, ! believe, they did.
1t is great thing 10 be catholic
in one's appetite. And, by-the-by,
the word catholic suggests to me that |
never knew Catholic fond of eggs or
fish; they invariably have Protestant
stomachs.
DISHES OF LOCAL FAVOR.
The man who is described by
Southey, that gentle Mr. Dove, was
wise. OF MIN it was said, "He would
have eaten sausages for breakfast at
Norwich, Sally Lunns at Bath. sweet
butter in Cumberland, orange MARINA
lade at Edinburgh, finnan haddocks at
Aberdeen, and drunk punch with beef
steak to obligc the French il they in
sisted upon giving him their idea of
dejeuner a fAnglaise. He would have
eaten squad pic in Deyonshire and
squab pie which is squabber than
squad in Cornwall sleeps head with
the hair on in Scotland, and potatoes
roasted on the hearth in Ireland: frogs
with the French, picked herring with
the DutclN sauer kraut with tho Ger
mans maccaroni with the italians,
aniseed with the Spaniarda, garlic with
anybody; horse flesh with the Tartars.
ass flesh with the Persians: dogs with
the Northwestern American Indians;
curry with tho Asiatic East Indians;
birds nests with the Chinese; mutton
roasted with honey with the Turks,
and turtle and vcnison with the Lord
Mayor: and the turtle and vrnison he
would have preferred 10 all the other
dishes, because his taste, though cath
olio, was not indiscriminating. - Isn't
that fine? But of this remarkable man
it was also said that he ''coud carnuse
with Alexander; abstain with Romulus;
eat with the epicure, fast with tho
stole, sleep with Endymion, watch with
Chrysippus. And this is tho secret
of happiness in life. The ability to be
all things TO all mon, and always TO
enjoy ones dinner.
Speaking Of dinners, there is a queer
little table d'hote here in New York
about which not very many people
know. OF the journalists who go there,
there are many, but it has always been
understood that mono of them will write
1t up SO accurately that the man of fash
ion can recognize, SO k out, and ruin
it az he did one other enjoyable place.
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