The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-23
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Appetite aud Gastrouomic Comfort.
Nowhere do we need more change than
in our diet Tho law that makes boiled
mutton days and rice pudding days Of the
domestic calendar h the worst Of laws.
Because II Is easier for the cook TO know
what to expect home from the market onch
morning ~ no reasonable excuse Tor cling
ing to a certain routine Ia food with the
regularity Of states prison or an aims
house. a united family Is more to be re
gardcd than one cook. Monutony is dry
rust upon interest In any branch Of the
home, whether t. Is matter Of furnish
ing. Of diet or of toilet. II interest is gone
la the menu and one eats merely To salts
fy hunger, loss Of appetite and dyspepsia
come to the fore. Nutritious food, well
cooked food and n variety IN food are
three necessary adiuncts TO gastronomie
comfort.
by variety il not meant here all the
| products Of large market at every meal.
The present elegant simplicity that has
weedcd out the old tangled mass Of side
dishes from tho national board is certain
ly more dainty and more Appealing than
our former profusion. The question is
merely one Of change II we breakfast
upon croquettes today, the chief piece de
resistance tomorrow at the morning meal
should be as far ms possible removed from
meat balls.
Next 10 daintiness in serving, mystery
| Il perhaps the most important factor In
forcing an appetite. The hungry man
who comes from business with his stom-
ach mortgaged 10 fricasseed chicken on
Monday night roast beef ON Tuesday
night and chops ON Wednesday night eat-
his dinner merely because he IL IA hungry
man, but he Of the tickle appetite IL lured
ever hopefully 10 the dining room Of tn,
wise housewife who never publishes hei
bill Of fare In advance. The not knowing
what is coming and an element Of surprise
in what does come II the food il IN itsel
desirable, will do more thAn anything els'
can toward putting new life into n listles,
palate.
Don't serve too many sorts Of things al
one time, az IA superabundance Away
tends to nausea and "A reputation of III,
whole, but avoid ~ well that popular pit
fall, meagerness. And strive 10 find new
ways-gOod new ways-especinlly Of cook
ing meat and Of making desserts. MANY
otherwise well regulated households vi
brato between eight or ten meat recipe
and perhaps dozen Of desserts, wherea
both these numbers could easily he multi
piled by 100 tOothsome changes. If house
keepers were ms careful 10 exchange tn
specialties Of their several cooks ms the!
are TO pass about their misdemennOrs
there would not be 80 many hungry mel
stalking our streets-starved not iron
want but from mOnOtony
A laudablo zeal ia the gastronomic ar
should not, however, lead tho ineXperi
enced housekcepcr too far afeld. A youn
wife once tried newspaper recipe tina
& told her to uso cupful Of baking powdC
and teaspoonful Of sugar instead Of the r,
verse She nbeyed faithfully, but some wa
her husband didn't like the cake. II on
, IL not natural cook enough to tell from III
relative proportions given something nbou
how "A mixture will turn ont, IT is best
resort only 10 such dishes IA have bee
stamped with reliable approval. But wit
the vast number Of carefully compile
cook books, bursting with accurate info
nation, that now flood the market Il
, families that allow themselves 10 dir
daily upon monotony are willfully slavin
their appetites .-lIousekeeper.