Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-10
eucKwHEAT CAKES.
Pcnnsylvanians Think Good Ones Can Re
Found Only In Their State.

Pennsylvanians Think Good Ones Can he
Found Only In Their State.
A letter from the old farm contains
| this information: "Buckwheat is q
great crop this season, splendid yield,
large grains, well filed, but the price
will be down to 40 cents a bushel." The
city-bred man or woman cannot appre-
ciate the feeling of satisfaction this
piece of information causes to well up
in the breasts of the buckwheaters, who
have been transplanted from side hill
farm to the busy centers of population.
They will wonder how the condition of
the buclkwheat crop can interest anyone
in town. But it does, nevertheless. The
transplanted citizen may not eat gen.
uine buckwheat cake during the next
~ months or expect to inhale the de-
licious aroma from a smoking buck
wheat griddle during the rest of his
natural life, but he gets great measure
of satisfaction out of the knowledge
that those at home, who know what
buckwheat cakes are, and can appre-
ciate them in their true worth, will have
full and plenty for home consumption,
whether free silver piunges the nation
into reputation or not. There is joy
in thinking of the old days at home
when the steaming pile of big brown
buckwheats stared him in the face from
the kitchen table, and smile involun-
tarily spreads over his features as he
remembers how fast they disappeared
when allathe hungry boys and girls got
down to business on the four sides of
the family board. -.
| While the advantages enjoyed by city
folk not met with in the daily course of
life on side hill farm are almost as
numerous as the sands on the seashore,
there is one advantage that can be
notched up on the hayseed side that all
| the others cannot overbalance when
judged from the standpoint of healthy
youth blessed with country appetites.
And this is the buclwheat cakes moth
err made in the old home on the farm.
Who ever met with q simon pure buck
wheat cake in city of this great land?
| What man or woman who first struck up
an acquaintance with big round cake
| in a country household would ever rec
ognize what purports to be a counter
part as served in the fashionable eating
places of the cities? No, it is impossible
Cor the two to exist in the different
spheres, and as long as time continues
each will be separate and distinct from
the other.
The country buckwheat cake is made
according to the rules and regulations
of the buckwheat community. There,
and there only, can it thrive and -four
fish. The minute it is taken away from
its legitimate surroundings the charms
of its presence, the beauties of its APP
pearance and the satisfaction produced
by its disappearance leave as if by
magic. Mother may move from the
farm to town and there attempt to re-
produce the original. but she invariably
| fails. She cannot explain the reason, for
every ingredient is the same, they are
"set" in the same manner as at home
and nurtured with the same care, han.
died with the old-time deXterity from
crock to griddle and from griddle to
table under the rays of the electric
light as when Topped about by the aid
Of the Pickering fame of the tallow
dip, but the cake looks different, tastes
different and is different. No one has
ever been able to explain why this is
true and perhaps no one ever shall.
The genuine country bucllwheat cake
is manufactured from grain thrashed
with the time-honored fail, "set" in a
wide-mouthed crock at early candle
light about the 1st of October and kept
going until the middle of the following
May, with perhaps once or twice the adj
dition of a little homemade yeast pro-
duced from dried "risin," just to liven
up the batter a little. All these new
tangled, ''quick-rising cakes in five mi
nutes' kind of substitutes are rank
counterfeits. There is only one way to
make the buckwheat cake and only one
atmosphere in which to successfully
produce it, and, as before stated, that
is where they grow as naturally as do
the alders along the rail fence-on the
buckwheat farms of Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh News.