The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-10

steep In cold water. and nearly every
woman in the crowded room was taking
fal notes OF this discourse. as well as of
the cookery HINTS which were interviewer
with IT.
( yes. we have indeed grave responz-
hIiity- There are fathers, brothers. hus-
hands. sons depending upon Us Tor their
disposition They are ali Largely infiu-
eneed by the food they eat IL ne gets
wholesome food. the mans mind and body
are In better condition 10 battle with the
problems OF Efe"
There was much more Of this sound phil
csorhy approaching 10 direct doctrine
that a mans views OF life were coiored by
the food he eats. and that. theoretically.
the politics. the religion, and al thought.
noble or tgnobie. OF whole nation OF peo-
pie were IN the skillet of the COOK, who.
with more surety than the faoiea aicnen-
fists. could turn out gold bugs or siverites
just as she pleased. She closed with the
following recipe for the making or good
cook:
ITO be q success as q cook Is 10 have
rules. and 10 follow tnem explicitly. Do
not think because you have MADE disa
from recipe once or twice. tGat the fnird
time YOU know II well enough TO guess at
II. then wonder why you failed. You must
follow the rules explicitly always
The lecture. on the whole. ootslde OF the
scattered philosophy quoted, was arranged
on plan of the greatest usefulness TO the
greatest number Mrs. I4augnian says
they Will all be the same. dsahng with
such cookery as comes winnih the means
of the humblest. Her lecture yesterday
afternoon was on making white soup
stock. to clear soups; mock osque soup;
lemon sherbet: coffee, both drip, boiled
and egg; boiled coffee. and cold water.
vienna and black coffee. She was only TO
speak for an hour. but she got interested.
and her audience was so Interested. that
she went on for two hours. Most of her
audience had been to cooking lessons be-
FORE as was very evident, for they were
not only armed with pad and pencil. but
with tasting cups and spoons. And to see
the Serious. deeply solemn expression each
one put on when doing the tasting act. 1t
was a study. Smiling faces instantly be-
came as serious as tombstone. Evident
~ the lecturer had deeply impressed them
with her idea of woman's awful RESPONSE
.biities.
While Mrs. Laughlan talked she made the
beef stock, explaining all the little details
and the significance of her doings. She
took seven pounds of meat and bono. cut
the meat into small pieces, putting the
bone in three quarts of cold water TO soak
for half an hour. She put half the meat
into the kettle. adding a heaping table,
spoon OF salt and salt spoon OF thyme.
the marrow from the bone. added onions
cut fine. put 1t all into the frying pan and
fried IL brown: then added the other half
of the raw meat and Drowned it This
was. when Drowned, emptied into the ket-
tie and allowed to simmer. Then Mrs.
Laughter strained 1t and said: There is
your stock, which you should always
have on hand"
In making the various kinds OF coffee.
Mrs. Laughlan insisted on having the cof-
fee finely ground. She first made the
French drip coffee. She put in the coffee
pot heaping tablespoon of coffee. poured
on a cup of boiling water. and placed 1t
on the stove. where it would keep hot but
not boil. For making coffee with cold
water she took a level tablespoon OF
powdered coffee. put in cup OF cold
water. allowed 1t to boil one minute, and
then left 1t for ten minutes where 1t
would keep hot. to settle.
The sherbet was made In this way:
Take a tablespoon of gelatine and pour
on a quarter cup of cold water: waeN the
gelatine Is soft pour on a quarter cup OF
boiling water. Strain through sieve,
add three cups of cold water. one pint Of
sugar. the juice of six lemons, and freeze,
using three cups of ice to one of salt.
: As the lecturer concluded, the ladies
crowded around her with questions and
suggestions. A great many requested
lessons on the making of timbales. and
these she promised to give. She also. on
request. promised to show the various
ways of cooking oysters. crabs and
shrimps.
In the evening Mrs. Laughlan delivered
a short lecture at the Seattle gas booth.
and practically Illustrated IL by roasting
a joint of beef with Yorkshire pudding.