The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
eUCKWHEAT CAKES.
R0nnsy1vanians Think Good Ones Can n,
Found Only In Their State.

I0nnsy1vanlans Think Good Ones Can n
Found Only In Their State.
A letter from the old farm contain.
this information: 'Buckwheat is O
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 OF 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 transplaAted from a side hill
farm to the busy centers of population.
They will wonder how the condition of
the buclwheat crop can interest anyone
in town. But it does, nevertheless. The
transplanted citizen may not eat q gen.
uine buckwheat cake during the next
12 months or expect to inhale the de-
licious aroma from . smoking buck
wheat griddle during the rest of his
natural life, but he gets q great measure
of satisfaction out Of the knowledge
that those at home, who know what
buckwheat cakes are, and can appre-
riate them In their true worth, will have
full and plenty for home consumption,
whether free silver plunges the nation
into reputation or not. There is joy
IN thinking Of the old days at home
when the steaming pile of big brown
buckwhea&s 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 all the hungry boys and girls got
down to business On the four sides Of
the family board.
sshile the advantages enjoyed By city
folk not met with in the daily course OF
life on q 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 bucl1wheat cakes moth
er made in the old home on the farm.
Who ever met with simon pure buck
wheat cake in Q city Of this great landf
What man or woman who first struck w
an acquaintance with big round cake
in a country household would ever rec
ognize what purports 10 be a counter.
part as served in the fashionable eating
places of the cities? No. 1t is impossible
for 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 70 the rules and regulations
of the buclxwheat community. There,
and there only. can it thrive and four
ish. The minute il is taken away from
its legitimate surroundings the charms
OF its presence, the beauties Of its ap-
pearance and the satisfaction produced
by its disappearance leave as IL by
magic. Mother may move from the
farm to town and there attempt 20 ~
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 a. home
ard rurtured with the same care. han
died with the oid-time 6exferity from
crock 70 Criadie ard from griddle 20
table usder the rars of the electrIc
light as when Topped about by the aid
of the ficke-in- fame Of the 'a,'ov
din but the cake looks diHersrt- tazEE.