Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-24
DOMESTIC SCIENCE IN THE HOUSEHOLD.

Who murmers Mt his lot today?
VINO scorns his native fruit and
Or signs for dainties far away.
Besides the bounteous board of
home.
Whittier.
MENU. THANKSGIVING. NOV. 25,
BREAKFAST.
Grapes
Farina and Cream.
Cornbeef Hash. Poached Eggs
Johnny-cake.
Coffee.
DINNER.
Oyster Cocktails.
Spanish Olives. Sailed Almonds.
Cream of Barley Soup. Celery.
Lobster q la Newberg
Potato Balls. with Cream Sauce.
Roast Turkey, Oyster Stufilng.
Cranberry Jelly.
Drowned Sweet Potatoes.
Mashed White Potatoes
Onions, with White Sauce
Cabbage Salad.
Roquefort Cheese Waters.
Mince Pie. Pumpkin Pie
Frozen Plum Pudding.
Cider.
Apples, Home made Candies
Black Coffee.
LATE TEA
Turkey Sandwiches.
Cranberry Sauce.
cider, Doughnuts.
Tea.
Just 216 years ago was II that in the
gray dawn of Thursday morning Oct.
"a, the great guns browning the hill
top overlooking Massachusetts Bay
Numbered forth the salutes that pro-
claimed day of thanksgiving and
feastlng. This in gratitude for the
bounteous harvest just finished. AL
though the flying centuries have
brought many changes since then, and
the little colony has grown into great
nation. spreading from shore to shore
of vast continent, and although the
descendants of the Puritans have cut
loose from most of the customs and
observations of their ancestors, they
have stll the grace to retain that
grand old Puritan Observation-Disclosures
giving. While the celebration of the
day varies somewhat with locality,
this. however, holds true--that in al
most every American family this. more
and near friends. Not alone is it now
that
"The gray-haired New Englander sees
round his board
The old broken links of affection re-
stored"
but the same story is repeated in every
state from Maine to California and
and from the Southern shores to
Alaska. And everywhere is his the
house mothers opportunity to show
her skill In setting forth an oblation
worthy the occasion. If larder, store
house and cellar be full. giving her an
abundance from which to draw, so
much the better; but even n slender
purse and frugal stores, as limited as
those from which our Puritan mothers
evolved the first Thanksgiving feast.
offer fascinating study for the house
wife who believes in the triumph of
mind over matter. II oysters are out
of the question, boil cod with egg
sauce-that good oldfashioned New
England dish-nakes an eXcelleht
substitute. If even the honored bro
the turl<ey-fiies too high Tor the
housewife OF limited resources, mock
duck, can essay it's place at
quarter of the cost. while sucsotash'
baked apple sauce, pumpkin pie, pop
corn. butternuts. apples--all histori-
cally in keeping with the day--aHord
a menu not to be despised. At this
season there is not so much TO tax
the energies of the housewife. There
is no burden of present giving; her
house is in "apple-pie" order from the
fall cleaning, the autumnal sewing is
out OF the way, and the mousse
wife at liberty to devote herself ior a
few days to the delights Of hospitality,
rendered or accepted. All through the
fall the fore handed American thate-
laine has been added to her larder or
her store of decorations In anticipation
of the time so dear to the hearts OF
our forefathers. She thought of TINS
day when the jars of orispy, home
made pickles We're covered ana set
away. and the molds of translucent
Jelly were pasted over with the SUM
mer's sunshine in their fragrant
depths. For this, the peaches were
spiced, the nuts gathered, the reddest
apples and mellowest pears set aside.
During her summer rambles IN the
Il was the thought of Thanks
giving that filled her arms with sllvery
stalks of oats and bright green punches
of barley. For this she pressed
autumn leaves and ferns, and plueked
the clambering bittersweet and Grim
son barberry, until today, under their
power, the chill Novem-
her atmosphere takes on the aspect of
glorious summer.
In decorating the dining room,
pretty idea is to bank the mantel with
fruits. small vegetables and leaves.
interspersed with ears OF yellow corn
and punches of grain or grasses;
while the green ropes of clubb-moss or
the long, gray festoons of Southern
moss make graceful and eftectiVe
draneries for pictures and chandeliers.
In the center of the table there may
be a tall vase of the lovely fringed
chrysanthemums. or. II fruit decora-
tions he preferred, :, half pumpkin, |
out and filled with purple and |
white grapes. crimsoned- checked APP
pies, rudy pears ana golden oranges.
Even a cabbage may be metamor-
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