The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

your side lies a menu card, which you
take home with you as a treasure. 1t
is a fac smile receipt for cooking broil-
ed Holsters. 1t is in the handwriting
Of William E. Gladstone, and is exc
cuted upon note paper precisely like
his, in black ink, and with those ir-
regular margins for which he is noted.
Everything about the receipt looks as
if it were just from the pen Of the
Grand Old Man.
Another day you are invited to q
Mckinley breakfast" Here you find
the environment quite different. The
breakfast Is served at the fashionable
second breakfast hour, noon, and the
hostess meets you in her newest break
fast gown. You are in your blouse and
sailor hat. You are greeted upon a
piazza, and Immediately you adjourn
to the lawn. where you seat yourself
to shining coffee urn and a cloth that
is richly embroidered with designs in
snow white. There is peculiar appe-
tizing Snowness to the table; nothing
is In colors.
While the hostess is pouring out the
coffee you partake of fruit, but there
is an air of expectancy. Then the main
dish of the feast begins to arrive, for 1t
comes on in installments. The hot
breads are brought in. There are rolls,
the secret of which was learned in Bos-
ton. There are corn breads, such as
you get in Virginia: and there are
Maryland mullins. with nothing in the
middle, and fiaky outside. And. may
be, you will get some of those graham
gems of Missouri that have nothing in
them except graham flour, salt and ice
water. yet melt like butter in your
mouth.
These hot breads are made after the
receipts of the ladies in the cabinet
At a mckinley breakfast" they are
all brought out, and the presidents ia
vorite stands In the center. This Is the
square pan Of corn bread, made as they
cannot make it everywhere. The SOU
Venirs are fac SMILES of the handwrit-
ing of the Wilson, Gage, Alger, Sher-
man and Mckinley families. A De
pew tea" is oftenest given because it
Is so easy to prepare. 1t consists Of
fruit Of every kind: stony. seedy, green
and red, brown and purple, every kind
of summer fruit Tea is served with
the fruit, and all kinds of cake And
the souvenir card reads:
"My Dear Madam-Since you ask me for
my favorite dish / must give it, although
1t has always been kept as confidential one
with myself. l have never told it before
like plum as purple as the Light in a.
girls eyes under the moon 1 like a pear an
golden as the when Ii shines upon a
midsummer day. Give me an apple as red
as the cneek5 OF child and cherry as
ripe as the lips of-well OF the prettiest
girl you know. These, with oranges. april
cots and the other fruits of the season, are
my fayorite dishes.
-"Chauncey NJ. Depew"
A Tesla tea Is the most remarka bic
feast of all. 1t is held under the trees
at dusk, and the table is lighted from
small incandescents hung in the trees.
Upon the table are wonderful dishes Of
which you do not know the name. The
souvenir card reads:
81 never know what am eating-Tesla. -
This was once received by a lady who
wrote to the artificial daylight" wiz
ard to know upon what food he
and to get his favorite receipt There
are fish dishes borrowed from Norway.
with a queer sour sauce poured over
the fish, which Is boiled, freed from
bones and minced. There Is hot dish
Of chopped peppers from Mexico, with
lightning sauce. There is a game
keepers dish from England, which
you must guess the name of. 1t Is a
bird Drowned all over and covered with
small chopped greens. You guess the
names of the dishes as you partake
and if you want to know how to make
them a servant hands you written
receipt.
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