The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19
A DISTINGUISHED CHIEF HAS Sc
LECTED TWO SUITABLE TO
THE MAJORITY.
THE TWO MAY BE COMBINED.
SAMPLE OF FIRST-CLAsS DINNER
IN THE OLD COLONIAL
DAYS.
A PAIR OF FINE HOLIDAY BILLS.
Over the Problem of What to
Get for Christmas Dinner.

Christmas and poor fare are an anon
alous conjunction of words. 1t sounds
better, and certainly is better, to cou-
pie the name of the festive season with
such expressions as good cheer, jovial-
ity and abundance of the blessings of
life. This being so, it is we'll to be-
gin to write about Christmas dinners
with the assumption that the possess
sion of the dinner is a foregone cOnclu-
sion. 1t is a melancholy thing to re-
feet that some of the people in this
favored land are looking with hopeless
eyes for the turkey that is not for
them. To give to these, who, let us
hope, are few, an elaborate menu for
a Christmas dinner is suggestive of
the man who sold a quick-kill flea
powder, with full directions inside ev-
cry box, which when opened contained
these instructions: First of sill you
must catch your flea, tickle him under
the fifth rib, and he will laugh. Put
the powder in his eyes, nose and mouth,
and he dies directly
1t is taken for granted that eV-
cry one who reads this has caught his
turkey This is to be q Happy Home
dinner story. 1t has nothing to do
with a boarding house, which, as every
body who has had a large and many
sided experience with that great Amer
lean institution will admit, is the drear-
lest of all dreary places during the
holiday time. If an inmate of one of
these establishments has read thus far,
he is assured that the rest will have
no earthly interest for him, and ne is
recommended to turn to the advertis-
ing pages of those journals that are
engaged in the philanthrOpic business
of bringing together forlorn and $50
lated couples, enabling them to bridge
with the little hoop of gold the great
gulf that separates miscalled single
hlessedness from the happiness OF mar
ried life.
In order to tickle the palate and slim
ulate the jaded appetite of those to
whom the menus given further on are
a common everyday story, we have
selected from among q number of old
fashioned dinner lists that were con-
sidered by our graEdmothers to be the
essence of epicurean luxury the fol-
lowing, which is a fair sample of a
frst-class dinner of the old colonial
days:
Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing.
Cranberry Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes. Baked Corn.
Stewed Onions.
Chicken Pie.
Olives Picked Peaches.
Pumpkin Pie. Mince Pie. Apple Pie.
Fruit OneeSe Coffee
Having thoroughly digested, so to
speak, this old-time menu, the reader
and his wife are advised to study care
fully the one that comes next in or
der, which represents a moderately
priced and wholesome spread that has
been selected by a prominent French
chef from among a number submitted
by many of the leading cooks. 1t has
been chosen with especial regard for
the means of the one who gives the
dinner, and combines plain, wholesome
fare with table delieacies in manner
that should cause every woman who
adopts it as her Christmas menu to
give a thoroughly satisfactory enter
tainment:
Raw Oysters.
Bouillon.
Boiled Salmon. Hollandaise Sauce
Pickles. Boiled Potato Balls
Sailed Almonds.
Roast Turkey. Cranberry Sauce.
Celery.
Mashed Potatoes Scalloped Asparagus.
Chicken Pie
Kirsch Punch.
Roast Duck. Currant Jelly.
Sweet Potato Croquettes
Lettuce Salad Sweetbreads.
Plum Pudding. Brandy Sauce.
Mince Pie. Apple Pie. Cheese
Ice Cream. Cake.