The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-11
WAsHINGToN'S WEDDING DAY.
What the Bride and Bridegroom Wore
The Cake.


The Cake.
On January 6. in the year Of grace
1859, George Washington and Martha
cambridge Gusts were solemnly united in
the bonds of matrimony. A brilliant
company of wedding guests. assembled at
the little. parish church near the white
house 1.-THE home of Widow Custis], on
the Pamunkey river, in Virginia. The
say governor of Virginia, Francis Eau
guicr. was gorgeous in scarlet and gold.
COL Washington, as he was called (al-
though he resigned his commission after
Fort Duuuesnc had falleM, as became a
bridegroom, was all glorious in 4 costume
of blue and silver with scarlet trimmings,
and with gold buckles on his knees and
on his shoes.
The bride wore silk and satin. brocade
and laces. She wore pearl earrings and
pearls around her throat. After the win
ter wedding the bride was driven home
in state in a coach and six. while her
newly made husband. Col. George, rode
alongside of the bridal coach, mounted
on 4 splendid horse" and followed by all
the gentlemen CT the party.
There Was plenty of good eating and
good drinking on this occasion, in accord
ance with the dictates of old-time Virginia
hospitality. We do not know what We're
tAC " ilC>> uouutlcSS AAuucuit, ldl( uOW
i'll pipes and some favorite punch; but
we know that there was bride cake. as an
old family recipe book catered but still
legible in spite of century old ink, con-
tains the rules for making Lady Washing
ton wedding cake:
1.-TWO pounds of raisins, two pounds of
currants, one pound of citron, one pound
OF chopped almonds. one pound of sugar,
one pound of but ter. one pound Of -four,
one dozen eggs. Il tablespoonful Of mace,
a tablespoonful of cinnamon, two nut
megs and one teacupful of wine and
brandy mixed \this may be omitted).
The raisins and citron are both cut up
and rolled in flour. After the eggs are
beaten very light stir the fruit into them.
The butter and sugar are creamed tOgeth-
err. The flour is stirred in next to the
last thing. which ingredient is the wine
or brandy
The old-fashioned recipe was intended
for baking before an open fire, and con-
tained, directions for putting embers I'M
three hours then baking for three
hours, and drawing the oven away from
the fire. and letting the cake soak" at
least two hours. If it was very large, it
was to be left in the chimney corner all
night A modern recipe demands that
when the cake is we'll risen and slightly
Drowned on top that it shall be covered
- Ill bullSISu paper Ddhcu lIUul luIeC
to five hours. A very hot fire is not de-
sirable for baking the bride cake. 1t may
be added that the raisins should be
stoned before they are weighed, other
wise the pound of raisins" will come
short of the requirements for Lady Wash
ington's wedding cake.
Immigrants of Teutonlc Stock.
The doctor surprised me by stating that
his Russians,' as he termed those set
tied in the Dakotas, were of Teutonic
stock. and not Slavs at all, save as they
had adopted SlavOnic customs and modes
of life during Il residence of several gener-
atoms in Russia. According to him. Pc
ter the Great. by liberal promises, induced
several colonies Of German farmers to set
tie in his domirions, where they were to
teach the people their methods of agricul-
ture.
AT length these Semi-dependent and lib
erty-loving people became so numerous,
and on account of the extraordinary privi-
legcS granted them excited so much dis
content in the down-trodden communities
in which they dwelt, that the Russian au-
thorities became alarmed, and decided up
on their repression. So, by imperial
ukase. Gar alexander III. arbitrarily re-
voked all concessions made to them by his
famous ancestor. Thus by a stroke of the
pen the Gerraano-Russians were reduced
to the servile condition of their Slavonic
neighbors, and saw naught before them
save a future Of hopeless; misery. Rather
than accept this. vast numbers of them
attempted to leave the country. Many
were intercepted and forced to return.
Some were impriSOn ed. transported to ST.
IBERIA. condemned to death, or otherwise
punished for striving to gain other liberty
than that allowed by the Gar; but thou
sands made good their escape. OF these
1cl IN,
others went to the Argentine, and so great
Il number came to this country that 10,
600 of them are estimated to be settled in
the Dakotas.-Kirk Munroe in Harper
Magazine for February.
A Superfluous Veteran.
In one of the low back rooms on the
third floor of business house down in
the town lived Il little old gentleman, all
alone. AT one time i'll his life he had
been Il prosperous merchant and much re-
spected Citizen but that was good many
years ago, and now he was sunk out of
memory and prosperity. and lived his lone
ly life of dull routine, alternating be-
tween the big wholesale store where he
was one of hundred or SO employees, and
his little room. A great many people
bowed to him in casual fashion as they
passed him on the street, but it was only
semi-occa sionally that anybody had time
or inclination to stop tor Il word with
him: though no doubt ten out of twenty
of his old acquaintance would have TAX
| en- the time if they had known how it
would brighten the long dull day for him
He was always neat and trim-looking in
his shiny long-tailed black coat and
snowy collar; his boots always shone, for
he saw to it himself. and his clear-cut
pale old face had certain dignity and
consciousness of having been a success.
full man and of still being gentleman,
though he was now only lonely old
clerk in a Gathering and progressive bust
ness house that belonged to somebody else.
His dim blue eyes looked out on the
world with a sad, rather bewildered
look, and the rims were suspiciously red
the tip Of his long, a1istocratic nose was
purplish. too, and his thin lips hung q
little loose at times. but nobody ever saw
him when he was not grave. dignifed and
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