The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-30
=, President Mckinley Likes His Well
Cooked.
Princetons Colors Will
Adorn Cleveland's.
How jos jefferson Entertains at
Thanksgiv ne.

Thee are as many ways Of cooking
turkey as there are great men to eat IL
and OF der IL prepared In tasir own way.
Never u great parsonage but knew now
to cock his turkey, and few in oil the line
Ct historical faces that have not given
explicit directions for the roasting, the
basting, the stufling and the serving.
Separate a great man from his turkey
dinner aud you rob national holiday Of
q national spectacle. Approach n greet
man upon the subj GOT CT his turkey ard
he will forget ito frown his greatness
forth" and will grow affable upon this
sui ct CT mutual interest.
President Mckinley was resting one
afternoon between stump sresches In the
western part tf his own State when
feiend approached him thus upon the
subject Of turkey: "wnore are you going
IN eat your Thanksgiving turkey, Mr..
President, and how do you ike itS'
81 can't answer the fJrmer to a
surety" replied Mr.. Mckinley promptly,
"brt can almost sinS the answer TO the
sscond question, 81 well d. know 1t.
have given directions for my Tnanksgiv-
ing turkey many years. and l never vary
thsm one iota.
81 like my turkey roasted, but no,
stuffed. 1 like u underground animal.
with lots If fat on him and butter spread
all ever him. i want him roasted brown.
I think 1t Is twenty minutes to q pound
Ct turkey. net tolntipg the first few min
utss while he 5 getting used to the oven.
But 1 don't want anything inside of
MIN. A spite s.uilipg ruins the flavor
Of the meat and eivss indigestion.
"How do like him ie:yel? OBJ, l like
him with string If saussges over HE
breast as q flivoring. And with lemon
for q head. That is sood way to serve
a turkey. lol can boil the lemon awhile
and make II stft, to be sliced and eaten
like pickle If you want to. My turkey
is an Ohio bird. / f-Tgot to mention
That Have you ever eaten an Ohio tur-
keyP Nol Then you don't know what 1t
Is to give thanks far your Thanksgiving
dinner. DO yon want the rest Of the
msnup Nor 1 am sorry, beciuse l
know a coed dinner from, beginning to
en- d."
EI-President Berj amin Harrison likes
an Indiana turkey stuffed with Indiana
CT estnuts. When he was at the White
II cure his Thanksgiving turkey travelled
all the way to Washington to him with
the ohestDuts In 1t placed there by an
Indianapolis cook.
The writBr remember once having q
coLvsrraticn with Mir. Harrison on
Tbanksgiving when the sui jict Of how q
turkey should BIS cooked came up.
There's queer thing about the cook
ing Of turkey" said he, land in my
estimation there's only one person who
has solved the riddle, or one class of
persons. A formers daughter can cook
a turkey but 10 cns els, In the world. i
want my turk, as the boys say, cooked
by farmers daughter. The chestnut,
inside must be big ones, domestic chest
nuts, bat tie Dumping big kind that
grow in Indiana and nowhere else"
Ex-prssident Cleveland only smiled and
shook his head whsn asked By a rep o. tier
liked his Thanksgiving turkey cooked.
That shake might mean that he did not
know or 1t might mean that be did not
want to tell. But there 10 yearly guest
az Mrs. Cleveland,s Thanksgiving table
who volunteers the information.
Mr.. cleveland likea his turkey all
dressed up. Inside is the regular biscuit
or cracker stutiing Of the country, black
with pepper and thick with salt and
thyme and sweet marjoram. But the
outside CT the beast Is what claims the
attention If the ex-Presidant. He likes
1t rugged up and In different style every
year.
Ihis year Mrs. Cleveland will place
ribbons around the turkey OF a brilliant
orange an black to set of Its crisp brown
s,dss and make 1t thoroughly Princeton
ian. Toe ribbons are Enotted ut the sides
Of tae platter and laid across with skew
ers to hold them In plsc.. The RIBBON
decoration Ia a very pretty one and easily
managed. Last year Mrs Cleveltnd
banded the turkey with strings OF smilax,
DIR. Tai mage has the "bigsest turkey
mouth" according to bis own say. OF any
one In TIE country. The good doctor
when, recently, reporter waited upon
him to know his turkey preferences, said:
al ain cosmopolitan in my likes. because
have travelled SO much. Therefore
pardon me II | gay ! want my turkey
stuffed with little English oysters and
trimmed with French fried potatoes
Zach year there is little wicket fence In
brown potato strips placed around the
turkey. and when he Is brought In he
locks like picture in ohild's story
book. And can't the poor turkey get
out of that fenoer askel my little grand
daughter once,
"Ihs turkey should be very small and
very yeunI. like him cooksd quickly
and served red.hot. The potatoes make
n very nice addition to the Than ksgivipg
dinner that Is usually'replete with mashed
tkings-mashsd potatoes, mashed turnipS
and mashed something else. The little
crisp rotate strips are liked by all. j
havS satsn roast turkey with small
bread fingers arranged around him like
a wicker fence. This Is q very good way
with Vienna sticks"
Jo, Jeffsrsson has tha tisgest turkey
fsast of all Tiny Tins "dod bless us.
every one," could be brought in appro-
priately at any portion Of the feast. like
the benediction that 1t was. MIR.
Jefferson hlls his house with bosom
trends, and has his dinner served at the
good old-fashioned hours Of to 2. Be-
tween the courses there are spesoh-mak
ing and singing. Mr.. jefferson always
has TO reoits something, and the dinner Is
an entertainments for which he could
easily get s25 per plate, without wine.