The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-30

Never a great parsonage OuL anew
how to cook his turkey, and few IN all
the line of historical faces that nave
not given explicit directions Tor the
roasting the basting, the stufhng ana
the serving. Separate a great man
from his turkey dinner and you rob
national holiday of national specIa-
Gle. 80
President Mckinley was resting one
afternoon between stump Speeches IL
the western part of his own state W 1EI ~
a friend approached him thus upon tle
subject OF turkey: w here are you y,S -
fne to eat YOUR Thanksgiving turkey,
8Ir. President, and how do you uhe II
at can't answer the former TO d
surety replied Mr. Mckinney pToIIIPC
" but can almost sing the 5-il5 Il
10 the second question, so Wen "
know it. I have given directions ~
~ Thanksgiving turkey many years.
and I never vary them one lota-
i like my turkey roasted, DuC NO
stuffed. I like twelve-poundi aIlIIlal, aII.-
with lots of fat on MN anu DuCleA
sDread all over him / want MN roast
ed brown I think it is twenty minutes
to a pound of turkey, not counting @ Ine
first few minutes while he IS geluhs
used to the oven. But doh w.
anythin inside of him A Splceo StuA SUI
fng ruins the flavor OF the meat sl10
gives indigestion.
do 1 like him served? oh,
like him with a string of sausages over
his breast as a havOring. And with
lemon for a head. That is a good way
to serve a turkey. You can Doll tne
lemon awhile and make it soft, 70 De
sliced and eaten like pickle II you
want to. Ny turkey is an Ohio bird
forgot to mention that Have you
ever eaten an Ohio turkey2 NOE Ihen
YOU don't k-oW what 1t IS 10 give
thanks for your Thanksgiving dinner
Do YOU want the rest of the menu?
No2 I am sorry, because 1 know a
good dinner from beginning to end.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison
likes an Indiana Turkey stuffed with
Indiana chestnuts. When he was at
the White House his Thanksgiving tur-
key travelled all the way to Washing
ton to him with the chestnuts in it
placed there by an Indianapolis cook
The writer remembers once having a
converse tiOn with Mr.. Harrison on
THANKSGIVING, when the subject of how
a turkey should be cooled came up
There's a queer thins5 about the
cooking of a turkey" said he, and in
my estimation there's only one person
Who has solved the rldCle- or one
class of persons. A farmers daughter
can COOK turkey, but no one else in
the world I want my turk, as the
boys say, cooked by q farmers daugh-
ter. The chestnuts insl1e must be big
Caes, domestic chestnuts, but the
Jumping big kind that grow in Indi-
ana and nowhere else
Ex-President Cleveland only smiled
and shook his head when asked by a
reporter of this newspaper a few days
ago how he liked his Thanksgiving tur-
key cooked. That shake might mean
that he did not know CT il might mean
that he dit not want to tell But there
IS a yearly guest at Mrs. Clevel~ld' S
Thanksgiving table who volunteers the
information.
Mr.. Cleveland likes his turkey all
dressed up. Inside is the regular bis
cult or cracker stufffng of the country,
black with pepper and thick with salt
and thyme. and sweet marjOram- But
the outside of the beast is what claims
the attention of the ex-President- He
likes it rigged up and in a different
This year MIS-. Cleveland will place
ribbons around the turkey of a brilliant
orange and black to set off it's crisp
brown sides ana make it thoroughly
PrincetOnian- The ribbons are knOtted
at the sides of tie platter and laid
across with skeWtsrs to hold them ir
place. The rib bon decoration is a very
pretty one and ca silly managed. Last
year Mrs Cleveland banded the turkey
with strings of sn lilax.
Dr. TaImage n as the biggest tur-
key mou tn acCO riding to his own say
of any one in tn country. The good
doctor when, receI ltly, reporter waited
upon him to knc W his turkey prefer
enceS, said:
Il am cCsmopo Titan fl my likes be-
cause have trav elled so much. There
fore pardon me if 1 say I want my tur-
key stuffed with little English oysters
and trimmed wi tn French fried pota-
toes Each year there is a little wicket
fence in the brow n potato strips placed
-SrOund the turn ey, and when he is
Child's story bOUR And can't the pool
turkey get out Of that fence?' asked
my little grandd: lughter Cnce.
The turkey s hOuld be very small
and very youn :. I like him cooked
quickly and sery ed red-hot. The pOta-
toes make a yer Y nice addition to the
Thanksgiving dir .1er that is usually re
plete with mash ed things-mashed DO
tatOes. mashed turnips and mashed
something else The little crisp potato
strips are liked by all. I have eater
roast turkey with small bread fingers
arranged around him like a wicker
fence This is q. very good way will
Vienna sticks.'
Joe Jefferson has the biggest turIe,
feast of all. Tiny Tins "God bless us
every one" could be brought in ap
like the bened dction that it was Mr.
Jefferson fills his house with bosom
friends, and llas his dinner served a
the good old fashioned hours of 4 to Z
Between the courses there are speech
making and Hnging. Mr.. Jefferson al
ways has to recite something, and tn
dinner is an entertainment for Whicl
he could cas- t1y get $25 per plate, with
out wine.
''I like m-F turkey when It comes Il
the room to be covered with green wa
tercresS- a nd I like l. to be borne Il
by a pretty girl. These two things ar
obligatory In the hands of a prett,
girl a bronze turkey with green thing
Rrailing fl ON it is a thing of wondrou
beauty. The bigger the turkey the bet
ter. Ill le a great big bird and a yer
pretty serving maid. These go togethe
and maize the one and most importan
part of the feast"
Admiral DeWey's turkey feast thi
year will be taken with draughtS froT