Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-29
He Gives the Journal Several
Of His Receipts.
The Article He Writes is Filled With
humor and Originality.
Every Housewife Should Try Z Receipt TO Fully
Appreciate Il.

previous to their departure for Chick
amauga and also after their return.
Otherwise some other paper than the
Kennebec Journal might have been
giving the women of this city the ben
eft of some receipts and the Augusta
ladies might never have seen them.
1t came about this way: The Jour-
nails representative was constantly at
the camp as a matter of duty. AS a
matter of pleasure he used to call
around at the tent Of one of the boys
but little ratified headed. He was Of
good family and had a good educa-
ton but his mind was bent armyward
and his parents let him go.
After going to Chickamauga he
kept the Journal man in touch with
what was going on by his letters, and
toward supplying the Journal with
ideas of camp life by telling his ex-
periences to the reporter.
He had not enough of army life and
later went away and joined regiment
of regulars that was detailed for SER
vice in Porto Rico. 1t was several
but later he sent along the fol-
lowing little article on cooking. call
IN
Book" and signing his name as the head
cook of the regiment. Now whether
the jolly fellow is really cook or not
the Journal cannot state for he has the
ten without the real experience, but
there is nothing improbable in what
he says as he is so versatile that
doubtless cooking would come in his
line as we'll as anything. BY his men
ton of Miss Mary it is inferred that
he must have been stationed near some
civilized community and in that case it
is an assured fact that he knows the
good looking young ladies.
or course we had all had the arti-
cles of war read to us several times.
and remember distinctly that passage
about amy soldier who hires another
to perform his duty shall suffer such
penalties as a court martial shall di-
rect" but when Percy Elliott offered
t,lr +; ~
weekly cook detail. | must have for
gotten the admonition or else Percy's
offer was before the time of the read
ing. At any rate. accepted the S. and
the job.
did not know any more about cook
ing that did Percy. He had assiste l
certain Miss Pierce. so he said at i
Chatting Dish party. That is. he prob
ably held the little cook book that goes
with the chatting dish. while she read
of the recipe. and, for all l know, he
might have held her hand while she
held the book: at any rate, he, in con-
fidence. assured me that the experience
he acquired would be of no practical
benefit to him in cooking for the
mess" as RoquefOrt cheese. Halford
sauce, etc. were not included in the
governments repertoire of rations
Besides, as Percy told me, his father
who was president of the Citizens
Trust Company was going to get him
commission. and he must devote his
time to loading up for the new duties
he was soon to assume. Before going
farther l might add that Percy show
ed good deal of zeal as to the load
ing" but I don't recall as to the COM
mission. Probably his father did not
work at his part with the same zeal
as did PercyD
succeeded Algy Lucas on the cook
detail; fortunately for the CONNIE
rades.' Algy's turn came just after
pay day, and. as most of the boys We're
eating down at the suffers. his short
comings were not so noticeable. Algy
must have had an awful time of it, for
when he turned over the keys to the
mess chest, he handed me a pamphlet
got out by the Raiser Baking Pow
der Company" containing some recipes
as well as advertisements of the
merits of Raiser Baking Powders. -
He also gave me "Whitehall's Manual
for Hotel Cooks" and one volume en-.
titled Cooking for Profit, or Eight
Weeks at a Summer Resort" With
many a sigh Algy confessed that the
books furnished no solutions to the
problem. The baking powder people
only gave receipts for such articles as
contained their marvellous product. Ir
the hotel manuel. Algy could not dis.
tinguish between an "entree" and q
''bouillon," while the man who cooked
for profit" confined himself to hash
bread, buildings and such things.
confess that I took the post with
considerable misgivings: but it wa.
that or drill, and my selection wa.
quickly made. From the label OF