Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

There are as many ways Of cooking tur-
key as there are great men to eat it and
order it prepared in their own way.
Never great parsonage but knew how
to cook his turkey, and few in all the line
of historical faces that have not given ex-
plicit directions for the roasting, the bast-
ing, the stuffing and the serving. Sepa-
rate a great man from his turkey dinner
and you rob a national holiday of a ma
tional spectacle. Approach great man
upon the subject of his turkey and he will
forget ito frown his greatness forth and
will grow affable upon this subject of
mutual interest.
President Mckinley was resting one af-
ternoon between stump speeches in the
western part Of his own State when a
friend approached him thus upon the sub
ject of turkey: "Where are you going to
eat your Thanksgiving turkey, Mr.. Presi-
dent, and how do you like it?''
81 can't answer the former to a surety"
replied Nr. Mckinley promptly, but I
can alsfost sing the answer to the second
question, so well do l know it. l have
given directions for my Thanksgiving tur-
key many years, and never vary them
one iota.
81 like my turkey roasted, but not stuff
cd. l like a twelve pound animal, with
lots of fat on him and butter spread all
over him. l want him roasted brown. /
think it is twenty minutes to a pound of
turkey, not counting the first few minutes
while he is getting used to the oven. But
l don't want anything inside of him. A
spiced stuffing ruins the flavor of the
meat and gives indigestion.
How do like him served? Oh, like
him with string of sausages over his
Aot, - ApJ
for head. That is a good way to serve a
turkey. You boil the lemon a while
and make it soft, to be sliced and eaten
like pickle if you want to. My turkey
is Ohio bird. I forgot to mention that.
Have you ever eaten an Ohio turkey? No?
Then you don't know what 1t IS to give
thanks for your Thanksg giving dinner. Do
you want the rest of the menu? No? l
am sorry, because I know good dinner
from beginning to end.
The writer remembers once having a
conversation with ey-President HARRISON
on Thanksgiving, when the subject of how
a turkey should be cooked came up.
There's queer thing about the cooking
of a turkey" said he, land in my estima-
ton there's only one person who has solved
the riddle. A farmers daughter can cook
turkey, but no one else in the world.
want my turk, as the boys say, cooked
by farmers daughter. The chestnuts in
side must be big ones, domestic chestnuts,
but the humping big kind that grow in
Indiana and nowhere else"
Mr.. Cleveland likes his turkey all dressed
up. Inside is the regular biscuit or crack
er stuffing of the country, black with pep
per and thick with salt and thyme and
sweet marjoram But the outside Of the
beast iS what nlqiunS he a+t
ex-President. He likes it rugged up and
IN different style every year.
This year Mrs. Cleveland will place rib
bons around the turkey of a brilliant
orange and black to set off its crisp brown
sides and make it thoroughly Princetonian.
The ribbons are knotted at the sides of
the platter and laid across with skewers
TO hold them in place. The ribbon decora-
Ton is very pretty one and easily man
aged. Last year Mrs. Cleveland banded
the turkey with strings of smilax.
DR.. Talmage has the biggest turkey
mouth" according to his own say, of any
one in the country. The good doctor when,
recently, a reported waited upon him to
know his turkey preference. said:
i am cosmopolitan in my likes because
I have travelled so much. Therefore, par
don me if I say L want my turkey stuffed
with little English oysters and trimmed
with French fried potatoes. Each year
there is little wicket fence in the brown
potato strips placed around the turkey,
and when he is brought in he looks like a
picture in child's story book And can't
the poor turkey get out of that fence?
asked my little grand daughter once
THE turkey should be very small and
very young l like him cooked quickly and
EnrVad red hot he
nice addition to a Thanksgiving dinner that
is usually replete with mashed things
mashed potatoes, mashed turnips and
mashed something else. The little crisp
potato strips are liked by alk I have eaten
roast turkey with small bread fingers ar
ranged around him like a swicker fence
This is very good way with Vienna
sticks"
Joe Jefferson has the biggest turkey
feast of all Tiny TINS God bless us,
every one" could be brought in appropri-
ately at any portion of the feast like the
benediction that it was. Mr.. jefferson fills
his house with bosom friends, and has
his dinner served at the good old fashioned
hours of to Z. Between the courses there
are speechmaking and singing. Mr. Jeffer-
son always has to recite something, and
the dinner is an entertainment for which
ne couio easily get 80 per plate without
wine.
Il like my turkey when It comes in the
room to be covered with green watercress.
And like it to be borne in by pretty
girl. These two things are obligatory. In
the hands of pretty girl bronze turkey
with green things trailing from it is a
thing of wondrous beauty The bigger
the turkey the better like 1t. like a
great big bird and very pretty serving
maid. These go together and make the
one and most important part Of the feast"
Bishop Potter's Thanksgiving turkey is
matter Of much interest with the good
mans friends. The Bishop begins by de-
claring that he is not going to have a
Thanksgiving turkey; there are too many
people that need it, But his parishioners
declare that he shall enjoy one, and as
early as Mondaw Of Thanksgiving week
the turkeys begin to come in, one two.
three. four, five, six an hour.
But the Bishop has his dinner Just tho
same On Thanksgiving day he goes out
to dine with some good host, and there is
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