The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-29

According to history, President Wash
ington issued proclamation on October
8, 17S9 and he e-appointed. as Thanksgiving
Day, November 26 Of that year.
The first Thanksgiving proclamation
from a Governor or State other than
New England one, came in 1S17. The day,
however was not a fixed holiday,
! President Lincoln is credited with sug
gesting that the 9Th day of August be set
apart to be observed as day of Nation
al thanksgiving. praise and prayer to AL
mighty God" The following year the
President issued another proclamation.
Thus they came to be regarded as annual
festivals. They have been fixtures since
that date.
At any rate. we owe the Puritans a
large debt of gratitude for the reunion of
the family and the consequent good
things that the gourmet enjoys and the
good housekeeper should know how to
prepare. History tells us that the Puri-
tans banished the Englishman's glory,
roast beef" from the banquet and sub
stituted turkey.
But If you care for bit of old English
icolor, by all means get a sucking pig as
the piece de resistance The following is
an Old World tried recipe for roasting
lone:
Make dressing: stuff the pig into its
natural shape; sew 1t up; bend the fore
feet backward, skewering them into po-
siton. Dry we'll and dredge 1t with flour.
Put it to roast in little hot water slight
ly salted. Basic with butter and water
three times, the pig slowly warns,
and afterward with the dripping. When
1t begins to smoke rub it once in five
minutes with a cloth dipped in melted
butter This keeps the skin tender and
soft A pig a month old-the best age
will take nearly two hours of roasting
with a brisk. steady fire.
When the pig is cooked to rich brown
take him up, place him in a bed of parsley
and pale green celery tops. Tie gar
land Of fragrant herbs-or lei of flowers
about its neck; put a roasted apple
stuck with cloves, in its mouth, and yo'
will have no occasion to regret you
trouble. III warrant.
The proper stuffing for roast pig 1
made of a cup and half of grated brea'
crumbs an ounce and a half of suet
big bunch of parsley. minced fine, one an
a half teaspoons of powdered sage, pep
per, salt. and nutmeg: a little thyme, a.
most a glass fun of Madeira or sherry
the juice of a large lemon, three table
spoons of melted butter, cup and a hal
of oyster liquor and three well-beate
eggs.
Thanksgiving Day in New England, e
the writer remembers 1t, Is a thorough
enjoyable day. 1t is not at all infrequeI
to arise in the morning and find heay
fail of snow covering the earth. The hou
is crowded with relatives and friends
merry. festive lot, eager for the activiti
tof the day TO begin. Then comes Il
sleigh-ride-possibly several sleighs-f
those who are going to church. And the
wrapped in furs, the crisp air tingiil
and crimsoning the cheeks, they are
to the prancing of horses and jingling
bells.
And oh, the dining-room, with its bls
ing, cracking logs, its many-paned WI
dows and its ceiling-beamed room in {
English oak And the fun, the Taught
the jokes, as old as the hills and yet e,
new, Then the last delight OF ALT
dance in the evening after the chiidr
have been tucked away for the night,
the final finish with Sir Roger de Cover
in which even the "old folks" join!
After all is said and done we may
be grateful to the Puritans of New II
land for having handed down to US raj,
a different kind of Thanksgiving to 9
indufged in before the Reformation VIM ~,
apparently was all prayer ana no ICE