The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-16
RECIPES WORTH $3.50, 900.


Mrs Dodge Left the Rev. A. NJ. Mcdonald
That Am cunt, and Relatives Are Fight.
| inE the WIli-Preacher's WIFE Used
to Prepare All New England Dishes.
I JACKSONVILLE, Fla. July l5.-If Junius
H. Litsey Is right, the recipes which the
wife Of the Rev. A. M. Mcdonald gave Mrs.
Abbie r. Dodge were worth s25o,ooo. Mrs
Dodge was part owner Of the Windsor Hotel
here Mrs. Mcdonald is a Maine woman
and is familiar with the best traditions Of
New England cooking.
Mrs. Dodge used to desert the table OF
the Windsor Hotel to take dinner with Mrs.
Mcdonald. When she died she left small
legacies to her relatives and the rest Of her
estate, amounting to maybe $3.50, 900, TO the
McDonalds.
The relatives are contrasting the will on
the ground that she was partly insane.
Litsey, who was once chef at the Windsor
but Is now in the army in the Philippines,
sends on his views in the case.
"She was not crazy he writes. "She
was simply slave to her stomach and was
daffy about the New England cooking of
that Mcdonald woman.
Il can prove this by stack of docu-
ments in Mrs Dodge's own handwriting
sent to me while was in the kitchen of the
Windsor Hotel She would go to the
preachers house for dinner and would in
variably return with a cooking recipe
written out in full and followed by a quota
ton about cooking or eating. She would
send these to me and order me to prepare
such food for her. The first recipe was:
Boiled Dinner-Put meat on. after washing
| we'll in enough water to just cover the meat;
as soon as it boils set kettle on the stove
where it will simmer or boil very slowly; boil
until almost tender, put in vegetables in this
| order:
| "Quartered cabbage. medium sized turnips.
halved: whole potatoes Peel potatoes and
| turnips and allow to lie in cold water for half
an hour before using. Skim meat we'll before
adding vegetables. Boil together until thor
oughly done. adding little salt before
taking out Of kettle. where there should be
left only just enough water to prevent burn
and lastly the meat. If there is any juice in
| the kettle pour it over cabbage.
Boil cabbage an hour; turnips and pota-
| upside down. or a few iron tablespoons should
be placed in bottom Of kettle to keep meat
| from burning. /,
"This was followed by a quotation.
written on the foot Of sheet Of the Union
Congregational Church paper, which led me
| to believe she was obtaining the recipes
from Mrs. Mcdonald. Here lis the quo
tation: Bad dinners &c, hand in hand
| with total depravity, while properly fed
person is already half saved
| But next time she visited the MoDonalds
she had evidently enjoyed pork and,
for she came home with this recipe. which
she promptly sent to me, ordering the dish
| for the next days dinner:
| BANGOR PORK AND BEAN s,--Pick Quart
| of Yankee beans carefully. Soak over night:
in the morning wash, and drain in another
eat On sG so H0a Tal x'0 vS s
done skin of bean, will crack il taken out
RsTa s Of Isa AND II The
With two or three tablespoonfuls OF New
pound Of we'll washed salt pork. with rind
scored in slices or squares, and don't fail
water bake six hours IN moderate e
| add ing hot water as needed ::
hour ~ e
to brown the top and crisp the por X; Serve
in the dish In which they are cooked and
roast fresh spare rib TO serve with them.
Knowing this to be the New England
dish for Sunday breakfast. l prepared It
! with all the care commanded, but it did
not give satisfaction. Mrs. Dodge wrote
me note saying should know the luxury
Of the same dish as cooked by Mrs. McDon-
aid:
Il have ten other recipes in Mrs. Dodge's
handwriting-they are: soused ttipe, toad
in-the;hole. baked pig, ,sparerib pot pie.
pigs head cheese, chicken pie with .oys
or vegetable oysters, yankee dried beef
and Aroostook gravy. Judging from her
| selections, she must have had a robust
appetite. ! tried ais hard as | could to
but l was not successful one time. She
| invariably found a whole lot of fault.
Getting back to her quotations, the
thing that interested me most is treatise
headed: How people live to be very old
in Maine, and it came to me written, on
| It is: ~ ~ ' '@'''''
"You may live to ripe old age by follow
ing sensible habits of eating;
Ftirst,m,Eat only pure, wholesome food sci
Second Chew all solid food rrt il II disar-
pears In the mouth and is swallowed without n
| conscious effort. Do not take another mouth
full until you have disposed Of everything in
the mouth through thoIorRh n,a-tication;
never drink anything while, food is in the
mouth Fat slowly and Deliberately.
perfect digestion, leading to proper assmi'a-
ton and robust health VIII, Win, strong brain
ts wny S do So GOOD an w
meal crammed and washed down and lying I'M;
disested in your long suffering, overworked
"On the back of the pigs head cheese
recipe Ms Dodge made this entry,
NO one should endure the poor cooking
ana RESTRICTIONS q! the holrl ana boarding
| house. We should eat ANYTHING our appe-
lite Graves. rem embCring to carefully chew
| every mhnthful. 81 mpc, wholesome foods
are preferable. Plenty Of meat. beans. brown
bread, fresh butter, m k and cream, eggs.
! fruit vegetables cereals, &c Tea and coffee,
II they agree with you: If not Try milk and
| cocoa.
Nearly all of our physical and mental sick
ness comes from the stomach. No ono II $,
! irritable ms a dyspcptic, and the Ills induced
/ by unwise eating make u oIsagrceable to our
! friends and work against our prosperity and
happiness"
| Il do not know what it was that made
Mrs. Dodge 30 severe, but do know she
| was intensely fond Of the cooking Of Mrs.
Mcdonald and to her mind no food was an
palatable as that she ate while visiting at