The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-15
4 HQHOLULhN WHO
COOKS FOR HIMSELF

There are more people in Honolulu
who live in bachelor style-bacheIor
men and bachelor maids-than you
suppose, and some of them do all or
part OF their own cooking. A few use
chatting dishes; some the little alcohol
gas lamps that are to be found in drug
stores; many try to satisfy themselves
with small oil stoves. while the cog
noscenti have iron fire pots. made in
| Chinatown, in which they quickly start
I the heat out of charcoal. This char
/ coal fire is one of the best in the world
| for cooking, because it permits you to
broil and toast things so we'll; and
with a Dutch oven or an iron kettle
i you can roast or boil to perfection.
! There is a combination tin oven, boiler
and steamer in which, over the char
coal, full meal can be cooked at the
cost of about five cents for fuel.
AS a pupil of the cognoscenti 1 have
/ learned to make a lot of good things
in this combination. Let me give you
a view of three meals. The other
night 1 dropped into Jap restaurant
and got some cold boiled rice in
paper bag. In the morning / steamed
I
/ fry banana. two eggs and six pieces
: of bacon-all easy jobs. Then, making
small platter warm by pouring hot
water over it, 1 covered it with
/ layer of rice. Upon this I put the
| fried bacon with the hot fat; over that
/ 1 laid the fried eggs and over the fried
| eggs went the fried banana cut in
slices The scientist will tell you that
! from such meal you get nourishment
enough to carry you through MORN
ings gardening or a mornings golf
/ like cocoa for breakfast. so I dis
| solved a cocoa-and-milk tablet and
j there I was. My rolls. which L made
hot, came from the baker
In this liver bedeveling tropical eli
mate / always try to give myself one
/ peppery dish a day. So ] had it for
lunch. There was some rice left, so
made it cover another small platter,
sitting paprika over it. Then / took
! a small can of l. X. L. tomales, heated
| it according to the directions on the
| label and when ready, turned the red
contents on the rice 1t was a delec-
| table dish-rice, pounded corn, bit of
/ chicken and an olive. smothered with
| Spanish sauce-enough for two men of
moderate appetites. That dish need
| ed OF course, a soothing beverage, so
| I made that chef d'oeuvre of temper
ance drinks, a soda cocktail How did
| l make it? Well ! took a bottle of
! ice cold lemon soda, poured 1t into a
| high glass in which / had injected
three dashes of angostura bitters, tnat
decoction of aromatic herbs which
tastes so good in lemonade. Then, just
| before drinking, 1 stirred into the
| liquid. with a long-handled spoon, a
little pulverized sugar, and the soda
foamed. cold and crimson, to my
waiting lips.
Dinner was a little more preten-
tious. l lighted two fire pots Then
opened a can of DoXey's CLAIMS ana
heated the juice when l was ready for
it, The CLAIMS / took out drained on
napkin, dipped in partly beaten egg
rolled in cracker crumbs and put into
a frying pan which had been prepared
with a lump of butter and a lump of
lard The CLAIMS were quickly done and
were ready. in good shape. when / had
eaten the hot juice from a cup. TWO
courses were thus disposed Of
Then came a small porterhouse steak
and some hashed. fried potatoes.
had prepared boiled potatoes in adj
vance, cut them into small pieces and
had them in the buttered frying pan,
properly seasoned. They went on one
fire pot while the steak went over the
other in broiler The steak was thick
and mind you, it was not allowed 10
have a grain of salt or pepper in adj
vance. for that makes the meat tough
I scared both sides quickly, so as TO
retain the juices and then went on
with my brofling for fifteen minutes or
a little more. seasoning with salt but
ter and pepper three minutes before 4
the meat was done. Meanwhile l had
stirred the potatoes until they were
thoroughly brown. BY that time 1
had good appetite for course number
three. My dessert was an ice-cold is
land muskmelon and my drink was
coffee The latter / quickly made at
the table in a patent coffee pot with
an alcohol lamp.
Sometimes when I want feast L
buy fat, young, island rooster, dress
and clean him, saving the giblets ana
cutting him up as for frying. Then
I drv each piece in a napkin and DIP
it in -four which has been Thoroughly
mixed with pepper and salt. The next
thing to do is to pack the meat and
eiblets in a small Boston bean pot
adding a trifie more Of seasoning. some
shreds of boiled salt pork, two or
three small oSra pods-though this IS
optional-and then fill the chinks WIFI
milk until it rises nearly to the cover.
Then / clap the beanpot in the Dutch
over and let it stay there until the
chicken is tender. Hot or cold tbat
chicken is good enough for Judge Gear
Marshal Hendry, Bruce Cartwright
Prince Bert or any of our bon-VlVants
and is as savory tomorrow as II Is
today Your bachelor viii ike that TOT
Sunday dinner along with hot rolls ana
some Oakland punch.
J. SWEARINGEN PETERS.