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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
FROZEN FRUIT PUDDING.

-Four eggs, half cupful of sugar,
rounding tablespoonful of cornstarch,
quart of milk, a cup of either straw
berry or cherry preserves, fourth of
pound each of raisins and English
walnuts and vanilla to flavor To save
time it is better to seed and cut the
raisins and chop the nuts the day be
fore. Beat the yolks of the eggs and
the sugar until light, add the cornstarch
dissolved in a little cold milk, the re-
manning milk heated to boiling, and
cook over hot water for fifteen minutes,
stirring constantly until thickened,
then occasionally. When the mixture
is cold add the preserves, raisins and
nuts and flavor with vanilla. Freeze
as e-cream and when half frozen add
neringue made of the whites of the
eggs beaten stiff and slowly added to
them fourth of cupful of sugar and
water each, cooked to a thick syrup.
Turn out at serving time and garnish
with whipped cream, preserves and,
English walnuts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
Danger in the
Raw Food Folly

What to Eat.

Without any disposition to open up
controversy upon the subject, What To
Eat is free to say that it has the best
of physiological and scientific reasons
for declining to share the enthusiasm
of the Chicago Raw Food Society, re-
garding the dietetic value of uncooked
foods The New York World in a re-
cent issue, gives this society an elabo
rate full-page write-up, with half-tone
portraits of young ladies of many
pulchritudinous points, who have been
living on diet of raw foods. Of
course we have no means of knowing
how these young ladies would have
looked if they had never tasted raw
foods. but we think it a reasonable pre-
sumption that their compilations would
be just as clear and velvety and their
anatomical rotundity just as attractive,
especially if they had not INDUCED too
freely in greasy and fatty foods. The
World article asserts that there are ten
thousand homes in Chicago represented
in this raw food society. in which no
cooked meat is eaten. no bread is baked,
no vegetables boiled or fried, and no
pastAy INDUCED in. = 1t is unnecessary
to remind our readers that this raw
screed in a New York paper must be
taken cum grano sails. But even grant
ing that it is partially true, the pros
poets for a large crop of tapeworms
and other intestinal reptiles and ami
malculae in Chicago during the coming
years are exceedingly bright. While it
is doubtless true that certain kinds of
food. particularly fruits and fresh green
vegetables, are wholesome when eaten
raw in season, science has established
the fact beyond any controversy that
the only security against the organisms
that quickly terminate and multiply in
most foods on exposure to atmosphere
is in thorough cooking. This does not
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

cold water; cool; then add one tea
spoonful vanilla extract and beat until
spongy and light: place by spoonfuls
in the cups. alternating with straw
berries cut in halves. When serving,
slip the collars off and set each cup
into a pretty sauce dish,
STRAWBERRY PARFAIT.
Heat one box cleaned berries until
warm, crush and put through a sieve;
cook one-half cupful sugar and one
half cupfuI of water until a little
dropped into cold water will form Q
waxy ball; beat three egg whites very
stiff pour the hot syrup onto the
strawberry pulp and cook again until
thick; then pour gradually onto the
egg whites, whipping constantly;
,whes1 this is cool. fold in the froth
from one pint of cream, not using
amy of the liquid; freeze as for ice
cream; when serving, dish out with
small cone-shaped dipper, place on
small laee-paper doilies on cold plates
and garnish with whole fruit.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
FOR THE AFTERNOON PARTY.

When a menu is limited to three ar
ticles and it is for an afternoon affair
it should include one substantial artI-
Gle one sweet. and sandwiches. / adj
wise salad like green peppers scoop
ed out and filled with all kinds of veg
etables cut up and dressed with may
onnaise, and with this sardine sand
witches, and as a sweet fruit jelly with
whipped cream. A pretty idea for the
Jelly is to use orange, apple and pa
mana skins and serve the jelly in these,
having the dish when passed look like
a dish of fruit; have the whipped
cream sauce passed with the jelly. If
Won do not wish the salad you could
have hot dish like scalloped crab or
lobster. served in individual dishes; or
YOU could have jellied chicken and
sandwiches. The chicken is very pretty
if made in individual moulds, using
hard boiled egg in the moulds so that
the slices of egg are on top when the
mould is turned out. When entertain
ing eight guests in the evening good
little repast would be bouillon or con
somme served in cups; ereamed sweet
breads in little individual dishes; salad
and iellied chicken or thin slices Of.
ham: desert. fce-cream or ices or a rich
chocolate cake with chocolate sauce and
whipped cream. If you have trouble
in procuring fish you can use canned
lobster with great success.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
LEAGUE FOR HOME ECONOMIC
CoRNBREAD.

This is the rule given by Miss Wald-
ron to her cooking classes which meet
weekly in tenement kitchens. Sift to-
gether one cup each white -four and
yellow cornmeal. three level teaspoon
fuls baking powder, one level tea
spoonful salt and level tablespoon
full sugar Add one beaten egg and
two cupfuls milk and water. Beat
hard and pour into a buttered pan.
When ready to bake set on the bot
torn Of the oven at first. Then If the
top does not brown fast enough change
to the top If started on top in a
small coal or wood stove crust f.
apt to form IS that the cake can't
rise and it will be raw on the bottom.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

cups scalded| milk with one-half cup
butter, three-quarters cup of sugar,
three-quarters of yeast cake, and q
pint of -four. Keep in warm place
till morning, then add three-quarters
cup of sugar, a little mace and CHINA
mon, and all the flour you can stir in.
Half a cup of currants will be a great
addition. At noon they will be ready
to bake in a moderate oven for half
an hour.
BUNS (No. p.
One pound butter, one-quarter pound
sugar, two pounds flour, six eggs, four
tablespoons ground cinnamon. Mix
the -four and cinnamon, rub the but
ter to a cream and mix the flour with
it. Beat the eggs and sugar, add them
TO the other mixture, mixing as little
as possible. Drop in spoonfuls on a
buttered baking sheet, making rough
little cakes. They should be small
distance apart. Bake them till done
in a moderate oven.
VIRGINIA BATTER BREAD.
Two eggs, one teaspoon salt, one
quart of sour milk, three-quarter tea
spoon of soda, one pint corn meal. Beat
the eggs, stir the soda in the milk
until it foams, sift the salt with the
meal, stir the meal into the milk, add
ing the eggs. Beat hard for five min
utes, pour into a creased china bak-
ing dish, and bake in a moderately
hot oven till brown.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
THE OMELET.

An omelet would oftensf be served
if there were not the general expe-
rience that it is apt to fan and be
heavy. This danger may be entirely
obviated if the eggs are beaten sepa-
rately and very light, the yolks folded
dainty into the whites. salt and pep
per added, and the whole transferred
TO a pan where the butter is already
heated sufficiently. The omelet may
be doubled into half its dimensions
and sent TO the table, a puff of light
ness. all in a moments time. Of
course il should not 'stand and wait"
or ii will hardly be like those who
also serve" in Millions famous sonnet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
STRAWBERRY TRIFLE.

STRAWBERRY TRIFLE.
Season one pint of double cream
with sugar and half teaspoon orange
extract, then whip to a froth; stir this
into the cream again and whip once
more. Arrange fresh ladyfngers log
cabin in a shallow crystal dish. Fill
the center alternately with the
whipped cream and ripe. cleaned ber-
rtes. placing the remainder of the
fruit about the base.
STRAWBERRY SPONGE CUPS.
Dip edges of ladyfingers in thick
syrup and arrange edge to edge in
charlotte russo collars; let stand for
an hour, when the sugar will be set.
Beat four eggs with two tablespoon
fuls of sugar until thick; pour over
this two cupfuls of scalding hot milk;
turn into double boiler and cook
until custard coats the spoon; then
add one pint of whipped cream, one
Tablespoonful of gelatine softened in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

mean that the citrus fruits, apples,
dates, pears, peaches, pineapples, etc,
should be cooked before eating These
fruits are all enclosed in skin-sacks or
pouches, impervious to atmosphere, I'M
til bruised or cut. When cut open or
bruised the termination of microbes
sets in at once In the case of raw
meat, however, it has been shown that
a continued use of it is favorable to
the breeding of tapeworms and other
forms of intestinal parasites. Even
with apples and other genealogical prod
ucts the only certain security against
intestinal disorders is in thorough cook
ing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
F avorite Dishes
From the. South
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A young Northern woman, who has
the South has given her a course in
sweet potatoes.
t'First of ALL" she says, Northern
ers don't know what a real sweet po-
tato is. Get pumpkin yam and see.
New Jersey is the best place for them
to come from-for the North Here
are some ways to cook them:
CREOLE BAKE.
Slice several cold baked Sweets
into a buttered dish, dot the first
layer thickly with butter, and sprinkle
Gf YOU can sprinkle anything so
thick with cane syrup or New Or
leans molasses, preferably the former.
Two or three layers prepared like this
and topped off with a sprinkling of
sugar and more butter, baked in a
slow oven. about three-quarters of an
hour (the longer the better), will show
you what a blessing a sweet tooth
can be.
CANDIED YAM.
This is the favorite dish in the
South, eaten as vegetable. The po-
tatoes are boiled, allowed to cool, then
cut into halves lengthwise, and stew
ed for half an hour in a thick syrup
until they become gummy. The syrup
is made of three parts sugar to one
of water. with a little molasses or
cane syrup for fiavoring. These may
be served hot or cold.
The real sweet potato pie combines
all the delicacy of custard with good
lam, and why it is not made an item
among Northern desserts in winter,
When fruit is at a premium and hot
things a delight is a mystery that
must go unsolved,
SWEET POTATO PIE.
Boil and mash three medium-sized
,otatoes. add two eggs, beaten up With
one-half cup of sugar, one-third cup
sweet milk. one tablespoon butter.
little salt. and plenty of nutmeg
sprinkled over the top. BahS in a
moderate oven as you would GUS
tard pie. and serve warm.
SOUTHERN CoRNBREAD.
Four large cups white cornmeal, one
Gun butternlilk. one-half teaspoon SUI
gar. one-half teaspoon soda, aud
1i+tIe salt Form into oval-shaped
cake with the hands. brush the tops
lightly with butter. and bake good
brown.
Most Northern women do not AKe
Southern cookery at first; indeed, one
new arrival in the South wrote as
sustedlv to friend who had Appeared
m her for some distinctively Southern
recipes: Just take any old recipe,
then eliminate every ingredient that
makes it taste good. mix all the others
together. and if you can lay hands on
II add favoring of rancid bacon or
hork fat. and you'n have a dictinct-
lively Southern dish.
But that. of course, was In mo-
nant of pessimistic inconsistencies, Tor
that same young woman later reient-
ed so far as TO collect a few hot oreaa
recipes from fler new neighoors' ana
she reluctantly admitted that they
were hard to beat.
Here are three of them:
BUNS tNO. y.
In the evening mix one and one-halI
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
FISH ROE.

Sea fish may be baked with one
half the roe mixed with bread crumbs
butter. a little chopped onion, lemon
juice. salt. pepper. and finely chopped
bacon. Stuff the fish with this rub
If with white Of egg. roll in bread
crumbs sprinkled with red pepper and
bake one-half hour.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
*""'ST = = ),
What Dyspeptics Should Eat and Drink !

The dominion of the palate" is such
that the vast and increasing armg Of
dyspepties can be saved from them
selves only by the persuasive powers
of the physician and the dietary ex-
pert. AS the palate cannot be dethron-
ed its caprices must be coddled. It
cannot be ruthlessly denied everything
it Graves. But there are so many
kinds of dyspeptics that no hard and
fast dietary would be suitable for
them all The ordinary "dyspeptic"
who suffers occasional indigestion has
a happy time of it compared to the
poor mortal who suffers from chronic
intestinal indigestion. The seat of the
latter trouble is most difficult to reach,
either with medicines or scientific die
tetfcs, while the diseased or impaired
stomach VIII quickly respond to the
various pepsin compounds combined
with rational regulation of diet and
exercise.
What a dyspeptic Should eat and
drink therefore depends upon the par
ticular kind of indigestion from Which
he is suffering, as well as upon his
habits of life, the character of his en-
ployment and his temperamental at
tributes. 1t ought to be plainly and
fundamentally obvious to a man of
sedentary habits that his diet should
be radically different from that of the
man habituated to much physical ac-
tivity. The man who sits at a desk
must select different foods from the
man-about-town, the f1oor-walker. or
the street laborer. The desk man is
almost certain to be Ia sufferer from
intestinal trouble and its first manifes-
tation is constipation. The intestinal
dyspeptic should eschew starchy foods,
white -four, rice. potatoes, cheese, milk
and hard-boiled eggs, He should sub
stitute whole wheat or graham bread
for white-fiour bread. He may also
eat bread made of corn meal. Fruit
should form a very large and impor-
tant part of his dietary. Indeed many
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16
prA SALAD.

Drain the liquid off Of a can Of peas,
add cupful Of celery cut into dice,
two hard boiled eggs cut into slices
and pour sufficient mayonnaise over the
mixture to moisten well.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

a sufferer from this weakness has cur
ed himself by throwing pills to the
dogs and substituting for them diet
OF prunes or baked apples. Brown
bread and mo1asses are good food
for the constipated. as also are fresh
meat. fish, meat broths and soft-boiled
or Doached eggs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

Drink water and plenty of it in the.
early morning, at night, and between
meals. Water not only absorbs the
noxious poisops in our systems, when
drunk between meals, but it enables
the kidneys to perform their function
of throwing off uric acid, urea and
other noxious substances, which, when
not eliminated, cause rheumatism,
govt and bilious conditions. AS a rule
the person who is finally compelled to
go to some famous watering place for
treatment could have averted all that
expense and trouble by drinking wa
ter plentifully and properly at home.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

The patient, however, must take con-
siderable exercise. The outdoor kind
is the best, but if he is denied this form
of exercise he must take it at home in
the form of claisthenics. He should
drink large quantities Of pure water
morning and evening, and between
meals. The habit of drinking water
with meals is the most pernicious, un-
hygienic habit to which modern civiliz-
ed humanity is addicted. Nature de-
signed that mastication and salvation
should prepare the food for the stom-
ach, after which the gastric juices
take hold of it and complete the proc
ess of digestion. Drinking water at the
table not only dilutes the gastric juices,
thereby impairing their strength. but it
tends to. keep a person from masticat-
ing or salivating the food thoroughly.
1t would be better for children, who
invariably have the habit of eating too
rapidly and of washing food down with
cold water, if water were entirely ban
ished from the American table.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-16

In the evening mix one and one-haiL
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

how far and how truly his genius en-
abled him to divide the mode of
development of the universe.
cit is improbable that Eureka had
any influence in preparing the way for
the reception of evolutionary ideas,
little later; at the most such influ-
ence must have been of the slightest,
for though his work was early trans
lated into foreign languages, the failure
to find fitting recognition Of it's true
character, and the general obscurity
in which it has lain, seems to preclude
such a likelihood It's interest lies
in the light it throws on it's author
and in the honorable place it assigns
him in that long line of thinkers from
Thales to Darwin"
The status, then, of Edgar Allan
Poe, so years after is as follows:
Mr.. Edmund Clarence Stedman
finds that Poe is read and held as
distinctive genius in France, Spain,
Germany, Italy. Russia, Scandinavia
that the spell of his art is felt
wherever our own English speech goes
with the flags of it's two great over
lands"
Mr.. Maarten Martens declares that
Poe is "at the head Of American lit
erature," and that Europe is quite
agreed, as it has been from the first,
in recognizing the overshadowing
genius of Edgar Allan Poe"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looks upon
Poe "as the worlds supreme short
story writer" whose nearest rival
was Maupassant."
Charles Frederic Stansbury pro-
nounces Poe "a brilliant genius to en-
ulate the work of whom is the despair
of great minds and the confusion OF
little ones"
Mr.. Charles L. Moore tells us that
"Poe was the least vulgar of mortals,"
and that ''the total effect of his work
is that of loftiness and nobility"
Miss Myrtle Reed says that Poe
fought bravely against cruel odds"
Mr. Rupert Taylor finds that Poe
was ION every occasion devoted and
model husband"
Mr.. Frederic Drew Bond points out
that Poe had provision Of the doc
tI1uC Vi CfOlublOl, dnd LIo1 ~ -
entitled to an honorable place in that
long lines of thinkers from Thales to
Darwin"
This, then, is the testimony, on d.
rect examination, of the year 1907 In
the case of Edgar Allan Poe versus
those electors to the Hall Of Fame
who have, so far, withheld from him
their votes.
Gentlemen, the defense rests.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
ROES COTZAGE At RQel1AMMEWYOeXt

ly gone to Keats to learn style-the per-
lection of word phrasing-so it has gone
to Poe to learn tone, the truths of
keeping an atmosphere in composition.
Poe did not set himself to write
copy-book maxims of morality, but the
total effect of his work is that of lofti-
ness and nobility. His men are brave
and his @1men are pure. He is the
least vulgar of mortals. Perhaps, if
books have any effect at all, his tend
to make men too truthful, too sensi-
tive, too high-minded.'
Standards, evidently, have changed
since Emerson referred to Poe as
that jingle man." Abiding to this
disparaging comment DR.. H. G. Wells,
the English novelist and writer on So
GEOLOGY, said at dinner in Boston: Il
| think hardly of your New England
writer's for their contempt of Poe. l
shall never be able to forget that
Emerson called him that jingle man
To-day a thousand read Poe where one
reads Emerson, and not to know Poe's
work is rather a disgrace"
Rupert Taylor, LII. B., in a recently
printed Study of Edgar Allan Poe
has this to say of Poe's private life:
Poe took pleasure in the softer in
| fiuences Of home life, although there
is little or no reflection Of it in his
writings. He dearly loved his wife
and her mother. of whom he speaks in
an excellent sonnet addressed to her
after the death of his wife, as more
| than mother In the Black Cat he
gives evidence of a fondness for do
nestle pets. His cottage at Fordham
was beautified by vines and Towering
| plants, and he kept in cages several
| singing birds and tropical birds of
plumage. He was as I'll who knew
anything about the matter attested on
every occasion a devoted and model
husband"
People in general are so accustomed
| to regard Poe as a poet and short
| story writer that they fail to realize
| that he was also a profound specula-
tive thinker In an article entitled
Poe as an Evolutionist" popular
Science Monthly, September) Mr..
| Frederic Drew Bond points out that
in estimating his character too little
attention is bestowed on this phase
of his work He finds that Poe enter
tanned in its broad outlines that idea
of the changes and development of the
world which goes, nowadays, by the
name of the theory of evolution. On
February 8, 1S4S, Poe delivered, as
lecture at the Society library OF New
York, an abstract of his speculations
on the material and spiritual uni
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
General Demand

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acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
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In supplying that demand with its ex-
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Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
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That is one of many reasons why
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To get its beneficial effects always buy
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