The San Francisco call., 1910-05-01

She didn't have time to go the salt washed mead
ows, but she selected judicousy and with tare She
placed the meat in a shallow earthenware dish in
preparation for cupful of good olive oil and excep-
tonal wine vinegar She poured these over it. after
mixing She added two onions and two carrots
sliced sliced sliced, ndustriously sliced and she did
not forget a small spray of thyme (Which I before
characterized bully), bay leaf Though laurel
would have done welD, and two or three sprigs
of parsley Then she put in a lot of pepper and a
very little salt She massaged this whole mess into
the meat and basted this memorable mutton with it
few times daily for days, being careful to turn
it each morning and afternoon. She was a careful
little thing, saving the times in which she looked
her husband
She took the mutton out OF the narinade and 1
let it drain for quarter Of hour She put it into
good live, quick oven with big piece OF the most
excelleny fresh butter Chat butter you know
and added scattering OF salt it after it had been
cooked, after which she strained the mariuade and
added it to the gravy. After which we ate t. and the
young couple even forgot to permit their eyes to
trembe the borderland of ecstacy. Until large
part of it eaten that mutton held its own. That
will indicate to you how good it was
Even the little baked potatoes (unsoaked BY too
great munihcence Of water) shared the general tr-
umph. And the beans-the string beansl
Oh yes; promised to tell you about those beans
and l always keep my promises. Promises are like
You them extravagantly in youth. You
them confidently, comfortably then. Irhey COM
mence to come up with you at about 33 sAt 40 they
overwhelm you You never get ahe Il Of them
again So I've become very careful.
AS TO THE BEANS
The great trouble with beans usually commences
with the stringing "Stringing' is only permissible
with humanity. Never with beans. The habit of
sringing beans with knife is a reprehensible prac
tice. Being reprehensible 1 take pleasure in repre-
hending it. The knife makes the operator careless.
The great proportion of your strings half severed
before you commence to drag. Do you follow? 1t
may be difficult but it will be infinitely harder
move the strings while eating, your Indigestion il
you swallow them.
Strings are further cause for incipient profanity
and profanity is discountenanced by Christian people
So eschew the string method, which is alasl almost
universal here Take little trouble and string
by hand. Then you never cut the string and every
little bit OF it peels Off Which at once makes the
meal pleasant and conserves the purity of the
language. So far so good.
Now we come to the question of water How much
shall be used in the boiling of the beans? This
is weightier problem than any presented by even
the suffrage movement. The general
tom is, as usual, wrong Beans are boiled here in
a very little water. Indeed they are not boiled in
water at all after short while but in sort Of gravy
The beans come to the table dark and tough, bitter
and uninvitng. think, on the whole that reason
able dose of castor oil would be more humanzins
thing
They do this thing very much better in France
this thing of the beans. They boil them in lot of
water-a large, large quantity of water. The more
the water the better the beans The French put a
tiny, tiny, most cautiously and exactly tiny. part of
pinch of soda in the (oh about the size OF the
small nub of shirt button if you have husband).
The beans come out OF it tender and vernal irai.
fresh delicate green-the color of the shadows ct
the smiling south seas when the sun laughs upon
their bosom.
Then those beans drained hurriedly, but thor
oughly, and popped into saucepan with a pretty
liberal blob of the freshest butter and 5wshed round
twice thrice with fork that the last vestiges of
water upon them may evaporate and that the mellow
butter may be taken to their emerald hearts. Then
you them quickly and them That is, yois
don't eat them you need not read these articles OF
mine any They wasted on you Your place
is clearly the Chicago stock yards.
don't tell you what ate and drank or OF our
dessert What's the use of giving you too much OF
. good thing? I'd spoil you.