The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-12-18

| Now that the Thanksgiving din
ners are over and the Christmas
PREPARATIONS are near at hand, it
| seems to me il is a good time for
girls to learn some of the necessary
wisdom Of how to do plain, every
day cooking. No doubt all Of you
young lady readers know how to pre-
pare all sorts of fancy things. It is
natural they should when the great
Interstate Fair was, as moving pic
ture, looming up continually upon
their mental horizon each hoping to
have the very best displayed when
the display should be made. Cakes
OF all sorts conceived in the juvenile
rniud-jellies. preserves. all sorts or
thipss-but the plainest everyday
! kind that "any old darkies can do.
! But girls can YOU do it If not. you
| have q very important lesson to
learn. Can you broil a chicken: Can
YOU make really good chicken pie"
Do YOU know how to cook dried Or
green field peas to be tender and de-
| iicious? IF you do not then you had
better learn for these few dishes
proved a Notifying failure in one
young housekeepers life, and she
| thought she knew exactly how II
should be done and Of course she
could do it.
! She knew perhaps as much rs
many Of you do about keeping house
for mother, and mother had
we'll trained colored cook. The keys
we're in this instance turned over
TO the daughter to order the meals
! and give out TO the cook what WIS
necessary. She knew quantities aud
! ingredients and there her hnowledg"
of plain cooking ended.
This girl thought she was some
thing of an adept in al that pertain"d
10 housekeeping. She married and
went some distance from ,ier old
! home. She did uot find an old eA-
perienced cook but Just plain hachc-
, lor's plant servant, who did
very well such as bachelors usually
know how to order. I think | will
make my meaning plain BY giving
this young Wife's trials in her own
: words:
The Young Wite's Experience.
wanted 10 see what TIC woman
/ would do, AMI she did what had Sc
far been required very well. She
made good biscuits, waH:e5, coffee
and tho boiled meats. together with
roasting turncy-Wi'd turkey were
plentiful in the woods ali around I'll
plantation and &c could nave thc.G
seven days in the Ncek-but 7 go
tired having her time taken up with
turkeys SO often and decided to
change to chicken pic.
1t WIS woeful day for NC when
so decided as you shall hear. I had
two nice tender chickens killed and
dressed and cut up. ! prepared tho
pastry and laid the pieces IN ttle
pan, seasoned with SAT- and pepper
with plenty Of butter, poured i'll the
nccessary amount of hot water, fit
ted the top crust to my satisfaction.
turned IL over TO the cook and await
ed the result When dinner was
ready felt quite proud vi the looks
Of NY pie. It was fine to look at
but, OH, wher if was cut into and
q portion laid on plate The chic
ken was half raw, the gravy d lot of
greasy water that no one could eat,
What could be the matter I tried
to think. but could not Mortified
at the failure. could hardly express
it. My husband had partaken Of
many of the best of the kind at my
mothers table and quite often the
dinners were ordered by me. He
was as much surprised rs I. but he
could not understand my shame Can
any of you girls tell what was lack
ing?
The first time I went back to my
fathers OH a visit i told mother Of
this misfortune, and asked what the
trouble was. She referred me to old |
Aunt Charlottesville made the pies
there. I went forthwith. The first
question she asked me- was:
did you partoil your chicken be- |
fore putting it in the pie?"
NO"
did you put any strips of pastry !
between the layers Of chicken"
No" /
Did YOU put any dry flour on top !