The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

&N IDEA of the Christmas dinner is that the
MI only way to eat it with profit and pleasure
I'VE is TO provide some poor family first with the
of having square meal on that day.
Otherwise the pleasure OF Christmas day would be TOO
selfish to be enjoyed
The original idea of Christmas was the celebration
of the birth of the Savior of Mankind, and not
necessarily connected with good dinner. But modern
times have somewhat departed from the old customs
and have made Christmas day a sort of family reunion.
The boys and girls home from college and places
of employment and the relatives of all kinds gravltate
homeward for general rejoicing.
Good nutrition is of course. primal and necessary
part of the celebration and good digestion should not
have to wait too long appetite,
necessarily elaborate The best of Christmas
dinners take place in the old homestead and depend
the farm, of which turkey aud hominy are the most
important and undoubtedly the best much else
Jericho and return via Mars that regal repast |
would not forget and. will add to the menu the stuff
ing, and the rich, brown gravy and the cranberry
sauce with a baked white sweet potato. and some
minCe and the kind of that is refuse
from the hotels preserved with benzoatc of soda.
T DON'T know very much about The demands of the
gourmand for Christmas or any other time. but
do know Just what his antthGG,s the soHrmetand
The real gourmet is the only scientific diner and
The family the society. the state and the fashionable
diners constitute distinct and wholly separate classes
ENJOY their dinners in their own and several ways
The gourmand wants much and many things The
gourmet enough and select things The oourmand
is almost the gutton The gourmet is almost the pure
scientist.
The gourmet chcws with Fletcher and chooses with
the physioloost and tastes with the understanding
diner be gets tho most of the dinucr as
function the good od-fashouod country dinner ihc
old homestead is the finest in the world though
he from the lights and shades of Pccady and the
Great White Way I'm the country each we'll TO. do
farmer that his neighbor is supplied In the city
at least for day in the wear. and this Chrismas-
good citizen should sit down to sumptuous feast
with the knowledge that any poor woman family
in the town is hungry.
TT He best advice to those who have plenty 10 cat
Christmas day 10 eat sparingy aud TO
thank God heartily ! would not undertake to suggest
a menu for every man 5 meal that day. The one
| have suggested is within men > reach 4
turkey is necessity but in parts of the
bc substituted fresh country sausage or a leo Of
mutton or any wholesome meat product.
Stale and paSSe dishes should be omitted for the
noncc And even the eggs shonId be- fresh. If you
not OH the you viii have 10 depend vour
proceryman, Perhaps he won Z alsfy TO You on that
day if you skinned in dead earnest the
26l tho blr, buying of this last wear IS
vintage remember that thousands of turkeys which
were sold last Christmas put aside for the
dceCaton Of Christmas diners this year. Let those
birds he bv those who have stored them and
eaten by yourself.
You can have lust good n dinner and he lust
Jolly II YOU leave out the alcoholic beverages and
though You may not feel quito 20 well on Christmas