The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-30
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NO digest of law is like the law of
digest" said More. many years ago
III the age of gour,nanderic. That is.
Of course, ii g~ourmanderie eNcr 4 Il
particular ago in which it was not at
least the seoon! of mans ruling pas
SionS.
Even the roast beef AMI plum pGd-
ding, veuntcd hy the English rs a ma
tional institution. We're the principal
features of the bill of fare lit ii table
OF no less an ancient celebrity than
Cleopatra. Napoleon. tho worlds great
est soldier. met with his first defeat
before ii dish OF mutton, losing the
battle of l.eipsic through 4 fit of III
digestion caused by Il s~irfeit of IL sue
culeut joint of lamb. while Montezull;;
the magnificent. WHO was found in full
regal authority by the S~pal;iards when
they landed in Mexico, varied his bill
witt, game and other dainty yiands,
With an occasional dai:N-fcd baby,
When that peculiar Gciicacy happened
to be in season.
Moderation and regularity formed
the text OF many a discourse in the
good old days when dyspepsia pre-
Vailed and ply siciars rode in carriages
when the g%ournlanl you'd praise the
simplicity Of h"i1g and sink to sleep
piA iANtNN - Il att' ''Nir VI ~
Love of good food was Il positive
obsession ut the end of the eighteenth
century aud we'll into the nineteenth.
whcnc" caTne many a hr1itage Of voc
in Il weak stomach. There is g story
exiart OF the Journey. post haste. of
her grace OF QactMshurH to Parsons
Green to tel, Lady Sophia Thomas
something OF Importance which
vas Take a couple of hcefsteaks
Clap tllen together as il they We're q
dumping. and eat them with pepper
and salt. 1t is the best thing you evcr
tasted. 7 could not help coming to
tell you this"
Napoleon has a penchant for roast
fowls. outlets ana smoking coffee. Ee
ate at odd times. and only when he
felt hungry, driving his cooks to dis
food it had to be ready for him all
most on the instant. or at least as soon
as the table could be laid.
Beau Brumnlcl's favorite dish was
roasted capon stuffed with truffles.
When he was living almost on the
bounty OF Mr.. Marshall he attended a
dinner party at that gentleman's
house. taking with him. according to
his most impertinent custom, one Of
his favorite dogs. The Beau was help
ed OF a wing of roast canon. but
choosing to fancy that the wing was
tough he %delicately seized the end Of
it with a napkin-covered finger and
thumb and passed it under the table
to his dog with the remark: Here,
About, try if you can get your teeth
through this, for I'll be damned II 1
cam"
Brand relates that on Christmas
day. 1901. he dined at the c%haplain's
table at st. James palace and par
took of the first thing served and
eaten on that festival at that table,
namely, "a tureen full Of rich. luscious
plum porridge."
But the art of cookery came into
been celebrated through the ages as
the ideal home Of the gastronomists.
Cookery was SO much esteemed by the
Normans that monarchs granted es-
tates on the sole condition that the
holder. through his cook, should pre-
pare a certain dish at stated periods
to set before the king. 1t was under
the Normans in England that the
boars head had regal honors paid to
1t. m its progress from the kitchen
to the banquet was under the escort
Of a guard, and behind the deafenipg
salute Of puffy-cheeked trumpeters.
The crane was then. as the goose is
now, highly esteemed yet laLoring I'M
der the suspicion of being common"
The peacock. on the other hand, was
only seem tail and all, on the tables
Of the wealthy. Their beverages were
Of a heavy. bilious character. spicy
and c%ordialed, hippocras. piment
morat and mead. The Norman maxim
for good living was ito rise at s, dine
at 8. sup at s. and bed at 9. If you'd
live to a hundred all but one.",
And go It went down through the
ages: 70 have things "brennying like
l Wivdfrao pyoe thu cho m ntontokCn - A.
cookery Of the regime Of Richard IL
Confectionery Of the richest sorts was
the lightest material OF meals, which
were %abundantly irrigated by hippo.
cras, piment, or claret, or the simpler
and pnrer wines of France, Spain
Syria and Greece.
"Those English said the Spaniards
who went Over to England with Philir
H.. "have their homes made Of sticks
n dirt. but they fare commonly as
well as the king"
Forks came>!n with Tom Coryay in
the reign Of james l., but they were
not familiar until the restoration. The
laying Of napkins, as 1t was called, was
q profession IT. itself. Pcpys mentions
his dinner parties he went home and
there found laying OF my napkins
against tomorrow, In figures Of all
sorts. which Is mighty pretty, and II
seems is his trade. and he gets much
money by H." Pcpys gives an accoun
of a dinner given in 1863, to which nc
took his spoon and fork. as was the
custom Of those days with guests in.
vIted to great entertainments. The
dish Pepys liked most, and on which
he supped heartily. was vcnison
pasty, but hts occasional next morning
remark was like that of Scrub, my
head aches consumedly."