The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-19
Cook Book Reads
Like A Fairy Tale
Boston Transcript


1t is with feeling of gentle melan-
choly, mixed with hopeless longing.
that we glance over the pages of an
old cook book. We are struggling to
find palatable dessert which re-
qulres no sugar, eggs or butter Could
1t be possible that we ever made angel
| cake? We glance with awe at the
nonchalant. carefree beginning of the
receipt. THE whites of ten eggs.
beaten to stiff froth,-" Here is a
pound cake which we once ate so free
ly and unthinkingly. One pound of
butser is the first requisite We pass
hastily over this page and hunt for a
sour milk, one-egg spice cake which
may pass muster in the family circle
1t is interesting to read the names
OF receipts, especially those of the con-
serving variety; they are at least
truthful, for they profess to be but
| imitation delicacies. One dessert,
tried once, and once only, was called
mock maple pudding. When taken
from the oven and served it was found
to have a distinct maple flavor, but
in substance and color it resembled
liquid glue so strongly that we were
tempted to mend the broken table
with what was left of it (Which was
| a good deaD. Mock mince meat is
very good, if you have never tasted
the real article; but eating it reminds
one Of the Mock Turtle in Alice in
Wonderland" sobbing so plaintiyelv
his life story: Once ] was a real
| turtle
The casserole is a dish of suspi-
cions; 1t may be very tasty and ap-
petizing, but we know it is composed
OF leftovers; everything in the ice
chest has been thrown into the cas-
serole, and it has gently simmered,"
or moderately baked" for three hours
and half. in order to amalgamate
the contents into a harmonious, If un-
classified whole.
Inc dish known as poor mans pud-
ding never was very popular, and it
shows that, after all, there is some
| thing in name. The ingredients are
If it had been called "snow flake
cream" it might have tickled our
fancy, if not our palates.
Bird 's-nest pudding" may be
little suggestive of Chinese tastes. but
| it proves to be a harmless combina
ton OF apples and tapioca. Devils
food is dark but very delicious cake
found to have no harmful effect on
character, whatever it may have upon
digestion. ."Maccaroon trifle" proves
occasionally that "trifles light as air
are to the dyspeptic heavy burden.
"Hermits" are not at all we'll named:
delicious spiced cooky filled with
nuts and raisins-surely not a her
mit's fare.
The colored advertisements Of SAL
ads, fruit jellies and layer cakes in
the magazines allure us, and stir name
less longings in our breasts. Oh, for
a similar salad, or ham and eggs so
delectable! AS for the jellies, which
the birthday children seem to prefer
to ice cream. something deep and ele-
mental within us makes us doubt their
sincerity. The jellies are all very
well. but We wish plebiscite could
be taken.
No more does brandy sauce, wine
jelly or tipsy pudding figure in our
menus. Our lobster Newburg is un-
sherried, our Welsh rabbit unbeered.
We eat connections that we never
thought we could eat, but we find that
saey satisfy hunger and seem to nour-,
ish our bodies. Still. it IL not like
the good old days.