Evening star., 1933-01-04

| rear bottom side of the tongue, or soma
place back in that general locality.
And, lastly, they are hot.
The howl which formerly went ur
over the eating Of hot breads Of diff
ferent sorts happily has died down
along with the vehement insistence
upon the consumption Of spinach.
It is getting to be more and more
realized, even among stubborn persons
that what . human being likes to eat
granted that he uses common sense, has
pretty good chance OF doing him some
good.
Notice that the above is well quail
fed. Common sense ought to reign
here as elsewhere One may feel
pretty sure that few Of us will ever
permit common sense to run away with
things. Most often 1t will be Just the
other way around.
The common sense of such foods as
we have enumerated Is not to have
them too often, nor to eat too much
of them when they are at hand.
Perhaps most will find the first re-
striction easier than the second.
Who is so dyspeptic, faced with fine
pancakes. right of the stove, that he
is not tempted to eat more than he
should?
Or waffles?
I Some persons prefer the crisp, barred
brown of the waffle TO the round OF
the pancake. the griddle cake, the
corn cake, the buckwheat cake. =
Just why waffle must be square
or cen triangular, and never In the
round, Is gustatory mystery.
Similarly, most of us would hesitate
at square griddle cakes, so In bonds TO
custom are we all.
Consider hot biscuits, by which we
mean soda biscuits, and none other.
Some fanciers are so welded to Gus
tom in regard to them that they will
not eat them IN what they choose to
call the wrong size.
Custom has decreed a rather large
| biscuit for masculine tastes. and a
smaller one for feminine; many men
proclaim their inability to relish the
small biscuits; many women will not
bake the former for themselves.
The truth Of that matter is that
there are only two things which count,
in regard to these delicious edibles:
First, they must be made right.
Second, they must be kept hot.
There is, perhaps, third requisite,
that they be from the first baking, not
the second. Commonly the second bak-
ing Is Just enough drier than the first
to have lost the true essence of good
ness which distinguishes the first.
Hence the necessity for keeping the
first batch thoroughly warm Here
nothing has ever surpassed the folded
cloth, but that is no reason why
something could not be invented which
would outdo it. Perhaps in time a dar-
ing manufacturer will make a fiat
shaped dish with air-exhausted walls,
into which the biscuits can be popped
at the right time, and from which
they may be served by a clever me-
chanical arrangement which will deliver
one at a time, without endangering the
heat content of the remainder. We do
not hesitate to say that the maker of
this Hot Biscuit Dispenser" will make
fortune, if he is true lover of good
hot soda biscuits, and really brings out
one that works.
Cakes, cookies, popovers, cornbread,
and, of course, just bread-these some
how fall into the same category since
most Of them may be eaten hot or warm
with great relish. Cakes are supposed
to fall" or do something equally un-
pleasant, II cut when hot, but who
cares? Not even the enterprising Gre
ator, any more. This is a day of doing
as one pleases at last in the face of the
centuries. For hundreds of years
people have loved to sneak a piece of
hot bread. but in 1888 they eat it that
way unasJhmed.