The Dinner Year-Book

The Dinner Year-Book

I do not smile at the nave confession. I feel more like sighing as I recollect the years during the summers and winters of which the same query advanced with me into the dignity of a problem. There were several important ends to be compassed in the successful settlement of the question. To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare; to accommodate appetites and individual preferences to the season and state of the local market; to avoid incongruous associations of meats, vegetables, sauces, entres and desserts; to build fragments into a structure about which should linger no flavor of staleness or sameness; so to manage a long succession of meals that yesterdays repast and the more frugal one of to-day should not suggest the alternation of fat and lean in the Hibernians pork, or the dutiful following of penance upon indulgence; to shun, with equal care, the rock of parsimony and the whirlpool of extravagance;but why extend the list of dilemmas? Are they not written in the mental chronicles of every housewife whose consciencebe her purse shallow or deepwill not excuse her from a continual struggle with the left-overs? Such uncompromising[2] bits of facts do these same left-overs appear in the next days survey of ways, means, and capabilities, that timid mistresses are the less to blame for often winking at the Alexandrine audacity with which the cook has disposed of the knotty subject by emptying platters and tureens into the swill-pail,which should stand for the armorial bearings of her tribe wherever found,or satisfied indolence, and what goes with her for humanity, by tossing crusts, bones, and cold scraps into the yawning basket of the beggar at the basement door. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49958
Author: Harland, Marion
Release Date: Sep 14, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English