AN ORIGINAL RECIPE.
" Household Departments " are very good adjuncts to the newspaper in their way, when edited by a woman, but the male journalist who dabbles with the heaven-inspired mysteries of cooking, runs a frightful risk. The editor of the Weekly Petaluma Peavine started a column of that kind recently, and a few days afterwards a fierce-looking female came into the office, carefully concealing some object behind her apron. "Are you the. man that published that new and improved way to make curt ant cake ?" ' _ He said he was. " You.said to mix washing soda wtor the flour, and stir in a little corn meal and sweet oil to -give.it consistency!. ?" " I—l—believe so." " And to add fifteen eggs and some molasses, and two ounces of gum arabic, and set it in a cool place to bake ?" " I think that was it?" "Well, tike that theu {" and the indignant housewife knocking him down with a weapou that felt like a sand club, but which ,he, felt in his heart must have been a half-baked hunk of cake, constructed on the Peavine pattern.
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Kumara Times, Issue 835, 4 June 1879, Page 2
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180AN ORIGINAL RECIPE. Kumara Times, Issue 835, 4 June 1879, Page 2
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