THE DANBURY NEWSMAN ON COOKING.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1684, 27 May 1874, Page 2

THE DANBURY NEWSMAN ON COOKING.

The following,is theDanbury Newsman's latest, describing how he washed his hands of the cooking:—

&? It was about the buckwheat cakes. } I told Maria Ann any fool could beat her making those cakes, 1 and she said I had better try. So I did. I emptied the batter all out of the pitcher one evenings and set the cakes myself. I got the flour and the salt, and the water, and warned by the past, put in a liberal quantity of eggs and shortening. I shortened with tallow from roast beef, because I could not find any lard. The batter did not look' right. I lighted niy pipe/ pondered— yeas fc, yeast* to be sure. ■ JP had forgotten the yeast. I went and woke the baker and got six cents'worth of yeast. I set the pitcher behind the sittirig-foom stove and went to bed. In the morning I got up early and- prepared to enjb^ my triumph; bat I didn't. That was yeast strong enough' to raise the" dead; the batter was running all over the carpet. I scraped it upv andput it into another dish. I got a fire in the kitchen and put on the griddle. The first lot of cakes stuck to, the griddle, Tha second dittoed, only moreV * Maria i£imj Itnen came down, and asked me what was burning.: She ;Mvisedsme to grease the griddle. I did it. One end of the griddle wa» too hot, and' I dropped the thing on my tenderest corn, while trying to turn round. Finally the cakes were ready for breakfast, and Maria Ann got the things ready. We sat down. My cakes did not have exactly the right flavor. I took one mouthful, and that satisfied me. I lost my appetite at once. Maria Ann would not let me put any on lier plate. I think those cakes may be reckoned a dead 1653. The cat would not eat them. The dog ran, off.and stayed away three, days after one was offered him. The hens, wouldn't go within ten yards .of them. I threw them into the back" yard, and there has not been a. pig on the premises since. I eat what is put before me now, and do ,aot allude to my mother's system of cooking. !