Salt Lake Herald | 1890-07-04 | Page 1 | Pleasures of the Czar's Table

Pleasures of the Czars Table Special to THE HERALD Examiner Cable ST PETEHSBUHG July 3The discovery has been made recently that an egg can easily be poisoned by the insert on of a thin wire that would leave no mark on the shell Till then the Czar had eaten hen fruit with absolute security but now eggs are sent to the palue for Alexanders breakfast in all sorts of mysterious recep tides sometimes in hat boxes and they arc boiled or converted into omelets in the kitchen contiguous to the Czars study Here his Parisian cook named Reynoud operates under his personal superintendence superintend-ence of the Czarina who goes in and out of the kitchen all times and often prepares pre-pares dishes with her own hands The Czar never eats thick soups or thick sauces His food is meat boiled or broiled The broth or gravy must always bo perfectly clear Vegetables are served whole and cut before him with a silver knife The sugar which he cats with his fruit is also pounded in his sight and his salt is common gray salt in large grains with which it would bo impossible to mix arsenic as could bo done with the fine white table salt