| Show THE OLD TIME CORN BREAD southerner evinces a deep longing for the toothsome delicacies of the ante bellum days with good meal and a cook cool follow ing the lessons and traditions of the old regime delicious bread may be baked of indian meal but we have araie graie gra e doubts whether it can be baked as well in a stove as in an open fireplace but alas of the latter only aa a few remain an ashcake of course must have ashes they are indispensable As well try to produce a mint julep with out mint on the other hand flap jacas jacks need only a well greased try fry ing pan but skill is required to turn them this is done by pitching them out of the pan into the air and mak ing them come down flap on the other side the corn pone may be cooked in A stove or range ahe hoecake was originally cooked on a hoe in the fields and in the negro cains A skillet will do well enough tor for it but must be well greased at tha bottom so too with respect to ess egg or batter bread As for corn mut ainu the appliances of a range are ad sizably mil ably adapted to them e wish some millionaire would fit I 1 up a virginia country house in antebellum style and among other things have in it a big open fireplace a black cook in a gingham dress with a red bandana on her head and also have a halt half acre mint bed an ice icehouse house and an old time garden fil fit ed with rasp berries anh arill gooseberries thyme sage currants and all the ordinary table vegetables when one of thoe old time homes and gardens and kitchens Is restored and the host and hostess have entered into possession we me desire to be listed as a frequent guest with a reserved seat in the chimney corner then all we shall want will be the zest the appetite the voraciousness we pos hessed when we could eat eighteen rolls and six eggs for breakfast and consume a whole watermelon between meals but alas it would be easier to restore old walla walls and open fireplaces than to bring back the diges tion and storage capacity capi city of a youth that s gone of a time that s past and can never return hickmond dispatch |
