le Complaints,
etc. Surpassing in the cures the most
celebrated European Spas. At the World's Columbian
Exhibition, the highest distinction was
awarded the
MAGI CALEDONIA SPRINGS WATERS
over all competitors--Medal and Diploma.
M. TIMMONS & SON,
SOLE AGENTS & BOTTLERS,
90-92 COTE D'ABRAHAM, QUEBEC.
* * * * * *
MY
PET RECIPES
TRIED and TRUE
CONTRIBUTED BY THE LADIES AND FRIENDS
OF ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH
QUEBEC
"We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks."
--OWEN MEREDITH.
Quebec
"Daily Telegraph" Printing House
1900
Rhymes to Remember...
"_Always have lobster sauce with salmon,
And put mint sauce your roasted lamb on.
In dressing salad mind this law
With two hard yolks use one raw.
Roast pork, sans apple sauce, past doubt
Is Hamlet with the Prince left out.
Broil lightly your beefsteak--to fry it
Argues contempt of christian diet.
It gives true epicures the vapors
To see boiled mutton minus capers.
Boiled turkey, gourmands know, of course
Is exquisite with celery sauce.
Roasted in paste, a haunch of mutton
Might make ascetics play the glutton.
To roast spring chickens is to spoil them,
Just split them down the back and broil them,
Shad, stuffed and baked is most delicious,
T'would have electrified Apicius.
Roast veal with rich stock gravy serve,
And pickled mushrooms too, observe,
The cook deserves a hearty cuffing
Who serves roast fowl with tasteless stuffing.
But one might rhyme for weeks this way,
And still have lots of things to say;
And so I'll close, for reader mine,
This is about the hour to dine._"
SOUP.
"The best soups are made with a blending of many flavors. Don't be
afraid of experimenting with them. Where you make one mistake you will
be surprised to find the number of successful varieties you can produce.
If you like a spicy flavor try two or three cloves, or allspice, or bay
leaves. All soups are improved by a dash of onion, unless it is the
white soups, or purees from chicken, veal, fish, etc. In these celer
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