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The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

THE PROMISE: A TALE OF THEJAMES B. (JAMES BEARDSLEY) HENDRYX
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“Mountains of light, snowy bread rose at short intervals from among foot-hills of baked potatoes, steaming dishes of macaroni and stewed tomatoes, canned corn, peas, and apple sauce, and great yellow rolls of butter into which the knives of the men skived deeply.”

From a cookbook of 1877

A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.

1877  ·  Corson
86. =Macaroni with Tomato Sauce.=--Boil half a pound of _spaghetti_ or

_macaroni_ as directed in receipt No. 83, and lay it in cold water. Make a tomato sauce as follows, and dress the _macaroni_ with it, using only enough to moisten it, and sprinkling the top with half an ounce of grated cheese; serve it hot. 87. =Tomato Sauce.=--Boil together, for one hour, half a can of tomatoes, or six large, fresh ones, one gill of broth of any kind, one sprig of thyme, one sprig of parsley, three whole cloves, three peppercorns, and half an ounce of onion sliced; rub them through a sieve with a wooden spoon, and set the sauce to keep hot; mix together over the fire one ounce of butter, and half an ounce of flour, and when smooth, incorporate with the tomato sauce. 88.

Sources: The passage is from James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx, The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Corson, The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical of 1877, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — slate cloth, pear stamp.

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