Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1881 — The Household Recipe. [ARTICLE]

The Household Recipe.

In tlie information column of some' of our exchanges, the startling assertion that a watermelon may be vanished Mid will keep till Christmas, is still going around. The watermelon is our favorite fruit and we thought last fall that we would vanish one and surprise our friends with it Christmas. The surprise was all right but the melon wasn’t good for much. After the turkey and cranberry sauce had been demolished, we remarked as we sharpened the carving knife on our boot leg, that we would now deal out the fruit. When we shoved the glittering blade through the varnished shell of the watermelon, about a quart of melon juice in a bad state of preservation squirted aroqnd the festive board and stopped the flow of conversation. Yes, you can varniah a watermelon and keep it till next fall, but when you hold, the autopsy you want to have nobody around but the coroner and the embalmer. When we threw that melon over into the alley we remember that it went to pieces like an old seed cucumber thrown against the side of a bam. You can’t always bet on these recipes that yon read in the papers. We remember once of reading that a certain preparation would keep eggs for a year and they would taste better when you peeled them than when they were first picked. We tried it. They seemed filled with malaria when we opened them and they popped like a champagne cork. The family had to move out on a ranch till the affair had blown over. And while we were gone, the coroner broke into the house to see who had been killed and locked up there in order to conceal the crime. Some of these editors who compile recipes for housekeepers don’t know a blano mange from a paletot.— Bdom.er-{ (ing. ~