Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Grandmother’s Pantry. [ARTICLE]

Grandmother’s Pantry.

A correspondent of the Youth’s Companion, who evidently has a “sweet' tooth,” waxes eloquont over the goodies made by our grandmothers, who, as ho truly says, had few cook books, but knew how to cook. He writes feelingly and wellj but if he is a married man it is, perhaps, fortunate for him that his lettor is printed anonymously. It is long since some of us have seen any of tho crullers of which we were so ‘fbnd when grandmother made them. She used to make, also, a toothsome little seed-cake, fragrant with caraway and anise seods, with sugar on top, the like of which wo have not seen since wo used to s ip into her pantry, and help ourselves out of the old blue stone jar in which, they were always kopt, There was another and larger stone jar on the same shelf, in which she kept those big, puffy, twisted and braided doughnuts that neither looked nor tasted like the' degenerate doughnuts of the present day. Sometimes we chose a cooky instead, a cooky “as was a cooky;” not a thin, wafer-like, dry cooky, ii"ke the cookies of this generation, but a full inch thick and almdst as large as a saucer—a cooky to delight the heart and still more tho stomach qf a hungry boy. You remember, too, the big brown turnover with your initial on it. In these days of elaborate and unwholesome dishes you have never tasted anything better than that turnover. You found many things in your grandmother’s pantry that you never find anywhere now. And, perhaps, with tho exception of your own mother, you have never found any one so kind and patient and generous as grandmother herself was.