Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — French Economy. [ARTICLE]

French Economy.

A writer says: “In Paris, that very paradise of cookery, the substantial element of balls and parties is either wholly wanting or is but a very secondary consideration. A Parisienne will bid you to her house, and leave you to refresh exhausted nature with a cup of tea aud a sponge cake. In summer she may vary the entertainment by offering you a glass of currant syrup and water. She would consider herself as utterly ruined in a financial point of view did she conceive that an assemblage of some twenty or thirty people would require anything more substantial. At entertainments on a larger scale, such as soirees musicale, evening receptions, etc., ices, coffee, sandwiches, and a variety of small cakes are usually handed round during the course of the evening, and that is all. At the grandest of grand balls the supper is alrrost invariably composed entirely of cold dishes—chicken, fillet of beef, fish with mayonnaise sauce, etc., with ices, cakes and delicious bonbons. If extra magnificence in the matter of viands is aimed at, it is sought in the matter of unseasonable and consequently co.fily delicacies. Thus, at a ball which was given during the month of February last, the feature of the supper was strawberries, served in unlimited profusion.”