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MRS. PARTINGTON vs. COOK-BOOKS.
“A beefsteak fried in water,” said Mrs. Partington,
“it seems to me, must taste very much as if it was biled.
They do have such curious idees about cooking now-a-days!
And people has to learn lots of outlandish names
before they know what they 've got for dinner. Ah!
the good old times was the best, when people seasoned
their dishes with flag-root and such spices, and a poor
man's fragile repast was eaten when he knew what he
had to be thankful for.”
What a cook she is, to be sure! And is n't it the
cause of rejoicing for a week among the boys in the
neighborhood when she fries up a batch of doughnuts,
and Ike knows where they are kept? No wonder she
thought, as she said, that he ate like Pharaoh's lean
kind, that eat up the fat of the land of Egypt.
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