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The Chafing=Dish Supper
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE LITTLE DINNER. One vol., 12mo,
$1.00.
THE CHAFING-DISH SUPPER. One vol.,
12mo, 75 cents.
The Chafing=Dish
Supper
By
Christine Terhune Herrick
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New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1894
Copyright, 1894, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
When to Use the Chafing-Dish. . . 1
CHAPTER II.
Practical Suggestions, .
CHAPTER III.
Beginning with the Egg,
. 1G
vi £a6fe of Contents
CHAPTER IV.
PAGE
A Pretty Kettle of Fish, ... 31
CHAPTER V.
Oysters, Clams, Scallops, ... 42
CHAPTER VI.
With the Crustaceans, .... 52
CHAPTER VII.
A Chapter on Entrees, .... 60
CHAPTER VIII.
Miscellaneous Dainties 75
$a6fe of Contents vii
CHAPTER IX.
PAGE
Rechauffes, 86
CHAPTER X.
The Chafing-Dish Menu, ... 99
INDEX, 109
CHAPTER I
WHEN TO USE THE CHAFING-DISH
The chafing-dish began its career in the
hands of the bachelors.
With them it was a substitute for a
hearthstone, and supplemented by cosey
bachelor apartments and a good club,
measurably consoled them for the domes-
tic joys most of them neither missed nor
desired.
Assisted by the chafing-dish, they could
— and often did — not only "welcome
cheerful evening in," but also see it out
in a blaze of glory. Even now, when the
chafing-dish has become an ordinary sight
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on family tables, it is still haloed with a
suggestion of revelry and midnight feasts
that endears it to the hearts of that large
class who, amid the proprieties of Philis-
tia, secretly long for the joys of Bohemia.
For the chafing-dish has ceased to be
the peculiar possession of the dweller in
tents. The most sedate householder now
owns one, which is often expensive enough
to exonerate its proprietor from any sus-
picion of Bohemianism. A solid silver
chafing-dish should be as good a guar-
antee of purse and position in these days
as was a gig in Carlyle's time, and when
the cooking of a dinner entree in the
aforesaid dish is personally conducted by
an irreproachable butler, the acme of ele-
gance and incongruity has surely been
reached.
Never, perhaps, is a chafing-dish more
out of place than under such circum-
stances. Its very presence is a plea for
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unconventionally, for a license that is
incompatible with the stern etiquette of
the feast of ceremony. The chafing-dish
has no rights at the dinner-table, unless
perchance the dinner be one of those mer-
ry, happy-go-lucky "spreads" dear to
that class of the worthy poor recruited
from the ranks of artists, journalists, and
certain workers at literature.
No ; the chafing-dish is most happily in
evidence at the midnight supper, the Sun-
day night tea, and the summer luncheon.
There it provides a delightful substitute
for the regulation cooking common on
such occasions.
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Presented as published in 1894. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
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The Chafing=Dish Supper
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE LITTLE DINNER. One vol., 12mo, $1.00.
THE CHAFING-DISH SUPPER. One vol., 12mo, 75 cents.
The Chafing=Dish Supper
By Christine Terhune Herrick
4*V20V-1Z,
«V
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright, 1894, by Charles Scribner's Sons
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
When to Use the Chafing-Dish. . . 1
CHAPTER II. Practical Suggestions, .
CHAPTER III.
Beginning with the Egg,
. 1G
vi Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV.
PAGE
A Pretty Kettle of Fish, ... 31
CHAPTER V. Oysters, Clams, Scallops, ... 42
CHAPTER VI. With the Crustaceans, .... 52
CHAPTER VII. A Chapter on Entrees, .... 60
CHAPTER VIII.
Miscellaneous Dainties 75
Table of Contents vii
CHAPTER IX.
PAGE
Rechauffes, 86
CHAPTER X.
The Chafing-Dish Menu, ... 99
INDEX, 109
CHAPTER I
WHEN TO USE THE CHAFING-DISH
The chafing-dish began its career in the hands of the bachelors.
With them it was a substitute for a hearthstone, and supplemented by cosey bachelor apartments and a good club, measurably consoled them for the domestic joys most of them neither missed nor desired.
Assisted by the chafing-dish, they could — and often did — not only "welcome cheerful evening in," but also see it out in a blaze of glory. Even now, when the chafing-dish has become an ordinary sight
2 The Chafing-Dish Supper
on family tables, it is still haloed with a suggestion of revelry and midnight feasts that endears it to the hearts of that large class who, amid the proprieties of Philistia, secretly long for the joys of Bohemia.
For the chafing-dish has ceased to be the peculiar possession of the dweller in tents. The most sedate householder now owns one, which is often expensive enough to exonerate its proprietor from any suspicion of Bohemianism. A solid silver chafing-dish should be as good a guarantee of purse and position in these days as was a gig in Carlyle's time, and when the cooking of a dinner entree in the aforesaid dish is personally conducted by an irreproachable butler, the acme of elegance and incongruity has surely been reached.
Never, perhaps, is a chafing-dish more out of place than under such circumstances. Its very presence is a plea for
When to Use the Chafing-Dish 3
unconventionally, for a license that is incompatible with the stern etiquette of the feast of ceremony. The chafing-dish has no rights at the dinner-table, unless perchance the dinner be one of those merry, happy-go-lucky "spreads" dear to that class of the worthy poor recruited from the ranks of artists, journalists, and certain workers at literature.
No ; the chafing-dish is most happily in evidence at the midnight supper, the Sunday night tea, and the summer luncheon. There it provides a delightful substitute for the regulation cooking common on such occasions.