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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1908)
TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DEUE3IBER 6, 1U03. NORDICA'S SINGING SHOWS SOUL OF WOMAN BEHIND HER VOICE Artists Who Is to Appear at Heilig December 10 Leaves Lasting Impression on Listeners by Her Art.. ; TRB concert Thursday night at tha Helllg Theater will bring again to Portland that favorite prima, do rum known everywhere a "the Queen of Song." Lillian 'ordlca. Nordlca'a ap pearanoea mean more to a community than might be apparant at first sight. great singer might please an audience vocally, yet his work leave no particular Impression beyond the recollection of having heard an exceptional voice. Nordlca goes far beyond this Una and appeals to the sympathetic as well as to the esthetic aide of the listener. Back of the rich, glorious voice ono sees the woman a thoughtful, cultured, whole-souled woman, generous, kindly and human. The concert on Thursday will bring out the 'usual throng of Nordlca admirers, for the programme Is a fine one and well calculated to display the capabilities of the company, aa well as the great powers of the prima donna herself. The concert will be at the Helllg Theater under the direction of Lola Bteers-Wynn Coman and this Is the pro gramme: J. Polonaise In A flat ..Chopin Mm Kiowexa. t. A rim Dtch Theure Halle' TannhauT" Mm. Nordic. t- Prologue from "Pagllaccr-.. .Leoncavallo Mr. Hustles. 4. Zairllsh Sens": a) Now Sleeps tbe Crimson Petal Qullter () Serenade.". R- Strauss e Ansrls Ever Bright and Fair.. " Handel (d) Hall Bounteous May..." Gena Bransrombe Uolf. Nordic. PART II- 1. a Faplllon b Rnapsodle HonitrolKe tl Shower. Prnch and Italian Songai ia Vieille Chanson.... (b Nell ic Canzonetta from Roia" idl Mattlnata Mme. Nordlca. f. a) Requiem Arthur Fote th) Sword Sons Elgar Mr. Hastlnsa 4. German aonsa (a Monat Mai Hammond (b) Ieh Lleha rich Grief (c Waldeaf eaprach Schumann Mme. Nordlca. ."Wagner Orl .LUat Blaet Fat: re "Salvator . . . . Qomea Leoncavallo . . . ; ,v - J V - ' ' tL" - . :" j V r , - - s. , 4 -i:"" - H y MJIE. LILLIAN NORDICA, TO SIPTG AT HEILIG DECEMBER 10. T4 LILIAN TINGLE WRITES OF MAKING OF FAVORITE CHRISTMAS DtSH Various Ways of Compounding Plum Pudding, Pamous as Yuletide Deli cacy Among English-Speaking People Since 1675. BY L.ILJAN TINOLE. YOU probably know the old rhyme that begins: "Roast beef, plum pudding, mince pies and beer , Came into England all In one year." It is doubtless "flat burglary as ever was committed" to dare to doubt the traditions of our ancestors thus em bodied In deathless verse; but the sad fart must be told. Plum pudding Is Teally a comparatively newcomer be side '"roast beef, mlnre pies and beer." Plum pudding, as such, does not appear In cookery books printed or manu script before 1675; and It did not be come prominent as a Christmas dish until Georgian times. It has, how ever, an ancient and very honorable ancestry In "plum porrldjre," and the origin of this famous dish Is lost In the mists of antiquity. Possibly the first historic mention of "plum porridge" Is to be found In Domesday Boook. It Is there recorded that Robert Argyllon. head cook to "William the Conqueror, served this dainty at the coronation feast, Christ mas, 1066, and so pleased his royal master that a One estate, the Manor of Addlngton, was bestowed upon him and his heirs forever. Thus was the art of the cook honored in old days. One cannot help feeling sorry for the con quered Saxon owner of that fine manor, but the Saxons were notoriously In artistic cooks. Plum porridge and plum podding after it, have been as victorious as William himself. It Is estimated that not less than 10,0)0 tons of pudding are made and consumed annually In Great Blrtain alone. Beside this, large quantities of puddings are sent all over the world. As for Its conquest of America, we may Judge partly by the rapid increase In the consumption of raisins In this country. In 1814 there was only half a barrel of raisins to be obtained In New York, to make plum puddings to cele brate the treaty of peace; and now con sider the hundred million pounds (more, 1 suppose, but I have not .up-to-date flprures) supplied by California, Here, however, we are Inclined to buy our puddings ready made from groceries, bakeries or women's exchanges; but In NEXT FIEST LADY OF THE LAND AND HER CHILDREN St' : " "TSA i .. J . : " ' .- V Jfi - , - ' ; , S L ' ' J ' - ,J i " ' " "' jmvz cretin v r . j - it t - , ill - - ij it I : . - i ' t NEW YORK, Dec. B. (Special.) Mrs. William Howard Taft. the next "First Lady' at N asnington, has been In New York visiting the family of her brother-in-law, Henry W. Taft. and having a holiday reunion with her three children. Mrs. Taft spent most of her time seeing friends and shop pine and enjoying the society of her children. The children the ees only at long Intervals, because they are all at school. Mrs. Taft made a most agreeable Impression on all who met her here. The election of her hus band to the Presidency bas not changed her In the least. She Is as simple and straightforward In manner as when her husband was on the bench in Ohio, and when she occasionally visited this city. Dignified but unaffected In manner, ehe easily makes friends wherever she goes. England, plum pudding making Is a solemn family ceremony. The puddings are mixed several weeks before Christ mas and are the pride and joy of cook and mistress alike. In old-fashioned houses the oustom of "stirring the pud ding" is still kept up. On the evening when the last raisin has been picked and the last bit of suet shredded, guests and members of the family, young and old, are invited to descend into the spicy smelling kitchen with Its shining "dish covers and well-scoured "tins" and 'brasses." The cook, with glowing cheeks, modest pride and a clean apron, waiting be side a huge bowl In the North they call It a "pancheon." nlled with the dark and luscious compound. There is a huge wooden spoon for stirring, and every one must give It a turn or two even tha baby's pudgy fist must be guided to the long handle. Moreover, you must make a wish when you turn the spoon. This Is sure to come true If you can refrain from speaking until you are spoken to and then avoid answering "yea" or "no." You might think this rule a check on conversation and merriment, but It seems to act the other way. The puddings the proper British housewife makes a year's supply at this time are boiled for hour and hours In the tvash-boner, and then hung up to await the day of festivity. The orthodox pudding Is boiled In a cloth and should be shaped like a canon ball with creased sides you re member the pudding at "Tiny Tim's:" "A great deal of steam. The pudding was out of the copper. .A smell like a washing dayl That was the cloth. A smell like an . eating house and a pastry cook's next door to each other with a laundress's next to that! That was the pudding." But In these degenerate days boiJa and fancy molds are more often used. Of course, you know how It should come to table parnlshed with bright berried holly and blazing with lighted brandy. And since the brandy may all go off In blue flames, even the strictest temperance advocate can hardly object to it. Do you care for some recipes? , Here is one over a hundred years bid to begin with: One pound beef suet, shredded fine and chopped; one pound seeded raisins and one pound currants, both carefully washed and dried; half a pound of cit ron In fine shavings; one cup brown sugar, three cups sifted breadcrumbs, one cup flour, one grated nutmeg, one tablespoonful each of mace and clna mon, four large tablespoon fuls of cream, six eggs, well beatcp, one cup brandy or wine (or orange Juice, if you dis approve of anything alcoholic). Mix" all together and stir "like fury." Bol! the pudding not less than six hours, and If possible for 34 hours. The following recipe was given by I Sir Henrv Thompson. . the famous au thority on dietetics. It differs very slightly from the older formula: One pound stoned raisins, one pound washed currants, six ounces mixed candied peel (orange, lemon and citron), one pound finely chopped suet: one-half pound bread crumbs: one-half pound sugar, one pinch of salt, a little gr.ted nutmegi a. wlneglassful of brandy, six or eight eggs, and a litle milk to mois ten, if necessary. Boil in a cloth or basin six hours. ; Keep -hanging In a dry place and reheat when required. Finally I offer you a vegetarian i mv o-vnnrimnthpr'R Whirh teuipc w. "'J " ' calls for neither suet nor brandy: One pound stoned raisins, 1 pound cleaned currants, 1 pound cleaned Sultanas, 4 pound mixed peel, finely shredded. 1 pound brown sugar, 1 pound creamed butter, 1 pound sifted white bread crumbs, pound flour, the grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 orange, Vt teaspoon almond flavoring, pound almonds, blanched and cut In strips, one small nutmeg grated, ' 1 teaspoon cinnamon. teaspoon powdered eloves, 1 cup or ange Juice, 6 or 8 eggs, according to size. Mix thoroughly and boll In bowls 6 or 8 hours. Serve decorated with holly and stuck over with whole blanched almonds. My grandmother did not approve of blazing brandy and used instead the almonds to give an extra "tor-llL" You could tell your fortune by the number that fell to your helping.. Blazing plum pudding has its dangers. Eat wisely rather than too well. Aa for cold pudding, ask that venerable author ity Mother Goose: "The man In tha moon came down too - soon (No doubt he smelled. the boiling pad dings.) And asked his way to Norwich He went by tha South and burned his mouth By eating cold plum porridge. BUYS CANAL TRANSPORTS Government Exacts Reduction of Price for Seattle Steamers. The steamers Shawm ut- and Tre mont, now at Seattle,-have been pur chased by the Isthmian Canal Com mission from the Boston Navigation Company, to be used In transporting supplies for the Panama canal. For this purpose last year Congress appropriated $1,500,000. The owners at first asked exactly this amount, but finally agreed to take SI. 157,301, which they state Is 33 per cent less than the vessels cost five and six years ago. The owners agree to deliver the ves sels at New York without coBt to the Government. These vessels will be used for car rying supplies to the canal and later will be turned over to the Navy for service as colliers. The . Government now has a contract for 4,500.000 bar rels of cement, which will be taken from New York to Colon. UNWRITTEN LAW IGNORED Man Who Killed Wife and AVound ed Paramour Goes to Prison. LTJDINGTON, Mich., Dec. 5. Ernest I Brown, an engineer of Grand Rap Ids, who came here last January and shot his wife and Robert Johnson, a farmer, in whose home she was living, Mrs. Brown dying from her wounds .replace Nothing will make a more acceptable Christmas present than a pair of Andirons. We are headquarters for Fireplace Goods of all descriptions Fire Sets, Andirons, Screens, etc. in the most up-to-date designs and in all finishes. Our stock is the best and most complete in the Northwest. We have made a big re duction in'prices, and you can buy these goods cheaper now than you have been able to buy them in the past. If you wish to select something of this line for a Christmas pres ent, we will put it to one side and deliver whenever you wish. We would suggest, however, that you make your selections at once, while our stock is complete. vj tass-im i T'miirtti mi-1 1-'8, ' ' - a i.-y-'vyiii-j ;;Cv.fa-aS.5f' si's- . ' three days later, was found guilty of manslaughter by a Jury today. Brown , was today sentenced by Judge Session to seven and a half to 15 years' Imprisonment with a recom mendation that it be 10 years. Heart Disease Killed Baird. SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 5. An analy sis of the contents of the stomach of David J. Baird, the young millionaire who died suddenly at his home recently after a night spent at a number of resorts on the ocean beach, failed to find any trace of poison other than that contained In the embalming fluid used by the embalmer. Coroner Leland Is now convinced that death resulted from heart failure. Black Hand Hat Rival. CHICAGO, Dee. 5. Fearing death at the hands of an unknown writer of threatening letters 'he has been recelv- I t Otto F. L. Herse, Tenor Who Will Sing at English Lutheran Church Tuesday Evening, JLec S . An entertainment that will surely he well natronized will be the vocal con cert to be given by Otto F. Ij. Herse, tenor halladist. in the English Lutneran Church. "West Park and : Jefferson streets, next Tuesday evening. Decern ber 8. Mr. Herse Is making a tour of the Northwest, and his present neaa quarters Is Portland. His friends here are persuading mm to remain yci manently and teach voice. His con certs are pronounced by .press and pub lic of the highest order, most charm ing and satisfying. He sings with sen timent and expressive feeling, and some of the- single tones will remain with the hearer always a more beautiful voice would be hard to find. His pro gramme consists of varied selections of high-class, and familiar songs a pror gramme that will satisfy every Indi vidual desire English, German, Scotch and Irish. Speaking of the concert in San Francisco recently, a paper of that city says: "Otto F. 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