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Strange as it may seem, the hissing of her frying-pan as she dropped into it the shining fish did not mingle unpoetically with the murmur of lagging bees overhead and the soothing plaint of the river running over its shallows below.
Utensils thus made were less liable to fracture than those formed simply from clay. Occasionally a flat stone was hollowed out to about the depth of a frying-pan, and used for a cooking utensil, it having the advantage of boiling more quickly than the clay vessel over the seal-oil lamp. These lamps were simply flat stones, hollowed out with the flint instruments so as to hold oil.
When the consistency is like soft mush, have ready a frying-pan almost full of hot drippings or lard, dip your hands into cold water to enable you to handle the hot dough, and, taking up enough corn-meal dough to make a large-sized biscuit, pat it in your hands into a 3/4-inch-thick cake and gently drop it into the hot fat; immediately make another cake, drop it into the fat, and continue until the frying-pan is full.
There were cold nights, and bad living, and blows to be endured; then he felt as if his noble Spanish blood boiled within him, and bitter wicked words seethed up to his lips; but it was better to gulp them down, though he felt as the eel must feel when it is flayed and cut up, and put into the frying-pan. "I shall come again!" said a voice within him.
"Grub pile!" sang Moise once more, and a moment later all were gathered again around the little fire where Moise had quickly prepared the evening meal. "I'm just about starved," said John. "I've been wanting something to eat all afternoon." They all laughed at John's appetite, which never failed, and Moise gave him two large pieces of trout from the frying-pan.
He had left there for reasons best known to himself, working on sheep ever since. It was Old Hicks, however, who interested Tad most. Hicks's first words after being introduced were in apology for being cook on a sheep ranch. He was limping about, flourishing a frying-pan to accentuate his protests. "I'm a cowpuncher, I am. Wish I'd never joined this mutton outfit," he growled.
Cut them from the leg, and remove the skin; trim them and beat them, and sprinkle on salt and pepper. Prepare some beaten egg in a pan; and on a flat dish a mixture of bread-crumbs, minced onion, and sage. Put some lard or drippings into a frying-pan over the fire; and when it boils, put in the cutlets; having dipped every one first in the egg, and then in the seasoning.
Bryant left the house, and returned to his commander. Colonel Fanning had led his troops but a few miles when the vanguard halted, and some excitement was manifested. Spurring forward, he inquired the cause of delay. "Why, Colonel, if we ain't 'out of the frying-pan into the fire, my name is not Will Furgeson.
"I ain't," said another with a dazed expression a Klondyker carrying home his frying-pan, the one thing, apparently, saved out of the wreck. "You think you ain't comin' back? Just wait! Once you've lived up here, the Outside ain't good enough fur yer." "Right!" said an old Forty-miler, "you can try it; but Lord! how you'll miss this goll-darn Yukon."
S was in great spirits, and played the sparkler with such great success as to silence the whole of us excepting Jim, who was the agreeable rattle of the evening. God defend me from such vivacity as hers, in future, such smart speeches without meaning, such bubble and squeak nonsense! I'd as lieve stand by a frying-pan for an hour and listen to the cooking of apple fritters.
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