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Updated: June 17, 2025
Say, Betsy, I think that apple sauce is ready to be sweetened. You do it, will you? I've got my hands in the biscuit dough. The sugar's in the left-hand drawer in the kitchen cabinet." "Oh, MY!" cried Betsy, dismayed. "I don't know how to cook!" Aunt Abigail laughed and put back a strand of curly white hair with the back of her floury hand.
"What does thee want, father?" said Rachel, rubbing her floury hands, as she went into the porch. "This child's husband is in the settlement, and will be here tonight," said Simeon. "Now, thee doesn't say that, father?" said Rachel, all her face radiant with joy. "It's really true.
She grew fairer and plumper; her arms grew as "floury white" under her muslin-sleeves as a merchant's lady's; the samovar never left her table; she would wear nothing except silk or velvet, and slept on well-stuffed feather-beds.
Saul wished the embrace could be returned by proxy, as his mother's hands were too floury to do more than hover affectionately round the delicate face that looked so fresh and young beside her wrinkled one. As it could not be done, he fled temptation and "hitched up" without delay.
It WAS a boy's face albeit bearded like the pard, with an extra fierceness in the mustaches that looked upon hers. She could not help bestowing a grim floury kiss upon it. "Well, what is it now?" "I'm thinking, aunty, it's high time you and me packed up our traps and 'shook' this yar shanty, and located somewhere else." Jeff's voice was ostentatiously cheerful, but his eyes were a little anxious.
From early morning on, tied up in a voluminous apron, she was cooking in the kitchen, very hot and floury and preoccupied, drawing grating shelves out of the oven, greasing tins and patty-pans, dredging flour. The click-clack of egg-beating resounded continuously; and mountains of sponge-cakes of all shapes and sizes rose under her hands.
Mistress Blüthgen did not take many seconds to settle with her would-be lodger, whose calling in life was shown by the floury state of his clothes. 'That is the miller from Erbisdorf, said Conrad, and at a sign from his mistress hastened to open the yard gates, that the fugitives might put their various possessions under cover.
At one time a wounded Spanish legionist, with head bound up; at another, an old beggar upon crutches; at another, a floury miller with a donkey and a sack; at another, a black looking man, in slouching sailor's hat and fishing-boots?
When done, pour the water off to the last drop; sprinkle a spoonful of salt and fine cracker crumbs over them; then shake, roll and rattle them in the kettle until the outsides are white and floury. Keep them piping hot until wanted, It is the way to have perfect boiled potatoes.
What we got at the American mess was this: a thick, frowsy, greasy soup a kind of larded dishwater; thin steak fried hard as nails, boiled beans with fried bacon laid on the beans not pork and beans, but called pork and beans with the beans slithery and hard and underdone; lettuce, cabbage, and onions soused in vinegar, white bread cut an inch thick, soft and spongy, boiled potatoes that had stood in the water after they were cooked done, and then bread pudding, made by pouring water on bread, sticking in some raisins, stirring in an egg, and serving a floury syrup over it for sauce!
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