Preparing Supper How May We Help In Preparing Supper? Continued. How can we help at the table?
When we wait on ourselves, this should be done pleasantly and all should take a share, each person helping to serve one or more dishes. The Allen children take turns as waiter in removing the soiled dishes and the food, and in putting on the dessert. A quick way is to place a tray on a small stand near the table, taking the dishes from one place at a time and sorting them on the tray as you go. The tray can then be carried into the kitchen, with the dishes ready for washing. One mother uses a plan for having everybody help at breakfast time, by serving himself on a tray. The breakfast is kept hot on the stove. Mollie Stark's older brother made a turntable on a pivot in the center of the table and standing above it. What patterns shall we choose for the table china? If you are not quite happy without gay dishes, then select a good pattern in some pitcher, or plate, or single dish, to be used once in a while.
Flowers on the table. Talking at the table. 1. 2. The history of table manners. In a painting by the 18th-century French artist Chardin, two young children are sitting down to eat.
Their table is set in the kitchen of a great house, with pots and pans hanging on the walls, but it is elegantly laid. There is a cloth on the table, and two grand chairs for the children to sit at as they use their silver cutlery under a maid's supervision. It is 1740, and they are learning to eat. Or rather, they are learning table manners. Where does food end and etiquette begin? At a dinner party, "the lady begins to help the soup … commencing with the gentleman on her right and on her left, and continuing in the same order till all are served.
It was, in fact, the culmination of hundreds of years of changing manners. Europeans in the middle ages had had little ceremony when it came to food. This is the height of British table manners five centuries before Mrs Beeton. Today, it might seem as though we have returned to the sloppiness of medieval feasting, or even Cheddar Gorge.
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