The Saturday Sip: June 22, 2024
Here's your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
Unless requested otherwise, when using messaging apps at work like Slack and Teams, respond in the channel or DM where the question was asked or request was made. Emailing or texting the response only further spreads the tracking of communication rather than localizing it.
The Recipe
We’re starting to see summer corn in the stores and decided it was a good time for Emily’s Deviled Corn recipe.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 182 *Please note that recipes are copied as exactly as possible, including grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Deviled Corn
Ingredients
2 cups raw corn scraped off the ears
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
Directions
Beet eggs and milk together with the seasonings. Stir in the corn and put into a baking dish. Dot with butter and put in 300°F. oven for one hour.
The Quote
“The garden party is merely an afternoon tea out of doors.” - Emily Post
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Lizzie and Dan
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Much like this week, Emily’s wedding day, June 1, 1892, was an extraordinarily hot and muggy day. Her dress (as well as her bridesmaids’ dresses) was made by Worth in Paris and, though promised earlier, arrived just two days before her wedding! The day was sixty-eight degrees (F) by eight A.M. and ninety by the afternoon. The dress’s satin and silk layers would not help keep her cool that day.
Here is what Laura Claridge wrote about the dresses in her book Emily Post, Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners.
Layers of material swathed the 19 year old bride, the white mousseline de soie “and real old lace” surely ruined by her persperation. Her high-necked corsage was trimmed with orange blossoms and a veil of point d’Alençon. Pale green mull (a fine muslin) draped the bridesmaids’ dance-length silk dresses. Straw colored corsages with delicate hints of pink cast the entire scene as a Watteau down to the triple-plumed leghorn hats.