The Saturday Sip: November 11, 2023
Your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
When choosing elements to decorate your table, ensure that items make sense for the space (too large or too small can cause problems) and always, always ensure that no decoration impedes a guest’s ease and function at the table.
The Recipe
Pear season is underway, and Emily’s dish is a great way to use pears that aren’t quite ripe yet and get the most out of them! (Please note that spelling and grammar follow 1950’s standards.)
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 207
Pears Stewed In Sirup
Time: 40 minutes
Makes: 4
Ingredients
4 slightly unripened pears
1 cup sugar
2 cups water
1 lemon
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions
Bring sugar and water to a boil and continue boiling 3 to 4 minutes. Add pears, peeled and cut into quarters. Grate the yellow part of the lemon rind [zest] and add this, together with the juice of 1/2 the lemon, to the pears and sirup.
Simmer 25 minutes. Add the vanilla and simmer 5 minutes more. Cool and chill before serving.
The Quote
“A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.” - Emily Post.
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Lizzie and Dan
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Emily Post laughs as she holds great-grandson Billy (William G. Post, Jr) circa 1950.