Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen by Rae Katherine Eighmey

Author:Rae Katherine Eighmey [Eighmey, Rae Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-58834-460-1
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2014-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

As you’ll see, we know Mrs. Lincoln served sausage at their breakfasts. Menus from Miss Leslie’s cookbook for hearty “Autumn and Winter Breakfasts” provide some suggestions for the other foods she may have served. They included white or sweet potatoes, mashed, baked, or broiled; biscuits; griddle cakes or toast; eggs in omelets or poached; and even “small hominy, boiled,” what we call “grits.”

We don’t know much about the appetites of Swett and Davis, but evidently Weed was a man who enjoyed good food. Weed also recounted an anecdote of Lincoln’s about food that dramatized the balancing act inherent in their goal of selecting a cabinet that would come to include Lincoln’s rivals for the office, men from all regions of the country, and even some, if not from the restlessly dissatisfied South, at least from the border states. Conscious of the risks inherent from hurt feelings and jealous responses, Lincoln recounted a story powerfully demonstrating the possible irreparable harm to reputation caused by insult or from ill feelings.

According to Weed:

While at breakfast, Judge Davis, noticing that, after having been bountifully served with sausage, Oliver Twist like, I wanted some more, said, “You seem fond of our Illinois sausages.” To which I responded affirmatively, adding that I thought the article might be relied on where pork was cheaper than dogs. “That,” said Mr. Lincoln, “reminds me of what occurred down at Joliet, where a popular grocer supplied all of the villagers with sausages. One Saturday evening when his grocery was filled with customers, for whom he and his boys were busily engaged in weighing sausages, a neighbor with whom he had had a violent quarrel that day, came into the grocery, made his way up to the counter, holding two enormous dead cats by the tail, which he deliberately threw on to the counter, saying, ‘This makes seven to-day. I’ll call around Monday, and get my money for them.’ ”

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