“Mark, thy interminable farms, North, South, Thy wealthy daughter-states, Eastern and Western, The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest, Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn, rice, hemp, hops, Thy barns all fill’d, the endless freight-train and the bulging store-house, The grapes that ripen on thy vines, the apples in thy orchards, Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver, The inexhaustible iron in thy mines.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
outside of dried fruits, such as raisins, dates, etc., and is only two-thirds as sweet as cane sugar. As a manufactured product it is obtained from the starch of corn. =Milk sugar= is obtained from the milk of mammalia, but unlike cane sugar does not ferment. =Fruit sugar= is obtained from sweet fruits, and is sold as _diabetin_, is sweeter than cane sugar, and is principally used by diabetic patients.
Sources: The passage is from Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Farmer, The Boston cooking-school cook book of 1896, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — ochre cloth, grapes stamp.