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Enterprise – 1900
-by Jim St. Clair
Sackville, New Brunswick
How many times by car or bus or train have many of us passed through Sackville, New Brunswick? In addition, the community, once a part of Nova Scotia before two provinces were made from one, is the site of several locations of significance to many Inverness County people: Mount Allison University, now more than 180 years since its founding, was the location of further education for many; the office and archives of the regional branch of the United Church of Canada was the site of a yearly meeting for many years of the representatives to Maritime Conference of United Church; and there also was the location of a long standing foundry where Enterprise stoves were manufactured and where the Fawcett-Enterprise stoves and other appliances are created today – nearly 180 years as well since its establishment.
How many times were Enterprises wood-burning stoves transported to various kitchens in Inverness County after being placed on trains in Sackville and then unloaded from railway cars and placed in horse-drawn wagons or in later days on trucks of various size? The stoves provided the needed heat for cooking meals as well as for heating parts of houses. Many of these ranges are still to be found from one end of the county to the other.
Enterprise stove 1900
Accompanying a stove arriving in a local kitchen in 1900 was an 80-page publication titled “The Enterprising Housekeeper – 200 Tested Recipes by Helen Louise Johnson.” It is stated that it is published by The Enterprise Manufacturing Company in 1900.
Not only are there dozens of pages of recipes for items to be brought to breakfast, dinner, and supper meals, but also several essays on what appropriate servings should be. For instance, in the section on “supper,” Helen Johnson writes, “except in the heat of the summer, a hot dish should always be served for supper, as at the close of a day of work before a night’s fast, a cold meal does not offer sufficient nourishment.”
Menus for appropriate food are offered in abundance. For instance, the listing of breakfast items includes the following among its 11 offerings: (1) “Quaker oats, ham omelet, creamed potatoes, muffins, and coffee;” (2) “fruit, frizzled beef, baked potatoes, rice muffins, and coffee.”
One of the many recipes among the 200 is that for “Grape Catsup”- “five pounds of ripe grapes, 2 1/2 pounds of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon of pepper, 2 cupfuls of vinegar, 2 teaspoonfuls of salt, 2 blades of mace, 1 tablespoon each of whole cloves, cinnamon, and allspice.”
“Put the grapes through a press; add the sugar, vinegar, salt and spices. Boil until thick as ordinary catsup. Remove the whole spices and bottle while hot.”
The brochure includes many pages with descriptions and pictures of other utensils manufactured by Enterprise Company such as a “meat juice extractor” and a “New Cherry Stoner,” and “Meat and Food Choppers.”
The stove or range itself has a tank to the side in which water may be heated and a enclosed cabinet above the cooking level, which is a warming oven where cooked food can be kept heated prior to serving. On top of the warming section is a shelf where bottles of spices may be placed for easy access. The oven on the major part of the stove is right next to the fire box. Doors for providing appropriate drafts to encourage more fire or limit the amount of burning are white metal and much embossed with decoration. The stove pipe rises from the back of the appliance and reaches towards the chimney. It is a substantial piece of furniture that is somewhat decorated with metal medallions.
Certainly, an Enterprise wood-burning stove was a welcome addition to any kitchen. As well, the pamphlet with its many recipes and short descriptions of culinary arts must have been of much interest in rural kitchens of 1900. Many of the insights as well as the recipes are quite helpful even today. The pamphlet by its title not only suggests that the stove is manufactured by the Enterprise company but also helps a housekeeper to be creative and inventive and up to date “The Enterprising Housekeeper.”
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