Appetites depraved by fats--liquid, solid and fried--crave the assuasives of sweets and acids.

"Hunky" bread-puddings and eggless, faintly-sweetened rice puddings, and pies of various kinds, represent dessert.

Huge pickles, still smacking of the brine that "firmed" them, are offered in lieu of fresher acids.
Yet she sneers at salads, and would not touch sorrel soup to save a Frenchman's soul.

For beverages she stews into rank herbiness cheap tea by the quart, and Rio coffee, weak and turbid, with plenty of sugar in both.

Occasionally the coffee is cleared (!) with a bit of salt fish skin.