Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-29
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WASTE AND WANT.
Mrs. Haskell in her Household Epcyclo-
pedia, enumerates a long list Of small house
hold leaks which we commend 70 the careful
attention of every housekeeper:
Much waste is experienced in the boiling,
etc. Of meats. Unless watched, the cook
will throw out the water without letting it
cool TO take off the fas On scrape the dipping
pan into the swill pail. The grease is useful
in many ways. II can be burned in lamps
mixed with lard; or, when no pork has been
boiled With It, made into candles When
pork has been alone 1t viii do to fry cakes II
cleaused. Again bits of meat are thrown out
which would make hashed meat or hash Inc
The -four is sifted in a wasteful manner Or
the bread nan left with the dough sticking 70
IL pie-ernst is left. and laid by to sour, m
stead Of making few tarts for tea oaSe
batter IS thrown out because but little is ieIt'
Gold nuading are considered good for moth
inc. when oftentimes they can be steamed Tor
tbe next day, or, as in the case Of rice, made
oyer in other forms. Vegetables are thrown
oway that would warm for breakfast NICE
" Dish-cloths are thrown where mice can
jos,rov them. Soap. is left in water to DIS,
solve. Or more used than is necessary, II
Ratb brick. whiting, rotten-stone, &e'' are
rsed. much is wasted uselessly. The scrub
brush is left in water, pals scorched by the
stove, tubs and barrels left in the sun to dry
and fan apart. chanber-pails allowed to rust,
tins not dried, and irouware rustedi NICE
knives used for cooking in thekitehen silver
s,,oons used TO scrape kettles, or forks to toast
bread. Rinsing of sweatmeats, and skim
mings of syrup, which make good vinegar, are
thrown out: cream is allowed to mould and
spoil. mustard to dry in the pot, and vinegar
TO corrode the castor; tea, roasted coffee, pep
per, and spices, to stand open and lose their
strength.
The molasses jug loses its cork and the flies
take nossession.s sweetmeats are opened and
forgotten. Vinegar is drawn in abasln anu
allowed TO stand until both basin and vinegar
are spoiled. Sugar is spilled from Che bar
rel coffee from the. sack and tea from the
chest. Different sauces are made too sweet,
and. both sauce and sugar wasted. Dried
fruits have not been taken care of in season,
and become wormy The vinegar on pickles
loses its strength or leaks out, and the pick
les become soft. Potatoes in the cellar grow,
and the sprouts are not removed until they
become worthless Apples decay for want OF
looking over. Pork spoils for want OF salt
and the beef because the brine wants seald'
ing. Hams become tainted or filled with YER
min for want of the right protection Dried
beefbssomes so hard it cannot be cut; cheese
monlds. and it is eaten by mice or vermin;
lard is not well fried in the fall, and becomes
tainted: butter spoils for want of being well
made at first.
Bones are burned that would make soups
ashes are thrown out careiessly, endangerng
the premises and being wasted. Servants
leave a light burning in the itchenwhen they
are all out Of an evening Clothes are whip
ned to pieces in the wind, fine cambrics rub
bed on the board, and laces torn in starchlng'
Brooms are never hung up, and good ones are
snoiled. Carpets are swept with stubs hardly
fit to scrub the kitchen, and good new brooms
used for sorubbing. Towels are used in place
Of holders, and good sheets to iron on, taking
a fresh one every week, thus scorching nearly
all in the house. Fluid, if used, is left un-
corked, endangering the house and wasting
the alcohol. Caps are left from lamps, rem
dering the fluid worthless by evaporation
Table.linens thrown carelessly down and eat
en- by mice, or put away damp, and IS mil
dewed, or the fruit stains are forgotten and
the stains washed in.
Table-cloths and napkins are used as dish
wipers; mats forgotten to be put under hot
dishes; teapots melted by the stove; water
forgotten in pitchers and allowed to freeze in
winter;. slops for COW and pigs never saved;
china used to feed cats and dogs on; and in
many other ways a careless and inexperlen-
ced housekeeper will waste, without needing,
the hard-earned wages Of her husband; when
she really thinks-because she buys no fine
clothes, makes the old ones last, and cooks
plainly-she is most superior housekeeper
The next time an unthinking husband is dis
pose to be severe because some trifing mat
ter has been neglected, he should ''put tha
in his pipe and smoke it.
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