Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-11-26
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FRIDAY EVENING, NOV 20, 1875.
THE USEHOLD.

Meat should be cooked by QUICK lire, as
the rapid closing Of the outer pores retains
all the juices within, and these, becoming
heated, create a natural process of steaming
in lis own gravy.
A remarkable article called fish. flour has
been brought forward in the last few years.
1t is not as yet manufactured in any great
quantity, as the article is still new in the
market, and consequently there is no great
demand for it. The flour is prepared from
dried fish of the first quality tits thorough
" desiccated, and then ground in mill.
The true gamey flavor of young par
fridge is never better appreciated than
within few hours of its being killed.
This may sound rank heresy 10 some per-
sons, but IL is nevertheless a fact. Par
tridges will bear hanging and their semi
decomposed flesh is not 10 be despised but
this is a flavor quite distinct from the true
gamey flavor Of fresh-kllled bird
In preparing minced veal, cut the meat
as fine rs possible, but do not chop 1t. Put
to it a very little lemon peel shred, two
CRATES of nutmeg, some salt, and four or
five spoonfuls of either little weak bro.h,
milk, or water; simmer these gently with
the meat, but take care not TO let it boil,
and add bit OF butter rubbed in flour.
Put sippets of thin toasted bread, cut into
three -cornered shape, round the dish.
Until the kitchen becomes thoroughly
and systematically organized, and is re-
garded as one of the most, if not the most,
important of household departments, there
can be no such thing as habitual health in
the family. Bad cooking poisons more
people than all the nauseous drugs ever
administered 10 poor humanity, and it af-
fords the remote cause for the employment
oflwo-thirds of all the divorce lawyers in
existence.
1t is decided mistake to suppose that
plants are unhealthful in sleeping apart
ments or sitting rooms. OF course, if the
flowers exhale strong perfume-such as
that of tuberoses, hyacinths and daphnes-
they make the air too odorous 10 be desira-
bic at night; but healthy, growing plants
absorb the carbonic acd in the atmosphere,
and keep it pure and agreeable. They are,
in fact, tie best dlsinfectants that can be
employed.
When a gentleman in China feels de-
sirous of taking unto himself a wife he
sends 10 the paternal head of some family
containing daughters for specimens of the
size of their feet, with prices attached. One
foot is valued at perhaps $1,000, the next
smaller at $1,000, and so on, according 10
the market. Alter the foot or the lady TO
til. ILL L.. atA al,a ta onrnI
in sedan-chair 10 the intended husbands
house. He meets her at the door, looks
into the vehicle to take view of the fair
one, and if she suits his taste be admits her.
AS soon as she passes his threshold she be-
comes his lawful wife; but if he likes the
lady not, he shuts the door and she is car
red whence she came.
All sorts OF glass vessels and other uten-
sis may be purified from long-retained
smells of every kind in the easiest and
most perfect manner, by rinsing them out
we'll with charcoal powder, after the gross
er impurities have been secured off with
sand and potash. Rubbing the teeth with
fine charcoal powder, and then washing out
the mouth, will renderthe teeth beautifully
white and the breath perfectly sweet where
an offensive breath has been owing to a
scorbutic disposition of the gums. Putrid
water is Immediately deprived of its bad
smell by charcoal. When meat, fish, &c.,
from intense heat or long keeping, are
likely 10 pass into state of corruption, a
simple and easy mode of keeping them
sound and healthful is to put few pieces
of charcoal, about the size of all egg,' into
the pot or saucepan wherein the flesh or
fish is 10 be boiled.