Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-29


Cookery for Work People.-A very in
teresting lecture was delivered recently,
says the London Standard, at the st:
Giles schools, by Mr.. Buckmaster, OF
the Science and Art department OF the
South KensingtOn Museum, on the sub
ject of plain and cheap cookery. The
lecture was delivered under the pre-
sidency of the rector of the parish, Rev:
Canon Nisbet, and was largely attended
by the wives of working men. and by
number of district visitors and ladies
connected with the Ladies' Sanitary
Association, which has promoted the
movement. The lecturer had previously
prepared three excellent dishes, con-
sisting of two soups and one stew. The
first soup had for its ingredients tve
pennywOrth of meat, one pennyworth
of bones, three-farthingsworth OF car
rots, one halfpennywOrth of onions,
and one halfpennywOrth of herbs,
making total of two quarts of savory
soup for seven pence three farthlngs.
The second had for its Ingredients
dripping, onions, pea-flour. potatoes,
,ne egg, some parsley. and a pint OF
milk. This furnished more than two
quarts for six-pence halfpenny.. The
stew was a capital dish, consisting of
odd scraps of meat for two-pence-half-
penny, and vegetables and flour at an
additional cost of twO-pence: the whole
being served for fOur-pence-h -halfpenuy.
The lecturer gave a clear statement OF
the chemical value of the materials
used, as supplying the various wants
of tine human frame. He went through
the whole process of making each dish
in the presence of his audience, insist
ing on the great Importance of time for
the process of simmering on the fire.
Time would not allow of the poor
women tasting the viands which they
had actually seen prepared, but they
were invited to partake of the duplicate
dishes, which had been on the fire, two
of them for four hours and one for one
hour, before the lecture. BY the clean
sweep which was made of this food, 1t
seemed as if it were considered very
palatable. We are informed that 1t Is
the intention of the rector OF ST. Giles
to have similar lectures given from time
TO time by competent persons; and If
so, it is confidently hoped that the poor
est inhabitants of St. Giles may be
taught to furnish their families with
nutritious, palatable, and cheap food.
What Cats are Worth.-It is supposed
that hitherto the culinary value of cats
has been confined to China and Japan.
Our eastern friends may have long held
the monopoly. but the Parisians now
follow suit. According to GaiigndRi
there are few cat butchers in that city
price to the rag pickers for piss dead
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their skins are sold to the furriers, their
fat to the frying shops and their flesh
to the low eating houses. A certain
amiable naturalist who has tasted al
most everything under the sun, says
that well fed cat is superior to an
Ostend rabbit. PrOdigal as we are of
cat life, kittens were recently quoted
in the New Zealand price lists at from
f1 to f3 each, and grown cat from
"a to f7. A tortoise shell Tom ex-
hibited i'm Piecadilly a few years ago
was valued at 100 guIneas; and Rev. n.
W. advertiseses one for sale. in the
Animal World of February, 1870. "A
cat. perfectly black. nine months old,
is likewise offered for sale on April in
the same journal. As long ago as the
| days of Howell the Good in the yeal
94s, that Welsh king enacted that the
price of a killing before 1t could see
was to be a penny; till it caught q
mouse. twopence, and when a skilful
mOuser. fOurpence. Those who stole
or killed a eat that guarded the royal
granaries were to forfeit mich eve
its fleece and lamb, or as much wheat
as when poured on the cat. suspended
by its tail (the head touching the foor)
would form heap high enough t,
cover the tip of the tail. A short time
since "the rage set in so strong from
Brussels for Angora eats that fabulOu.
prices were asked, and dealers stole the
cats that were bought from them one
day and sold them again the next
to satisfy the demand" = Chambers
Journal.