The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-07
ALE fresh meat should be cooked in

ALL fresh meat should be cooked in
boiling water, that the outer part may
contract and the internal juices be pre-
served. For making soup, when you
wish all the juices extracted, put IN in
cold water, and the salt may be ex-
tracted in cooking. In boiling meat it
is important to keep the water con-
stantly boiling, otherwise the meat will
absorb it. Be careful to add boiling
water if necessary to replenish. Re
move the scum when it first makes its
appearance. Allow but twenty minutes
boiling for each pound of meat. In
broiling, have each gridiron hot before
beginning operations. A heated skillet,
barren Of grease, will make a respecte-
BILE substitute In roasting beef that is
not particularly tough use a brick oven,
allowing about twenty minutes for each
pound of meat.
w. M. LAFFIN saysin Scri6ner's Maga-
zine: The Chesapeake has conferred
upon Baltimore the title of the "gas-
tronomic capital" of the country. The
fish, the game and the reptiles of its
generous waters, and the traditions of
the Maryland kitchen, have made Balti-
more a Mecca toward which the eyes of
all American bonuiuants are turned with
a yeneration that dyspepsia cannot Inn
pair. Places have their dishes and
exult in them. New England points
with pride to an unsullied record of
pumpkin pies. New Orleans has its
pompano, and boasts it much as Green
witch does its white-bait. In San Fran
cisco you win the confidence of the Cali
fornian by praising his little coppery
oysters and saying that they remind you
of "Ostend penn'orths" or Dublin's
Burtin-Bindins. and that after all the
true taste of the natives" is only ac'
quired in waters where there is an excess
Of copper in suspension. At Norfolk
the sacred dish that is offered upon the
altar of hospitality is the dog-fsh. Ths
modest New Yorker, in the acerbity O.
the Lenton season, asks his foreign
friend if he ever saw anything like "oul
shad." In Albany you partake O
beef sliced from a Hudson river stur
geon; a fish of which outlets from thu
shoulders are served in ttets de sole
Chicago has been heard to speak o
white fish. In Calcutta one inward.
consumes with curry. Birds nest soup
made from the gelatinous and insipit
secretion of the sea-swallow, is the disl
of honor at Shanghai. But Baltimor
rests not its reputation upon the pre-
~carious tenure of a single dish; it sits il
: complacent contemplation of the IN
rivafed variety of its local market an
calmly forbids comparison. While tn
Chesapeake continues to give its terra
!, pins, its eanvas-backs, its oysters and il
fish, this may be done with safety; an
among the pleasant restrictions that
stranger may have shall be those of
Maryland kitchen in the "season.
. Visitors from the mother-country seldo1
overlook it and they have recorded thei
, sentiments ever since the old colonis
days. In these days of rapid transit
were strange -four transatlantic cousin
, did not know more about it; and Live
pool receives many a crate of canvas
backs, many a barrel of choice oyster
!, and many a can of terrapin, cunningl
!, packed in Baltimore. There have n
l Gently been dinners given in London an
Paris at which every article of food upo
the table came from America.