The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-19
AGRICULTURAL.
Proverbs in Cookery.
Miss Dods Telling How TO Prepare Var
ious Sorts ofNice Dishes.
From the PHILADELPHIA Times


lectures on cookery at Association Hall was
given yesterday. Miss Dods's lectures are
full OF little bits OF information that might
properly be called culinary proverbs. Here
are few of them:
There is greenness in onions and pota-
toes that renders them hard to digest. For
heath's sake put them in warm water for an
hour before cooking.
The only kind of stove with which you
can preserve uniform heat is a gas stove !;
with it you can simmer a pot for an hour or
boil it at the same rate for 20 minutes.
Good flour is not tested by its color. White
flour may not be the best. The test of good
flour is by the amount of water it absorbs.
In cooking a fowl, to ascertain when it is
done, but skewer into the breast and Ii the
breast is tender the fowl is done.
A few dried or preserved cherries with
stones out, are the very best thing possible to
garnish sweet dishes.
Nelson's gelatine is the best, because it is
stronger than other kind.
Single cream is cream that has stood on the
milk IL hours. 1t is best for tea and coffee
Double cream stands on its milk "a hours,
and cream for butter frequently stands 4S
hours. Cream that is to be whipped should
not be butter cream, lest in whipping it
change to butter.
To beat the whites of eggs quickly put in
pinch OF salt. The cooler the eggs the
quicker they will froth. Salt cools and also
freshens them.
In boiling eggs hard put them in boiling
water ten minutes and then put them in cold
water. 1t will prevent the yolk from coloring
black.
You must never attempt to boil the dress
ing OF clear soup in the stock, for 1t will al
ways discolor the soup.
In making any sauce put the butter and
flour in together and yoursauce will never be
lumpy.
Whenever you see your sauce boil from the
SIDES OF the pan you may know your flour or
corn starch is done.
Boiled fowl with sauce, over which crate
the .yolk OF eggs, is magnificent dish for
luncheon.
Tepid water is produced by combining
two-thirds cold and one-third boiling.
10 make maccaroni tender put it Ia cold
water and bring it to boil. 1t will then lie
much more tender than ii put into hot water
or stewed in milk.
The yok of eggs binds the crust much bet
ter than the whites. Apply it TO the edge
with brush.
Old potatoes may be freshened up by
plunging them into cold water before cook
ing them.
Never put pudding that is to be steamed
into anything else than a dry mould.
Never wash raisins that are to be used in
sweet dishes. II will make the pudding
heavy. To clean them, wipe IN dry towel.
10 brown sugar for sauce or for buildings,
put&he sugar in perfectly dry saucepan.
If the pan is least bit wet the sugar will
burn, and you will spoil your saucepan.
Culets and stakes may be fried as we'll as
broiled, but they must be put in hot butter
or lard. The grease is hot enough when it
throws off bueish smoke.
The water used in mixing bread must be
tepid. Ii it Is too hot the loaf will be full of
great holes.
To boil potatoes successfully: When the
skin breaks pour off the water and let them
finish cooking in their own steam.
In making crust of any kind do not melt
the lard in the flour. Melting will ipjure the
crust.
In boiling dumplings ofany kind put them
in the water one at time. If they are put
In together they will mix with each other.
Moving Bees.
When moving stocks short distances, or
only to different stands In the same apiary. it
should be done during a cold spell in winter
or early spring, before the bees have fully
taken their location.
Ii they are to be moved mile or more, it
may be done, with proper precautions, at any
IIAAO VI ehO yCdts 4uo btOCkS W D6 moved
should be prepared early in the morning or
when bees are not flying. To prepare a stock
in common hive, blow IN little smoke
and carefully lifting the hive invert it upon
the ground. Have ready four small strips of
wool and a square piece of wire cloth or
coarse cotton Or linen, large enough to cover
the mouth of the hive. Spread the cloth
over the mouth of the hive, lay on the strips,
and tack through the strips into the edges of
the hive. These strips will save tacks and
prevent the bees crowdng out under the
cloth. A sleigh, buggy or spring wagon is
best for moving bees, yet with careful dr-
wing, they may be moved on a wagon with
out springs. Place the hives in the wagon
upon bed of straw, keeping them mouth up
to secure ventilation, as bees need much air
whenever disturbed. Besides, in this position
the combs rest upon their attached portions
and are less liable to break by jolting. 1.-THE
weather be very warm, use the wire cloth to
confne the bees, and keep the hives shaded
from the sun. In most movable comb hives
strips must be tackled across the frames to
keep them from swinging together. To pre-
pare stock in the American hive, simply
remove the cap and tack the cloth or wire
cloth over the top. Drive upon a walk.
New swarms may be brought home in a box
In the cool of the evening after their issue.
but if hives are left for them, and they are |
allowed to start new combs, great care must |
be used, If moved before the combs are
Nelp Bee Keepers Tert
Book.