The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-03
KITCHEN opoRs.
How the Smells Tint Arise From Cooking
May BE Gotten Rid or


Recently CHANGED 70 go to church in
country village. Although it was weil-to-
do village, and the church was big build
ing, the odors made one fully aware that
the halcyon days of fresh air and out-of-
door sweetness were gone, and in their
place had come the crisp. delicious air of
late fall, which, alas, means to so many
people only the shutting and barring of
every crack and crevice OF their houses. In
consequence, it is not necessary when they
go abroad to say to their neighbors and
friends. g We had buckwheat cakes FOL
breakfast, or recently fried batch Of
doughnnts, for the shut-up house had en-;
abled them to impart in other ways this bit
of neighborly Sunday morning gossip.
I" But says that dear, comfortable, moth
erly-looking lady, whose delicate dough-
nuts and crullers and fried hasty pudding
nave been for years the envy Of all her
trends, +" our house is so small the smell
Of the frying pan will go all over it. shut
the clothespress door tight, but there are
cracks around 1t and 1t is so near the
kitchen."
Says some one else: " We sleep in tho
chamber over the kitchen in the winter, be
cause the pipe Of the cookstoye goes through
it, and the smell of the frying goes uI
through the pipe-hols, md it will stay in
the woolens. Some why it is never out all
the winter, except when I have time to
hang things out, and that is not often"
These were the frst shut in days, and as
hey were not quite wonted TO the odors
that chung about their heavy woollen gar
nents, the seasons went on around the little
.rcle gathered about the register after ser
ice was over, until they came to q quiet,
imid little woman, to whom the first speak
sr said " You can't have made fried cakes
recently, for there ara no traces Of then
about you"
Indeed did, and big crock full, To-
the boys are hungry in these days, and like
to take them TO school with their dinner,
and did not mean to have to make any
more until Saturday comes again An as
consisting little :. How do you keep the odor
out ~ rippled around the circle to which
she replied, Ny kitchen, as You all know,
is very small, like my house, and could
moi open a window without IL blowing on to
both me and the stove. and they would not
come down from the top, so the next time
/ went to town bought at the hardware
store four barrel springs. They cost onlys
few cents each. The first rainy day wheI
John was at home got him to put them in,
making three sets of holes so / could lower
the windows little or much. az might be
necessary. II took but q little while, and
aow my windows come down from the top
very easily, and as they are opposite l can
always have good draught which carries a
noticed the smoke generally goes up the
ceiling. Az the hnir is worse than woollen |
to hold odors, I always wear cambria
sweeping cap when am working anything
that has nm odor. keep one hanging near
The stove to be convenient. and us they are
,wn on the edge and starched very stiff,
hey are very tidy looking. Thcn, as to
ioors, before begin, l run up stairs and
open the windows in the room ever the
kitchen, shutting the door very tight. Then
shut all the doors of the kitchen very
tight too.
The instant that the last cake or bit OF
pudding is done, set the kettle or frying
pan Immediately out of doors to cool, and
throw open all the doors and window. In
two or three minutes the odors are out, and
the fresh air is in. can tell IL the smell
has gone anywhere else, and if so open a
window or door. Going upstairs, il l find
any odor in the room over the kitchen |
know it must have penetrated the closet,
and so open the door, leaving the VIM
dow open in the room for half hour longer,
but take good care to close the door from
the room into the hall as come out. CON-
ing down close the windows again, and no
one would know what had been cooking.
In frying potatoes am always careful to
drop the windows in the kitchen from the top,
as there are few odors more disagreeable
than that of stale fried potatoes. '-Pdiia-
dslphia Press.