Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-18
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
Care OF Kitchen Utensils.


The flavor and wholesomeness of food.
and consequently the entire health of the
household, depend TO considerable extent
upon the care given TO dishes and pots
used in preparing food. and upon the
cleanliness of various cloths and towels
used about the kitchen Sand j not
used in securing tins now as il once was,
so that they soon become unfit for any
use. There are many excellent securing
soaps that are effectual in cleaning. and
do not wear out the surface OF the pot or
pan. Boiling hot washing soda and
water will usually brighten any tinware
AS soon as it is washed wipe the tin with
q dry towel and set ii for a short time on
a shelf behind or near the stove where it
may become thoroughly dry. If this is
done Systematically there will be little
need of sand or even securing soap.
The ring dish cloth or Iron dish
cloth" is invaluable for removing any
remnant of cooking which adheres 10 the
bottom of cooking pots or tins. The
outside ofpots can be thoroughly washed
with this cloth without soiling the fingers
with SCOT, which so commonly clings to
the bottom of pots set next the fire. This
dishcloth should be kept free from grease
with boiling water and soda. and hung
near the sink, to be at hand when
wanted.
Frying pans of polished iron that be-
come blackened may be readily bright
ened with a little boiling vinegar and
salt, after which they should be
thoroughly secured with soap and dried
near the ire. All pans or pots in which
onions, cabbage or any strong vegetables
have been cooked should be first thor
oughly washed, then set on the stove
filled with soda and water, in the proper
ton of two or three tablespOnfuls of soda
to a gallon. When this water comes 10
a boiling point remove the pot from the
fire and rinse it out, and wipe it dry. 1t
is better to have special pot to cook
onions in, lined with porcelain, or of
granite ware. Iron turns this vegetable
black, and it is exceedingly difficult to
get the odor of onions out of these pots.
Soft soap is a necessary article IN
every kitchen, and this should be used
with sand to scour floors and implanted
tables: it is also especially useful about
the sink, and if freely used with boiling
hot soda and water will keep the plumb
ing works of the kitchen free from the
collection of grease which sometimes
clogs up the waste pipe of the sink.
Brushes that are used about the sink can
There is one article which is often
neglected, but which it is essential to
keep clean: this is the garbage pail. 1t
is simple matter to keep a lOng-handled
whisk hung out doors for this purpose.
a few scrubbings with this brush and
boiling water, soft soap and soda, will
remove every particle Of refuse from its
sides. 1t is disgusting habit to keep
this pail within doors at any season of
the year. This pail should be covered,
and the cover should be carefully washed
with the pail once a week.
If a wood box is kept in the house it
should be brushed out at least once a
week, as bits of refuse food and old
cloths used in cleaning are apt to collect
in such places. 1t is scarcely necessary
to add that every corner and closet on
the kitchen floor should be scrubbed out
once a week, and no dust be left in cor
ners for the seeds of diphtheria and
other zymotic diseases to be sown in the
form of the green mould, which readily
collects on any stray crumbs of refuse.
It is safe, neat habit to scald up all
cleaning cloths used for paint and floors
in the water Of the washing boiler after
the clothes are removed. Such cloths
should be carefully hung outdoors.
An abundance of dish towels of Rus
STA crash, store towels of any coarse cot
ton or linen crash, and dishcloths of
heavy linen, should be in every kitchen.
1t is better to keep set of linen bread
and cake cloths by themselves, for the
exc usive purpose Of covering rising
bread or mullins and for covering bread
when it is taken from the oven, and
wrapping around bread or cake when
they are put away in d stone pot or tin
box.-Neo York Tribune.