The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-11-14
Necessary Kitchen Utensils.
ARTICLES THAT
SHOULD BE FOUND IN EVERY
FAMILY.

There are very few k~itcheDmaids
who understand how to wash dishes
properly. Indeed. there are few kit
chens where all the utensils are pro-
vlded SO that dishes can be washed by
the best methods. Houses possessing
the best sets of Dresden china often
have no k%nifehoard and no kitchen
rack on which to drain the china and
porcelain or glass after it is washed.
Where the dining room china is wash
ed In the buffers pantry it is often
found that one dishpan does the work
OF two, or that there is an insufficient
snnnly Of the proper towels for wiping
and washing
There should always be two dish
mans, one to contain hot suds| in which
the dishes are washed and the other
clear, hot water In which they are
rinsed. A 'soap saver" a convenient
little instrument made OF open wire IN
which the soap is placed and shaken
about in hot water to. produce suds,
will help TO use up small pieces of soap
and prevent the soap being left soak
ing in the water, as it too frequently is
by careless maids.
If the water supplied to the house is
hard a bottle of household ammonia is
almost a necessity. A few drops will
soften the water so that suds can be
easily produced. A rack for draining
dishes is a convenient and useful add
ton to the buffers pantry or to the
kitchen sink, wherever the dishes are
washed. This is an open layer Of Stats
laid over a shelf sloping to the sink.
The dishes, after they are washed.
are laid on this rack, boiling water is
poured over them and they are left to
drain, or they are lifted from the rims
ing water on to this rack. This almost
does away with the necessity of wiping
them, as they will be found to be near
ly dry when lifted from the rack,
though it is wlsest to 60 over them
with a soft absorbent cloth.
1t pays to get an English knifeboard
of the kind which are covered with
chamois leather and bound with rub
her. If you are provided with powder
&c bath brick or sand soap which
comes for polishing knives, there will
I've no trouble in keeping the knives
sharp and clean with YER little labor
The best material for dishcloths is a
matter on which honsekeepers may dis
agree. In the hands of the average
linen crash do not last long. The
strongest material which eau be bought
in the stores is undoubtedly the linen
floor crash which comes at about TWEEN
ty-iive or thirty cents a yard One
yard will make three cloths, and half a
dozen cloths should last a year or long
er. The ordinary cheap crash which
comes at ten cents a yard does not pay
for hemming and where is the house
keeper nowadays 50 careless as not to
have her dishcloths regularly hemmedf
You cannot make a scullery maid re-
spect a dishcloth that has not been
hemmed, and unless a dishcloth is
made respectable by being hemmed it
is likely to be confused with the paint
cloths and even the kitchen foOrcloths.
When the maid knows that all the
kitchen towels and dishclOths in use
during the week are to be put through
the wash and ironed and sent upstairs
to be repla led by another supply, and
that this supply will again be washed
and lroned and replaced, she learns to
take better care of them.
By this method of puttingth the towels
systematically through the wash, and
having them ironed and sent to the
linen closet, the hoasekeeper can keep
track of them and see that they are
taken care of.-New York Tribune.