The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-18
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
MRS s. \. NETrLES.

duclve to the comfort OF q housewife
than i wel!-appointed kitchen, how
many women worry along with fry
ing-pan, one big iron kettle, and no
teakettle or other utensils!
There are many things that are OF
no use, and the assortment needs to
be made with care It is Il good idea
if one cannot get what she wants at
first to get what she can, and then set
aside small sum each mouth to be
devoted to that purpose. One will
be surprised how soon one can have
a we'll furnished kitchen.
There should be good stove. 1t
is poor economy to use stove with
the top warped nearly double ana the
crate so poor one does not dare poke
the ashes. There are many excellent
stoves. A reservoir is a great help;
but one should always have a good
teakettle.
While hardly an article Of furni-
ture, there is nothing of more impor-
tance than the chimney, rs the best
stove in the world will give little sat
isfactior with a poor chimney.
OF the actual furniture of the room
I have little to say. I think that in
addition to the usual furniture every
kitchen should contain low rocking
chair and a high stool, and one should
sit at her work as much as possible.
Potatoes can be peeled just as we'll
and as fast while one is sitting.
In the way of kettles, one should
avoid big, heavy, iron ones as much
as possible. There should be one
large iron kettle to use on extra occa-
sions, such as rendering lard, making
soap, etc. For ordinary occasions,
the granite kettles are preferable.
An ordinary family needs about two
of these kettles Get those with flat
bottoms and straight sides, with han
dies or balls They can be used on
top of the stove, and the bottoms kept
as clean as the inside. One needs al
so granite pan, without handle,
holding about a gallon, that can be
used either for cooking, preparing
vegetables, OF for stirring up cake.
Get granite whenever you can, as it
is cheaper, besides being easier to
keep clean.
One needs couple Of quart pans
for making sauces, etc. In tie way
OF frying pans, one needs at least 4
large and small one. I prefer ,ne
sheet-iron pans, with long, col.i ban
dies. Small ones, holding about 4
piut, are very Convenient for making
a sua!l quantity of sauce or to IL
two or three eggs. These kear
bright and do not lisccior anything
cooked in them.
4 steam cooker is great conven-
ience. One can make a sort of sub
stitute for a steamer of common
kettle. Take pie-pan that will fit
down within two OF three inches o
the bottom, cut it full of holes with c
large, broken nail then pound il
smooth. Put a hole in each side, aud
put string through to lift it up by
Things will steam much quicker il
this than in a steamer on top of ;
kettle. When not using the regular
steamer I often use my colander as {
steamer.
I have an iron griddle, but many
recommend the stone griddles very
highly as they do not need greasing
One needs at least four pie-tins, bu
they may also be used as pans. fol
layer cakes, if one cannot afford tht
regular pans In getting round cake
pans, get those smooth on the bottom
as I have never yet seen fancy-bot
toned pan one could turn the cake
out of without sticking more or less
Where one slices the cake off before
putting on the table, deep, square
pan is preferable. Many use the
pound baking-powder cans to bake il
OF bread pans, one needs at leas
three, one long pan, that MY be
used as a dish drain, and two other:
that will; hold two loaves and one re
spectively. Be sure to get the deel
pans. Some are so shallow thai
where the flour is inclined to run" i
is almost impossible to keep the breal
in the pan. Sometimes the pans vii
not hold wafer; then 1t pays to have
little solder put on the corners sc
they may be used for ether purposes
The new kind of bread pan, with {
lid, is a great convenience to those
who can afford them. When getting
cofee-pot, be careful not TO get toe
small one, even If your family coz
sists OF only two, on account OF com
pany. IN getting gem pans, do no
get the eieht-pan size, unless you ge
two Of them, as they do not hole
more than two-thirds of even smal
recipe.
One needs a rolling-pin and bread
board, although a great many ge
along without the bread-board aud
Aour-sifter. A wooden bowl fol
che oping vegetables and meats, ant
a chopping knife "a double one is pre-
ferable) are indispensable.
Of the small articles, one needs ;
skinner, nutmeg crater. at least two
pint cups, and 4 crater. Of the Srat
ers, the revolving kind is the handler
but [ have known many to make
their own by melting open a fruit can
Strengthening it out and cutting 1t full
of holes with nail.
One OUGHT 70 have an egg-beater
Many complain that they are not dur
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