Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-01
USEFUL KITCHEN HINTS.

A GENEROUS, wholesome diet is less
expensive than a doctors bill.
NEVER announce the day of the week
! by the odors from the kitchen.
MIX bread with spoon and reserve
your hands for kneading only.
CORDIAL hospitality is good sauce,
though there be scant supply of pud-
ding.
A DAINTY surprise on the table will
often tempt back a lost or wandering
appetite.
THERE is no excuse for poor bread in
afamily-you may lay the failure to in
dolence.
DROP a rose geranium leaf or bit of
lemon verbena into each finger bowl
before serving.
A FRENCH chemist suggests putting a
lump of sugar into the teapot with tea
while sleeping.
COOKING-sCHOOL DEFINITION: Man is
an animal that builds a fire and uses it
to cook his food"
CAKE, too dry to serve on the table,
makes very delicate buildings and re-
quires less sweetening.
JUST enough sugar to restore the nat
ural sweetness Of flour, lost in ferment-
alton, is necessary in raised bread.
Your bread needs no shortening
when made of milk. Butter may be
added as shortening with water bread.
COOKERY is the art of preparing food
for the nourishment of the body, saws
one. Alas how few of us receive hene-
fit from this art.
One writer says, in speaking of the
control of servants: eff | were to give
only one rule to the mistress Of a house
If wOulS no. oan tho rains -
New YoRK's favorite caterer sends
back the following answer to a lady's
order for three mince pies: 1--WE are
unable to prepare the dish you re-
quire."
IT is the worst sort of economy to try
by any artifiCe of cookery or disguise of
conditions to insinuate things unfit to
be eaten into peoples stomachs.
FRYING is cooking in hot fat, miners
ing, not simply warming up" in it;
this last method is answerable for all
the anathemas which are leveled at
Crying"
Dry your stale bread and crackers in
the oven, then pound them and put
them in preserving bottle, to be used
in griddle cakes, buildings, poultry
dressings, etc.
THOROUGH draining after frying is
secret not known to many. Hold your
frying basket over the fat kettle, and
the superfuous fat will drop back into
the kettle.
STINGY and lazy people never make
good cooks. 1t requires plenty of good
materials and much good care In their
preparation to accomplish the best re-
suits In this important branch of do
nestle science.
Mrs. PARTINGToN once said: "Ah,
many a fair home has been desiccated
by poor cooking, and mans table is
often the rock on which his happiness
has split, with bread SO hard you could
throw it at a stone wal
EVERYBODY may have sweet salt pork
by buying a strip of the fresh pork,
making good strong brine in a butter
frkin, and keeping the pork under the
brine by means of weight on pie
plate.
IT is more essential to have "catch
alp in the kitchen than in the sewing
room, but of not the same style. All
the bits of meats, vegetables. bread,
butter are all necessary for those
"made dishes" which establish a cooks
reputation and half the expenses in any
family.
WHEN housekeepers will refuse to
give recommendations to servants who
are unworthy, and other housekeepers
will refuse to hire unless proper Gre
will be a suspension of the abuses
which are so common in changing serv-
ants.
FILIPPINf worked five years on hir
book to prepare different menu fos
each day in the year and each meal in
the day, and what is more remarkable
is the tact that each dish mentioned in
every breakfast, luncheon and dinner
for the whole 365 days is in the mar
ket any time you select it.
MIX one cup flour, one-half cup corn
meal, One-third cup sugar, one-half tea
spoonful salt. one-half teaspoonful soda;
beat thoroughly two eggs; add to the
dry mixture one tablespoonful of melt
ed butter, one cup sour milk, and last
the eggs, and you will have the incest
corn cake that it is possible to make.
SENSIBLE cook books to the front ! A
compilation of receipts does not make
COOK book, and it frequently occurs that
the most careful author leaves out one
of the ingredients, for instance: After
naming the ingredients of a pudding,
but emitting the molasses, the direc-
tons go on to say, "warm the molasses,
ETC." Here is case where judgment
comes in as to how much molasses TO
use. Another recipe for corn cake
leaves out the Indian meal. That book
which deals only with tried reel pes must
be relied upon.
A. SMALL crock into which good sweet
drippings may be strained is an essen
tial in every kitchen. 1t must be, ex-
cepting in cold weather, melted, clari-
fed with raw potatoes, and strained
back into the jar every week. For all
deep frying purposes mixed with lard it
will produce better results than either
butter or lard singly. Mutton or ham
fat, and any other fat which may have
become burned, therefore useless in drip
ping, can be converted into soft soap
with very little trouble, and reduce the
grocer's bill very perceptibly.