The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-22
CHEMISTRY IN THE KITCHEN.
How It Helps aouty People to Cir
cumvent the Doctor at Table.

1t is to be hoped that by this time
our readers have found the value of BIZ
carbonate Of potash when added to
cooked cheese, and that by means of a
pinch many a welsh rarebit has been
enjoyed without the dread of ancestral
visitors. There are SO many orEher uses
for these salts that the nousekeeper
who is without small box of it in her
cupboard is indeed behind the age
1t is the fashion nowadays for the
family doctor TO forbid to equity and
rheumatic people many delicious fruits
and vegetables. These unfortunates
may now take heart (and forbidden
fruiD by means of bicarbonate of pct
ash. half-saltspGo mixed With
the swee'uensd juice of a lemon, and the
tufnibl6r flied with cold water viii
produce a refreshing, effervescent drink
and all bad effects for, the equity be
done away with. Vegetable acids are
positive necessity TO insure perfect
health It is the mineral acids that are
used for adultering summer drinks that
are sometimes actually poisonous So
long as there is the slightest possibility
of these mineral acids being served TO
US by our friends it is well worth the
slight trouble for the house wife of pre-
pairing cooling drinks at home.
bottle of hypophosphates by a good
maker is another thing that should be
kept in the cupboard, and with oranges,
lemons and fruit juices at hand, with
tine addition of sugar and cold water
are all the ingredients necessary for
various refreshing drinks. Orange or
leplen phosphate, to be of a rich frutty
flavor, must be made with the essence
extracted from the skin, as we'll as the
juice, for the latter of itself gives very
lilttle flavor. BY grating carefully the
yellow skim of the orange and bringing
it very slowly to tine boil IL cold water,
simmertng for 10 minutes and then
straining and adding to a cup of this a
cup of graduated sugar, this essence is
made to perfection. When the sugar is
dissolved the strip may be bottled and
coTked, and Will keep indefinitely AS
this syrup should be condensed enough
to allow of q teaspoonful or two. being
enough to flavor a glass of fruit p01oS-
phate, a cup of cold water viii be suffi-
cfen't in which TO simmer the grated
skin of six good-sized oranges or
lemons. Any fruit juice is improved by
the addition of this sirup made from
the skin. Beware of grating amy of
the white skin, as this will surely give
a bitter favor, press LIGHTLY, giraffe
quickly and do not 90 over the same
place twice and all will be well Many
people object to grated peel in pudd-
ings and cake; this extract will do
away with this objection.
When rheumatic people are forbidden
certain vegetables, such as peas, beams,
lentils, etc, scientific authority tells us
it is because these vegetables are de-
f1cient in potash salts as compared with
the quantity of nitrogenaus nutrfn1en't
they contain, it is, therefore, recon-
memded that about quarter of a tea
spoonfuB Of bicaFhonate of potash be
added to the water in which these pro-
scribed vegetables are boiled, just as
we add little bicaTbona.te of soda to
insure vegetables being green.
REBECCA UNDERWOO