The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-29


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THE BLENDING OF INGREDIENTS.
Mixing and combining materials in prop
er manner is of prime Importance, after
they are carefully measured. Have all
materials to be used near at hand and
measured. Have all utensils ready be-
fore beginning operations This saves
blunders and waste of time. The -four,
salt, baking powder and spices (if used)
should be thoroughly sifted mixed to-
rated, have a bowl for the yolks and a
platter for the whites Break each egg
egg is not perfectly fresh or the yolk
should be broken and sSnixed with the
purpose or thrown away with out spoil
ing the eggs elready separated When
three ways in which it may be done, as
follows:
This means to mix ingredients thorough
ly by using a circular motion of the spoon
or paddle; widening the circles as you
blend materials into a smooth mass. This
principle of mixing.
BEATING.
This term applied to batters, eggs OF
liquid preparations means to turn the in
gradients over and over with decided
and rapid motion, allowing your mixing
to the surface with a quick downward and
inward stroke. In this way a consider
able amount of air is Incorporated into
the mixture and the batter made light
and smooth.
CUTTING AND FOLDING.
This method is employed when mate
whipped cream are to be added to a heav-
Ter mixture in order to prevent the escape
of the air already introduced by beating
lighter material gradually and with a
wooden spoon or paddle cut down gently
through bottom
carrying the beaten whites or cream with
the utensil and turn over, bringing to
all is thoroughly blended.
THE IMPORTANCE OF DETAIL.
To insure success, SO much depends on
space to these in a cook book would re-
quire a volume so cornmodious in size as
to be inconvenient for handling in the
kitchen.
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE.
Even a little. knowledge, gained in this
shows the often troubled and anxious
housekeeper that there is right way of
to find out the many reasons why Wo-
men are becoming more and more widely
awake to the fact that there is an endless
amount to learn in this broad field of do
nestle science. So much that must come
from the, actual putting into every day
practice the many well conceived theories.
and carrying them to a successful issue
under all conditions and surroundings.
1t is one thing to advance. from a sci
entifc standpoint, a carefully tested
theory in regard to the proper method of
doing thus and or feeding the human
body; but another and quite different
proposition when it comes to be put into
practice by those not sufficiently versed in
a knowledge of the close relations existing
between foods, occupation, surroundings
and the many physical anomalies that
make the problem of right living so hard
to solve
HOME COOKING SCHOOLS.
Dyspepsia, insomnia and the attendant
evils resulting therefrom have become so
prevalent as to arouse the feminine mind
to the fact that in self-preServation it be-
hooves her to seek no longer for remedies
but for a radical cure; as she does not
find that nursing the victims OF sour,
heavy bread, tough steaks and greasy
fried foods an occupation much to her
taste. And, in fact, she might be much
to make the bread a more reliable staff
of life, the same steak tender and tooth
some and the friend foods less mischievous
in their effect Few women, compare
reach. but the kitchen is a universal in
Stitution, embracing a scientific laboratory
of no mean scope, wherein she may gain
knowledge of more things than ever yet
giate course. But for a strange and unac-
countable reason, the homely Kitchen, as
an institution of learning, is rated below
the esteem of the average woman. We
are led to wonder at times Whe /Aer or
not, cooking being science of the high
est order this may not be the reason why
women do not take to it more readily.
The artistic features, such as beautiful
china and table decorations appeal at
once to her mind; but the plain realities,
the deep Investigations into the constitu-
ent principles upon which everything de-
ponds in the way of health, do not excite
the degree of interest in her mind the
necessity of the times demand.