Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-09-18
Good
Cookery

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
And above all let the women, pretty and
plain, married and single, study the art of
cookery. II You are an artist in the kitchen
You will always be esteemed. Elizabeth
and Her German Garden.
While the 'natural cook, I" like the
3oet is born, not made" any one
With common sense and an inclination
4 70 use it, cam achieve success. Not in
IN single bound, however. There is
IN a, %, Q, d in cooking, as in every
other art, but the rudiments mastered,
tho g frills'' will follow.
The born cook seems to tell by intui-
ton when to put in and when to with
hold. She knows the proper combins-
tion Of favo=ss and the golden moment
which marks lust the difference be-
tween underdone, perfect or overdone.
Tho made cook, !" and that describes
the large majority Of US, must go by
ssrule of thumb,' until experience
makes perfect. Here, for instance, is
table, that should be memorized
& or else written out and hung up in the
Kitchen for easy reference:
Four even teaspoonfuls liquid makes
one even tablespoonful.
Three even teaspoonfuls dry material
makes one even tablespoonful.
Sixteen tablespoonfuls liquid makes
one cupful.
Twelve tablespoonfuls dry material
makes one oupful.
Two cupfuls makes one pint.
-Four cupfuls makes one quart.
One dozen eggs should weigh one
and one.half pounds.
Use: One teaspoonful soda to one
One teaspoonful soda to one pint sour
milk.
Three teaspoonfuls baking powder
to one quart of -four.
One-half cupful Of yeast or one
quarter cake compressed yeast to one
pint liquid.
One teaspoonful extract to one loaf
plain cake.
One teaspoonful salt TO two quarts of
four.
p One teaspoonful salt to one quart Of
soup.
One scant cupfuI of liquid to two full
cupfuls of -four for bread.
One scant cupful Of liquid to two full
cupfuls of -four for mullins.
One scant cupful of liquid to one full
cupful Of -four for batters
One quart OF water to each pound of
meat and bone for soup stock
-Four peppercorns, four Cloves one
teaspoonful mixed herbs to each quart
Of water for soup stock.
One quarter-pound clear salt pork to
Q pint OF beans, for Boston baked
beans. /"
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TO SERVE WITH MEATS.
With roast beef, grated horseradish.
Roast veal, tomato or horseradish
tsauce.
Roast mutton, currant Jelly.
Roast pork, apple sauce.
Roast lamb, mint sauce.
Roast turkey, chestnut dressing, Gran
berry jelly.
Roast yenison, black currant jelly Oh
grape jelly.
Roast goose, tart apple sauce.
Roast quail, ourrant jelly, celery
Bauce.
Roast canvas back duck, apple bread,
black currant jelly.
Roast chicken, bread sauce.
Fried chicken, cream gravy, corn
Roast duck, orange salad.
Roast ptarmigan, bread sauce.
Gold boiled tongue, sauce tartare oil
olives stuffed with peppers.
Veal sausage, tomoato sauce, grated
farmeSan cheese.
Pork sausage, tart apple sauce, OF
fried apples.
Frizzled beef, horseradish.
Pork croquettes, tomato sauce,
Corned beef, mustard.
Lobster outlet, sauce tartare.
Sweetbread outlet, sauce Becbamel.
Reed birds, fried hominy, white celery
Gold boiled fish, sauce piquante.
Broiled steak, maitre d,hotel hutte
or mushrooms.
Tripe, fried bacon and apple rings.
Broiled fresh mackerel, steved goose
berries $3.50
Fresh salmon, cream sauce and greer
peas.
Black calico will look like new
rinsed in very strong bluing water.
An old-fashioned but excellen
remedy for nausea is the water 4
which q little salt Goldfish has beel
soaked.
Breads made by effervescence, suol
as baking powder and the like, shout
be stirred as little as possible. Beat
ing, breaks the air cells down an
tends to make the dough heavy. wit
eggs it is Just the other way, as beat
ing entangles the air in the meshes
There is, however, one exception. Afte
the whites of the eggs have been beate
stiff separately they must be folde
into the batter with great care wifi
no further beating.
While the old saying: "a pint g
pound the world around,n ia nearI
accurate in some instances, it is nc
. in all For instance, pint Of gran,
ated sugar only weighs II ounces
pint of lard or butter weighs abo,
l434 ounces; a pint of -four, packe
without sitting, weighs IL ounces, anC
Rfter sitting, lightly 8 ounces. OR
pint OF rich milk weighs little MOI
than l6 ounces-skimmed milk is
trifie heavier-but cream is Light
than either.
physician whose mode OF trea
ment has been particularly successf
In building up children Of wea
physique, advocates good rich be
stew with plenty of bone in it, sever
times week. The bone furnish
a. Jelly strengthening to bones az
sinews. For this purpose piece fro
the shin or lower part of the rour
is best. Have the butcher saw d
bones IN order to got all the mario,
Cover with rold water, then put on
close lid and simmer several hour
Do not let it boil Vegetables al
seasonlngs may be added to suit.
Inc same doctor recommends the II
pf punching bag for small bows wi
narrow chests or n tendencv ~ ro,,,