The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1905-05-05
KITCHEN eAarHeNwARg.
Ansrican HOUSEWIFE Should Follow
This Neat and Sensible Custom
Of the French.

Housewives, take counsel from youf
English and French sisters! Do your
cooking with earthenware mixers and
In e%arthenware dlshes. and keep your
staple cooking materials In earthen-
ware jars. They can be hept spotlessly
clean. and ingredients are much more
palatabiy blended when cooked In their
thick walls. the cooking process con
tinuing after a dish In removed from
the FIRE. Crockery. not being able TO
Withstand the direct blaze, can never
be OF unlimited service In the kitchen,
but IL Is decreed by foreign housewives.
who have used II for years, To be BY
far the most satisfactory Kind OF uicn.
sill In every other way.
The casserole Is the piece OF crockery
which American women need most to
learn the value OF. No one dish orcra
30 many possibilities for combining and
serving vegetables In an unacceptable
form and for cooking meats In new and
savory guiscs. In the French war
casscrolcs have a pretty light exterior.
while I'm German ware they have a dark
brown glaze. They are lined With the
whitost OF porcelain, and may b.
bought In Individual recoptaoles or In
large dishes. Ia either size they are
sent TO the table just as they have been
taken from the stove. thus keeping the
contents piping hot until II IL served.
Covers of the large dishes often have
a miniature rabbit or brace OF part.
ridge nodded on tho top. instead OF q
handle. the casserole being a fayorltc
way IN which to cook game and poul.
try OF all sorts.
Small shallow dishes with long han.
dies In this same earthonwaro furnish
n most satisfactory mcans OF serving
shlrrcd eggs. a. they retain their heat
10 long when cooked Ia these individual
fcceptaclss. individual pots for cook.
Ing aud serving beans are made VI
royal blue crockery.
A kitchen never looks so tidy as when
lts shelves are covered with cilcloth
topped by white earthenwarc Jars Tot
holding rice. ~ralsins. and all the small
staple goods needed In cooking. and
which are 50 often strcwn around Ia
mussy looking bags. Both the large
sized Jars aud smaller oucs for splc.s
are attractive In simple patterned delft
ware on which the name Of the con.
lcnts Ia printed In blue.
An entire outht for preparing ingrc-
dents for cooking Is made Of blue AMI
white delft ware. and. with the excep-
iion Of the rolling board. each article
may be suspended on the knobs OF q
wall plaque which has a porcelain delft
center The OUTFIT contains q muddlcr
or bail-shapei orockery mixer. n crock.
cry straiEer. a rolling pin. with wooden
handles and porcelain cylinder. a cab
hnge cutter with porcelain body aEd
steel knife edge, u pancake litter. q
meat heater. a soup ladlo aud n potato
mashor. The pastry board has a square
porcelain center. with wooden borders.
Each article shows some quaint Dutch
scene In delft blue and the whole outfit
,osis Just S7S1.
Another receptacle which DO kitchen
should be without Is u stone water
cooler. This Is IN the form Of a keg.
and Is equipped with a small faucet
for drawing on the water. and a sepa-
rate compartment for ice -Loulsyilla
courler-JouFnal