Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-10-21
Domestic Science
ny Emma Paddock TcIford.

Girls should receive some Instruction
in the high. but too much neglected art
of cookery. Even a Duchess should he
able to make a porridgo and boil pota-
toes. Sir James Crichton- Browne.
whom God has Joined in matrimony.
ill-cooled joints and ill-ho'led potatoes
have very often put asunder. Smiles.
Employ a potato for anything starch
sugar Irish stew. Scotch whiskey. cut
in half and restore an Old Master, and
with tho other drive n cat from the back
garden. More deadly battles have been
Waged ovcv the proper way to cook po-
tato than over n parish boundary. or an
Irish eviction. Worn inside the pocket
infallible cure for chronic rheumatism
fits and tuhercular meningitis. Worn
inside the bobby. convert tho living skelc-
ton into a Daniel Lambert. Origin
doubtful. Long before Spaniards reach
ed the New World. cultivated largely
by Incas. Brought to England from
Virginia by Sir John Hawkins in 1863
and in 1856 by Sir Francis Drake to whom
as introducer of the potato statue was
erected at Offenburg in Baden in 1853.
For many years known in England as
the "Batala" G.orne Doone) and in
France until close of 18th century looked
upon with suspicion (earth aprle) as the
cause OF lorrosy and assorted fevers.
Edmund Spencer.
"Openank' are kind of roots of
round form: some OF the bignessc OF
walnuts some fare greater which are
found in moist and marash grounds
growing many together one by another
, in ropes as though they were fastened
With a string Being boiled they are a
very good meat Thomas Herriot one
of the first Virginia colonists in 1887.
MEN SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked Sweet Apples and Cream
Cereal.
Pork Chops Fried Apples
Grilled Sweet Potatoes.
| Toast.
Coffee.
oyster Soup.
Celery Pickles.
Roast Chicken, Mashed Potatoes
Dreamed onions
Lettuce ana Green Pepper Salad.
Ice Cream Served in Canteloupes.
Black Coffee.
SUPPER.
Baked Potatoes
cola Tongue Cucumber Catsup.
Cream Cheese ard Green Pepper Salad
Potato Rusk.
sliced Bartlett Pears with Cream.
Delicate Cake.
| Tea.
7. potatoes had tongues in lieu Of eye
they would long ago have protested
against the outrases perpetrated asains
them in their preparation for the table
Tho stupidest scullery maid Is deemed
competent 10 vrestls with boiling po
ltato. when really It Is fine art worth,
the exercise OF brains and skilled 'ntsi'
gence While the potato - unAt for IN
sol. diet. as ruch large quantities ar
required TO satisfy all the demands q
The body. II is one OF our most valuabl
foods when properly cooked and corr
bined with heterogeneous substances.
IN BUYING POTATOES.
In buying potatoes, those that haV
been grown IN light loamy soil, arc hes
Select. II possible. those uniform !
size for baking or boiling. Mcaliness
the desideratum here. on the othe
/
better TO be rather small. hard an
waXy For baking. the long. oval pota
toes are preferable
TO BOIL. A POTATO.
Tho Irishman's way Of cooking pc
tato IN its Jacket is the scientific on
though he may not realize it, The va
uahle salts Of the vegetable lie next II
skin and when peeled these are lost.
cooked in the skin they should be fire.
from any bemish and scrubbed absolute
, " clean. With a sharp knife cut nan
+ row band of the skin around the cente
Of tho potato Be sure the potatoes Sc
ected are of uniform size. Cover ger
erously with boiling water, adjust I'll
lid, Immediately let come to rapi
boil. then push back where the wats
will cook gently until the potatoes al
tender. When they have been cookir
about IS minutes, uncover and add sal