Silver & Co.'s (41 Broadway, New York) new egg- poacher will be found of great value in the kitchen. Place it in a pan of boiling water, with a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of water. Let the water boil for two min- utes ; then draw the pan back where the water will hardly bubble, and break an egg into each ring. Let the eggs stand for about three minutes and they will be done. Al- ways be sure to have the poacher hot before the eggs are put in ; and it must be in the water when the eggs are broken into it. One can use muffin-rings and keep the shape of the egg round ; but this new poacher is so 40 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION convenient that one will hardly care to do without it, if poached or dropped eggs are a popular dish in the family. Egg-poacher. A chocolate-pot with a muller — that is, a sort of dasher made of wood and tin, the handle of which comes up through the cover of the pot — enables one to make a fine and frothy drink. When the chocolate is made it is poured into this pot, and the dasher is worked rapidly up and down. This makes the choco- late froth and thicken. The choc- olate is served in the pot, which is Chocolate-pot to use ,, , £ , -, -, , . .-, , ., with a Muller. usually made of block tin, though it may be of plated ware or solid silver. Salt, pepper, flour, and sugar dredgers are as necessary as spoons. There are two kinds, with a great difference Flour-dredger. Salt-box. English ware. Dredge-box. Pepper-box. Japanned ware. in price. The English dredge-boxes are made of the best of tin, with concave covers, and are well finished. These are the only suitable kinds for flour and salt. The common flat dredgers, made of common tin, usually are badly finished. They are more often Japanned than KITCHEN FUKNISH1XG. 41 left plain. Such dredgers serve very well for pepper, but not for salt and flour. Always have a rather small salt-dredger, and have the pepper-dredgers of the small- est size in the Japanned ware. This will reduce the chances of using the wrong seasoning when one is work- ing hastily. The distinc- tion should be so great that there need be no doubt which dredger contains flour, which salt, and which pepper. If a dredger be wanted for powdered su- Tapering Strainer. gar, have it of a different size from that containing flour, and do not keep it on the same shelf. A tapering strainer presents such a large surface through which material can be pressed that it saves Grocer's Tunnel. Tunnel. Flour- scoop. much time, and is therefore to be preferred to the ordi- nary strainer. ^hree tunnels are needed, — a grocer's tunnel, for fill- ing preserving-jars, and one large and one small tunnel for filling bottles, jugs, arid cruets. There should be a scoop for the flour-barrel and another for sugar. Spice-boxes are made in many forms. Little boxes labelled with the various kinds of spice are fitted Spice-box. 42 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION.

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Silver & Co.'s (41 Broadway, New York) new eggpoacher will be found of great value in the kitchen. Place it in a pan of boiling water, with a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of water. Let the water boil for two minutes ; then draw the pan back where the water will hardly bubble, and break an egg into each ring. Let the eggs stand for about three minutes and they will be done. Always be sure to have the poacher hot before the eggs are put in ; and it must be in the water when the eggs are broken into it. One can use muffin-rings and keep the shape of the egg round ; but this new poacher is so convenient that one will hardly care to do without it, if poached or dropped eggs are a popular dish in the family. Egg-poacher. A chocolate-pot with a muller — that is, a sort of dasher made of wood and tin, the handle of which comes up through the cover of the pot — enables one to make a fine and frothy drink. When the chocolate is made it is poured into this pot, and the dasher is worked rapidly up and down. This makes the chocolate froth and thicken. The chocolate is served in the pot, which is Chocolate-pot to use ,, , £ , -, -, , . .-, , ., with a Muller. usually made of block tin, though it may be of plated ware or solid silver. Salt, pepper, flour, and sugar dredgers are as necessary as spoons. There are two kinds, with a great difference Flour-dredger. Salt-box. English ware. Dredge-box. Pepper-box. Japanned ware. in price. The English dredge-boxes are made of the best of tin, with concave covers, and are well finished. These are the only suitable kinds for flour and salt. The common flat dredgers, made of common tin, usually are badly finished. They are more often Japanned than KITCHEN FURNISHING. left plain. Such dredgers serve very well for pepper, but not for salt and flour. Always have a rather small salt-dredger, and have the pepper-dredgers of the smallest size in the Japanned ware. This will reduce the chances of using the wrong seasoning when one is working hastily. The distinction should be so great that there need be no doubt which dredger contains flour, which salt, and which pepper. If a dredger be wanted for powdered su- Tapering Strainer. gar, have it of a different size from that containing flour, and do not keep it on the same shelf. A tapering strainer presents such a large surface through which material can be pressed that it saves Grocer's Tunnel. Tunnel. Flour- scoop. much time, and is therefore to be preferred to the ordinary strainer. ^hree tunnels are needed, — a grocer's tunnel, for filling preserving-jars, and one large and one small tunnel for filling bottles, jugs, arid cruets. There should be a scoop for the flour-barrel and another for sugar. Spice-boxes are made in many forms. Little boxes labelled with the various kinds of spice are fitted Spice-box.

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