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1899

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Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
That good management is better than a good income. That mutton should be deep red and close-grained. That nutmegs should be grated at the blossom-end first. That to make good pastry the ingredients must be very cold. That the best poultry has firm flesh, yellow skin and legs. That lemons will keep for weeks if covered with cold water or glass. That the best beef is moderately fat and the flesh of a bright red color. That pork should be fine, close-grained and the rind smooth and thin. foe That 70 degrees is not too low for the temperature of a dining-room. That soap and chalk mixed and rubbed on mildewed spots will remove them. That a brush dipped in salt-water should be used in cleaning bamboo furniture. That sandpaper will whiten ivory-handled knives which have become yellow from age or usage. That a spoonful of vinegar added to the water in which meats or fowls are boiled makes them tender. That good macaroni is of a yellowish tint, does not break readily in cooking, and swells to three or four times its bulk. That warm bread and cake should be cut with a knife, the blade of which has been heated by standing it in boil- ing water. That a simple and very efficient disinfectant to pour down asink is a small quantity of charcoal mixed with clear water. That a little vinegar kept boiling on the stove while onions or cabbage are cooking will prevent the disagreeable odor going through the house. That oil-stains may be removed from wall-paper by ap- plying, for four hours, powdered pipe-clay mixed with water to the thickness of cream. COMMITTEE. TIME OF COOKING. CUT THIS OUT AND PASTE IN A PROMINENT PLACE IN THE KE ECE IN: (Sallie Joy White in April Woman’s Home Campanion). This is the formula for time of cooking given the cook- ing classes to learn: Eggs (soft), coffee, clams, oysters, three to five minutes. Green corn, small fish, and thin slices of fish, five to ten minutes. - aa CT SOLINET/ASERL PROJECT 1929 Rice, sweetbreads, peas, tomatoes, asparagus, hard-boiled eggs, fifteen to twenty minutes. Potatoes, maccaroni, squash, celery, spinach, cabbage, twenty to thirty minutes. Young beets, carrots, turnips, onions, parsnips, cauli- flower, thirty to forty-five minutes. String-beans, shelled beans, oyster plant, forty-five min- utes to one hour. Winter vegetables, hominy, wheat, one to two hours. Fowls, turkey, veal, two to three hours. Corned beef, smoked tongue, beef ala mode, three to four hours. Ham, four to five hours. For every pound of halibut and salmon, fifteen minutes; bluefish and bass, ten minutes; cod, haddock and small fish, six minutes. cy 7 a) > rae ise a Jf RUMFORD::: | _BAKING | GUARANTEED BY YOUR GROCER. ‘alt Pound Can, erin, é One Pound Can, ' oy we +: “The Committée on compilation commend this Powder to all honsekeeners wish good steals Cake or Biscuit ai pruigaey SS ea eck ak * a “3 : ies ; i ~ cs " f ; 4 3 + cs ; i 2 ¥ . 4 of ie * ye ’ : a Gy y wh G Wb ie ” 2 # 2 vi ” ah! , zig, teh + Ee ; a 4 de & ? nee * a Ee x ra oe 7 ba » al \ Me + \, Y “y ‘é Ne Ga Se, Pst ya - ner, ve iF i eal) ees ati ee MNT ato de ergs Ros § Maer 35 Ta ei he . ‘ aad Mi) Oe Ths Ohi’ Ger on Wd rate , AAs, Mires i elea ate Ma uP hi NE eat Ved Mit Dat oun wa Vy le: ig 24 i be aoe he) Y | i Wi Ale Poe fart 4) if) y d baths? NTs: at 4 “4 id ) i) eat ‘? : iO, ony Bers: J fre je . 4 ‘4! PAS A a ae oan eee. } + q ies ose 1 by i ee cae . De Rah AY ' vi / eels dsetett (att if t nie ith if yl} Sane oe ae ee ar SSeS ame se cA pene eben _ a = Seperate esieaen ie = Sp teenetenrtoa * Stoo : ee : : : Bea eee Z Tete ergata tterenen 5 : mes : Saat Sore SER rt tabntereatonpaee ey cs : a : = = SCS a eee Ze =