Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — THE KITCHEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE KITCHEN.

Kitchen Helps. In many houses tho cause of poor broad can be traced to the bread being set to raise where a draught from a door will strike it, or insufficient steady warmth. In a bakery all this is guarded against, the raising-room never being allowed below a certain temperature. Tho accompanying cut, which wo takofrom an exchange, could be made very easily at home, from light timber. It is twenty-throe inches square and twentyeight inches high. Tho .shelves are of wire, and a lamp placed in tho lower part

makes tho warmth. This must not bo one that has too largo a flame, or it would cook it. On the shelf abovo the lamp place a pioco of heavy shoot-irou. This will insure your bread an oven temperature. Tho other cut Is a convenience for drying tins. Did you over try ticking for dish-tow-els? Got a light-weight quality and make-them a half a yard wide, and usetho original width for tho length of the towel. For dish-cloths, Turkish towoling i» good, or cheese-cloth taken double and basted. In theso days of cheap material it doesn’t pay to use a dish-cloth too long. When its days of usefulness are oyer* burn it

With greasy dishes, it is best to rub> them off with paper and use it to kindleflros with. This saves your dlsh-clotha. and towels, and tho dish-water does not clog up tho waste-pipes so much. If you just throw water in tho yaru, it will not contain sediment to litter up the yard. In tho early days of spring, every bit of litter about tho yard should be raked together and burned; the articles that will not burn should be carted away.. Nothing spoils a place like litter. ChHIH'XIK IRVING-

Heelpe*. Pumpkin Cuhtahd— Cut a pumpkin into squares, stew slowly until well cooked, then press through a colander or sluve. To every pint of pumpkin add a piece of butter about twice the si/.e of a walnut* half a tcaspoonful of salt (scant,) onepint of good milk, half a teaspoon eacbi of mace and cinnamon, one teaspoon of ginger, one cup of sugar, and four wellbeaten eggs. Bake in a pudding-dish* without crust, or in pie-tins with a light crust. Graham Biscuits.— Put one quart of. graham flour into a bowl. Rub into it two • ounces of butter. Add a teaspoonfui of salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix and rub again, until thoroughly, blended, then add sufficient milk, about • a half-pint, to make a soft dough.. Torn, out on the board, knead lightly, roll It . into a sheet about three-quarters of an < inch thick. Cut into biscuits. Place in . greased pans and bake in a quick oven 1 twenty minutes.