Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — THE KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

THE KITCHEN.

How to Cook Water. The late Charles Delmonico used to talk about the new hot-water cure. He said the Delmonicoes were the first to recommend it to guests who complained of having no appetite. “Take a Cup of hot water and lemon and you will feel better, ” was the formula adopted. The lemon juice takes away the insipidity of hot water. For this antibilious remedy the caterers charged the price of a drink of their best liquors (25 cents or more), and it certainly was a wiser way to spend small change than in alcohol. “Few people know how to cook water,” Charles used to affirm. “The secret is putting good fresh water into a neat kettle already wartp, and setting the water to boil quickly, and then taking it right off to,use in tea, coffee or other drinks before it is spoiled. To let it steam and simmer and evaporate until the good water is all in the atmoSpher and the lime and iron dregs only left in the kettle, bah! that is what makes a gieat many people sick, and is worse than no water at all.”' Every lady who reads this valuable recipe of a great and careful cook should never forget how to cook water.

Mental Kitchen Scales. ’Pen common-sized eggs weigh one pound. Soft butter the size of an egg weighs one ounce. - One pint of coffee A sugar weighs twnlve ounces. One quart of sifted flour (well heaped) one pound? One pint of best brown sugar weighs thirteen ounces. Two teacups (well heaped) of coffee weigh one pound. Two teacups (level) of granulated sugar weigh one pound. Two teacups of soft butter (well jacked) weigh one pound. One and one-third pints of powdered sugar weigh one pound. Two TABLESPOONS Of powdc cd sugar or flour weigh one ounce. One tablespoon (welf rounded) of ■•ift butter weighs one ounce. One pint (heaped), of granulated Lugar weighs fourteen ounces. Foub teaspoons are equal to ,one tablespoon. . - Two and one-half teacups (level) of powdered sugar weighs one pound. Teaspoons Vary in 'size, and the new ones hold about twice as much as an old fashioned spoon of thirty years ago. A medium-sized teaspoon contains about a dram. One tablespoonful (well heaped) granulated coffee A, or brown sugar equals one ounce. Miss Parloa says one generous pint of liquid, or one pint of finely chopped meat packed solidly, weighs one pound, which ft would be very convenient to remember.

A Burglar who had risen to the head of his profession one day called upon a Lawyer and said: “I have come to demand the protection of the law.” “You shall have it, my friend—fee $5.” “Last night a man named Jones, living on Seventeenth street, shot at me,* continued the burglar. “And what were you doing?" “I wae about to crawl into one of his windows to pack up his silver and take it down to the Safe Deposit Company’s vaults for safety.” “Truly, such ingratitude must be rebuked an-' punished,” said the Lawyer. “We will have him arrested forthwith, and, though he may defend his silver against Burglars, he cannot defend his greenbacks against the law.” “Didn’t you know any better than to behave as you did last night at the party?” inquired Col. Biceps of CoL Calkins; “you made a regular fool of yourself.” “I did, did I?” replied Calkins. “Most assuredly you did. I was really ashamed of you.” “That’s all right. You say I made a fool of myeolt That puts the whole responsibility of being a fool on my own shoulders. Now with you it is different The man who would blame yon for being a fool would blame a nigger because his hair curled.”— Cheek.