Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN.

Car* of the Cook Stovn, No cook stove, though It is In continual use, says the New York Tribune, should have a fresh coat of blacking applied oftener than once a month, though every stove should be polished off with a stove brush every morning before the cooking begins. When a fresh coat of blacking is applied monthly, remove the old coat by rubbing off the stove while it is warm, but not hot, with a rag dipped in kerosene oil. This removes all grease stains. Apply the new coat of blacking when the stove is cold, using cold coffee Instead of water for mixing the blacking. Be careful not to blacken any of the stove edges which are of polished iron, or any of the knobs and other nlckle work, but polish these by using the a scouring soap or brickdust for the polished iron, and whiting or any silver soap for the nickel work. After the stove is thoroughly polished, wipe It off with a dry, clean rag, to remove any dust of the blacking. After this polishing, all that is necessary Is to keep a stove cloth at the side of the stove to wipe up spots of grease be fore they are burned in and make a more enduring stain, and to go over with a polishing brush in the morning while the fire is coming up. Thus with little care a stove may be kept in prime order, unless the cook is one of those unhappy slovens that spills or boils over everything she takes hold of There is no surer Indication of a household sloven than an ill-kept cook stove.