Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — The Mediæval Kitchen. [ARTICLE]

The Mediæ val Kitchen.

In the mediaeval kitchen, economy and convenience preferred the pot to the spit, and for one dish cooked with the latter twenty messes came from the former. Broiling doubtless preceded roasting, and it is probable that before meat was exposed to the fire on a spit primitive roasters hung their flesh before the flaming fuel by means of a strong and coarse Doard.—[New York World. Anybody can measure, approximately, the breadth of a river without a surveyor’s compass or any mechanical means whatever. The man who desires to make the experiment should place himself at the edge of the stream, then stand perfectly still, face the opposite bank and lower the brim of his hat until it juat cuts the opposite bank. Then let him put both his hands under his chin, to steady his head, and turn slowly round until the hat brim cuts some point on the level ground liehind him. Mark the spot where the hat brim cuts the ground, then pace off the distance and it will bo found about the breadth us the river.