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The housewife's referee

1898

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Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The Electric Whisk ought to find a place in every well- regulated kitchen, as it is a first-rate article for making mayonnaise and other thick sauces as well as for whisking purposes generally. It is composed of corrugated blades turned alternately inwards and outwards, thus enabling them to rub and incorporate the ingredients to be mixed in a superior manner to those in general use. The Signal Egg Saucepan is a novel vessel for cooking eggs, of which three or six can be cooked at a time ; the eggs are placed in the holders and barely covered with water, which is so legulated as to generate sufficient steam to sound the whistle in the cover at the exact time the eggs are done. This is most effective. 24 THE housewife's REFEREE Clarke's Grilling Pan for chops and steaks is cleaner than a gridiron, and has a cut in it which prevents the grease running over the fireplace. A clear fire is not essential, as anything cooked in this pan cannot get smoked; it has a raised bottom so that the meat does not fry in its fat, contracting thereby a disagreeable flavour ; in fact, the meat cooked in this grilling pan preserves its proper flavour, just as though it were cooked on a clear fire. Even the lean part of bacon becomes crisp. The Octopus, a galvanic and hygienic anti-incrustator, is a necessity in every house; it prevents kitchen-boilers ex- ploding, purifies and softens the water, saves from twenty to eighty per cent, in fuel, and prevents deposit of fur in boilers and pipes connected ; smaller ones are useful to keep in a kitchen kettle. The New Milk-Boiler is a very useful appendage to the kitchen ; with it, boiling over is quite impossible. It con- sists of a sort of chimney or cylinder, at the base of which is a collar shaped like a parapet, which has four holes in it. A second cylinder slides over the vertical one, and is provided with a lid to facilitate cleaning the apparatus. The appliance is placed with its cone-shaped base on the bottom of the saucepan, and so provides the boiling milk with another place in which to travel than outside the pan into the fire. The cylinder is telescopic and can be made shorter at will. The Gourmet Boiler should be a sine qua non in every house. It consists simply of a glazed stoneware vessel containing the food required to be cooked, which stands inside an ordinary saucepan half -filled with slightly salted water. It requires no watching nor stirring, and does away with the possibility of burning by maintaining a uniform simmering, however much the water in which it stands may boil. I have all my soups and hashes made in one. They are made in every size, and the small ones are so useful for sauces. Perrault's Machine Americaine is a capital utensil for making real strong consommes. The meat is cut up and put into the china vessel with vegetables and seasoning. USEFUL ADJUNCTS TO THE KITCHEN 25 The water must boil up to the screw, indicated in the apparatus ; and it takes five hours to make the best and strongest consommes. It is made in various size?, holding from one pound of meat upwards.