The new home cook book

Porcelain washtubs are one of the last improvements, and if the inventor will now arrange for a porcelain sink, with the proper fixtures, it will be an improvement; but until that is done, marble or soapstone is the next best — far better than wood or iron. A large soapstone or marble bowl, for washing dishes, set perma- nently at the left hand corner of the sink, with a veryfine drainer at the bottom, connected with the waste pipe beneath the sink, is a greater convenience than any can realize until they have tried it ; also, a marble or soapstone drainer, with grooves, for rinsing and draining dishes. It should be fixed to the table connected with the sink, and set a little inclined, so that the water shall drain into the sink. A moulding about an inch high will be needed around the edges of the drainer, to prevent the rinsing water from flowing over on the floor, and also to keep the dishes from sliding off. With a sink thus furnished, no dish pans are needed, except to wash pots and kettles. It is a simple thing, but very useful, because it compels the one washing to put her dishes into this drainer one by one, as she washes them. There are many more items connected with the kitchen which we would like to notice, did space permit, as the table adjoining the sink for washing game and vegetables, the small drawers underneath, for scouring and polishing material, and various little conveniences. UTENSILS NECESSARY IN THE KITCHEN OF A SMALL FAMILY. WOODEN WARE. Kitchen Table ; Wash Bench ; Wash Tubs, (three sizes) ; Washboard; Skirt Board ; Bosom Board; Bread Board; Towel Roll; Potatoe Masher; Wooden Spoons; Clothes Stick ; Flour Barrel Cover ; Flour Sieve ; Chopping Bowl ; Soap Bowl; Pails; Lemon Squeezer; Clothes Wringer; Clothes Bars; Clothes Pins; Clothes Baskets; Mop; Wood Boxes, (nests). TIN WARE. One Boiler for Clothes ; one Boiler for Ham ; one Bread Pan ; two Dish Pans ; one Preserving Pan ; four Milk Pans ; two Quart Basins ; two Pint Basins ; two quart covered Tin Pails ; one four-quart covered Tin Pail ; Sauce Pans with covers, two sizes ; two Tin Cups with handles ; four Jelly Moulds, (half-pint) ; two Pint Moulds for rice, blanc-mange, etc. ; one Skimmer; two Dippers, different sizes; two Funnels, (one for jug and one for cruets) ; one quart measure, also, pint, half-pint and gill measures, (they should be broad and low as they are more easily kept clean) ; three Scoops ; Bread Pans ; two round (50) UTENSILS. Jelly Cake Pans, and two long Pie Pans ; One Coffee Pot ; one Tea Steeper ; one Colander ; one Steamer; one Horse Radish Grater ; one Nutmeg Grater ; one small Salt Sieve; one Hair Sieve for straining jelly; one Dover's Egg Beater; One Cake Turiier; one Cake Cutter; one Apple Corer ; one Potato Cutter ; one dozen Muffin Rings ; one Soap Shaker; Ice Filter; Flour Dredge; Tea Canister; Coffee Canister ; Cake, Bread, Cracker, and Cheese Boxes; Crumb Tray; Dust Pans. IKON WAEE. Range ; one Pot with steamer to fit : one Soup Kettle ; Preserving Kettle (porcelain) ; Tea Kettle ; large and small Frying Pans; Dripping Pans; Gem Pans; Iron Spoons of different sizes ; one Gridiron ; one Griddle ; one Waffle Iron; Toasting Rack; Meat Fork; Jagging Iron ; Can Opener ; Coffee Mill ; Flat Irons ; Hammer ; Tack Hammer; Screw Driver; Ice Pick. STONE WARE.