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The Pattern cook-book

1890

Page 12

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Oyster Fryer 1.25 Cleaver 60 Hanging Safe 4.00 Set Table Mats 85 Market Basket 80 Clothes " 1.50 Knife Box 40 Meat Board 25 Broom 25 Coal Scuttle 50 Coal Shovel 8 Poker 5 Paring Knife 10 Family Nail Box 10 Refrigerator i5-75 $ 1 00.00 THE KITCHEN. 33 List No. 1 Wash Tub % 55 I " " 70 I " " 85 I Wringer 2.25 1 Wash Board 25 25 Yds. Clothes Line 25 3 Doz. " Pins 6 2 Clothes Props 20 I " Horse 75 I Ironing Board 60 I Step Ladder 90 I Kitchen Table 1.25 I Coffee Mill 60 I RoUing-Pin 10 I Potato-Masher 8 I Pie Board 25 I Radish Grater 8 I Slaw Cutter 25 I Meat Board 25 1 Flour Bucket 30 I Water " 20 I Soap Cup 5 t Wooden Spoon 5 I Ash Sieve 20 I Tea Kettle 70 I Round Iron Boiler, Lined 66 1 Oval " " 1.20 I Round Sauce-Pan, " ..... 57 I Coal Scuttle 30 1 Roasting Pan 40 I Broom 25 I Chamois 20 I Griddle 25 1 Frying Pan 25 1 Bread " 15 I Waffle Iron 45 I Tin Coffee-Pot 15 I " Tea " 12 I Tea Strainer '. 3 I Coffee "■ 10 I Scoop 4 I Ladle 5 I Skimmer 6 I Spice Box 25 $25.00, Coffee Canister $ 10 Tea Canister 10 Japanese Tray 12 Crumb Brush and Tray 45 Dust-Pan 9 " Brush 20 Bread Box 60 Market Basket 60 Pudding Pan 12 Cake Cutter 3 Wash Boiler 55 Tin Kettle 9 Dish-Pan 20 Flour Sieve 15 " Dredge 5 Pepper Box 3 Iron Fork 5 " Spoon 6 Scrub Brush 12 Set Skewers 20 Chain Dish Cloth 5 Egg Whip 5 Nutmeg Grater 3 Apple Corer 5 Butter Kettle 15 Gem Pan 15 Colander 18 Broiler 20 Toaster 5 Tin Cup 4 Pie Plates 10 Basin 12 Paring Knife 5 Flat Irons 65 Hatchet 40 Mincing Knife 18 Tack Claw 7 Ice Pick 9 Knives and Forks 60 Can Opener 8 Flat Iron-Stand 5 Butcher Knife 20 Bosom Board 25 $25.00 A dish-drainer is a great convenience In the kitchen. If the sink is too small to hold both the dish pan and the drainer, a dripping pan should be set under the drainer. A sink-rack made of slats of wood on which to place the dish-pan when in use is a necessity. The modern potato-masher is a great improvement on the old wooden pounder. The potatoes should be sea- 3 34 THE PATTERN COOK-JWOK. soned after being put through the masher the first time ; they should then be re-heated and pressed through into the SINK-J^ACK. DISH-DRAINEK. serving-dish. They should not be smoothed nor patted down before being sent to table, as that would greatly diminish their lightness. The masher or strainer here illustrated is quite O inexpensive, costing only twenty-five cents ; and it can be used in many ways — for crushing berries, in powdering the yolks of eggs, etc., etc., the method of doing which is described further on. There are many dif- ferent kinds of vege- table cutters. They are made of tin, and a set of graded sizes and shapes can be purchased. They are very useful. The cups or ends of figures A and B are pressed into POTATO-MASHER. ^j-^g vegctablcs, and The cutter A will make then given a turn around. THE KITCHEN. 35 little potato balls one inch ni diameter, which are called potatoes ''^ la Farisienne'' when fried. The cutter shown at figure B will cut oblong forms. The cutters C, D, E and F may be used for cutting veg- etables that have been previously sliced for the pur- B & <— i" D -. O a ^5 O Q