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Cake Board And
ROLLING PIN.-It is safe to be suspicious of any contrivance that promises tho much. There is such a thing as making one implement serve too many purposes; but there seems to be no good reason why a cake board and rolling pin should not always be found together, and the spice drawer. if fastened when shut by a spring catch, so as not to slip out, would be a convenience.
GLASS OR TIN FORMS for flower decorations for table are convenient and elegant. They may be filled with water or wet sand, and may be made in any fanciful form. The flowers are so placed that they conceal the form entirely. Small forms, made in form of letters, are often used to indicate the initials of the guest at whose plate they are placed, and the custom is a very pretty one. A STEAMING KETTLE. - Many vegetables are much better when stewed than when boiled in actual contact with water. Cabbage, with salt sprinkled among the leaves is more quickly cooked and is much more delicate than when boiled. The same is true of puddings, particularly plum puddings, and for chickens, potatoes, rice, and indeed for nearly every thing usually immersed in water. The outer kettle is partly filled with boiling water, the article to be cooked is placed in the perforated pan and set in the other and a closefitting cover placed over both. WASH BENCH. - No kitchen is complete without a long bench, two and a half feet wide, and of a proper height for comfort in washing, on which there is room for two or three tubs on washing days. Of course, a wringer is a necessity, and it is always best to get a good one. A cheap wringer soon becomes worthless. The rollers twist off, and it goes to pieces generally, while a good one, 7111111 properly taken care of, lasts a long time. Washing machines are more doubtful, but there are a few worthy of a place in the kitchen, especially when the women folk are not strong.
DISH WARMER. -The engraving represents a dish-warmer made of wire with feet so arranged that it may be set on a stove. Nothing spoils a good breakfast or dinner so effectually as cold plates, but when placed in the oven to heat they are very likely to be left too long, and get too hot, or if fine wares, are ruined by overheating. With this heater there is no danger of over-heating, or injury. This may also be used as a dish-drainer, and is equal to the best made specially for the purpose. REVOLVING GRATER. - This is a labor-saving grater, for grating horse-radish, cocoanut, pumpkin, and such other articles as need treatment on a coarse grater. It is fastened to a strong frame which is screwed to a table, and as will be readily seen, does its work with great rapidity. When much work of this kind is done in a family, it pays for itself in a few months in the saving of time, and yet it is so simple and so well constructed that it will last a life-time.
This is as great an improvement in its way as the modern egg-beater is over a spoon. The "world moves," and even in the kitchen labor is lightened by the ingenuity of modern invention. A GOOD LANTERN is a necessity in every house, and a poor lantern that is always out of order when wanted, is as much a nuisance as a broken umbrella, The form represented here burns kerosene oil, and is a cheap, convenient, and in every way a good lantern for family use. The lamp is easily filled. The tube that surrounds the lamp furnishes the air for combustion and it is not easily broken or damaged. CUPBOARDS.-There ought always to be an iron-ware closet, with deep shelves, in the kitchen, where iron-ware can be kept out of the dust. For china, glass and silver, if such a luxury is known, a corner cupboard with glass doors is a pretty article of furniture, and takes very little available room. ers for napkins and table-cloths and for the children's bibs and aprons are also in order.
Draw- DUTCH OVEN. - The cut represents the old-fashioned Dutch oven, an iron kettle with a heavy tight-fitting iron lid. This is often used for outdoor cooking, and during the war the soldiers were delighted to get possession of one of these ovens to bake their pork and beans in or their corn bread or "pone." The oven was lowered into the ground level with the top and the lid covered with live coals. There is no oven which bakes pork and beans and imparts the same delicious flavor, especially when the appetite has been sharpened by out-door work or sport and a moderate degree of fasting. LEMON SQUEEZER. -In making lemonade a powerful squeezer is necessary to extract all the juice. The one here represented takes a whole lemon and cuts and crushes it at the same time.
It is made of galvanized iron, and is consequently rust-proof, easily cleaned and not liable to be broken as is the case with wooden squeezers. There are other forms of iron squeezers that are good, and much better than the wooden ones, but this is the only small one that cuts and crushes whole lemons. Larger ones are made for restaurant use.