Quick Cooking

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. In order to accomplish the cooking for an ordinary household quickly and easily, there are other considerations quite as important as the directions for making the dishes themselves, and the editor of this book requests all consulting it to conform, as far as possible, to the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. In order to accomplish the cooking for an ordinary household quickly and easily, there are other considerations quite as important as the directions for making the dishes themselves, and the editor of this book requests all consulting it to conform, as far as possible, to the following suggestions: Be Systematic.?No matter how your kitchen or pantry may be constructed, see that all ingredients commonly used in cooking are gathered into the smallest possible compass and always in place. Model your cooking arrangements after those of a steamer's galley, the most compact and efficient kitchen in existence. If you have not a patent meal chest with different compartments, and a sliding cake-board, have asolid bin, of just the right height, constructed for your flour, and let your moulding board, inverted, form the cover. Back of this and beside it have shelves placed, and on these range your little sacks of meal, your baking powder, soda, sugar, salt, cornstarch, flavoring extracts, eggs, lard, spices, rolling-pin, cake cutters, mixing dishes, and mixing spoons, egg beater, scoops, graters, choppers, baking dishes, and pastry knife. The time saved by this simple arrangement?which any woman who can handle hammer and nails can easily contrive for herself?is simply astonishing, and probably comprises from one half to three fourths of the time she spends in cooking, when perpetually running hither and thither to hunt up needed ingredients, and then to replace them. Learn To Be Versatile In Action.?Do not stand perpetually over your range, but when a dish is once upon the stove or in the oven, prepare any others that may be desired, after our quick recipes. In baking, roasting, or any of the longer processes, calculate the time dishes can safely be left ...