Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
Fig. 19 is an enlarged plan of the sink and cooking-form. Two windows
make a better circulation of air in warm weather, by having one open at
top and the other at the bottom, while the light is better adjusted for
working, in case of weak eyes.
[Illustration: Fig. 19.]
The flour-barrel just fills the closet, which has a door for admission,
and a lid to raise when used. Beside it is the form for cooking, with
a molding-board laid on it; one side used for preparing vegetables and
meat, and the other for molding bread. The sink has two pumps, for well
and for rain-water—one having a forcing power to throw water into the
reservoir in the garret, which supplies the water-closet and bath-room.
On the other side of the sink is the dish-drainer, with a ledge on
the edge next the sink, to hold the dishes, and grooves cut to let the
water drain into the sink. It has hinges, so that it can either rest
on the cook-form or be turned over and cover the sink. Under the sink
are shelf-boxes placed on two shelves run into grooves, with other
grooves above and below, so that one may move the shelves and increase
or diminish the spaces between. The shelf-boxes can be used for
scouring-materials, dish-towels, and dish-cloths; also to hold bowls
for bits of butter, fats, etc. Under these two shelves is room for two
pails, and a jar for soap-grease.
Under the cook-form are shelves and shelf-boxes for unbolted wheat,
corn-meal, rye, etc. Beneath these, for white and brown sugar, are
wooden can-pails, which are the best articles in which to keep these
constant necessities. Beside them is the tin molasses-can with a tight,
movable cover, and a cork in the spout. This is much better than a jug
for molasses, and also for vinegar and oil, being easier to clean and
to handle. Other articles and implements for cooking can be arranged
on or under the shelves at the side and front. A small cooking-tray,
holding pepper, salt, dredging-box, knife, and spoon, should stand
close at hand by the stove, (Fig. 20.)
[Illustration: Fig. 20.]
The articles used for setting tables are to be placed on the shelves at
the front and side of the sink. Two tumbler-trays, made of pasteboard,
covered with varnished fancy papers and divided by wires, (as shown in
Fig. 21,) save many steps in setting and clearing table. Similar trays,
(Fig. 22,) for knives and forks and spoons, serve the same purpose.
The sink should be three feet long and three inches deep, its width
matching the cook-form.
[Illustration: Fig. 21.]
[Illustration: Fig. 22.]
[Illustration: Fig. 23.]
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