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Show COOKERY IN PERS'A FEW CONVENIENCES FOR HOUSE-KEEPING HOUSE-KEEPING FOUND THERE. Vou Mutt Have Your Flour Made and Buy Sugar In ConesCooking Ranges Constructed of, Sun Dried Drlcks. , , i. Housokcoplng In Persia 1b a more difficult undortnklng than in western countries, Tho chief reasons for tills aro tho lack of conveniences, nnd tho fact that mauy things which in other countries can bo bought ready for use must bo preparod by tho Persian housekeeper. Do you wnnt flour? You must buy your wheat, clean nnd Blft It, and Bond it to tho miller, who llvos, perhaps a day's Journey from you. You must send with tho wheat the most trusty servant you have, who will watch tho mlllor day nnd night to boo that he does not tnko too much toll. You ought of courso Co send a second Borv-nnt Borv-nnt to watch tho first, but If you began that thero would bo no end to the number you would havo to Bend. Do you want sugar? Loaf BUgar, granulated sugar, powdered sugar you cannot buy them. Whnt you can buy Is a cono of sugar, about ton Inches in dlamotcr nnd elghteun Inches In height, which comes from Russia or France. If you want lumps of sugar for your coffoo und ten this cono of sugar must bo placed on tho solid floor and by menus of n strong knife and a hammer, broken Into pieces. If you want flno sugar these pieces must be then ground with a mortal and pcstlo. If you whli powdored sugnr tho flno sugar must bo slftod Bcvurnl times. Even In tho' kitchen of a European, Euro-pean, where r. table will bo found, the cutting and pounding of tho sugnr must bo dono on the solid earthen floor. Tho Persian "rango" Is merely a row of hollow boxes mndo of sun dried bricks In which is built n charcoal flro. Over these boxes aro placed strips of Iron on which tho kottlo rests. Native cookery docs not lncludo many things that aro baked, but If you, an eccentric eccen-tric foreigner, demand a cako or pie your Ingenious cook will bo oqual to tho occasion. Ho will preparo beds of glowing coals In two of tho boxes. Over ono of these ho will place the article to bo baked. This ho will cover with a copper pan nnd on top of tho pan ho will plnco hot conls. Tho object of tho conls In tho second box Is that tho cool; may ho ablo to rcnow tho fire in the first box without putting on fresh coal, which might smoko. Most Persian Implements nro vory honvy nnd awkward to hnndlo. For example, cooking utensils nro of copper cop-per nnd bowls for washing clothes nrp of enrthenwura. Tho bowls aro smnll and shallow. Tho washerwoman has no bench on which to place bowl and no board on which to rub tho clothes Squnttcd on her IiooIb, with tho bowl on tho floor, she wears out her hnnde and the clothes too, at a marvelous rnto. It looks rather prlmltlvo to boo n woman sitting beside a water-courso water-courso pounding clothes with a utono. But I mil not sure that this method, which Is universally employed by the poorer people, Is not to bo preferred to tho othor. |