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Show INVALUABLE AID IN COOKING British Journal Points Out How the Use of Thermometer Will Help the Housewife. ! Every housewife is aware that Uie actual cooking of a dish in a very important im-portant factor of success or failure. A "hot oven" and a "moderate oven" aro often referred to, and testing by holding hold-ing tho hand lnstdo for a few seconds Is a method frequently employed. But there Is no real dependency on such haphazard methods, since ono person can bear much more heat than another. Therefore, In an efficient household a kitchen thermometer to register cooking heats should be considered con-sidered as necessary as a cllalcal thermometer. There are two varieties of kitchen thermometers to be had. The cheaper kind Is of white china, and can only be used for oven cooking. A more durable make, of brass, which costs a little more, can be used, for testing frying fats, etc., and will not break so easily. An Iron leg supports the thermometer, so that It stands, right and can be read at a glance when In the oven. Every degree of heat from low to high temperature Is registered, and at the side the standard temperatures tempera-tures for cooking are printed. Manchester Man-chester Guardian Weekly. |