SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1949, 3 January 1885, Page 3

SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL

A Fmv Wohus Ahout Srt \ks. — Tlic great secret of cooking a steak consists in making a roaring fire, and then add some coke to it ; when this is iwl hot you ha\e a clear smokeless fire on which to cook your steak. You should cook it on the tire, and not in front of it ; otherwise it is only a toasted bit of meat, instead of a broiled steak. Bow long you are to lea\ c a steak on the fire is so entirely a question of judgment as well as a matter of taste, that it is impossible to gnc any rule ahout it. You should turn your steak as soon as it has been on the fire a few minutes, and keep turning it till it is done. The process prevents the formation of ,i haul rind of overdone meat. For a steak to lie wrll cooked it ought to be equally dorm throughout its thickncs3, but not by any means overdone, and consequently dry. There are people, however, who abominate a juicy steak, and will have their ntcat in any foini thoroughly done, or rather overdone, not to s.\y utterly spoilt ; but, " De gustibus uon cbt disputanduin." Sprinkle the steak fretly with salt when sen in<j, not before. Slices cut off a leg of mutton, and cooked as beefsteaks, aie very good cat ing ; and we may leinark that all steaks are improved by being well beaten befoic cooking.

TIIK Tlih \TMf NT (>!• (J A M V . —The L.UIW t opportunely points out that -t is shcir wantonness to tlirow away game lv. cause it happens to be a little "high," a* permanganate of potash (the basis of Condy's Fluid) will puufy it fiom the taint if carefully employed It will suffice to cleanse the game thoioughly, and wipe it quite dry with soft clothe, rubbing a little salt into the uoist pait«. We think, however, that the following simple treatment will be found moie efficacious than that recommended by the Lancet: Draw the biids without delay, rinse v ith soda water, then with pure cold water. Wipe dry, and tub them lightly with a mixture of fine x.ilt and black pepper. If it be wished to keep them some time, put in tne ci\it\ of cacli biid a pirn- ot i-h.irco.il, and hang them in a tool plac, with a cloth tlnown o\crth(Mii Tin- charcoal will be found mi admit ible preventive of d< cnmpo'-i tion. It is to be noted that g.nnc which is simply " high " without being putiid, n pm ticulaily easy of digestion and of great \altie to imahds.

Jlol -(X 1)1: Vl.\ \(.K. — A danger .vises, owing to too much iclitiiicc being placed upon the " trap '' or " water seal " in the house as a safeguard against the entianee of sewer g.i«. The fallacy of this theory will be cleoily understood when it is explained that sewer gas is soluble in water, and thus, in an unvcntilatcd system of house drainage there is always a " solu tion of Hewer gas " standing inside the house; and again, any gas which is not taken up by the water, that is, when the water has ceased to dissolve, it is, by the vim a Urrjo, forced through it. This may be demonstrated by any one who will take the trouble to blow a gas which is ■Insoluble in water through a U-tube full of water.

A visitor from the country, who had been "doing" the sights of London, when asked what he thought of the cathedral nave, said : " What, the fellow who took the shillings ? I didn't know they called things so exactly by their names in London." Hevky Ward Bekchkr has been whistling in the pulpit. He endeavoured to imitate the note of a bull-finch. He thinks the singing of that bird " the saddest music ever heard." An American paper remarks that his audience agreed with him. L)og-o«ncM in the County of Waik.ito and the Borough of Hamilton are directed to notices in .mother column. Ihe partnership hitherto existing between Messrs E. Pearson. W. Pearson, md G. Pearson, as blacksmiths, &c , .it H. mill ton East, has been dissolved by mutual consent. The business will in future be carried on by Mr G. Pearson. lhc tiirc-tablc of Mr Gaudm's coach, between the Waikato Hotel, Hamilton, and the Hamilton West and 1-rankton Railway stations appears elsewhere. Can't Preach Good.— No man can do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try .1 lawsuit well, doctor a patient, 01 write j. good article when he ferls miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unstrung nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when it can be so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hop Bitten. Look for