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 Kitchen utensils can be arranged in the kitchen so that they take up little space and are conveniently located. For this purpose, it is best to place them along one of the walls.
Every housewife, especially a young woman, should know what utensils and utensils need to be purchased in order to facilitate daily food preparation. In the kitchen, you must have a basket or bag for provisions, a net "string bag", plastic bags for buying bread, dishes for sour cream, bags for sugar, flour and other products, bowls for washing dishes and fruits, knives for peeling potatoes and vegetables, large a meat knife, a soup ladle, a slotted spoon (a spoon for removing the foam in the soup), beaters, a whisk and a fork with unbent teeth for beating yolks, as well as rolling pins for dough.
In addition, it is necessary to have molds (notches) for dough, molds for dough, creams and puddings and a baking dish for cakes.
To chop meat, you need to purchase a meat grinder with a variety of knives.
It is advisable to have one universal or several different graters for vegetables and fruits, as well as a fruit juicer.
To sift flour, you need to purchase a fine and coarse sieve, and for filtering soup and other liquids - a colander, strainer and watering can.
Small and large boards for cutting meat and dough are very necessary in the kitchen.
For cooking soup, vegetables, pasta 2-3 large enamel pots (3-4 liters) are required. For porridge and stewing meat, smaller pots (2-3 liters) are recommended.
In addition, you need to have a separate pan (1-2 liters) with a grate for boiling milk, cocoa, compote pots or enamel bowls for beating eggs, creams, mousses, etc. To fry meat, fish, vegetables, you need to have 1-2 cast iron pans and 1 aluminum pan for making omelets, casseroles and other dishes. It is good to have a roaster in the kitchen that can be used for roasting chicken, geese, ducks and for stewing various dishes.
To bake the dough in an oven, it is advisable to purchase tinplate trays and tins.
To brew coffee, you need to have a special coffee pot, separate from the kettle for boiling water, as well as a porcelain teapot for brewing tea.
For cooking dishes (porridge, puddings, etc.) in a steam bath, it is recommended to purchase a special pan with a double bottom or two pots of different sizes. If it's necessary boil fish whole, without cutting (for example, stuffed), you need a special oblong-shaped pan.
From contact with hot objects, table and kitchen knives deteriorate, become dull, therefore, to turn over when frying meat dishes and pancakes, you need to purchase special scoops or forks.
In the home kitchen, a thermos for cooking food is very convenient. It saves time and heat energy. In a thermos, you can cook porridge, roast, cabbage soup and other dishes without fear that the food will burn, boil away or be digested. To do this, cook the food until half cooked on the stove, then insert the hot one into the appropriate nest, tightly close the pan with a lid and cover with a thermos lid. In a thermos, the dish will be cooked up at the expense of the acquired heat calories and will remain hot for several hours.
Such a thermos can be easily made from a plywood or cardboard box filled with straw, shavings, crumpled paper or other insulator. Place the insulation as tightly as possible in the box by one third of its volume and cover with cardboard. Sew round boxes from cardboard to the size of pots, put these boxes-"nests" on cardboard), tightly surround around with insulating material. Sew a pillow to the size of the thermos lid, fill it with insulating material and attach to the lid, which can be removable or hinged, with a buckle and strap.
Different dishes require different cooking times in a thermos. For example, soup with vegetables, cooked with roots and spices in a thermos for 2-3 hours, soup from beans or dry peas, pearl barley, buckwheat crumbly porridge - 3-4 hours, rice, millet and barley porridge 1 / 2-2 hours, vegetables (potatoes, cabbage ) cook for about an hour. Meat in a thermos can only be boiled or stewed (not fried): keep on fire for 20-30 minutes, in a thermos - 3-4 hours. Boil the dried fruit compote over the fire for 5-6 minutes, cook for about 1 hour. Flour dishes: pasta, noodles, noodles, dumplings - it is not recommended to cook in a thermos, as they are too soft.
Each housewife should have a small supply of the following products in the house:
Vanilla.
Vanillin.
Jam.
Dry and table mustard.
Walnuts.
The peas are dry.
Pea mash.
Buckwheat.
Dried mushrooms.
Marinated mushrooms.
Carnation.
Pork and beef fat.
Gelatin.
Raisins.
Ground coffee.
Cinnamon.
Coriander.
Cocoa.
Cabbage.
Potatoes.
Potato starch.
Bulb onions.
Bay leaf.
Lemon.
Lemon peel.
Lemon acid.
Semolina.
Wheat flour.
Buckwheat flour.
Almond.
Raw and dry carrots.
Pasta.
Nutmeg.
Butter.
Vegetable oil.
Margarine.
Honey.
Marjoram.
Nuts.
Oatmeal.
Millet.
Pearl barley.
Ground pepper and peas.
Parsley is dry and raw.
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Drinking soda.
Granulated sugar.
Powdered sugar.
Dried fruits.
Grated rusks.
Celery.
Tomato paste.
Caraway.
Vinegar.
Beans.
Garlic.
Tea.
Some of the listed products (dry) can be stored in glass, earthenware or metal jars with labels indicating the name of the contents.
Lyaskovets E. Home cooking.
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