_Frying._--Lard, oil, butter, or dripping may be used for frying.
There are two methods of frying--the dry method, as in frying a
pancake, and the wet method, as when the thing fried is immersed in a
bath of hot fat. In the former case a frying pan is used, in the other
a frying kettle or stewpan. It is usual for most things to have a wire
frying basket; the things to be fried are placed in the basket and
immersed at the proper temperature in the hot fat. The fat should
gradually rise in temperature over a slow fire till it attains nearly
400 deg. Fahr. Great care is required to fry properly. If the
temperature is too low the things immersed in the fat are not fried,
but soddened; if, on the other hand, the temperature is too high, they
are charred. The temperature of the fat varies slightly with the
nature of things to be fried. Fish, cutlets, croquets, rissoles and
fritters are well fried at a temperature of 380 deg. Fahr. Potatoes,
chops and white bait are better fried at a temperature of 400 deg.
Fahr. Care must be taken not to lower the temperature too much by
introducing too many things. The most successful frying is when the
fat rises two or three degrees during the frying. Fried things should
be of a golden brown colour, crisp and free from fat. When fat or oil
has been used for fish it must be kept for fish. It is customary first
to use fat for croquets, rissoles, fritters and other delicate things,
and then to take it for fish. Everything fried in fat should be placed
on bibulous paper to absorb any fat on the surfaces.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] See Lady S. O. Morgan's _France_, 1829-1830, ii. 414, for an
account of a dinner by Careme.

COOKSTOWN, a market town of Co. Tyrone, Ireland, in the east
parliamentary division, 54 m. W. by N. of Belfast, on branches of the
Great Northern and the Northern Counties (Midland) railways. Pop. of
urban district (1901) 3531. It consists principally of a single street
of great length, and lies in a pleasant, well-wooded district, near the
Ballinderry river. It has important manufactures of linen, and some
agricultural trade. It was founded in 1609, the landlord, Allan Cook,
giving name to it. The mansion of Killymoon Castle, in the vicinity, is
a notable example of the work of a celebrated architect, John Nash (c.
1800).

COOKTOWN, a seaport of Banks county, Queensland, Australia, at the mouth
of the Endeavour ri