354 O H the Construction of KitcJicn 



and which, as I have found by experience, will be at- 

 tended with disagreeable consequences. The circular 

 plate of tin, or of thin sheet copper tinned, which forms 

 the bottom of the cover, should be of the same diam- 

 eter precisely as the outside of the brim of the sauce- 

 pan. 



I once thought it would be better to make the bot- 

 tom of the cover rather larger than the top of the brim 

 of the saucepan, as it is represented in the following 

 section : 



Fig. 28. 



I imagined that it would prevent any thing that 

 happened by accident to be spilled on the cover from 

 finding its way into the saucepan and spoiling the vict- 

 uals, and this indeed it would do most effectually ; but 

 it often occasioned another accident not less disagree- 

 able in its effects. It drew the smoke into the sauce- 

 pan, which happened to escape by the sides of the 

 circular opening of the fire-place. 



When the cover is precisely of the same diameter 

 as the brim of the saucepan,. there is little danger of 

 any thing entering the saucepan in this manner, as 

 will be evident from an inspection of the following 

 figure : 



