The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-28
Fourteen Simple Rules That House,
keepers Should Heed.

The following simple rules, as taught
in the cooking schools, hung in the
kitchen and followed may prove of
value to the young housekeeper or the
new girl" says the Chicago Times.
collect knives. forks and spoons
by themselves.
Put away any food that has been
left on small, clean dishes. never leav-
ing fragments on dishes in which they
were served.
3-Scrape all fragments sticking to
dishes or pans into a refuse pail or in
the back of the ashpan underneath the
fireboX, where they may dry out and
then be burned.
Arrange all dishes conveniently on
the table, putting glass nearest the
dishpan, then silver, next the fine
china, beginning with cups, saucers and
pitchers, and lastly the greasy dishes.
5-Rinse out milk bottles, pitchers
and egg cups with cold water. Empty
and rinse cups Put any dishes used in
baking ito soak in cold water. Fill
kettles and spiders full of cold water.
and set away from the stove to soak.
If left on the stove the heat hardens
whatever had adhered to the sides in
cooking, and renders DIT harder to re-
move.
6-Have one pan filled with hot,
soapy water. For this purpose keep
the soap in a shaker make for this OBJ
ject, or improvise one by putting few
holes through the bottom of a small
pail. Never leave the soap in the dish
pan to waste and stick to the dishes
Have a second ready full of hot water
for rinsing before draining.
Wash glasses first, slipping them
one at time sideways into the hot
water so that, the hot water touching
them outside and inside at he same
time may obviate the danger of break
age from unequal expansion. Dry i'm
mediately on clean glass towel, or on
squares of old cotton cloth hemmed and
kept for this purpose.
S-Wash the silver. and wipe at once
from the Soapy water, rubbing any
piece with silver polish that seems at
all discolored.
9-Wash the china, standing the
plates and saucers on edge in the
rinsing pan, and setting the cups right
side UP that they may be thoroughly
rinsed. Scald the milk pitchers.
1O-Wash steel knives and forks in
warm, not hot, water. securing the
blades, if. necessary. Never leave the
handles in water, as i. tends to loosen
them.
n-Rub boilers inside ana out, using
sapolio if discolored. and paying es-
pecial attention to the seams of the
double boilers. Set on back of range
to dry.
12-Wash ironware inside and out
with hot, soapy water. rinse thoroughly
in clear water and dry. Dripping
pans and kettles that have been used
with grease may be wiped off first
with a soft paper to remove as much of
it as possible, then washed in the suds,
with a tablespoonful of soda added to
the water. Granite dishes Drowned by
neglect may be cleaned by boiling
half hour in soda water, then rubbing
vigorously. Do this several times if
necessary.
13-Coffee pots should never be
washed inside with suds, but in clear
water. Dry thoroughly on back of
stove, wiping out with a clean cloth,
when dry. to remove rha brownish
sediment that is apt to cling to the pot
14-Wash dishtowels in lukewarin,
soapy. water, rinse thoroughly and dry
after every meal, and they will keep
soft and clean.-Commercial Adver-
tiSer.