Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-07-04

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| Are Servlosable.
The following simple rules. as
taught In the cooking schools, hung
In the kitchen, and followed. may
prove OF vaule to the young house
keeper or the new girl"
/. Collect knives, forks and spoons
by themselves.
2. Put away any food that has
been left on small, clean dishes.
never leaving fragments on dishes in
which they were served.
| 8. Scrape all fragments sticking to
dishes or pans into refuse pail or in
the back of the ashpan and under
meath the frebox. where they may
dry out, and then be burned.
| 4. Arrange all dishes conveniently
on the table, putting glasses nearest
the dishpan, then silver next the fine
china, beginning with cups, saucers
and pitchers, and lastly tho greasy
dishes.
s. Rinse out milk bottles, pitchers
and egg cups with cold alter. Empty
and rinse cups. Put any dishes used
| in baking to soak in cold water. Fill
kettles and spiders full OF cold water,
and set away from the stove to soak.
| II left on the stove the heat hardens
whatever has adhered to the sides in
cooking and renders it harder to re-
move.
6. Have one pan filled with hot, soapy
water. For this purpose keep the soap
In shaker made for this object, or
improvise one by putting few holes
through the bottom OF q small pail
Never leave the soap in the dishpan
to waste and stick to the dishes.
Have second ready full of hot water
for rinsing before draining.
z. Wash glasses first, slipping them
one at a time sideways into the hot
water, so that the hot water touching
them outside and inside at the same
time may obviate the danger of break
age from unequal expansion. Dry
Immediately on a clean glass towel
or on squares OF old cotton cloth,
hemmed and kept for this purpose.
| 8. Wash the silver and wipe at
once from the soapy water, rubbing
any piece with silver polish that
seems at all discolored.
8. 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 thor
oughly rinsed. Scald the milk pitch
ers.
10. Wash steel knives and forks in
warm, not hot water, securing the
blades, il necessary. Never leave
the handles in water, as it tends to
loosen them.
IL. Rub tins inside and out. using
sapolio il discolored, and paying
especial attention to the seams OF
the double boilers. Set on back of
range to dry.
~. Wash ironware inside and out
with hot, soapy water, rinse thor
oughly in clear water and dry. Drip
ping pans and kettles that have been
used with grease may be wiped of
first with soft paper. to remove as
much of it as possible, and then
washed In .he suds, with q table
spoonful of soda added to the water.
| Granite dishes Drowned by neglect
may be cleaned by boiling half an
hour in soda water, then rubbing
vigorously. Do this several times
il necessary.
ID. Coffee pots should never be
washed inside with suds. but in clear
water. Dry thoroughly on back Of
stove, wiping out with clean cloth
when dry, to remove the brownish
sediment that is apt to cling to the
pot.
IL. Wash dishtowels in lukewarm
soapy water, rinse thoroughly and
dry after every meal, and they will
keep soft and clean.