The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-11-05
rHANDY HOUSEHOLD TOOLS,
The Necessary Equipment Of a X itcli-
t. en- Embraces Quite a Nuns
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In all lines of occupation one mus
have "tools' adap&d to the work
No carpenter, mason, decorator OF
farmer ever thinks of doing accept
able work, without providing appro
pirate tools to carry on his labor
Why, then, expect a cook to do heI
work in an illy-appointed kitchen
with no convenences to expedite lel
manifold duties?
The pathway of the average house
Keeper is rarely rose-strewn. If ne
cessity obliges one to put up with
make-shifts, it can he more easily
borne than when the lack of neces'
sary household utensils arises from
an unwisc or mistaken sense OF
ECONOMY" says Alma Cole Picker
ing in the Housekeeper.
Good sharp knives! All, how
often they are wanting when want
ed!' Go into the butchers shop;
how keen the edges of his knives;
how smooth and clean the cut they
make. Does your knife slice the pork,
ham or beef like his? If one has
good cutlery the price is above ru-
bies! ! prefer good fine file to the
average "steel' for sharpening, and a
small milestone is the constant COM
panion of my cooking knives.
Granite ware has superseded the
heavy, ungainly pots and kettles, maxi
ing d grateful change both in weight
and cleaning qu les.
Perforated phi ms and double boil
crs. measuring cups marked in thirds
and fourths, revolving doughnut,
cooky and biscuit cutters, double
chopping knives, rotary nutmeg graz
ters, -four s.eves, fruit-ceaners and
potato mashers, perforated cake
spoon, egg and cream churns, raisin-
scedrrs, sugar sifters and fruit
strainers, are all inexpensive and
wonderfully helpful as labor and time
savers.
Brushes for cleaning potatoes, for
securing tins, molding boards, cook
ing table, for cleaning the meat
FOUNDER, horse-radish or cocoanut
graters, cleaSe the indentlrps or SUR
faces ms Il cloth cannot. So cheap are
they (25 cents per dozen) that one
need not make one or two perform
all the above offices mentioned. Put
a screw-eye in one end of each, SO
they may be hung near the work.
table.
The workable? IF it is possible
to procure one purchase Il modern
cooking table. 1t will be thing of
beauty and JOY forever" to any
housekreper who does not possess in
other forms like conveniences. Made
in antique oak with white-wood top,
containing swing -four and meat bins,
spice ard knife drawers, sliding meat
and molding boards, they are a host
of good things in small compass.
One such table costs no more than
nice bonnet. and less than one-half as
much as an ordinarily good best
dress"
Still. if one cannot spend seven
that much,' a fair substitute is
packing box Of convenient height,
with shelves so arranged inside and
above it as to hold all the cooking
tins. kettles, spice boxes and other
kitchen paraphcrnalia needed in get
ting the meals and doing the baking
for ones household. Cover neatly
with table oilcloth.
Covered casting pans Nhey are
equally nice for baking bread), covered
bread-rai>ers and covered tireproof
stone bean and fruit-bakers, are real
economies, in insuring less waste in the
preparation Of the foods mentioned,
besides rendering them more nourish-
ing as well as more paiatabe. Do not
forget to add wire frying baskets; they
are so useful in cooking various kinds
of food requiring immersion in deep
lard.
Last. but by no means least, add to
the list of kitchen conveniences a
Grooved shelf at one side of the sink
(the end slanting sufficiently to let
the water run into iD, on which is
placed n large wire basket for draining
dishes; and use roller-towels. Roller
and fixtures can he bought ready to
screw into the walls. Make each towel
two and one-half yards long, sew in
seam and fell neatly; six is good sup.
ply for one roller. One advantage
gained in using roller towHs is the
cook cannot use them for holders, but
must use those provided for her use,