Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
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Necessity being the mother of inven-
| tion and the necessity of tightening the
| load on the shoulders of the patient
housewife being very great to the man
who loves his wife, there is no branch of
| the household duties for which more uten-
sils are constantly being invented than
for the kitchen, by which 1t is intended to
| include the cooking, washing, laundry and
other branches that have their headquar-
ters around the back door. Nor do the
| inventive minds stop at necessities when
they find it a paying field in which to
operate their genius but they go on think
ing up all sorts of fancy things no house
wife would ever think Of by herself with
| the result that the shelves of the hard
ware and crockery dealers are loaded
| down with numberless little trinkets and
big ones as well, some to aid her in pre-
| senting a more enticing meal to her bust
ness-worried husband when he comes
home at night and others to make her
| labors easier.
So many and so varied are the con-
| trivances in this direction that it requires
an expert to pass from counter to counter
| in any hardware store and be able to tell
| the use of each article seen. In fact the
manager of the hardware department in
Il
he is obliged to look up the pamphlets in
dozens OF instances before he is able to
explain what many of his articles dis
played for sale were manufactured for
Woman Understands Them.
Bewildering as the different tins, pots
and peculiarly shaped dishes might be to
man, they must present a paradise of
possibilities to a woman. New material
shapes for molds of different kinds, new
| instruments for doing all the irksome,
! disagreeable things in connection with
preparing meals are shown.
Sanitation is the watchword in the manu-
| facture Of all cooking utensils and to this
end vessels with a smooth polished surface
/ are favorite Most Of them are of foreign
| make. There are a number of different
| materials used in the outside finish, given
various names, but steel for the inside to
| give strength and shape is mostly used.
| The so-called granite ware is one of these
with which the public is best acquainted,
| but a new article has recently been intro
| duced from Nuremberg, Germany, of
brown shade on the outside and the inner
bowl coated with a white treatment for
which special hygienic properties are
| claimed
A full set Of these brown vessels pres ant
| a handsome sight and they are in almost
| every shape and size for almost every
purpose They withstand great deal of
heat and can be placed in the hot oven or
on the stove in direct contact with the hot
metal without injury, but will not stand the
fire direct. There are handsome custard
cups, shrred egg dishes, casseroles, both
oval and round, egg friers and fancy molds
| of many shapes and sizes, all of the same
! appearance and material. Whole sets of
crockery and dishes for the kitchen cabinet
are provided and should make the careful
housewife swell with pride and admiration.
Labels on the Utensils.
Then there are other enamalled wares
made under other patents just as good,
enough to allow any woman to follow her
particular tastes. Some manufacturers put
out vessels of the sanitary virtues with
| pretty letters on to indicate the contents
| they are supposed to contain. Some are
| made of all one color, except for the in
side, which is always white enamelled,
and others have the enamel running over
the side making a white border.
| A tendency in fancy cooking is TO give
all sorts of pretty shapes to gelatines, pud-
dings and the like, and TO facilitate this
matter all sorts of molds in all materials
down to plain tin, are offered. Dealers
can show rows of nothing but molds for
these purposes and certainly any taste
ought to find its own.
Certain firms which make speciality Of
such small cooking tools publish little
booklets. to be given out gratis, showing
the use of their products, with illustra-
| lions of their fancy waffle irons, pastry
and pie trimmers, rosette irons for waters
| for all purposes, rubber bags and tubes for
| decorating and also recipes for mixing
waters, with, what is perhaps more prac-
teal colored pictures of what the products
should look like when completed. Thus
asparagus on waters, strawberries, mar
guerites with peaches, poached egg pro-
| auctions, all decorated with greens or
cream in the daintiest ways possible, are
shown 'in action" The only trouble with
| the pictures is that they make the dishes
look too good to be eaten and thus spoiled.
But any woman should be delighted to own
the apparatus with which she might be able
to turn out such appetizing dainties BY
| their aid the commonest dishes are turned
into the appearance Of studied deserts.
improvements I'm Ranges.
| The use of gas as an easy and oleanly
cooking accessory is now common, and
now come advanced improvements in
ranges, both for coal and gas. Ranges are
made with high ovens, standing even with
| the head, so it is not necessary to bend
| over in order 10 look at what Is cooking
inside, a heretofore very inconvenient and
| unpleasant act. The top of the stove is as
| formerly but the heat is carried to the
oven by means of hues. There is also the
| table stove, with side oven and broiler,
which others might prefer but the former
| take up much less space
A recent invention is the "fireless cook
\ stove" The name should make every
| woman who bakes her own bread look up
and notice. But the name carries too
broad a meaning, though it indicates an
article that should be a valuable addition
to every kitchen. The work OF this stove
/ is merely to finish cooking what has al
ready been started and has its value in
/ the fact that 1t need not be watched nor
any IRE kept going. Food is placed on a
/ IRE as usual and heated TO a boiling tenn
perature. This may be done in the morn
| ing, directly after breakfast, II the wife
|