New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-17
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Housekeeping Without Dishes
Taking the Wings of the Spirit. These Women
Flew High Above Pots and Pans.

7 tender and free from skin or bone. II
tasted like meat, too. There were tender
little onions and carrots and snowy pota-
toes.
"HoW do you do t.? cried
THE Business Manager smiled in a su.
perior way.
We're the only people ever heard Of
she observed, who could make good stew.
There isn't any secret about II, either. I
simply buy good meat-a pound and a half
Of the best round steak In the market.
Then / cut II up and cook It, in Just
enough water to keep 1t from burning.
When I get around TO II put in the car
rots and onions, without adding any moro
water, and let them cook all l have time
to. l boil the potatoes separately, IN their
skins, OF course. IL is easier TO peel them
after cooking. This kind OF stew is i'm
proved by long cooking, so every night
when we heat II UP again We only mako It
better. Really, we grow quite fond OF the
same stew. and hate to have 1t finished.
Besides, at the end of its life the pot has
to be washed. as we can't yet cook stew by
tho new paper bag method
I'VE ate-well, extensively Of the stew.
and then the Boss rose and took the toma-
toes from the ice box. She had previously
dropped them in boiling water for a min
ute, and the skins came off at touch.
"'Give me your melon shells she said.
You'll have your salad in them. You'u
have to eat IT all, too, for the dessert
goes into tho shells afterward. VIII one
OF you wash the lemon while finish theser
II jumped mp, found the lemon in the
closet, scrubbed one under directions from
the Boss, and squeezed out the juice.
Everything we use has to be washed
she volunteered The canteloupe was, and
the peaches. Even the bread we toast in
Che morning IL aundered II is held under
the tap-not soaked, OF course; then 1t is
put in the oven and dried again. tell you
don't run any risks from germs. But all
this care makes great deal more work.
We couldn't do IT and regular housework,
so we leave out the regular. / don't see
how any one can cook a great deal, serve
elaborate meals and have things clean, too
II would take twenty-four hours a day
after these preparations we had our
salad, ripe tomatoes ESPECIALLY selected by
a dealer who knew with whom he ceal)
with dressing of real olive oil and lemon
Juice. Oh. II was good, And the cante-
loupe shell was a perfectly good salad
plate.
AT some odd moment I cannot tell Just
when, coffee had been started, and il was
ready when we were. For dessert we had
stewed peaches, big juicy ones, cooked in
their skins, and crackers out OF a box in
the middle Of the table. and cheese. not
on a paper plate this time. but on folded
paper napkin The coffee was served In
the only china used during the whole meal.
How we fingered over the last bits, Just
little mere coffee or another cracker to
go with the cheese. and now more cheese
to accompany that. And how We talked
Bernard Shaw and suffrage and the state
OF Russia.
did you ever go visiting. and then help
your hostess do up the dishes when your
back was aching and you were too sleepy
and cross 10 be agreeable? Well, ! didn't
have to wipe dishes for the Boss and the
Business Manager. When we had finished
there were three coffee cups, three spoons.
three forks. one knife and the lemon
squeezer to wash.