The Washington times., 1916-06-03
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Fruit Peelers Aid
Housewife
BY ISOBEL BRANDS.

~ WIN II your family is vegetarian
- and you must needs perpctually
WELD the vegetable or fruit
knives, you don't have to bear
the evidence OF discolored hands or cut
fingers. No matter how adept. even the
best Of good housekeepers meets her
Waterloo occasionally when she at
tempts to Use the kitchen knife on a
militant pineapple. Or there must be a
hurried peeling OF some vegetables In
order to have them ready in time for
dinner
But with some knowledge OF tools the
homemaker can equip herself with
battery of vegetable and fruit preparers
that will defend her against cuts and
stains all summer for the market Is
full of good ones.
There's pineapple snip that will
neatly remove the eyes Of the most dcs-
perate pineapple. and do It with great
dispatch and without effort on the part
of the worker. II Is built like
scissors. except that II has n scoop-like
point which is sharp. and so trims the
pineapple without loss OF Juice. 1t Is
we'll made and costs % cents.
Many Fruit Peelers.
In the snip family is the little straw
berry snip. which can be bought for 8
cents, and which helps TO remove the
stems from strawberries more quickly
than the hand method-not to mention
the saving in stained fingers!
other good fruit preparers are the
little scent orange peeler with a smooth,
dull blade. and It's brother. the grape
fruit knife. The ordinary kitchen knife
works havoc with grapefruit. but this
little knife Ia made with a curved blade
so that II cuts the fruit away from the
shell. and also makes It possible to re-
move each seed cavity neatly from the
center OF the fruit. /"
II you're preparing apples for Stew
ing or preserving there's a first aid to
swift cutting in the apple cutter and
corer. This is a little metal frame which
It sold for so cents. with wood base
on which to rest the apple. With one
motion II cores and cuts an apple into
about seven parts
Then. for the homely potato. there Is
a special parer that looks like a double
| bladed blunt knife. but has a sharpcned
| slit in the middle. and can be used with
great rapidity and no danger. of cutting
the fingers. Also 1t shavas but, q; very
| thin skin off the potatosand so Is a
great boon to the housekeeper who
wants to keep all the nutritive qualities
| of the potato-which lie close to the sur
| face Of the skin. and yet is too fasti-
dious to bake and serve them in their
Jackets.
Test Before Buying.
| For shredd!ng cabbage or cutting
Julienne potatoes. carrots, etc. there is
n little wood and metal device that
looks like a miniature washboard. But
the corrugated bit of metal slides up
and down the wooden board. and as It
has a sharp edge. It quickly cuts or
! shreds these vegetables.
II you want to be CUTE cxtravagant
you can, for about 80 cents. get the
French scoops 10 shape potatoes into
the little balls that are 80 attractive.
| For the same sum there Is on "olive
stoner"-lf you cat olives often eDough.
The olive is placed In the .spoon-like
half OF the tool. then. IA plunger is
pressed which shoves cut the pit.
One word OF warning. When you do
buy these tools. test them II you can.
Beware OF the flimsy-made tool. Be
ware Of the all-tools.in one. which Of
fer to give you an onion pccler, cork
screw. pineapple shredder bottle opener
| and a few other things all In one.
(Copy't. 1916. by Newspaper Feature Servi>e).