Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1918-04-24
WOMAN AND HOME

without removing the whole cap. A
! third device which makes for refrig-
orator neatness is white enameled
egg-holder. This is little tray with
twelve openings to hold one dozen
eggs so that they will not become
broken as in a bag, or roll about,
keeping each egg visible as well as
preventing breakage.
Every time / work at my sink / am
glad | have a faucet soapdish. In
many kitchens tin soapdishes are
tackled to the wall or ledge, are hard
to clean and unpleasant looking. My
dish is of heavy, retinned wire, and
there is no dish to wash nor splash
ings on the wall. Then there is my
paper dishrag which find more sani-
tary than a cloth or rag. 1t is firm
and cleans well; l merely burn this
and use another after a few weeks
use of the old one.
Placed also near my sink is my in
valuable wooden plate scraper. Many
women carelessly use some piece of
silverware in scraping soiled dishes.
This scraper looks like a thin paddle,
/ the size of hand, and is made of fine
hardwood. l use it for scraping soil
ed dishes, removing food fragments
from utensils and pots, and it does
more to lessen the labors of dish
washing than any one other article.
Three more labor-savers are group
ed near my stove. One is rack for
baked potatoes, which has wire pins
sticking up at intervals. Instead of
| putting potatoes in the oven in any
/, position l sticks potato on each pin,
place the rack in the oven, and the
potatoes brown evenly and need no
turning. The extension cover ad-
justs itself to the opening of any pot
or pan. 1t looks like conical can
dle-snuffer, and, owing to the space it
allows between food and cover, is ex-
cellent in any cooking in which grease
and steam are present. The large
double fork mounted like a pair of
scissors is'excellent for picking whole
vegetables or eggs from boiling wa
ter, or use it chiefly to draw hot
dishes about, as it lessons danger of
pans from the oven, or move heated
burned fingertips.
Every woman knows the usual un-
pleasant method of cleaning metals
like brass and copper. / have a new
polishing cloth which is large square
of feltlike material; this is impregs
mated with chemicals that the cloth
need only be rubbed briskly over the
furnished metal to develop a good lus-
ter.
My novel nutmeg crater also saves
me scraped fingers. This little ma
chine is revolving perforated drum
worked with a small handle. The nut
meg cannot fall out and is much more
easily grated than in the old way. An
orange peeler is an odd shaped, point
ed piece of metal, with hole in the
handle, which deity slips the peel
from an orange. The pineapple ships
which hang near it look like a pair of
scissors with tiny scoops at the
points. With these can cut out each
"eye' so there is little wasted juice.
In season the strawberry huller does
good service by nipping out the hulls
without staining my fingers, and the
cornscraper cuts each row of kernels
readily so that the pulp is prepared
for cooking.
While not strictly a kitchen device,
the little glass combination service
for an invalid's tray is efficient as well
as attractive This consist of tiny
fat sugar bowl, a small pitcher and a
butter plate, of pressed glass and so
made that they "nest" together. The
sugar bowl is at the bottom, the pitch
er fits on it and the butter plate COW
ers the pitcher and holds pat of but
ter. 1t saves space in preparing food
on a tray and is quaint enough to
tempt any appetite.