Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-20

TOO OF Tell ClOStu anu uHuSuSu, WhiiS
the farmers kitchen backed toward
the barns or washing dishes against
dead wall. She is apt, too, to keep
her cooking utensils, from heavy iron
pots, inherited from her grandmother,
down to the egg-beater and the nut
meg-grater, in one closet and her
dishes in another, maybe the length
Of the long kitchen apart Does this
description hit you?
There are just two rules for con-
structing an ideal kitchen, and if you
keep them in mind when you reform
yours you will not go far wrong. The
first rule is to make it convenient, and
the second is to make it pretty. Where
in all the house is beauty so import
ant as where you spend the greatest
amount of time?
Let us begin with making it conven-
lent or handy" which is after all the
plain English Of the hard-worked
word, efficient
In the getting of meals Of course
the stove is tse important factor Are
you still depending on the big coal or
wood stove to do all your cooking?
hope not. Use such a stove only
when you need hot, continuous fire,
which is seldom If you manage right.
of kerosene are within the reach of
everyone and will greatly add to the
comfort of any farm kitchen. Start
you food on such stove and then put
it in the fireless cooker and let it cook
itself.
Group the furniture needed in pre-
pairing meal near together. Put
your kitchen cabinet, your stove and
uncovered or stone-covered cook
ing-table as near as you can to the
refrigerator and the food closet Have
Have the rolling-p pin, graters, mixing
spoons and egg-beaters near the
cabinet, the pancake-turner, skinner
and pot-fork near the stove, and the
colander, potato-masher, strainers
and holders near the cooking-table.
With this arrangement you can keep
all moving in the same direction with
"a useless step or motion. Have a
roll of porous paper toweling over
the table where you can tear off a
piece for darining potatoes, croquet-
ties or doughnuts, or to wipe up a
spill. Get rid of your old iron pots.
Don't be a "back- number!"
In the second process, which is the
clearing away of the meal, the sink
is the central point to be considered.
If possible put it where there is light
from a window or make a window
over it. But, whatever you do, keep
it out of a corner! The best place for
it is the middle of a wall space with
a good drip-board on each side of it
and a table to the left. You can then
bring your soiled dishes from the din
ing room on a wheel-tray, scrape, pile
and wash from the r.ght-hand drip
board, passing them on TO the left in
the washing and drying process. Have
all the utensils necessary for this
process, such as a soap-shaker, dish
mop, pot-scraper, dish-washer (if
you have one) or dishpan, dish-sraper,
sink-strainer, wire dish-drainer, dish
cloths and towels hung near the sink,
while shelf above, in reach of your
hand, should have on it cleaning pow
der, ammonia, securing soap and sill
yer polish, with your other soaps.
One of the handiest and prettiest
farm kitchens | know of might be
taken as a model. The color scheme
or and buff. The floor is covered
with two-tone brown linoleum and the
walls and ceiling are painted buff,
with the woodwork shade lighter.
Around two sides Of the room runs a
six-inch shelf about six feet from the
floor, on which are all sorts of
pitchers, bowls, baking dishes and
covered casseroles ESQ labor-saving in
serving) in brown or yellow earthen-
ware. Near the stove hang the alum
mum utensils of satiny gray polish,
and on a corner shelf is the old brass
preserving kettle, Tong since aband-
oned for use, but kept for it's color
as a kitchen decoration. This woman
has provided herself with a window
with a view to give her spirit a lift
through the dish-washing.
Ginger Bread
Two eggs; one-half cup sugar;
scant one-half cup of butter or short
ening; one cup of molasses; one tea
spoonful of ginger; cinnamon; two
and oneAhalf cups -four; one cup of
boiling water and one teaspoonful of
soda added the last thing.
Mrs. f. l.. Brooks.
Ginger Snaps
One cup of sugar; one egg; one le-
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