The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-31

ENGLAND USE
OLD UTENSILS
Domestic Work Disagreeable to
Women Because Time-Sav-
ing Devices Are Not
Adopted.
cooks WARY OF CHANGES
Beat Eggs With Forks, Squeeze
Lemons With Hands and
Grasp Hot Dishes
With Aprons.

fo-DcS, Dec. 28-Englishwomen diff
&C.. from American women in their idea
aboui cooking more than anything else
unless il is in their kitchen furnishing
and the way they set out to cook meal
Its a-tradiiion here that all domestic
work is by its very nature ugly and dis
agreeable. Even the most advanced wo
men Of Today in such matters, women
who have served their five years in hos
piials and csnteens, are reluctantly re.
tufnine to old time customs in their own
houses simply because they find it i'm
possible 10 educate their servants in the
new ways.
AT the great annual exhibition Of cook
cry and food where the latest appliances
in all domestic apparatus is shown there
were only two modern labor saving de-
vices, and these were not new. One was
a can opener. which has been discarded in
American kitchens as unsaniiary, and the
other was Dnp-0iI for attaching to
salad oil bottle for making mayonnaise.
Refrigerators, ice cream freezers, long
banded broorns, oil mops, dish scrspers.
dish swsbs, dishwashcrs; egg beaiers.
msyonnaise machines. double boilers, pat
ent peeler. fruit dissectors and lemon
squeczers are not only unknown in the
ordinary English kitchen but if they are
provided they remain untouched to clut-
ter the shelves, themselves of primitive
design. or TO rot in damp. back-stsir
Closets
A young American friend Of mine with
plenty Of money had the kitchen in
house she has just bought in London
furnished according TO American ideas.
as far as she was able. When il was
ready. complete in its white enamel, ron
top sink, shining aluminium, its kitchen
cabinet and closed cupbocrds, and pneu-
msiic wheeled onyx table. she proudly
introduced her prospective cook.
Wy ifs like one O. them orspftals.
num- murtered the cook. -w'ere's me
scullcY. w'cre's me larder, wots thai
uvfffng1hngZ' fthe enamel and nickel
refigerstor) -Ah couldn't abahde STAY
in ere, mum Aid go balmy in me
'ead.' And that was the end of the |
u 4.
ine only modern cooking stoves at
this exhibition were some gas. coal oil |
and electric ranges the pices Of which |
put them out OF reach Of moderate in.
comes. But the stoves that the cooking
demonstrators are using. the stoves where i
English women cook their daily meals.
are SCI in deep alcoves in the kitchen
chimney where it is impossible to see
what is in the saucepans without lifting
them from the fire; they have low ovens |
and open fronts and 80 per cent of the
heat goes up the chimney.
These cookery demonstrators are them
selves relic Of bygone DAYS. They are.
il Is true, dressed in white with white
caps aud aprons but they squeeze lemons
into eips with their hands. they beat
eggs with forks and they fluiier back and
forth from their immovsble tables to
their stoves, they grasp hot saucepan
handles with their aprons and the toast
bread on forks. The results, it must be
said, are excellent: they turn out dainty
and economical dishes; but no account
i iskcn Of time or energy.
There Is one detail of domestic econ