Oxford Democrat., 1920-06-29
How Sally Does II.
fBy Mabel Dardnell.)

"We have a new hired girl at our
place" announced Mrs. Jones, sand l
want to tell You she Is none OF those
new tangled efficiency teachers, either;
why, she has them all beat to pieces,
when 1t comes to labor saving over the
cook stove. She does things in half the
time IL takes me to do 1t. When I make
layer cake, always cut paper to flt
the pans, but Sally don't, she just
greases the tins well, then tosses hand
| full of -four into them and turns It till
the whole pan is busted, then empties
the surplus out.
"Her cakes never stick either.
"She had me get her cheap paint
brush for greasing pane, and to make
sure the bristles wouldn't fall out into
things, she dropped some sbellac varnish
on the bristles where they are set into
the wood.
"Now take her way of making cookies.
She rolls the dough out in one sheet and
bakes 1t in one large dripping pan. Then
| Just as soon as she takes 1t from the
oven she scores 1t into squares or trian-
giles and the cookies break off neatly
when cool.
eyes, and thought knew all about
making pies, but to see her 20 about 1t
makes me feel as though l didn't know
anything; she always measures every
thing used, and then she mixes the short
sning in with 9 fork.
81 suppose you think she has been to
college by the way she measures every
thing, but she says it's more economical
than guessing, and I'm beginning to
think she is right.
Sand did you ever hear of weighing
the shortening? Sally says 1t is far
easier to weigh 1t than measure it, be-
cause one pint of lard weighs one pound.
"And what do you suppose she uses
for rolling pin? Why, big round bot
tie full of ice or ice water. She got the
idea from place where she used to
work in the city; they had hollow roll
ing pin that they could fill with ice.
"Gee! Sally Is great on saving disb
washing, too. She never seems to use
my bread board for pies or anything.
Instead she uses q piece of white paper,
or waxed paper, and have seen her use
the iuside of paper -four sack. 1t Is
thrown into the fire and there is nothing
to wash but the utensils used.
sand / never saw anybody put the
food chopper to 80 many different uses;
instead of grating the lemons, and her
fingers, too, she takes sharp knife and
pares off the rind, then runs it through
the food chopper. Cheese ia treated the
same way, and she can prepare vegeta.
bles in 'jiffy,' and they cook quicker,
too, for the fine cutting. Once when we
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think there would be time to cook pota-
toes, she bad them peeled and run
through the food chopper while was
worrying what to have in place of them.
They fried in a few minutes.
"Another thing Sally hardly ever uses
is my chopping bowl. She had Max
plane off square board that she keeps
lying on the kitchen table. When a
vegetable is to be sliced or chopped she
simply holds 1t on the board and cuts 1t
down with heavy, sharp knife.
cabbage, nuts, pineapple, and 80
many things are all laid out on the board
and using the knife as kind of q lever,
cut into even lengths in half the time it
takes by the old way.
Vegetables, like satisfy and psrsnips,
are scraped on the board. She holds
them firmly against the board and with
the other hand scrapes with regular
downward strokes.
"And let me tell you how Sally crushes
bread crumbs; she says one Is silly to
roll them with rolling pin and have
the crumbs flying all over the room, she
always uses sugar or salt sack and fills
1t with the dried crumbs and pounds it
with mallet. Now isn't that simple
enough? But l never would have
thought of it.
"Oh, yes, and another thing Sally uses
80 much Is my scissors. l think she uses
them more in the kitchen than l do in
the sewing-room, and when she cuts up
anything sticky, like rasins or marsh
mallows, she rubs a little butter along
the blades and on her fingers, too, and
then she can work so much faster. She
always uses big pair of shears to cut
up chicken, and where always sewed
up the opening of stuffed fowl, why
Sally don't, she does 1t In few minutes
by sticking tootbpicks into the edges
and lacing it up with a string. 1t is 80
easy to remove, too.
"When Sally first came to our house,
| didn't think she knew anything about
cooking, but really she can fix up the
daintiest meal ever ate with her labor.
saving methods, as she calls them"