The Washington times., 1925-05-04
Equipping Your Kitchen
for Summer
BY SALLY e. DAVIDSON

work are obliged either to give up
baking and roasting entirely our
ing the summer, or make the whole
family suffer by heating up the
entire house Today, however,
neither condition is necessary. Inc
family may enjoy home baked
cakes and wholesome roasts
throughout the summer without
putting unnecessary strain on the
mother or themselves suffering dis
comfiture If the kitchen is equipped
with one or two of the modern
electrical conveniences which are
available to even those Of modest
means.
Electricity Is Solution
OF course, IL one is cooking on
an electric range the problem OF
summer cookery is solved, for one
can easily do practically all OF thls
cooking in the oven and thus main
tain a cool kitchen and house.
Without explanation this may
sound like a paradox to the house
wife who does not know the princl-
pies of electrical oven cookery. In
all other ranges heating the oven
means heating up the house,
whereas heating the electric range
oven means that the heat stays
where it will be of use because the
electric range oven is so well IN
sulated that practically none OF
the heat escapes to raise the
kitchen temperature and cause dis
comfort.
For example, in my own house in
summer and winter most of my
cooking is done in the electric
range oven, because 1t Is more eco
nomical and far less troublesome
than cooking on the open units.
Sometimes my electric range oven
Is kept going for several hours
without making any perceptlple
change in temperature. nave
thermometer which hangs exactly
five feet from the range and judg-
ing from that there is never any
definite rise in temperature in my
kitchen even when the oven mas
been going for hours.
A more graphic illustration, per-
haps, is that after this electric
range oven has been operated al
! "high' heat for three hours one
can easily touch the outside of the
oven with the bare hand without
| inconvenience. Under such cir.
Il
feels warm but never hot.
All of which indicates that this
article is not written for the WON
en- who are already enjoying this
form of cookery. Where other
kinds of ranges are used, l know
of only one way to keep the kitchen
cool and odorless throughout the
summer and that is by installing q
small electric ventilating fan In
one of the kitchen windows, or
using an ordinary electric fan for
the same purpose by placing it on
the window sill and keeping it go
ing during the entire time the
cooking Is in progress and little
while afterward.
Not Expensive
Electric Ventilating is not at all
expensive and will be worth many
times the cost of the electricity
utilized as any one who tries it
will soon discover. The idea may
first be tried out with any electric
fan, which though not nearly so
efficient as the regular Ventilator,
will, nevertheless, make the kitchen
livable, and prevent heat and cook
ing odors spreading throughout the
house.
II one has children who require
much time to be spent at beaches
and the country the electric fireless
cooker will be found nearly indis
pensable, where there is no electric
range. The difference between the
/ electric and other fireless cookers is
! that one can use such electric cook
ers for roasting, frying, broiling and
many other things. A whole meal
may be placed in the cooker, the
electricity turned on for half ar
hour before you start for such an
outing and the meal will cook slow
lily in the stored heat and be ready
upon return. If it is a roast. ii
will require your switching on the
electricity just long enough to
brown it, make the gravy and the
dinner will be ready.
Refrigerating Important
Next in importance to ventilation
and cooking is refrigeration. Enor'
nous amounts OF foods are ruined
during the summer months because
of the uneven temperature main
tanned in the fashioned refriger
ator. And also one has always the
problem of having to be home when
the iceman arrives, to say nothing
of the dirt brought in which one
must clean up after he is gone
Too, If one lives in the suburbs az
| do you're obliged to take ice not
when you want it, but when you
can get it. During the summer
when one makes ice cream often
! it is quite q problem to get enough
| for the ice cream making and to
carry over until the iceman's next
visit
| l went all through this and ,hata
it, but what actually made me use
my spring coat money for the first
payment on the electric refrigerator
was that l became thoroughly tirec
of wiping up stairs, kitchen and
pantry after every visit of the ice
gentleman. My electric refrigerator
has been in the house for year
and l am certainly delighted with
it and feel I've gotten my money