The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-06-17

that required days and weeks in the days Of
her mother and grandmother.
First came the electric iron, and the steps
IL saved from the stove to the ironing board
and back again amounted to several miles a
year for every home maker. Next came the
washing machine, not only saving time but
also contributing to human happiness by abol-
ishing aching backs and cracked knuckles.
Then the vacuum cleaner, which at one stroke
abolished the tiresome and dusty task Of
sweeping. Finally the automatic refrigerator,
whose possibilities are only just beginning to
be realized by home makers,-for it not only
saves time and energy, but actually takes
part in the preparation Of food, adding a long
list of intriguing contributions to the daily
menu.
The automatic refrigerator has brought a
new touch of luxury and attractiveness to the
home table. 1t has added a note of color and
zest to all departments of domestic hospitality.
With its aid, the technique Of food preparation
approaches perfection.
We have discovered that cold is just as i'm
portant in the kitchen as heat. 1t improves
many fruits and vegetables. 1t makes meats
more healthful and appetizing. It enables the
home maker to keep her prepared dishes
longer and to do her work further in advance.
1t brings to the ordinary family hundreds of
recipes never before within their command.
1t helps every housewife to the achievement of
new successes and new economies.
The Importance Of good refrigerator is un-
questionable. Annual yearly waste of foodstufs
in the United States is 20 percent of the total.
and half Of this is waste in the home due to
spoilage.
Frozen Desserts
The first Englishman to taste a frozen
sherbet was Richard the Lion Hearted. In the
year 1871, while he was crusading in Palestine,
he was treated to this delicacy by the Moham-
medan leader Saladin. Richard could hardly
believe his tongue when he tasted so delicate
a dish.
when he came back from his travels was about
a frozen pudding that tasted like sweetened
snow. Nobody believed him until he showed
a Vienna cook how to do it. About 500 years
later one Of his recipes was used by Catherine
de Medici as the climax of her wedding feast.
Today with the aid of the automatic refrigerator
the humblest home may have with slight effort
and expense dishes which 200 years ago were
served only to kings and emperors, and to them
only the most important occasions. Today
it is no more trouble to make biscuit tortoni
than rice pudding.
Hoaseeieanisg Made Easy
The bugbear of housekeeping has been prac-
ticaIly driven out of American life by the mod
ern spirit of efficiency and labor saving. New
tools and machines have been developed, old
implements and materials have been improved.
and houses built that it is easy to keep
them clean. The modern washing machine, the
vacuum cleaner, the selfwringing mops and
chemicalized dust cloths are instruments which
make it a practical working principle to keep
clean rather than to make clean.
II the daily household routine is carefully
planned, If the kind of furnishings that are
easy to keep clean are chosen and handled in
the right way, and if provision is made for
keeping all the dirt possible out of the house,
there is no longer any need for worrying
about those periodic upheavals which used to