Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01

Mr.. PICKERING who can oper-
ate a drill press can slice bread"
That gives you an idea OF how
familiar Detroit women are with
machinery.
BY following the directions
printed In the bread-company
ads. we have improved consid-
erably. The most important
things, according 10 my expert
ence, are 10 turn the loaf on Its
side, and TO keep your eye on the
place where you want the knife
20 70, rather than on the knife
itself.
I found out the same thing
about using a hammer long ago.
II you keep your eye on the
thing you want 10 hlt--thst II,
the head of the nail--you hit IL.
N you keep your eye on the
hammer, you usually hit your
thumb.
Bread knives are getting
scarcer and scarcer, but we have
n good knife at Our house. How
ever, special gadgets for cutting
bread are becoming plentiful.
honestly intended 10 build a
small mitre box and try il out.
but Edward N. Lee discovered
that such thing already Is on
the market in New York. He is
having one sent here. he said. II
is a trough-shaped affair. with
rows Of slots on each side. You
put the knife in the slots and
you can't cut crooked.
Jack Schafer Of the Peter Pan
Company arrived with a new
kind OF bread shcer that his
company is building. (There is
an ad. with a picture Of it, in
today's paper.)
He also brought a loaf Of
bread and showed us how IL
worked. Several OF US tried IL.
and did well with il. When he
departed he left-tha- SliceS-lE-
the office. Somebody begged a
jar of jam tmade with corn
syrup from Prudence Penny.
and we ate the samples. We
may not have any dignity. but
we don't waste anything around
here.
The blades Of Schafer'S knife
are the blades that used 10 he
employed in slicing machines.
They normally cut 100000 loaves
Of bread before they have 10 be
sharpened. he said.
We had been under the inn
preston that sliced bread was
prohibited in order 10 save these
blades. but he said no. that was
not the main intention.
The new rulings save paper
(unsliced bread needs only one
wrapping of paper instead Of
twol. they save the wax. which
IL scarce. they save labor. and
they save the replacement parts
on sllcers. The blades them
selves are a minor consideration,
he said. And anyway, the blades
are not going to waste.
One reader said she had prac-
tlced until she could slice bread
a. fast as the machines In q
hotel, and another said she al
ways sliced n whole loaf at =
time. BY putting IL In the re-
frigerator II Will keep fresh,
am told. In, fact, putting bread
In the Ice box IL much COM
moner than thought. never
even had thought OF II until
about 10 days ago, but some
people have been doing II for
years.
Another reader suggested TAX
ing the bread to the butcher
and getting him to slice it. as
long az there isn't much meat
to slice, and still another said
why worry about the shape of
the slices, because bread and
jelly tasted better than toast.
At our house, we still like
toast, and now that we are fol-
lowing the advice Of people who
know how TO slice bread. we are
doing a good enough job so that
the toast no longer sticks in the
toaster.
Incidentally, II you want TO
know how thick the factory-cut
slices were. II was nine-six-
teenths Of an inch.
Anyway, that's what we've
discovered about bread-slicing,
and I hope IL will he of some
use to you--it was TO me. Find
ing out the reason for prohibit
ing sliced bread also seems 20
make a difference,
Anyway. it's surprising how
many crumbs Of information
you can get from a slice Of
bread.