A manual of home-making

Limited storage space compels one to organize, to eliminate, and to arrange connpacfly, the genera! result thereby favoring conservation. Only such storage space should be planned as 7d«^i ^^i^BC PORCH to ' to" rirEi- UtegJ KITCHEW ^^^4 4m* - To barns-- -^tb^afdfti Vf rLJ2L U U IS M3' LIVIMC ROOn 2>Z \/AbH ROOM ^fUBml Fio. 37. — PUin in whieli principles of kitchen arrangcraf nt nrc clearly cxpr is really needetl to complete and a^^sist the operation of the kitehen. There are three general types of storage space that may be used in connection with the kitchen arrangements: (1) the pantry, (2) tlie cupboard filled with shefves, and (Z) the cabinet, or dresser. t)f these tiiree, the pantry is l>y nature the most capacious, the cuplxDard next, and the cabinet least. An analy* sis of these three forms should enable one to plan intelligently the storage space for an individual kitchen. The pantry may be defined uis an enlarged closet through 114 A MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING which one passes or into which one steps instead of merely reaching. Its pyi'j>ose is primarily to furnish more generous storage space than is provided by the ordinary cupboard » There are in general two types of pantries, the food pantry and the pass pantry. The food pantry is intendeil priinaiily for the storage of food supplies that must be kept cooler than the tem- •i won \ Fio. 38. — A complete and convenient kitchen for any hottie. perature of the kitchen. The pass or botler^s pantry is used for the storing of china and for the serving of meals. Often these two pantries can be combined into one without breaking up the organization of the work. Whether a food pantry, or a pass pantry, or both^ or a com- bination of the two shall be planned for any given house, de- pends on the conditions of that special case, In general, a food d PLANNING THE HOME KITCHEN 115 servinR-pantry, shown nti plan in Fig. 38, pantry is always needed when coal is used for cooking, because the temfK^rature of the kitchen then becomes so wami that certain foods will not keep; whereas, when gas is used, the temperature is likely to be fairly cool and e%^en, which often allows for the food pantry to be replaced by an ice-box, a dumb-waiter^ or both, placed directly in the kitchen. If the ventilation of the room is good, such an arrangement will re- quire very little niore ice a year than the amount needed if the re- frigerator were placed in a separate entr>' or panti^^ or on an outer Fta, 39,— The pns^ mntry or porch. If the family is large, however, or the house located at a distance from the markets, a food pantry is ahnost necessary to store sufficient supplies. Often one tier of shelves in the food pantrj^ is reserved for utensils, which makes a separate cupboard mmecessary. Owing to the nature of its use, the food pantry should preferably be located on a northerly outside w^all and should be provided with a window.