7. Wash the cooking utensils as clean as the glasses and silver. This may mean a good scrubbing on the bottom. The iron pot or pan can be just as clean, and should be, as any other dish. Be doubly sure that all utensils that can rust are dry, before you put them away. 8. If there are any steel knives, leave them clean and dry. 9. Wash out the towels in clean soapsuds, rinse and hang outdoors ; or, if stormy, dry them near the stove, and then put them away. 10. Wash out the dish pans and put them to dry. 1 1 . Wash the sink, leaving it sweet and clean and dry. If there is a waste pipe, with or without running water, put some cleanser down, with some clean water. A little kerosene helps here. 12. Put all the dishes away. 13. Of course, a thoroughly good housekeeper leaves the kitchen table and stove clean, too. Do you draw a long breath, glad that it is over ? It is not so long a task as it sounds, if done promptly. If you hurry too much, see the " nicks ** on the dishes. Can we not save some time and trouble ? Yes, indeed. Barbara Oakes reported a cleaning-up game, where the children divided the work so there was something for No. i. No. 2, No. 3 to do, taking turns at d/fferent times. Barbara said that one was made in- spector, to see that each thing was properly done. They THE HOME SUPPER 139 had found that singing in chorus helped a bit, when everybody seemed a little ** out of sorts." A number of people have been studying the question of dish towels, and they tell us that the very cleanest way to finish off our dishes is to arrange them in a rack in such a way that they can be well rinsed with boiling CouTtesv 0/ Domestic UtUUies Co., Newark, iV. J. Fig. 61. — Dishes placed in a round rack. water. If they have been thoroughly washed in the soapsuds, the hot water rinses off the suds and the dishes will drain dry. Figure 60 shows such a rack standing on the drain board at the left. A better way is to have a round rack with a handle. Place the dishes as you see them in Fig. 61. Empty the dish pan, fill it with hot water, and set it on the stove. Lower the rack I40 FOOD AND HEALTH of dishes into the water and let it remain until the water boils. Lift the rack, drain off the water, and set the rack where the dishes will dry quickly. A few may need polishing with a clean towel. Can we ** save dishes *' ? This you will have to talk over with Mother. Somebody suggests using paper Courtesy of \eic Y'ork Slait Coilese ci/ AffficulliiTii al Ct&rnUl Unit^sUif. Fig. 62. — Paper dishes for saving work. or wooden plates sometimes in summer, and burning them. Another way to save dishes is to put more than one kind of food on the serving dish or platter (Fig. 63), or to put the food on the table in the dish in which it is cooked, when this is possible (Fig. 64). If we use large plates at each place, we can put several kinds of food upon the plate, instead of having many small dishes. The use of heavy plated knives will save rub- THE HOME SUPPER 141 Courtesy of ficpartmcni af Foodit nmi fookerj/. TrQCher^ ftoiit^n. Coiumhia. VnivET^Uy. Fig. 63. — One way tp save dishes is to put more than one kind of food on the serving dish or platter. Courtesy of New York State College of Agricidture at Cornell University . Fig. 64. — Utensils in which foods may be both cooked and served. 142 FOOD AND HEALTH bing. Some people save one dish washing by rinsing off the supper dishes, piling them up, and covering them to be washed with the breakfast dishes ; but perhaps this is not a good plan with a very large family where we need a large number of dishes.

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7. Wash the cooking utensils as clean as the glasses and silver. This may mean a good scrubbing on the bottom. The iron pot or pan can be just as clean, and should be, as any other dish. Be doubly sure that all utensils that can rust are dry, before you put them away. 8. If there are any steel knives, leave them clean and dry. 9. Wash out the towels in clean soapsuds, rinse and hang outdoors ; or, if stormy, dry them near the stove, and then put them away. 10. Wash out the dish pans and put them to dry. 1 1 . Wash the sink, leaving it sweet and clean and dry. If there is a waste pipe, with or without running water, put some cleanser down, with some clean water. A little kerosene helps here. 12. Put all the dishes away. 13. Of course, a thoroughly good housekeeper leaves the kitchen table and stove clean, too. Do you draw a long breath, glad that it is over ? It is not so long a task as it sounds, if done promptly. If you hurry too much, see the " nicks ** on the dishes. Can we not save some time and trouble ? Yes, indeed. Barbara Oakes reported a cleaning-up game, where the children divided the work so there was something for No. i. No. 2, No. 3 to do, taking turns at d/fferent times. Barbara said that one was made inspector, to see that each thing was properly done. They had found that singing in chorus helped a bit, when everybody seemed a little ** out of sorts." A number of people have been studying the question of dish towels, and they tell us that the very cleanest way to finish off our dishes is to arrange them in a rack in such a way that they can be well rinsed with boiling Courtesy of Domestic Utilities Co., Newark, N. J. Fig. 61. — Dishes placed in a round rack. water. If they have been thoroughly washed in the soapsuds, the hot water rinses off the suds and the dishes will drain dry. Figure 60 shows such a rack standing on the drain board at the left. A better way is to have a round rack with a handle. Place the dishes as you see them in Fig. 61. Empty the dish pan, fill it with hot water, and set it on the stove. Lower the rack of dishes into the water and let it remain until the water boils. Lift the rack, drain off the water, and set the rack where the dishes will dry quickly. A few may need polishing with a clean towel. Can we ** save dishes *' ? This you will have to talk over with Mother. Somebody suggests using paper Courtesy of New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Fig. 62. — Paper dishes for saving work. or wooden plates sometimes in summer, and burning them. Another way to save dishes is to put more than one kind of food on the serving dish or platter (Fig. 63), or to put the food on the table in the dish in which it is cooked, when this is possible (Fig. 64). If we use large plates at each place, we can put several kinds of food upon the plate, instead of having many small dishes. The use of heavy plated knives will save rub- Courtesy of Department of Food and Cookery. Teachers' Union. Columbia University. Fig. 63. — One way tp save dishes is to put more than one kind of food on the serving dish or platter. Courtesy of New York State College of Agricidture at Cornell University . Fig. 64. — Utensils in which foods may be both cooked and served. bing. Some people save one dish washing by rinsing off the supper dishes, piling them up, and covering them to be washed with the breakfast dishes ; but perhaps this is not a good plan with a very large family where we need a large number of dishes.

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