How can you do your share ? Have you ever thought what
it would mean to live alone and never talk to any one? We
are glad that we can live among people and have friends and
associates. But, because we associate with people, we have to
consider the rights of others. Boys and girls attending school
associate with other pupils. They need to think of the rights
their classmates ; they need to be good school citizens. How can
a pupil be a good citizen in a home economics class ? One way
is to do her share of the work that must be done. When a
a class has a lesson on cooking food, there are always dishes and
dish cloths to wash and sinks to clean. If a pupil leaves some
of her dishes unwashed or leaves the sink uncleaned, she is not
doing her share. She is not a good school citizen. Can a girl
afford to be a shirk? Does not the approval of her teacher and
classmates mean much to her? Is not the satisfaction that
comes from doing her best worth while ? Think it over.
SUMMARY
The main steps in dishwashing are :
1. Scraping dishes and arranging them in neat piles.
2. Soaking dishes which are hard to wash, using cold water for
uncooked eggs, uncooked flour or starch, milk or cream ; and
hot water for sugar or sirup, greasy foods, most cooked foods.
3. Washing the dishes in hot soapy water, changing the water often.
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4. Rinsing the dishes in scalding water and letting them stand for a
few minutes in the water. This is the most important step in
dishwashing since scalding water is necessary to destroy any
disease bacteria which may be on the dishes.
5. Draining the dishes preferably in racks so that the air gets to
all parts of the dishes. When dishes are scalded and drained in
this way, towel-drying of the china or porcelain dishes is unnec-
essary.
6. Drying glassware, silver, and utensils on a towel.
Dish towels and cloths need frequent washing and scalding to destroy
bacteria which may be on them.
Dishwashing may be made less tiresome and the process may be
shortened
1. By having the sink placed at the proper height.
2. By having a drain board on each side of the sink or, in case there
is only one drain board, at the left side of the sink.
In cleaning a sink with a smooth surface, use some material such as
naphtha soap or kerosene that will clean the sink, but not roughen the
surface. Do not use coarse scouring soap on a sink having a smooth
finish.
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. Carefully explain why letting dishes stand in scalding water is
important.
2. Which dishes — cooking utensils, serving forks, or tumblers —
usually appear the most soiled ? Which may have the more dangerous
kind of soil on them? Explain.
3. One confectioner’s store serves ice cream in porcelain dishes.
Another store places a paper dish inside of a porcelain dish so that the
ice cream comes in contact with the paper dish. Which is probably the
safer way of serving ice cream ? Why ?
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How can you do your share ? Have you ever thought what
it would mean to live alone and never talk to any one? We
are glad that we can live among people and have friends and
associates. But, because we associate with people, we have to
consider the rights of others. Boys and girls attending school
associate with other pupils. They need to think of the rights
their classmates ; they need to be good school citizens. How can
a pupil be a good citizen in a home economics class ? One way
is to do her share of the work that must be done. When a
a class has a lesson on cooking food, there are always dishes and
dish cloths to wash and sinks to clean. If a pupil leaves some
of her dishes unwashed or leaves the sink uncleaned, she is not
doing her share. She is not a good school citizen. Can a girl
afford to be a shirk? Does not the approval of her teacher and
classmates mean much to her? Is not the satisfaction that
comes from doing her best worth while ? Think it over.
SUMMARY
The main steps in dishwashing are :
1. Scraping dishes and arranging them in neat piles.
2. Soaking dishes which are hard to wash, using cold water for
uncooked eggs, uncooked flour or starch, milk or cream ; and
hot water for sugar or sirup, greasy foods, most cooked foods.
3. Washing the dishes in hot soapy water, changing the water often.
169
A Dishwashing Contest
4. Rinsing the dishes in scalding water and letting them stand for a
few minutes in the water. This is the most important step in
dishwashing since scalding water is necessary to destroy any
disease bacteria which may be on the dishes.
5. Draining the dishes preferably in racks so that the air gets to
all parts of the dishes. When dishes are scalded and drained in
this way, towel-drying of the china or porcelain dishes is unnec-
essary.
6. Drying glassware, silver, and utensils on a towel.
Dish towels and cloths need frequent washing and scalding to destroy
bacteria which may be on them.
Dishwashing may be made less tiresome and the process may be
shortened
1. By having the sink placed at the proper height.
2. By having a drain board on each side of the sink or, in case there
is only one drain board, at the left side of the sink.
In cleaning a sink with a smooth surface, use some material such as
naphtha soap or kerosene that will clean the sink, but not roughen the
surface. Do not use coarse scouring soap on a sink having a smooth
finish.
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. Carefully explain why letting dishes stand in scalding water is
important.
2. Which dishes — cooking utensils, serving forks, or tumblers —
usually appear the most soiled ? Which may have the more dangerous
kind of soil on them? Explain.
3. One confectioner’s store serves ice cream in porcelain dishes.
Another store places a paper dish inside of a porcelain dish so that the
ice cream comes in contact with the paper dish. Which is probably the
safer way of serving ice cream ? Why ?