Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1911 — SOME KITCHEN HINTS [ARTICLE]

SOME KITCHEN HINTS

WORTH BEINQ POSTED WHERE THEY CAN BE BEEN. Some Directions That Are Household Words, and Some That Set Forth Ideas That Are New and Valuable. Here are a few rules that it would be well to cut out\tQd paste up in your kitchen, i They are hints about affairs of that very important region of the home: i 1. Wash a saucepan in plenty of hot water; but never wash cake tins or frying pans. Wipe them well with a piece of paper, which Is afterward burned, and polish them with a dry cloth. 2. Stand saucepan, fish kettles, etc., in front of the fire for a few minutes after washing them so that they may be thoroughly dried inside. This makes them last longer and helps to keep them in good condition. 3. Pudding cloths, jelly hags and so on should be well washed, scalded and hung up to dry. It is not necessary to iron them, but they should be smoothed and folded before they are replaced in the drawer. 4. Add a little soda to the water in which you wash plates and dishes. The soda loosens the grease on them and gives the china a good shiny surface. 5. Npver add soda to the water in which you wash silter. Use a wooden tub, with plenty of hot water and soap, and dry the articles with a Boft cloth. If silver is carefully washed and dried, once a week will be found often enough to clean it with powder and a leather. Silver should be kept in a baize lined drawer or basket, for if it is laid on hardwood it is apt to be scratched. 6. Never put the handles of knives into hot water or they will split. If a knife has been used for cutting onions or any other strong-scented vegetable dig the blade of it once or twice into garden mold to remove the smell before it is washed. 7. If a pan is burned or blackened rub the inside of it with a hard crust of bread dipped in salt and afterward wash it with hot soda and water. 8. Be very careful to keep the lids of saucepans clean, for the flavor of one dish may cling to a lid which has not been washed and spoil a second dish which is prepared in the same pan. 9. After washing up wipe out’the dish tub and allow it to stand by the fire till it is dry. The dishtub should be scrubbed with boiling water and soap at least once a week.