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M.
Anne Edwards I've Found A Perfect Kitchen At Last
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HOW
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TO IT
NEW YORK. WALKED straight into the Perfect Kitchen. No more than 8ft. by 12ft., It combined scores of new time und trouble - saving ideas.
The Perfect Kitchen had been planned and built by Ita owners, James and Jeanette Cameron, who live just outside New York.
1st SECTION Numbers 1 to 11
7. Vertical shelves to hold dinner plates separate and easy to reach..
packets.
24. Venetian blinds Instead of curtains. In light weight aluminium, painted blue,
25. Shelves for soap powders, bleaches, soda, placed above the sink.
20. Light above sink for wash-
8. Shelves holding needed for mixing cakes, making pastry, etc., placed close to the pastry-making board.
9. Measuring cups--four ing up. sizes.hung on inside hooks.
10. Railed shelves to
hold
navouring bottles. Easy to reach
hard to knock over. 11. Electric mixing machine. Jeanette made the oil-silk cover.
2nd SECTION
Numbers 12 to 26
12. Kitchen spoons and forks held in slots.
13. Hand-sofiener cream suction bottle Afted upside-down with clamp. Rubber cork, when pressed. releases cream.
the
1. Three-sided tray drawers. "This way," said she, "you don't have to dig down to reach the saucepan," Janes made them slide easily by pulling a one- Inch strip of wood on the no- shelf side to make a groove.
2. Wall covered with thin quarter-teaspoon half-teaspoon sheeting that looks like tiles. It and so
14. Bunch of coloured plastic mensuring spoons, marked as
On
is made of wood, covered with 15. Coffee strainer in scarlet
baked enamel comes in four- foot squares.
kitchen
3. looks holding small sauce pans, handy to the working table.
4. Cheerful
colour scheme,
"I thought I'd have something really bright this time," says Jeanette. Pale-blue celling, yellow walls, grey wood- work,
white glove, sink ansi shelves.
and dowers instead of plain 'aluminium.
tables and other foods
16. Oak top for slicing vege-
drawers, 17. Shallow ledge using space (usually wasted) for holding kitchen knives.
18. Shelves for electric gadgets, alle machine, toaster, kettle. 10. Tip-up drawer for food
reserves.
20. Electric waste grinder in the sink. It grinds waste, in-
5. Several shallow shelves including bones, so small that it stead of few deep ones.
can all go safely down the waste Jeanette Insisted On these,
pipe. "because they make it easier to reach everything."
8. Boll-top cupboards, James made these by glicing strips of wood on to fabric backing, strengthened by wire staples. Roll tops, unlike ordinary cup- bond doors, take up no space when opened,
21. One-bar tap that can be pushed out of the way.
22. Salad washer,
23. Electric dishwasher fitted in under the draining board. You stack the dishes, press the button, and everything is washed and dried in half an hour-even greasy plates,
Styled For Modern Living -
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY
NEW YORK.
they Could ures brown and
3rd SECTION Numbers 27 to 35
27. Light above stove shining
into saucepans.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
A Pressure Cooker Can Do It!
PRESSURE-COOKER
owners
1
A
Some homemakers do not may want information on understand how to prepare 3 the three following points:
complete meal
single pressure-cooker, so I am usme (1) How to get more use the following menu to illustrato
the procedure; from their pressure-cookers.
(2) What part pressure- cooking can play In keeping down the food' budget.
pressure - cooking hot weather
28. Three-way switch chein for lights hangs from ceiling.
20. Freezing locker. Jennetle freezes fresh strawberries from
(3) Στον the garden in the summer. "Just
them in
In a jar, put
kle with
can help shorten sprinkle sugar, and fix on airtight lid." cooking time. She makes special paste for spaghetti, too, from onlon, green peppers, inned tomatoes, tornato paste, garlic, origan parsley, and sugar.
The
majority of home- makers use the pressure cooker for vegetables, meat and poul- try; very few for preparing sea 10. Mixing spoons kept near food and Ash, or
for making the electric stove.
soup stock; and still fewer for 31. Plates over burners, 22. Streamlined heat-proot preparing desserts; or cooking oven-handle.
dried trulis and cereals, Yet 33. Both sink and working all these foods faste better board are at a low level. Jeanette when pressure-cooked, cooking is 5ft 2ins. and says she always odours are had to sland on a stool to cook
eliminated; and cooking time in her other kitchens.
is reduced
to 34. Vertical
cupboard for minutes. saucepans she uses most often.
35. Slide-door cupboard for spices, salt, pepper, used
In dally cooking.
**
The
by
* *
Ideas were mostly Jeanette, the execution (except the electric gadgets) by James, during his week-ends.
Jeanette does all the cooking. housework, and washing for a family of four. She has worked at home ever since she married 19 years ago. So
when they
bullt their house two years ago she knew the why, where, and how of everything she wanted for her kitchen.
-(London Express Service)
Some of the homemakera have never even tried to cook fish and many other foods In II. To find a single utensil that could do so much seemed too there I discussed methods to be good to be true! Sa then and followed when preparing lesser-used foods.
the
Pressure-Cooking Fish
be
A
Dinner
From the Fressure Cooker Vegetable Juice Cocktail Swiss Steak with Gravy Halved Small Potatoes Baby Carrots
Tossed Salad Re-heated Rolls Lemon Rice Custard Coffee or Tes Milk (Children? Procedure in pressure-cook- ing this dinner is as follows: as described below, Pressure 1
Brown-heat the Swiss steak min.
rice
Feel the vegetables. Prepare the salad. Put together the lemon custard ready to pressure.
Cool the cooker and put in the vegetables
with the incat. Pressure 4 min. longer, when all will be done.
Cool the cooker at once. Transfer the Swiss steak and vegetables to a platter.
rice
Wash cooker; pressure custard during dinner.
All Measurements aro Level Recipes Serro Four Swiss Steak
Order, 1 to 1%.
lbs. round,
chuck or flank steak, sliced thick. Cut in pleces
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Cover 1 chopped seeded sweet large fish weighing 3 or 4 lbs. pepper and 1 peeled
chopped may be sloshed slightly in two
onion. Add c. hot water, or DON'T KILL
or three places, bent into
Iquid drained from cooked vegetables, circle, and trussed with tooth pressure and process 15 min.
Bring to 15 lbs. VITAMINS
picks to it loosely into the WATER, air and fire may be cooker. Shell fish are thorough-
Lemon Rice Custard W friendly elements to mau ly washed, and steamed, in the drawers and legs of natural but they may be vicious vah-
In a bowl, break shells. Whatever the fish,
up 1 c. dals
I cooked rice with a fork, Add where preclous vitamins
ming should be placed on an oiled 2 beaten egg, 6 tbsp. granulated fan with brown on his canvas a vegetable in too much water, rack. The water should come sugar, tap, salt, the juice and white, black and white, and are concerned. Soak or cook tops.
One sectional unit for the living room includes dissolve, drown and dissipate!
storage and the water soluble vitamins Just below the rack-no higher, grated rind lemon and 2 c.
heated milk-whole, When used, powdered herbs, drawers and both
atlluted open and Turn on the heat too intensely bay leaves and other splves are diluted evaporated milk. Trans- tuted dry skim milk, or closed shell space.
and more vitamins, especially put in the water, und the fer to aluminium custard cups When the designer does use the precious Vitamin C. vanish, stearn will cause the flavour to rubbed with butter
Expose vegetables to air and all-wood plece, he likes to the vitamin content meets a penetrate the fish thoroughly, garing, or to a metal bowl that the pressure- finish. The popular conception ha
cooker. Tie two thicknesses of Bre rubbed waxed paper over the top. Put directly onto the fish. Always the rack in the pressure-cooker; bring the pressure up to 15
pour inc. hot water; put in the custard; close the cooker: Ibs. Fish, licts, sicaks arid
bring to 15 lbs. pressure and. proccan 5 min. for cup custards -15 min. If in a bowl.
SPILLED drinks or extra guests for dinner would be no problem with a triple top table included in a new ling of modern furniture.
The table is just one piece In an unsual new collection of modern furniture designed by Allan Gould.
011 By using new materials and fabrics, Gould
leave the wood with a natural sorry fate as may be seen from Salt, pepper, lemon juice and loosely into
has managed to bring good mo- of modern design and bleached the wilted and dejected look of other seasonings
dern design within reach
the average pocketbook.
in
of woods is completely missing,
The table has a bakelite top
card
black, white or red, with
the basis of
"Crazy Susan"
groens left carelessly lying on the kitchen table.
But the vitamin vandals-pic. water and heat-can be
van-
natural birch frame and legs. Two tables the size of ordinary
But he's not above adding a quished carlly by following small whole Ash take a min. tables form
touch of whimsy. There's
few simple rules. Whisk vege-processing to the pound it!" the unit.
tables into the They can be used free-form lazy SUERT which after buying as soon as
refrigerator thick; 5 min; if thinner. Cool singly, fitted toge
together, or by picked up the Immediate nick-after-
Do the cooker at once. A sauce vr adjusting concealed sildes under ame
sible and pick 'em as fresh ish gravy should be mude' from of "crazy, susarı," the tops, a 24-Inch leaf
bullt low enough for a cocktail possible. Wash, don't saak be suspended
no only soaking between
table, and the two tiers. rotate vegetables, for
the liquid. tables to sent eight or ten la opposite directions to serve means sending tho precious people.
elements down the drain with the Immovable guests.
the water. Cook, vegetables in
can the
A sort of drop-leat foolboard as little water as possible and
on one of the beda is an equally until just tendor. Serve at once. unusual, if more practical, idet for vitamina
shouldn't stand
Less Vitamins, Lost
Nover boll vegetables.
Sim:
of Gould's.. The mahogany foot around. ( board can be raised to make a shell to hold bedding or lug-
gaga,
recon-
or mar-
Trick Of The Chef
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NEUTRALIZE EXCESS ACID-
To pressure-cook two inters of cup custards, put a wire rack For trivet on top of the retThey
layer, and set "Pressure-Cooking Poultry custards on this. Process
the remainintz
the Answered conte length of time as for the single layer.
Household Hints
To keep blas-cut
garments
Then there is a studio, bed with foam rubber back custtions designed for comfortable sliting;
Chicken, duck and zestions of clever dining room chair with
turkey can all
be pressure-; horschair upholstered scat.
cooked. It to be pressuro- Coated Canvas Used
rousted whole, stuff loosely Occasional chairs with seats mering means less violent, desired slow-brown the bird So for the furniture is sold and backs of heavy card, leather ponsro to heat, and so, less loss all over in bland, fat. Benson from stretching out of shape, anly through the retall outlet or woven cotton webbing are of vitamins, Liquid left over with salt and pepper. Place iron or press them by moving but Gould hopes he's solved a used freely throughout the line, from cooking should be served on the rack in the cooker, pour the front along the grain of the cos problem that eventually And If the storage pieces and with vegetables or will bring good modern, design tables aron't
blended in water to come just beneath material rather than following covered homes in every city,
with with soups, or sauces. washable fabric, they are treat-
the rack, bring the pressure to the line of the garment. Of course a certain amount One of his cost remedies 1sed with a plastle to make them of vitamin loss is unavoidable. 15 lbs. and process 7 mln. to to use coated canvas on some of nearly wear-proof. Modern buť. his storage places. It's
furniture
may In some degree bo.ro- the pound. Neduce the pressuru" designers," "creating placed ;: ablo material in 'n tweedy design furniture sulled to our practical dressings and by combining To make it crisp lks that of using nutritious at once. Thu skin will be soft, 1 by like that used on luggage. Two way of life, seem to create little vegetables with other vitamin- an oven-roasted bird, heat, to and three, drawer, chests have a that fragile, It's meant for tich, foods, for instance, in min. in a hot oven or broller, canvas-covered frame with: hard wear-United Press.
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