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The Business of Being a Housewife / A Manual to Promote Household Efficiency and Economy

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About This Book

A practical manual treating household management as an economic enterprise, offering guidance on food selection, purchasing, storage, and meal planning to maximize efficiency and economy. It clarifies how meat prices reflect carcass yields, grades, and processing costs rather than live-animal price per pound, and outlines shifts in production, preservation, and commercial handling that affect quality and cost. Emphasizing waste reduction and informed buying, it recommends reliance on inspected products, reputable brands, and labor-saving prepared foods, and provides tips for conserving raw materials and composing nutritionally balanced menus aligned with broader production and distribution systems.

GENERAL HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES

1—General Kitchen Equipment

  • Stove
  • Ice chest
  • Kitchen cabinet
  • Kitchen table
  • Recipe file
  • Teakettle
  • Kitchen scales
  • Coffee grinder
  • Bread board
  • Chopping bowl and knife
  • Pancake turner
  • Waffle iron
  • Egg beater
  • Cream whip
  • Flour bin
  • Spice boxes
  • Match holder
  • Skewers
  • Spatula
  • Jar labels
  • Strainers
  • Skimmer
  • Trays
  • Grater
  • Nutmeg grater
  • Kitchen spoons
  • Kitchen knives and forks
  • Garbage pail
  • Waste basket

2—For Cleaning Purposes

  • Dish pan
  • Rinsing pan
  • Tea towels
  • Dishcloths
  • Glass towels
  • Scraper
  • Crumb tray
  • Dust mop
  • Wet mop
  • Scrubbing pail, wringer attachment
  • Broom
  • Dustpan
  • Radiator brushes
  • Window cleaner
  • Chamois
  • Sink brush
  • Dust cloth
  • Oil mop
  • Silver cleaner

3—Laundry Equipment

  • Electric washing machine
  • Electric wringer
  • “ iron or set of irons
  • Set of tubs, wooden or galvanized iron
  • Clothes stick
  • Clothes mangle
  • Ironing board
  • Clothes rack
  • Boiler
  • Clothes sprinkler
  • Patent clothesline
  • Clothespins
  • Clothespin bag or apron
  • Clothes hamper
  • Clothes basket
  • Bottle bluing
  • Starch
  • High-grade laundry soap
  • Ammonia
  • Beeswax
  • Borax

Meat Cookery

TO PREPARE LESS EXPENSIVE CUTS OF MEATS
  • Fireless cooker
  • Pressure cooker
  • Self basting roaster
  • Meat chopper
  • Chafing dish
  • Double boiler
  • Casseroles
  • Baking pan
  • Pyrex, square, oblong, oval
  • Aluminum, square
  • Tin, various sizes and shapes
  • Scoring knife
  • Meat plank
  • Meat saw
  • Soup kettle
  • Vegetable cutters
TO PREPARE PRIME MEATS
  • Grill
  • Iron griddle
  • Self basting roaster
  • Broiler
TO MAKE TASTY LEFT-OVER DISHES
  • Casserole
  • Deep frying kettle
  • Griddle
  • Ramekins
  • Deep fat frying equipment
  • Dutch Kettle
  • Long Fork
  • Wire Basket
  • Skimmer

Fish Cookery

  • Skillet
  • Fish mould
  • Fish plank
  • Colander
  • Chafing dish
  • Casserole
  • Baking dish

Vegetable Cookery

HOT VEGETABLES
  • Vegetable brush
  • Colander
  • Nest of stew pans
  • One 1 pt. capacity
  • Two 1 qt. capacity
  • Three 2 qt. capacity
  • Two 3 qt. capacity
  • Paring knives, aluminum, wooden, square handled
  • Cabbage shredder
  • Chopping bowl and knife
  • Set of fancy vegetable cutters
  • Potato ricer
  • Potato masher
  • Baking dishes
  • 1 square
  • 1 oval
  • 1 oblong
  • Steamer

Salad Materials

  • Salad bag
  • Wire basket or colander
  • Salad moulds
  • Mayonnaise mixer

Desserts

PASTRY, CAKES, PIES, ETC.
  • Nest of 6 mixing bowls
  • Extra flour sifter
  • Measuring cup
  • Rolling pin
  • Bread board
  • Marble slab
  • Cutters
  • 1—Doughnut
  • 2—Biscuit
  • 3—Fancy cake and cooky cutters
  • Wire whisk
  • Dover egg beater
  • Spatula
  • Cake racks
  • Russian tins or sheets
  • Muffin tins
  • Pie tins
  • Cake tins
  • Oblong, round, square
  • Holed cake tins
  • Patty tins
  • Pastry tube
PUDDINGS, ICES, SAUCES, ETC.
  • Moulds
  • Ice cream freezer
  • Double boiler
  • Wire whisk
  • Dover egg beater
  • Cream whipper
  • 12 Individual pudding moulds
  • Stew pan
  • Lemon squeezer

Breads

  • Bread mixer
  • Bread tin
  • Bread pan, 4 qt. capacity