1 ■■ HTt ®* , - «* f tajPf 1*L kSII & Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2020 with funding from Columbia University Libraries https ://archive.org/det^/y B 9 A y v yourkitcl 7 f©nfr 00 fred COLUMBIA UNIVE8SITV 'fj''? CrCf From Experience by Mrs. Christine Frederick Author of “The New House¬ keeping;” Consulting House¬ hold Editor Ladies’ Home Journal; Founder Applecroft Experiment Station Third, Edition THE HOOSIER MANUFACTURING CO. NEW CASTLE, IND. Copyright, 1915, by The Hoosier Manufacturing Co., New Castle, Ind. T his picture shows Mrs. Christine Frederick at work before her Hoosier Cabinet in the Applecroft Experiment Kitchen. Mrs. Frederick has contributed immensely to the advancement of Domestic Science. Her book, “The New Housekeeping,” is nationally famous, but until now she has written no endorsement of any article by name. The suggestions she makes in the following pages are valu¬ able because they are broad in character and practical in every detail. They are her own, drawn from two years’ use of a Hoosier Cabinet. careful analysis of your own kitchen work will show you that it all falls into two main divisions or processes— 1. Preparing of food. 2. Clearing away of food. Every task in any kitchen, from peeling potatoes to washing the skillet in which they are fried, conies under one or the other process. Divide Your Work For example, let’s suppose you are going to bake a cake. (1) Raw materials—butter, eggs and milk must come from a storage place—ice-box, cellar, cupboard or pantry. (2) Next you must collect the bowls, pans, mixing spoons, etc., and mix the cake on a table. (3) Next you must bake it in a stove. So under preparing we can put down this equipment: 1. Place for storage—cellar, ice-box, pantry, cupboard. 2. Place for mixing—table. 3. Place for cooking—stove. When the cake is eaten and you are ready to wash the dishes, you need (1) a place to stack them; (2) a place to wash them—the sink; (3) a place on which to drain them; (4) shelves on which to keep them when dry. 6 HOOSIER CABINETS Floor Plan of Applecroft Experiment Kitchen before it was arranged scientifically. Note the confused network of steps resulting from incon¬ venient equipment wrongly placed, a. Preparing b. Clearing atcay. Under clearing away, the equipment is this: 1. Place for stacking soiled dishes. 2. Place for washing soiled dishes—sink. 3. Place for washed dishes—drain. 4. Place for dried dishes—shelves. You will see at once that if your equipment can be arranged in this order as used, you will save steps, for you will never have to cross and recross the kitchen, once your work is under way. As materials are “routed” in an up-to-date factory, so in your up-to-date kitchen, the raw material starts in SAVE TIME 7 -ITT Cellar mi in Ice Box A V Drain Sink Drain I Tv Y I ! B i Table China ’ 4 Hoosier Cabinet O O o Stove Serving Shelf Dining Room B ' (Table) ! A \ w ’ Floor Plan of Applecroft Experiment Kitchen properly arranged and equipped. Notice saving of steps and time both in preparing and clear¬ ing away a meal. a. Preparing, b. Clearing away. your storage place and comes out of your stove a finished cake. “Route” Your Work You can “route” your work on this plan in any kitchen. Place the table for mixing, if possible,-between the stove and the place where you store food and supplies. Near your sink, arrange your stack-surface for soiled dishes at the right, and your drain-surface at the left, so that dishes move from your right to your left. This will save you time in dishwashing. The Hoosier Cabinet is a dust-proof food pantry and utensil cupboard built around a big sliding metal table. From first to last this “routing” saves steps and time. The arrangement will snip off minutes from every task and you will get through more quickly. Now Consider Your Equipment Your biggest problem is your mixing table, for if you use an ordinary table, even though it is placed conven- HOOSIER CABINETS SAVE SPACE 9 STARCHY VEGETABLES STARCHY VEGETABLES WATERY VEGETABLES WATERY VEGETABLES SALADS SALADS DESSERTS THE BODY REQUIRES OAILY FOOD CONTAINS THREE ELEMENTS THE HOOSIER MANUFACTURING CO.. New Castle. Ind. iently, you must carry to it and from it, all your tools and supplies. This takes the biggest part of your time and causes most of your steps. How You Save Steps By using a Hoosier Cabinet in place of a kitchen table, you save this walking. The Hoosier was invented to combine: (1) A food supply pantry, and (2) a tool and utensil cupboard, around a (3) sanitary kitchen table. The table itself is bigger than most tables and is covered with pure aluminum, which cannot rust or corrode. This table slides out sixteen inches beyond the front of the base so you can sit down at nearly all your work, and this sitting saves a great deal of your strength, for the energy that goes into supporting your body is almost as great when you stand as You turn the Food Guide Dial, and select .. an economical meal in which the foods When yOU walk. are properly balanced to preserve health. Mrs. Christine Fredericks HOUSEKEEPERS' FOOD GUIDE 10 HOOSIER CABINETS Even though the table top is covered with packages you can reach into the low, metal flour bin (holds 50 pounds ) to clean it. A Scientific Pantry The pantry part of the Hoosier Cabinet is arranged scientifically so that you can store forty or more packages —all the supplies you ever need-—and can reach any one of them instantly without disturbing the others. In addition, your flour, sugar, spices, salt, flavoring extracts, coffee, tea and other supplies needed frequently, are all placed in handy compartments labeled and arranged SAVE WORRY 11 To open doors in lower half of top section token table is covered, simply slide out the table—doors swing open without touching packages. Note flour bin comes apart for cleaning. so you can use them or put them back with one short, quick motion. A Cupboard with Brains All the tools you need are provided for in the same way. Little things you use often, such as a can-opener, egg : beater, rolling-pin, etc., all have their special place where you can reach them most handily. 12 HOOSIER CABINETS Lids and pie pans are in a pocket at your left hand, ready when the dough is rolled. A sliding shelf in the base brings the back part of the pot and pan cupboard to you easily. Metal-lined drawers are at one side, one for meal, one for towels and kitchen linen, and another with sliding, self¬ closing lid, for bread, pies and cake. In this bread and cake box, there is a removable metal sliding shelf with asbestos bottom so that a cake or pie may be laid on it direct from the oven and set away to cool with¬ out being disturbed. You get from this descrip¬ tion an idea of the storage convenience of the Hoosier Cabinet, but there are many more conveniences. Worry Removed from Cooking The new patented flour sifter shakes flour through four times faster than the old-fashioned sifter grinds it through. On the upper left door, for instance, is a simple ingenious food guide which contains economical menus including every kind of food for every season. You turn the dial and select your meal without disturbing anything in the cabinet. If you follow this guide, your meals always will have variety, SAVE MONEY 13 and you will have different kinds of inexpensive foods, proportioned properly, to keep you and your family in good health. This relief from the daily worry of “What Shall We Have for Dinner?”—is worth more in a year than the low price of the cabinet itself. Want List and Bill File Another door contains a dial-faced want list with several hands. When you’ve selected your meal, it is simple to set the want list as a reminder of the groceries and meat you need. Then when the supplies come, you can check them against this list, file the bills on hooks provided above the list for meat and grocery bills, or pay them with money you keep in the handy Hoosier “money tray.” The Convenient Doors The sifter comes apart easily; never wears out; and is absolutely sanitary; Take the matter of these cannot grind dirt or « rit throu ° h «'«»«• groceries as a further test of the Hoosier convenience. Suppose you had decided to wipe the flour bin inside before putting in fresh flour, but had forgotten until you found the grocer had spread packages all over your Hoosier table. The flour bin is 14 HOOSIER CABINETS You can put iO packages on the Hoosier pantry shelf, 12 or more bottles in the condiment cupboard above the flour bin, and 70 dishes or more in the dish cupboard. shut inside away from the dust. You simply slide out the metal table; the doors above the table swing open freely, and you reach in to the flour bin or any part of the cupboard without moving a package. You can take the flour bin apart. It is all smooth metal inside and you can wipe it down quickly. It is low, and easy to fill. Put in your flour, set your groceries on the shelf and SAVE WORK 15 Check your supplies on the dial-faced want list on the middle door, and file the bills above on the same door. Separate file for grocery and meat bills. you're ready to start work. On the inside of the opened doors at your very finger tips, are the supplies you use many times a day. You save the wasted energy of endless reaching. The arrangement is so perfect that your Hoosier seems about to hand things to you as you need them. 16 HOOSIER CABINETS When you open your Hoosier, your Food Guide is before you on the upper left door, and your cook book on the middle door. On the upper right door are flavoring extracts, small utensils and a tray for tickets and money. Your sugar, and spices in glass jars are on the lower right door above the table; your salt, tea, and coffee in glass jars on the left door; on the front of the flour bin is your pencil. Rolling pin and other utensils are in front of you. Sit Down and Work Now, see how you make a cake. Your eggs, butter and milk come from your ice-box to your Hoosier table, say, half a dozen steps. Pull up your stool in front of your Hoosier, slide out the metal table and sit down comfortably to work. SAVE HEALTH 17 Cutlery is in the compartment drawer underneath the table. A special compartment is for string. There are three additional compartments for different kinds of cut¬ lery. Sharp knives, for instance, can be kept to themselves. Note also that the cutlery drawer is handy whether your cabinet is open or closed. A slice of “bread and butter ” can be had without disturbing any part of the cabinet not actually needed. Cook Book Holder Your cook book is ready in its rack on the upper middle door. Open it up behind the spring holder. It stays open out of your way, and clean. You can’t spill anything on it, yet it’s always at the level of your eye. 18 HOOSIER CABINETS You can open your cook book, and keep it always clean, on a level with your eye, behind the same spring clasp that holds it when closed. Your flavoring extracts, flour, sugar, salt—and all your bowls and tools and utensils are in the cabinet before you, ready for instant use. Furthermore, each of these articles is located where you can reach it and put it away again with the least possible amount of exertion. Every detail has been provided with scientific care. You don’t have to take a step until the cake is ready for the oven. SAVE STRENGTH 19 Your pastry flour and cereals are in a deep metal-lined drawer in the base. Notice how near this drawer is to your right hand. Save Two-Thirds of Your Time You can see without figures that this makes a big difference in steps and time just in the simple task of making one cake. But here are actual time figures taken from experiments in the kitchen shown on pages 6 and 7. These figures show the minutes required to prepare a cake both before and after the work was routed through a Hoosier Cabinet. 20 HOOSIER CABINETS A sliding shelf in the pot cupboard brings out to you the pans and mixing bowls you use most frequently. Most women find that this shelf holds all the tools they use in ordinary daily cooking. Time Spent in Preparing a Cake Before the Hoosier Came Time spent in collecting (Utensils—materials). 9 minutes Time in mixing_ 9 minutes Time in clearing up_11 minutes SAVE ENERGY 21 Sit down at work. Pure aluminum, table slides out 16 inches beyond base, giving plenty of knee room. All your pots and pans are arranged compactly in pot cupboard; ruit jars stored there on special shelf; cake and pie pans in a pocket on the door. Time Spent in Preparing a Cake After the Hoosier Came Time spent in collecting (Utensils—materials).*2 minutes Time in mixing_9 minutes Time in clearing up_4 minutes HOOSIER CABINETS Ice your cake on the removable, metal shelf of the metal bread box. Set the cake undisturbed into the box to cool. The bread box has ventilated self-closing lid and is mouse proof. The metal shelf has asbestos bottom. The mixing, you notice, took exactly the same number of minutes at each test, but by routing the work through a Hoosier Cabinet, the time for gathering and clearing away, was reduced from a total of twenty minutes, to six, a saving of over two hundred per cent in this one simple task. Actual figures will vary in other kitchens, but the propor¬ tion of saving will be about the same anywhere. SAVE FEET 23 Keep your fresh supply of dish towels, cloths, and kitchen hand towels in this roomy metal drawer. It holds all kinds of linen needed in any kitchen. Why 800,000 Use It With this example it is easy to understand why the 800,000 women who route their work through Hoosier Cabinets have so much more leisure. With a Hoosier you can hardly help being quick with your work. Meals are ready in much less than the usual time. The cabinet keeps your work in order and is easy to keep in order HOOSIER CABINETS 24 You can prepare your whole meal quickly with the aid of a Hoosier Cabinet, beca in the simple act of cutting bread for your table. The bread knife and plate in m have a Hoosier you take all these articles from their proper places in the cabinet, j. SAVE NERVES 25 i verything in it is at your fingers' ends. Note here, for example, the steps a Hoosier saves o lichens would have to be collected from cupboard and pantry onto the table. When you i ut the cutting board, slice your bread, and put everything away again without a step. i Cl Oi-k- Co^^O^OOo or a contract shall have been made for the full payment as hereinafter described. Upon the repayment by The Hoosier Manufacturing Company to the user, of this royalty paid by him, less five per cent per annum of the full royalty for each year or fraction of a year that the user shall have had the use thereof. 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