This section is from the book "The Pattern Cook-Book", by The Butterick Publishing Co.. Also available from Amazon: The Pattern Cook-Book.
A wire soap-bracket should hang over the kitchen sink in a convenient position; and a. soap shaker will use up all the small bits of soap. The latter costs fifteen cents.

Soap-Bracket.

Soap-Shaker.
Those who have not a refrigerator in which to preserve food will find a set of wire screens most useful. Food can then be placed on the cellar floor (if the house is fortunate enough to have a good cellar) and safely covered with the screens.

Larding And Trussing Needles.
Larding needles must be provided if larding is to be done. These have split ends, like a cleft stick, to receive strips of fat meat.
Trussing needles, or skewers, are also very convenient.
A paste jagger for cutting pie-crust or doughnuts will be found of great utility.
Fish scissors are needed. They should be carefully washed and dried after each using and placed just where they can be found when needed again.

Paste Jagger.
A whip or "syllabub" churn is a and useful article. It costs but eighand is made of tin. The handle, A, very cheap teen cents placed inside the tube B, and the whole is then dipped into a bowl of sweetened and flavored cream. By churning and pressing it through the perforated holes at the bottom of the tube, the cream soon becomes a light froth, which is skimmed off the top as soon as formed ; and the churning is continued until all the froth possible is obtained.

Fish Scissors.

Whip Churn.
 
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