Equipment and Supplies

The first and foremost essential in cookery is a conveniently arranged and well equipped kitchen, stocked with the necessary staple supplies. Under the heading of equipment, the most important items are of course a cooking-stove (presumably a gas-range, with an upper and a lower oven), a sink, a good-sized table with enamelled or oilcloth top, and an ice-box. Only a little less important than these, in view of its many advantages and conveniences, is a modern kitchen-cabinet. The kitchen should be provided with liberal shelf and cupboard space, and brass hooks to accommodate “hangable” articles should be screwed into the walls and casings at convenient points.

In the selection of minor equipment and supplies, an almost unlimited choice is available. But the following lists contain practically everything that may be considered essential for the purposes of the average housewife. These lists will serve as a convenient purchase guide for those who are furnishing and stocking a kitchen for the first time; and they will also be useful as check-lists in making occasional inventories of equipment and provisions on hand.

Introduction

The Plain Sailing Cook Book

General Kitchen Necessities

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Susanna Shanklin Browne

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Equipment and Supplies

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