Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-10 | Page 5 | Left-over Dishes

f - left-Over 'Disbes ' , , Tho term left-over dishes no doubt signifies to most housewives those wartime necessities, which we con-j con-j coct today out of yesterday's dinner ; or tomorrow out of today's. But it may i; also mean the dishes, plates and cups and saucers and spoons, knives and forks, that we are too weary at night to wash and put into place and so stack up or leave in disorder in the kitchen, to be a nice little reminder in the morning that woman's work is never done. Now left-over dishes of this sort arc a bad idea in summer, because any bits of food left exposed breed, flies and I quickly generate unpleasant odors, and jthey are a bad idea in the winter be-, be-, cause food left around attracts mice ' and roaches in cold weather. On the r ,whole the leftover dish habit is a very i; easy one to acquire and very difficult r to break. But if you must leave dishes occasionally for instance, when you are going out in the evening and have no time for such work or when you " are actually too weary to attempt to ;' undertake the work, then remember that there is a good way and a bad way k to go about it. Whatever you do or don't do, all food should be put away. Garbage should also bo disposed of and well covered if not actually put Into the proper receptacle. It is not necessary neces-sary to stack the dishes, but you should take care that no silver pieces remain in a liquid. For instance, don't leave a spoon in tho gravy boat or the salad dressing. And don't leave the silver sil-ver in the dish pan. It is a good plan, however, to put cold water in cooking dishes which have contained starchy substances. Some people, however, when tiey attempt to leave dishes till tomorrow take such elaborate pains to do it that they might in the samo time have done most of the dl6lies. There is poor wisdom wis-dom in taking great pains to scrape and stack soiled dishes and arrange I them In neat piles and rows if vou wish to save time. tflv nrv