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Show JSeiv Housewives To Fry Eggs In Pottery Skillets Familiar metal pans and kettles are vanishing from stores along with metal kitchen tools and gadgets. In their places are various sorts of kitchen-ware made of non-strategic materials. The bride of 1943 may fry eggs in a pottery skillet, bake pie in a fiber pan, boil vegetables in earthenware, and roast meat in glass, predicts Mrs. Bernice Claytor. specialist in home improvement for the A. and M. college extension service. She explains that metal must go to war, so cooks must learn to use materials materi-als not needed at the front. Pottery, earthenware, and glass need more careful handling than metals, the specialist cautions. First you'll need to avoid sudden changes in temperature. If you put extremely extreme-ly cold food in these utensils, have the dish cold first. Or, if you put in hoV food, heat the dish first with warm water. Here's another caution. Never put empty pottery, earthenware, or glass utensils over a flame. Be sure the dish contains liquid, fat, or some moist food before it is set over heat. Glass made for the purpose can cook over high heat, but not earthenware or pottery. The safe rule with these is "Simmer and serve." Homemakers who are afraid their metal spoons may chip or crack these dishes, can use wooden spoons for stirring and beating foods in these containers. Be careful about temperatures in dishwashing, too, ; Mrs. Claytor suggests. Wash pottery, pot-tery, earthenware, and glass, like china, with warm soap suds and a hot water rinse. Dry them with a soft towel. |