Gay Kitchens

Southland Times, Issue 22969, 15 August 1936, Page 16

Gay Kitchens

ATTRACTIVE DESIGNS AND COLOURINGS The kitchen, where the housewife spends so much of her time, is no longer the dingy, ill-equipped room of the past. The new kitchen furniture, says a London correspondent, is so attractive in design and colouring that lids room stands alone in its decorative aspect as purely “kitchen.” Surfaces are smooth and easily kept in a spick-and-span condition. Either lightcoloured woods are used for the new all-in-one pieces, or metals finished in a colour-scheme to harmonize with the walls.

Step-saving furniture on the latest lines, dressers and kitchen tables have a number of interesting features. There is a household table for all kinds of uses, with roomy drawers and cupboards below at one end, and at the other spaces shared by a pull-out ironing board and a pastry-board. These boards fit back neatly into the double top, so that there is room to sit at one-half of the table when household tasks permit. Useful porce-lain-topped side-tables, with cupboard, shelves and drawers for storage below, designed to stand at the side of the cooking stove, are another practical innovation.

Almost the whole of the kitchen equipment, apart from the cooking stove, can be combined in one piece of furniture built up in units, a kitchenette dresser, coloured to tone with any special colour scheme. Foor preparation, storage, ironing, indeed, most kitchen tasks, can be achieved within the limit of this piece of furniture, which, when closed, has an attractively neat appearance.

Put five teaspoonfuls of tea into a jug and pour four quarts of freshl/ boiling water over it. Cover the jug and let it stand for five minutes. Then strain it, sweeten the liquid to taste, and leave it to cool. Half fill a punch bowl with cracked ice and add the strained juice of four lemons and the tea. If liked, small pieces of pineapple, cherries, bananas, a handful of mint and more sugar or lemon juice may be added. This makes a delicious drink.