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Eleanor

vintage years

WELL, SERVES me
right. ’'d been so
hoity-toity about it.

“Oh that won't bother
me.” | said, airily, as hus-
band wrapped his arms
around the microwave and
headed out the door to find a
repair man.

Turns out the repair chap
had to keep it for a day or
two, of course, to find out
why it had begun to sound
like a jet plane getting ready
for take-off. For about a
week it had been making
this scarifying row whenever
! asked it to take on some .
simple task like hotting-up
the soup for lunch.

Well, I found out the very
first day it was in the shop
just how much I’ve become
accustomed to its charms. I
really don’t want to contem-

plate having again to keep
house without it.

For 48 hours I had to go
back to cooking the broccoli
in a pan with water heavens,
I've not done that for don-
key’s years. Water leaches
out all the lovely vitamins,
for one thing, and takes at
least 20 minutes, but broken
up and dabbed with some
margarine and given a cou-
ple or three minutes in the
microwave, it’s all ready and
with all the good inside that
will do you good inside.

Not just broccoli, but lots
of other vegetables, too, and
fish — oh my, ready ina
few seconds and no messy
frying pan to clean.

I tell you, it was a revela-
tion to me, having to resort
to boiling and frying again. I
use the stove all the time for
boiling the potatoes and
baking cookies and scram-
bling the occasional break-
fast egg, and always if I
have to reast or broil — the
microwave has no idea how
to deal properly with meat.
But it does a lovely job with
many vegetables, really
superior, and is grand for
heating any kind of left-
overs, freshening bread
buns, muffins, cake and
cookies.

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for the men in my cookery
classes. Each page bears
only one recipe, too. | didn't
want these guys to get side-
tracked for any reason. But
the blind can't burn them-
selves on a microwave oven
nor use straight-forward
text, so | was asked to add a
microwave section for their
comfort. | couldn't do that
without a bit of practice on
my own account.

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“banked” on winter nights
and fed all day long, regard-
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My mother made the
bread and boiled the laundry
on the wood stove. It was
black and had a few
curlicues of shiny metal here
and there and consumed
piles of birch-wood without
regard for my struggles of
keeping the confounded
wood-box full day and
night. It was a monster,
though it was lovely for
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the war years when I mar-
tied. They scared me to
death. Finally, though. we
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