A Shelf Of Bright Plates
This article is found in the Kitchen-Klatter Magazine, August, 1952
A SHELF OF BRIGHT PLATES
By Alice Hoey Shaffer
When my new house was being built, I had the carpenter put a narrow shelf over the low window above the kitchen sink, with a skirt board below to protect the curtains.
A few days after I had moved in, the building contractor came to the house to finish some small job, and noticed my row of bright-colored plates standing on the window shelf.
“Would you like me to put a plate-rail there?” he asked, “those plates would be safer that way.”
I told him they were safe enough, since they were only paper plates, and he could hardly believe me.
I had taken large, smooth-finished, picnic paper plates, and painted each one a different brilliant color with show-card paint, and later varnished them. They look very bright and colorful, and have earned a great many compliments.
But what most of my friends do not know is that on the back of each plate I have copied a favorite recipe; and I know at a glance, for instance, that on the back of the green plate is a recipe for green apple pie, the gold one has a gold cake recipe, etc. So they are useful as well as supplying a very cheerful note to the kitchen.
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