Mind Your Manors: Tried-and-True British Household Cleaning Tips by Lucy Lethbridge

Author:Lucy Lethbridge [Lethbridge, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

SINKS were traditionally made of earthenware, metal or ceramic – though these hard surfaces risked washing-up breakages. This led to the brief popularity of teak sinks which minimised the risk of shattering china.

Rubber gloves did not come into general use until after the Second World War – and they must rate as one of the more life-changing of all domestic innovations.

DISHWASHERS: Early dishwashers were not always satisfactory; washing up dishes proved a harder challenge for technological innovation than washing clothes. Their increasing popularity inspired a report from the Master Silversmiths’ Association in the 1930s which attributed some stains on silver to the use of new powdered detergents. Randal Phillips, that early champion of new household technologies, gave muted approval to the ‘Polliwashup’, a 1920s innovation which nonetheless still required the operator to boil water and make a lather with grated soap, then crank a handle six times in each direction. Easier, but messier, was another ­early design which involved stacking the dirty dishes in a specially designed tray and firing a jet of hot water at them from a rubber hose.

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