This week's What’s New Wednesday celebrates the pressure cookers of the 1940’s. Rationed during WWII, pressure cookers allowed for safe food preservation, and belonged to the community.
With Europe’s agricultural production being war-torn, the US was forced to feed not only troops and civilians from this country but those from other countries. Rationing evolved from this need to support the Allied Forces. Home front mobilization encouraged recipes that used available food, with as little rationed food as possible.
Using reclaimed yarn and fibers, dolls and toys also had to fit into the rationing that occurred. This pattern book, Crochet Your Victory Barnyard, published in 1943, celebrates and reminds to frugally use rationed items.
This interesting piece not only keeps an à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã in shape, it also gets work done. The à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã, in this case, a dog or sheep, walks on the treadmill and powers a machine such as a separator, a churn or washing machine.
While it has grown from simple instruments to synthesizers, music has crossed language, culture and time. This week’s What’s New Wednesday celebrates music in the form of a violinzither, from the 1920’s.
This week’s What’s New Wednesday hails from the early days of SDSU, when the school was known as the South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã Agricultural College. The black cast iron mortar and pestle dates to the late 1800’s, likely used by Pharmacy Department students.
Shake to dry. From quills and nibs to clean erasing ink, pens have changed significantly over the years. This week’s What’s New Wednesday celebrates a forgotten piece of the writing process, the pounce box.