THE CLOTHES/DISH WASHER

     It really existed; in fact, it was part of the appliance package for the higher-end models of all-metal Lustron homes: the Thor Automagic Clothing and Dish Washer!

     Even though you changed out the entire wash basket to swap from washing clothing to washing dishes, a lot of people just couldn't feel comfortable about cleaning dungarees and dinner plates in the same machine.  It wasn't a success.

     Sadly, under new ownership the company tried a comeback early in this century with a slick ventless all-in-the-same-drum washer/dryer and that doesn't appear to have worked, either.  The company website is gone and their last official Tweet was in 2010.

TIMELESS GOODNESS!

I'll be posting about Saturday's dinner -- tonight's too unless I hear a good reason why not -- over at the other blog, but it included corn muffins, which I make from mix. A very good mix; please note their proud announcement:

I do have one quibble; the instructions call for one (1) egg but the muffins or cornbread will hold together a lot better if you add two instead. I think it's tastier, too.

There's one more trick to try if you can -- growing up, I had a pair of ducks, Alice and Emma, (from a series of children's books the title and author of which elude me) who delivered a fresh pair of eggs each and every morning and duck eggs are the A ticket for cornbread and other hearty breads. They are richer and have a somewhat stronger flavor. It probably helped that our supply was seriously fresh, too.

(Ducks are quirky creatures. Egg-laying seemed to come as a surprise to those two. They'd raise a fuss until the eggs would get collected! Just a couple of irresponsible partygirls, I guess).