Spoon Holder on a Kettle

In making marmalade and jellies the ingredients must be stirred from time to time as the cooking proceeds. After stirring, some of the mixture always remains on the spoon. Cooks often lay the spoon on a plate or stand it against the cooking utensil with the handle down. Both of these methods are wasteful. The accompanying illustration shows a device made of sheet copper to hold the spoon so that the drippings will return to the cooking utensil.

Kitchen Set: Spoon Holder on a Kettle

The copper is not hard to bend and it can be shaped so that the device can be used on any pot or kettle.

–Contributed by Edwin Marshall, Oak Park, Ill.

Source: Project Gutenberg’s The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1, by Popular Mechanics, Produced by Don Kostuch