~ Home Cookery in War-Time, by Ernest Oldmeadow, 1915
Actually very good advice
(if this isn’t making sense to anyone, older enamel often had lead in it. perfectly safe if the enamel is intact, but if it’s cracked or chipped…)
(and yes, they did know about lead poisoning back then. we’ve actually known about it for a long time; it was sort of the Microplastics Issue of the 19th and early 20th centuries- dangerous, but impossible to avoid. so you had to just take the best precautions you could)
[Image Description: a picture from a book reading “Any enamelled saucepan which has failed to keep a whole skin must be sentenced to death. It is not to be given to the charwoman or even thrown into the dustbin. If a saucepan with a bald patch in the lining is dangerous to you and your family, it will be equally dangerous to the charwoman’s son Clarence or to the dustman’s little daughter Eva. If you are dead against waste, you can save the saucepan for a day when you wish to relieve a fit of bad temper and you can then bash it out of shape with your largest hammer.”]