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.jpg "Newspaper photo of Hazel Ellis finding the right temperature on the stove and measuring with curved teaspoon")
Where the Blind Beat Their Handicap
Des Moines Sunday Register
October 8, 1961
Photo- Notched dial on stove above permits a blind housewife to set oven temperatures by feel. The woman operating the oven is also wearing a Braille watch, with a crystal that flips up so she can feel the hands and the raised dots marking the hours. At right above, Mrs. Hazel Ellis, 26, of Davenport, uses a teaspoon, bent like a dipper, while preparing a recipe. By placing cooking ingredients in wide-mouthed containers and then dipping them out, the blind avoid having to pour, which would likely result in some of the liquid's being spilled.
