New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-10

lever heard Of such price they are now AMI cab
"bhgo. and all such truck IA just dear should Ike
to your economy you had TO buy food for famy
SO you should you may, il you will come where
cat. We believe that a work hard and yet eat
no meat Certainly there is need OF his making per-
feet canivcrous animal of HIMSELF and he can cat meal,
without running every day TO the butcher to ge. il fresh
rrdworhing farmers cot sailed beef and pork ami sell
dom touch frcsh meat except at tie annual bu,cherng
times. IL ia not good economy for poor TO buy fresh
meats ct any time.
As for potatoes neenhs a them ut this tme in this
city not wholesome food ami they the dearest
ce that sold for the sustennace Of man. Tbs prices
that old potatoes rctailed is equal to five cents
pound and these from Bermuda M cents and the little,
watey precocious, unhealthy things called pota
toes sold at price equal to twelve cents per pound
At The time good family -four is sold for six cents,
snd yet everybody cries " what drcedful price Bat
there is cheaper food than -four: not only economi
cal but more healthy, particularly for variation Of diet
One thing the various pre- paraoDs Of Indian cornthe
poorest Of all is the meal ground amos, inc -four,
which almost spos of bread Then there is the article
known of the South and West where it ia extensively
used under the Of hony. Here il is called samp
end is sold at about 81 80 bushel, and bushcl is
worth than four bushels Of potatoes. 1t is good,
paliiable wholesome, economical food But a aore
generally acceptable article il called honiny here's at
the West grits Tie first is huled corn the grains left
nearly whole the latter hued corn, cracked into grains
about the size of birdseed shot gunpowder 1t
ses for three and three and half cents pound Both
cooked by soaking and slow boiling for hours in clear
water and when substitute for vegetables, with
meat are seasoned with salt and very little butter Both
are very good with meat gravy, with sugar or mo-
asses BY the bye sugar and moasses the cheapest
articles Of food in NewYor and children should be al
lowed free of them upon the score Of economy.
ticlo ia fho dried VIII
though more expensive than either of the two proceeding
articles is nevertheless economical than meat po
atoes cabbage and all OF green trash in market
andt is acceptable almost every palate that appreciates
corn when in the roasting
Another cheap wholesome food is wheat grits. AT pres
on owing the advance in grain this preparation is
much higher than common but cheaper than -four, and
more healthy.
All these preparations of economical food made by
the North American Phaanx and believe also by
Hecker very largely and of sold to somebody that
knows how TO live in this City.
Dry beans and peas also articles that should enter
much more into the consumption of all who study econ
emy in food We believe that dollar worth OF either
would go further than six dollars worth of fresh meat or
ten dollars worth of potatoes.
Rice is another economical article Of food and when
mixed with sugar. particularly You had better feed
hungry beggar upon cepuddng than the cheapest fresh
meat that you can buy.
Eggs at the usual high prices, are cheaper than
butchers meat and with rice, if you add sugar to them
you will be able to feed hungry family far more
nomically than you are doing at present.
We might continue list OF economical articles Of
food but we have no faith in working reform because
mankind have got welded to that old round of bread
meat potatoes, that they do not appear to know and
much more do anything else. Yes, they do one thing
more; they rumbe at the high prices of their favorito
food and yet keep right along the same od-bsaen track
made by folly and Travelled by her votaries.