Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-21
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FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1854.



At least one half of the world do not know
the meaning of the words at the head of this
article. ECONOMY in food,'' they would say
with a stare, "what do you mean l muBt
buy bread, and get precious little loaf for
a sixpence, but l can't get any bigger Ones
/ cannot do without meat, and that is awful
dear; only think, eighteen pence pound for
beef and mutton? As for lamb, why, poor
folks cannot touch that; but l must have
meat, for l am a hard" working man, and I
can't eat meat all the time without potatoes to
fill up, and who ever heard of such price as
they are now: and cabbage, and all such
truck, is just as dear. 1 should like to see
your economy if you had to buy food for
family"
So you should, SO you may, if you will
come where we eat. We believe that man
can work hard, and yet eat no meat. Certain
ly there is no need of his making perfect
carniverous animal of himself and he can eat
meat without running every day to the butch
er to get it fresh. Hard working farmers eat
sailed beef and pork, and seldom touch fresh
meat except at the annual butchering times.
1t is not good economy for poor man to buy
fresh meat at any time. eg
AS for potatoes, Line tenths of them, at this
time, in this city, are not wholesome food, and
they are the dearest articles that are sold for
the sustenance of man. The price that old
potatoes are retailed at is equal to five cents
pound, and those from Bermuda eight cents,
and the little, waterS precocious, unhealthy
things, called +" new potatoes are sold at
price equal to twelve cents per pound. At
the same time, good family -four is sold for
six cents, and yet everybody cries, what a
dreadful price," But there is cheaper food
than flour; not only more economical, but
more healthy, particularly for variation of
diet. One thing is, the various preparations
OF Indian corn-tEe poorest of all liz the meal
ground almost as fine as -FOUR which almost
spoils it for bread. Then there is the article
known at the south and West, where it is ex-
tensively used under the name of hominy.---
Here it is called samp, and is sold at about
$3.50 per bushel, and one bushel is worth
more than four bushels of potatoes. 1t is
good, palatable wholesome, economical food.
But more generally acceptable article is
called hominy here, at the West, grits.--
The first is hulled corn, the grain left nearly
whole; the latter is hulled corn, cracked into
grains about the size of bird-seed shot, or
coarse gunpowder. 1t sells for three and
three and half cents pound. Both are
cooked by soaking and slow boiling for hours,
Ill clear water, and when eaten as substitute
for vegetables with meat, are Iseasoned with
salt and very little butter. Both are very
good with meat gravy, or with sugar or mo-
lasses, are the cheapest articles of food in
New York, and children should be allowed a
free use'of them upon the score of economy.
Another article is the kiln dried sweet corn,
which, though more expensive than either of
the two preceding articles, is nevertheless
more economical than meat potatoes, cab
bage, and all sorts of green trash now in mar
ket, and it is acceptable to almost every palate
hat wi in fha ocff
ear.
Asother cheap wholesome food is wheat
grits. At present owing to the advance in
grain, this preparation is much higher than
common, but cheaper than flour, and moe
healthy.
All these preparations of economical food,
are made by the North Amer GIN Phalanx,
and we believe also by Hecker very largely,
and of course sold to somebody that knows
how to live in this city.
Dry beans and peas are also articles that
should enter much more into the consumption
of all who study economy in food. We be-
lieve that dollars 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 SO.
You had better feed hungry beggar upon
rice pudding, than the cheapest fresh meat
that you can buy.
Eggs, even at the usual high prices, are
cheaper than butchers meat, and, as with
rice, il you add sugar to them, you will be
able to feed hungry family far more econo-
mically than you are doing at present We
might continue our list of economical articles
of food, but we have no faith in working a
reform, because mankind have got so welded
to that old round of bread, meat, and pota-
toes, that they do not appear to know, and
much more do anything else. Yea, they do
one thing more; they grumble at the high
prices of their favorite food, and yet keep
right along the same old beaten track made by
folly, and travelled by her votaries. --Nsao
York Tribune.