New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-09
ECONOMY IN FOOD.

least orehalf Of the world do not know the meaning
n the words that head thu. article Economy in food
they would say with a stare, Whist DO you mean
must buy bread and get precious little loo. for SIX
pence but can't get any bigger one. | cannot do
" without meat, and that Is awful dear o1ly hins,
eighteen peace pound for beef and mutton IA Tor
lamb why poor folks can touch that, but must have
"moat for / am a hnri-working man, and | can't eat
meat all the time without potatoes to fill up, and who
ever heard Of such price they are now AMI cab
bare and all such truck is just dear. should ike
70 sec your economy if you had buy food for afany
So Won should so you may, you will como where We
cat We believe that a work hard, and yet eat
no meat Certainly there is no need Of his making per-
feet caruiyeruus animal of himself and he con eat meat
without running every day the butcher TO gc' fresh
Uordworkng farmers cat sailed beef and pork and sell
dom touch fresh meat except at the annual buteherng
times II not good economy for poor man to buy fresh
meats ai any tme
Az for uotaoes ninetenths of them this time in this
CITY are not wholesome food and they are the dearest ar
tcle that h sold for the sustenance of man. The prices
that old potatoes are realed at is equal to five cents
Mound and those from Bermuda eight cents and the ittc
waterv precocious unhealthy things called new poia-
toes are sold at price equal to twelve cents per pound
Al the same time good family -four is sold for six cents
and vet everybody cries 4" what dreadful price Bat
there is cheaper food than four not only more econom
CAL but healthy, particularly for variation oil ae
One thing is the various preparations OF Indian cofne
poorest of all is the meal ground almost rs fine az Hour
which almost pos il for bread. Then there the article
known az the SOUTH and West, where II Is extensively
used under the name of hominy. Here ia called samp,
ard is sold at about so 80 bushel and one bushei Is
worth more than four bushels of potatoes 1t is COOL
nathalie wholesome economical food. But more
generally accoptable article is called homIny hcre at
the Wet. prits The FIRST is hule corn, the grains le
nearly whole the latter hullcd corn cracked into grams
about the size of birdseed shot coarse gunpowder 1t
sells for three and three and half cents pound Both
are cooked By soaking and slow boiling for hours in clear
wafer and when eaten a. substitute for vegetables, with
meat ere seasoned with salt and very little butter Both
arc very good with meat gravy or with sugar or mo-
assos BY tie bye sugar and moasse are the cheapest
articles of food in New-York, and children should be al
lowed 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 economical than meat, po-
taoes cabbage and all sorts of green trash no" IN Market
ana acceptable almost every palate that appreciates
corn when in the roasting ear.
Another cheap wholesome food whoa. grits AZ pres
ent owing to the advance in grain this preparation IL
much hikher than common but cheaper than Hour and
more healthy.
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Ueeker very largely and OF sold to somebody tina;
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
omy in food We believe that dollars worth OF either
would go further than six dollars worth OF fresh meat OF
ten dollsrs worth of potatoes
Rice ia another economical article of food, and when
mixed with sugar, particularly You had better feed
hungry boggar upon rcepuddng than the cheapest fses
meat ihr. you buy.
Esg even at the usual high prices, are cheaper har
butchers meat and as with rice you add sugar to them
YOU will be able to feed hungry family far more eco
nomically than you are doing at present
We might continue list OF economical articles o.
food but we have no faith in working reform because
mankind have got so 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 grumbe at the high prices OF their favorte
food and yet keep right along the oldbeaten track
made by folly and Travelled by her votaries.